Quotes About Spirituality

I do believe that the original sources of all religions should be taught, because with that we will find our similarities, not just our differences. I believe that if Mohammed, Buddha, Jesus, and Moses all got together they would be best of friends because the spiritual basis of all religions is something that builds unity.

Yet God is so one that He admits of distinction, and so admits of distinction that He still remains unity.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

The desire for freedom and equilibrium (harmony) is inherent in man (due to the universal in him).

Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.

Only conscious man can mirror the universal: he can consciously become one with the universal and so can consciously transcend the individual.

And for me anyway, consciousness is three components: a personal component which for lack of a better word we can call the soul. A collective component which is more archetypal and a deeper level, and then a universal domain of consciousness.

Without doubt, God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it.

Someone who's asking questions of the clergy, that he doesn't have the answers to, I think that's a universal predicament.

The profound self is a universal self.

Music is universal; it speaks to people's souls on the deepest level.

The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest are of universal application.

However you define God, and whether you believe in God or not, the world we live in has been shaped by the universal human conviction that there is more to life than life itself; that there is a 'god' shaped hole at the centre of our universe.

I believe that it is important to have faith in a cosmic, universal power and identify the reasons for one's existence.

It would be misleading to say, 'I believe in the Force,' in the same sense that it would be misleading to say, 'I believe in the sun.' Give it whatever name you like - the Force, the Tao, the Holy Spirit, the Universal Mind - I see it in action everywhere I look, both in the world and in myself.

Man, in spite of his fatal degradation, bears always the evident marks of his divine origin, in that every universal belief is always more or less true.

I believe that there is a universal presence that is the kind of magical undercurrent in life that we all feel and is connected in, through, and as everything. That's what I think God is.

You look at a song like 'Lightning Crashes,' and it's just so universal.

Music is that universal language which unifies the spirits of mankind.

I do not believe in a universal religion any more than I believe in a universal language. My feeling is that people have to make their own religion as they have to make their arts and their parishes, and that they must find their own salvation; the salvation mongers are of not much avail.

I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.

I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.

It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.

I see a sense of unity in the universe. Spirituality is not limited to only one religion. One can experience it across different religions. I am fascinated by philosophy of Advaita and philosophy of unity. We have to get over the illusion that God is different from us.