Quotes About Spirituality

5 Cada hermano aparece tal como se le percibe en el instante santo, unido a ti en tu propósito de ser liberado de la culpa.

In the Course, we do not first assume that another person really deserves our anger but then go ahead and "forgive" her anyway. Rather, we realize that our anger is based on a mistaken perception of her, and so we let that perception go. We forgive, in other words, by realizing "that there is nothing to forgive."11 This kind of forgiveness is so egoless that, in our ego-bound state, we need the help of the Holy Spirit, God's Voice in the dream, to complete it.

Let me this day arise in quietness With only thoughts of sinlessness, through which To look upon the world. Let me today Behold the world as You would have it be, Because I am as You created me.

The Course asks us to read its words slowly and carefully, thinking about what they mean. It asks us to take them personally and treat them as practical, as more than an intellectual game. If we will do this with the Text, we will experience our old worldview being slowly dismantled and a new worldview arising in its place.

When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him you will see yourself. As you treat him you will treat yourself. As you think of him you will think of yourself. Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself. Whenever two Sons of God meet, they are given another chance at salvation. Do not leave anyone without giving salvation to him and receiving it yourself. For I am always there with you, in remembrance of you.

El mundo perdonado se convierte en el umbral del Cielo porque mediante su misericordia podemos finalmente perdonarnos a nosotros mismos.

Perhaps the psychotherapist does not understand that healing comes from God.

Death yields to life simply because destruction is not true.

17. Miracles are the transcendence of the body. They are sudden shifts into invisibility, away from a sense of lower-order reality. That is why they heal.

The holy instant is the result of your determination to be holy. 2It is the answer. 3The desire to have it and the willingness to let it come precede its coming.

6 Debes reconocer que cualquier clase de sacrificio no es sino una limitación que se le impone al acto de dar.

6Do not attempt to give the Holy Spirit what He does not ask, or you will add the ego unto Him and confuse the two. 7He asks but little. 8It is He Who adds the greatness and the might. 9He joins with you to make the holy instant far greater than you can understand. 10It is your realization that you need do so little that enables Him to give so much.

The mind can make the belief in separation very real and very fearful, and this belief is the "devil.

Before the soul can see, the Harmony within must be attained, and fleshly eyes be rendered blind to all illusion.

There is no higher religion than the truth.

I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of.

In dreaming we travel to a place where all is forgiven.

We are consciousness wanting to expand.

The ultimate aim is reverence for the universe. The ultimate aim is love for life. The ultimate aim is harmony within oneself.

You listen to the silence drawn on the ashes of ancient sacrifices.

On the wall of time to come a window appears. I open it, let angels in.

And so they easily suppose that this truce, owing to helplessness, is victory and that they have convinced the other man. But in fact, instead of winning him over, they have merely applied a kind of shock therapy — only it was never 'therapy.' They have smothered the first little flame of a man's own spiritual life and a first shy question with the fire extinguisher of their erudition. By such performances a person can really be smothered and strangled!

There is no such thing as a conscience that is (quantitatively) more or less good, depending on how close I come to ethically fulfilling the Law (Mark 10:20). There is only that conscience which is either blinded by Satan or comforted by God.

Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.