Quotes About Spirituality

Ich suchte und konnte Dich nicht finden; ich rief vom Minarett laut nach Dir; ich läutete beim Steigen und Sinken der Sonne die Tempelglocke; ich tauchte vergeblich in des Ganges heiligen Strom; ich kam enttäuscht von der Kaaba zurück; ich sah mich auf Erden nach Dir um; ich suchte nach Dir im Himmel, mein Geliebter, doch endlich habe ich Dich gefunden – als verborgene Perle in der Muschel meines Herzens.

Als Mensch vermagst du ein Wesen zu lieben; die Seele jedoch, als Licht Gottes, vermag nicht nur die ganze Welt, sondern tausend Welten zu lieben; denn das menschliche Herz ist weiter als das ganze Weltall.

Alle Schätze der Welt sind ein zu geringer Preis für ein einziges Wort, das die Seele erleuchtet.

Ein Tempel ist das Menschenherz; ist sein Tor den Mitmenschen verschlossen, so ist es auch Gott verschlossen.

Fana, the merging in the ideal. In order to attain

So wie das Sonnenglas das Herz der Sonne widerspiegelt, so spiegelt das kontemplative Herz die göttlichen Eigenschaften.

The whole of life in all its aspects is one music, and to tune one's self to the harmony of this perfect music is the real spiritual attainment.

Weil das menschliche Wesen alles, was im Himmel und auf Erden ist, in sich trägt, wird der Mensch als ein Universum in sich selbst bezeichnet. Gott sagt in Bezug auf den Menschen im Koran: "Wir haben ihn zu unserem Kalifen gemacht." (Koran 2:30) Mit Kalif ist gemeint, dass der Mensch ein Repräsentant Gottes, ein Anführer ist, unter dessen Obhut das Universum gestellt ist; denn das menschliche Wesen ist selbst ein Universum. (S. 124)

To attain spirituality is to realize that the whole universe is one symphony in which every individual is one note. His happiness lies in becoming perfectly harmonious with the symphony of the universe.

In the eyes of postmoderns, then, modernism has failed, both as a prediction of progress and as a moral framework for culture. As a result, postmoderns take distinctly anti-modern views on the deeper questions of human life: social, political, moral, and spiritual questions.

We are born in both intellectual and moral darkness. We need the influence of the Holy Spirit—in the life of Jesus Christ, in the Bible, in the historical church, and in our own consciences—to enlighten us. Since modernity rejected all these things, it's no wonder that it abounded in as much evil and discord as it has.

She was determined to live as fully as possible—to write, to travel, to cook, to draw, to love as much and as often as she could. She was, in the words of a close friend, "operatic" in her desires, a "Renaissance woman" molded as much by Romantic sublimity as New England stoicism.5 She was as fluent in Nietzsche as she was in Emerson; as much in thrall to Yeats's gongs and gyres as Frost's silences and snow.

Inside her chest, a warm, billowing, something swept through her, to the tips of her fingers, the bottoms of her feet, shining like a brilliant beam of light. It wasn't hot, boiling feeling of her temper, nor was it the cold wash of tingles that Swearing on Silver brought. It was deeper. It didn't just pour through her body, but penetrated her soul.

All paths lead to God, and it doesn't matter if you call him Jehovah, Allah, Buddha, or even if you believe that he is a she.

I believe that there's more to life than what we see.

Faith is belief in the unseen. If you have any kind of faith, you already believe in the unseen.

If I've made any "progress" it's that now I know I'll be an alcoholic till the day I die, and that is both my biggest cross and my greatest blessing.

The Christian religion is only for one who needs infinite help. That is, only for one who feels infinite anguish.

Prayer is like practicing the piano or ballet or writing: you have to bring your body for a very long time, in spite of your body's frailties and conflicts and general revolt, and then one day your body is not separate any more. You've in a sense become the piano or the dance or the word or the prayer. The prayer is in your heart. The prayer is your heart.

Do we feel God's presence because we are looking for him, or do we feel it because he is looking for us?

Someone who loved me was listening and watching over me. I didn't ever hear Her speak to me, but I knew She was there. I fell asleep to the comforting rhythms of the now-familiar prayers and music of Compline. I wasn't praying with my feet. I wasn't doing anything at all. I felt better than I had since my accident.

Born Into Reality Towards Heaven this is your birth right because we were all born from the same source and because we were born into our bodies. Therefore everyone is ascended equally.

The ground you walk on is the grounding of your soul read like a book by mother earth, a book that is drawing to a close, what will your next book be?

Waters thick. Bloods thick. I feel thick. You feel thick. God feels thick. So what's the matter?