Quotes About Spirituality

Nancy According to astronomers, every atom in my body was forged in a star. I am made, they insist, of stardust. I am stardust braided into strands and streamers of information, proteins and DNA, double helixes of stardust. In every cell of my body there is a thread of stardust as long as my arm.

All of my life has been a relearning to pray- a letting go of incantational magic, petition, and the vain repetition "Me, Lord, Me," instead watching attentively for the light that burns at the center of every star, every cell, every living creature, every human heart. Learning to pray, then, as I understand it, is learning to listen with the mind and heart- making oneself attentive to each exquisite detail of the world.

DEDICATION "To The Creator, who gives us the Light by which we more clearly see the Darkness…

Imagine all the sadhus and priests of Varanasi. More than all of their devotion put together, that's how much I loved her.

Kids are among the most bored people in temples.

Blessed are those who thirst after righteousness.

I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.

The earth and myself are of one mind. The measure of the land and the neasure of our bodies are the same

Somehow among all our use of antibiotic medicine and antibacterial soap our souls are becoming sanitized as well — don't let it happen to you!

No soul can grow to its full stature without spells of solitude.

The reason old souls enjoy spending time alone is because they never really are.

...if I lose at play, I blaspheme, and if my fellow lose, he blasphemes, so that God is always sure to be a loser.

Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.

X-rays amuse God: all the things he can see that a machine can't.

Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul, the work of the soul, and good for either, the work of the other.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

With all your science can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that light comes into the soul?

Our souls are infinitely swirling colors of stardust and hope.

...a soul flowering with spirituality...

If something is written in the stars, can't it also be inscribed in the fiery light of our souls?

My soul lives somewhere between silence and the moon.

Learning how to operate a soul takes time.

God doesn't wear a wristwatch.