Quotes About Spirituality

When people start to meditate or to work with any kind of spiritual discipline, they often think that somehow they're going to improve, which is a sort of subtle aggression against who they really are.

The way to reunite with bodhichitta is to lighten up in your practice and in your whole life. Meditation

Taking refuge is the way that we begin cultivating the openness and the goodheartedness that allow us to be less and less dependent.

No matter how committed we are to unkindness, selfishness, or greed, the genuine heart of bodhicitta cannot be lost. It is here in all that lives, never marred and completely whole.

THE TRADITIONAL four reminders are basic reminders of why one might make a continual effort to return to the present moment. The first one reminds us of our precious human birth; the second, of the truth of impermanence; the third, of the law of karma; and the fourth, of the futility of continuing to wander in samsara.

We are all children of the Great Spirit, we all belong to Mother Earth. Our planet is in great trouble and if we keep carrying old grudges and do not work together, we will all die. —CHIEF SEATTLE

I learned today that life is very precious. Even when we're determined to block the magic, it will get through and wake us up.

Meditation practice is regarded as a good and in fact excellent way to overcome warfare in the world: our own warfare as well as greater warfare.

In reality, when you feel depressed, lonely, betrayed, or any unwanted feelings, this is an important moment on the spiritual path. This is when real transformation can take place.

Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know. When things fall apart and we're on the verge of we know not what, the test for each of us is to stay on that brink and not concretize. The spiritual journey is not about heaven and finally getting to a place that's really swell.

As long as you visualize this sphere of red energy surrounding you, negative thoughts, hostilities, anger, and aggressive feelings of other persons and situations cannot enter you.

I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great.

Anger is one of the sinners of the soul.

God is always trying to give blessings to us, but our minds are usually too full to receive them.

Religious contention is the devil's harvest.

If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.

My art is the way I reestablish the bonds that tie me to the universe.

All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware of it.

Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water; we speak to the angels who call us; we move, unfettered, among the stars.

What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous.

To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in church.