Quotes About Spirituality

If you can go to the place of the deepest parts of yourself, and then proceed from that profundity, you can manifest real magick.

If you are performing magick while asleep, you will only manifest more dreams.

it is essential to know that they enter the mind through excessive abuse of the pleasures of the material world

Fourth, visualize a brilliant star blazing above your head, inside the egg.

Although each person contains all the Divine Names within him or her self, each person also has a particular Name that uniquely manifests the Divine. This is his or her particular Lord (al-rabb al-khass). Each person has his or her own 'Lord.' This 'Lord' is one aspect of Allah and flows from one of His Divine Names.

Heaven and earth are inhumane; they view the myriad creatures as straw dogs.

Whether a deity is actually listening or not, there is value in formally announcing your needs, desires, worries, sins, and goals in a focused, prayerful attitude. Only when you are aware can you take action.

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

L'éternité n'est pas dans le temps, elle est dans la profondeur. Dans son vertige.

This feeling that Jung had that if man lived his life religiously, if he lived his life symbolically, then it was almost as if what the theologians called God and my Zulus called the first spirit, the first spirit had passed over some of his power and some of his responsibilities to the human being and that the human being had a God-like task to perform in creation. And the extent to which he performed it, he derived his meaning.

He guides us into pastures green, He leads to bowers of bliss, Our Father lives, the God unseen, and Christ our Shepherd is.

Because to us in Baptism, a new life He hath given, a better birth than that of earth, and made us heirs of Heaven.

That is, if I understand God's abounding love and grasp that God forgives me even though I don't deserve it, the realization produces one powerful result: I forgive others. On every level and no matter how superficially or deeply I was hurt.

If God inspires your writing, others will know because it will inspire them when they read it.

Mac's Backs supplied him with well-worn copies of On the Road and Dharma Bums, the poems of Frank O'Hara and Rainer Maria Rilke and Pablo Neruda,

He had not been praying, but dreaming - which, she would realize later, came to almost the same thing.

This individual must focus on idealistic callings and activities that uplift others, cultivating faith and spirituality. This is the Mystic, Hermit, Visionary, and Intuitive.

?nsanlar, do?u?tan e?ittirler: kullukta, fanilikte e?itlik. Sonra, iman sayesinde yeni bir e?itlik kazan?rlar, karde? olurlar.

Religion consists of believing that everything that happens is extraordinarily important. It can never disappear from the world, precisely for this reason.

Many approaches to spirituality and to life in general are influenced by cowardice. If you are afraid of seeing yourself, you may use spirituality or religion as a way of looking at yourself without seeing anything about yourself at all. When people are embarrassed by themselves, there is no fearlessness involved. However, if someone is willing to look at himself or herself, to explore and practice wakefulness on the spot, he or she is a warrior. "Warrior

We must be willing to be completely ordinary people, which means accepting ourselves as we are without trying to become greater, purer, more spiritual, more insightful. If we can accept our imperfections as they are, quite ordinarily, then we can use them as part of the path. But if we try to get rid of our imperfections, then they will be enemies, obstacles on the road to our "self-improvement.

One of the problems of spiritual searching is that we tend to feel that we can help ourselves purely by reading a lot and practicing by ourselves, not associating ourselves with a particular lineage. Without a teacher to surrender to, without an object of devotion, we cannot free ourselves from spiritual materialism.

Sacredness is not trying to look on the bright side of life and using that as a stepping-stone, but it is unconditional cheerfulness that has no other side.

Self-deception is a constant problem as we progress along a spiritual path. Ego is always trying to achieve spirituality. It is rather like wanting to witness your own funeral.