Quotes About Spirituality

I now understand that no learning that makes a difference to my soul's evolutionary journey will come from the outside. Everything I need is inside….

Rumi, the great Sufi poet, wrote: Today like every other day we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground.

Where there are no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank.

Christina Wilsdon

God gives us many chances in this world and I don't believe they're confined to a choice between good and evil, or what people think is right and wrong. Anyway, I believe my choice now is right, because if a change is possible, I will be given a chance to lead a life of greater meaning and dignity. And I think God would probably approve of that!

Pfauen sind blühende Hühner, sagte Dole, aber die Schreie, diese Schreie sind Gottesgewimmer.

In the end, with this combination of frustration, resistance and enthusiasm, I hope I will have gained a little more soul.

Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.

Even those who were ignorant of the word of God were not entirely deprived of divine light,

ReligionHas made an honest woman of the supernatural.

The bodhi tree has been converted into a marriage tree. The belief is that young women who die before marriage should have a husband in the next world. Their relatives bring a wedding dress and monks to this tree and perform a wedding ceremony. The spirit of the dead woman is married to a famous singer, poet or magician who died many years ago. Their families believe that he'll be a good husband will look after each wife as if she were the only one.

Así que, tanto si eres hombre como mujer, para vencer el miedo a ser tú mismo, es importante saber si estás en armonía con las fuerzas femeninas del mundo natural, ya que es la fuerza curativa para esta clase de miedo.

It has seemed to me that, unless our poetry conforms to some stereotypical notion of Native American history and culture in the past tense or unless it depicts spiritual relationship to the natural world of animals and plants and landscape, it goes unrecognized. We do and we do not write of treaties, battles, and drums. We do and we do not write about eagles, spirits, and canyons. Native poetry may be those things, but it is not only those things.

More is accomplished by spending time in God's presence than by doing anything else.

developing a life in God's presence above all else is the only way to fulfill our God-given destinies. Keys to our callings are released when we spend time there.

As our hearts become pure, our vision becomes clearer.

And His heart is always to heal the sick person.

He always spoke of himself to me "as an unskilled laborer in the vineyard of the Lord, with regard to outlook as well as wages.

Ich kniete nieder, bekreuzte mich, und ich hatte einen Augenblick das Gefühl, ein Heuchler zu sein, bis mir einfiel, daß Gott unschuldig war und daß es keine Heuchelei war, vor ihm niederzuknien. S.47

Writing is - at least for me - movement forward, the conquest of a body that I do not know at all, away from something to something that I do not yet know; I never know what will happen - and here 'happen' is not intended as plot resolution, in the sense of classical dramaturgy, but in the sense of a complicated and complex experiment that with given imaginary, spiritual, intellectual and sensual materials in interaction strives - on paper to boot! - towards incarnation.

Floating down the river, I could not keep my eyes off the Potala; I knew the Dalai Lama was on the roof looking at me through his telescope. On

As in every peasant's house, one finds an altar in every tent; it usually consists of a simple chest on which is set an amulet or a small statue of the Buddha. There is invariably a picture of the Dalai Lama.

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