Quotes About Spirituality

I do the same series of five exercises 21 times each day - an ancient Tibetan practice that stimulates your chakras.

Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness.

I was raised - and still consider myself to be - Catholic, though I'm non-practicing and haven't fulfilled my Easter duty since sometime during the Nixon years. I'm assailed by all kinds of stimulating doubts, but I do believe in God.

I received more genuine religious stimulation in prison than in the seminary.

I did 12 years with nuns, you know. So I came out of it going, like, 'I think Jesus is all right.' The rest of it I think stinks to the high heavens.

Somehow, I don't think Jesus came to Earth to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

For me, making time for God is like making time to fill my stomach - like the physical space in the stomach needs food, spiritual space in one's soul needs regular prayer.

When we pray to Buddha, we are not praying to a piece of stone, an image of Buddha, but we pray to the soul of Buddha behind the piece of stone. The souls of the people who are dead now are still with us.

I want to live with a monk... and the Rolling Stones.

I looked at some of the statues of Jesus; they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents.

Often, I could not find the range of emotions in classical music which I found in the The Rolling Stones and Hendrix. Listening to Bach, I found a deep spirituality and felt elevated above the human level. Yet the feeling and emotions attached to popular music speak to us far more personally, and I couldn't leave that behind.

I've been interested in Eastern religions since I went to college because I was trying to figure out where I stood with Catholicism.

Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity.

God empowered him; and my father, when he stood to preach, he wasn't preaching his message, he was preaching God's message.

And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.

It was about 5 years after I was baptized before the pull of sin finally stopped.

When I'm spiritually in the right place, there's no stopping me.

One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

Record stores have whole sections devoted to the chant.

During the weeks before Christmas, though it's not always possible, we make an effort to keep the kids away from shopping malls and stores. We also deliberately choose cards and decorations that have religious significance.

Human beings are fascinating with religion and stories about not dying. Or dying and being brought back to life. I think it's just part of our make up.

You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.

It's easy to praise God in the good times, but what about when the storms of your flesh are a-brewin'? Not so easy then!

I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.'