Quotes About Spirituality

But yet, but yet . . . the night he died, they [the elephants] were right there outside his house. And they came every evening for the next week as the sun set, until his ashes were scattered on the land he loved. Then they left.

We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle.

Where sanity is there God is.

Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within.

Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.

Whatever God there is is slowly eliminating the guts and alimentary system from the human being, to evolve a higher, more spiritual being.

telling over to myself/ how beauty never dies/ but lies apart/ among the aborigines/ of art/ and far above the battlefields/ of love

gurús» (del sánscrito, palabra que designa al maestro que puede iluminar el lugar donde solo había oscuridad).

The amount of communal participation in prayer is in inverse ratio to the combined vertical and horizontal distance between the leader of the prayers and the first occupied row of seats.

The boundary between now and not yet will softly blur. And the clean line between your discrete body and all creation will someday be no more.

Consequently, they who cleave with all their mental powers to God … [they have lost their] existence like a drop which has fallen into the great sea and has come to its root and therefore is one with the waters of the sea and it is not possible to recognize it as a separate thing at all.

A kind of journal of forgotten, reworked, and remembered holy moments, too awesome to be simply described in everyday conscious language. It is all that remains of the most penetrating incursion of waking into the earth-mother-Jewish-people darkness of what is not the spirit, but only sleep. But the memory is still there, set in our bodies by our parents or our choice. We may ignore the dream or we may appropriate it for ourselves, and so make it our own. It is our choice alone.

One should be so absorbed in prayer that one is no longer aware of one's own self. There is nothing for such a person but the flow of Life; all one's thoughts are with God. One who still knows how intensely one is praying has not yet overcome the bonds of self

The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer realizes himself or the fact that he is praying.

Religion is always an irrational enterprise, no matter how ennobling it may be to the human spirit.

Arhitectura are un alt sens È™i alte scopuri decât doar de a scoate în eviden?? construcÈ›ia È™i de a r?spunde unor necesit??i. Arhitectura este arta prin excelen??, care atinge starea de m?reÈ›ie platonician?, de ordine matematic?, de speculaÈ›ie spiritual?, de percepere a armoniei prin raporturi emoÈ›ionale. Iat? scopul arhitecturii.

If I had to pick a hero, it would be Charles Darwin--the size of his mind, which included all that scientific curiosity and knowledge seeking, and the ability to put it all together. There is a genuine spirituality about Darwin's thinking.

There are souls ... whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never get weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus.

The clairvoyant is simply a man who develops within himself the power to respond to another octave out of the stupendous gamut of possible vibrations, and so enables himself to see more of the world around him than those of more limited perception.

It has not been the fashion to be scientific about religion, but it is necessary that we should be scientific; it is time that we examined ourselves as to our faith and tried to know what we believe and why, and on what we base our belief.

All life is evolving, for evolution is God's law; and man grows slowly and steadily along with the rest.

F. B. Meyer, came across my path. One was entitled The Secret of Guidance, and the other was Meet for the Master's Use.

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