Quotes About Spirituality

Place there is none; we go backward and forward, and there is no place. —St. Augustine

Only in a perfect flight from nothingness is Being to be found in all its purity. —St. Bonaventura

He embodied what he worshipped, the exquisite in the commonplace…salt for the spirit.

I am a religious person, although I am not a believer.

And then what? said her daemon sleepily. Build what? The Republic of Heaven, said Lyra.

A human being with no daemon was like someone without a face, or with their ribs laid open and their heart torn out; something unnatural and uncanny that belonged to the world of nightghasts, not the waking world of sense.

There is time, and there is what is beyond time. There is darkness, and there is light. There is the world and the flesh, and there is God.

And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you… We'll live in birds and flowers and and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams.

He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

We'll be alive again in a thousand blades of grass, and a million leaves; we'll be falling in the raindrops and blowing in the fresh breeze; we'll be glittering in the dew under the stars and the moon out there in the physical world, which is our true home and always was.

Als Christin hatte sie sich zugehörig gefühlt. Nach ihrem Austritt aus der Kirche war sie unendlich frei gewesen, aber auch ohne Halt in einem Universum ohne Zweck.

I'll welcome it, because it won't be nothing. We'll be alive again in a thousand blades of grass, and a million leaves; we'll be falling in the raindrops and blowing in the fresh breeze; we'll be glittering in the dew under the stars and the moon out there in the physical world, which is our true home and always was.

I remember. He meant the kingdom was over, the kingdom of heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

Había pensado acaso que la vida carecía de significado y de propósito por haber desaparecido Dios? Sí, lo había pensado. - ¡Pero el presente existe! Mary Malone

Todo hombre está en poder de su espectro hasta que llega la hora en que su humanidad despierta… William Blake

A prime example of spiritual-alienation-from-land-as-factory, I posit. Except why take all the trouble to breed and train and care for a special animal and bring it all the way to the IL State Fair if you don't care anything about it? Then it occurs to me that I had bacon yesterday and am even now looking forward to my first corn dog of the Fair. I'm standing here wringing my hands over a distressed swine and then I'm going to go pound down a corn dog.

We must learn to die daily to the known and limited, accepting our outer lives are but an offering to the inner spirit. Then everyday will be a new birth into eternity.

And, no matter how evolved a person may think he is, he has no right to interfere with the spiritual practices of another, because interference is itself the most un-evolved of all religious actions.

Los científicos coinciden en que tan solo alcanzamos el diez por ciento de nuestro potencial humano. En cambio, cuando establecemos el centro de nuestras actividades en el silencio, nuestro potencial se vuelve ilimitado.

En el vedanta se entiende que el silencio es nuestra propia conciencia humana, la cual reside en el corazón e impregna la totalidad del universo.

Según los Vedas, la sede del pensamiento, las acciones y los deseos no es la mente, sino el corazón humano.

despersonalizar nuestros problemas para concentrarnos en la totalidad de la condición humana y el dolor de los demás. Dejando de lado nuestros problemas personales, debemos asumir los problemas de la humanidad, abrirnos a los sufrimientos de los demás y hacerlos nuestros. Para ayudarnos a crecer espiritualmente debemos aprender que la vida crea el sufrimiento. Esta es una etapa de servicio y caridad.10

Christian spirituality involves a transformation of the self that occurs only when God and self are both deeply known. Both, therefore, have an important place in Christian spirituality. There is no deep knowing of God without a deep knowing of self, and no deep knowing of self without a deep knowing of God. John Calvin wrote, "Nearly the whole of sacred doctrine consists in these two parts: knowledge of God and of ourselves."3

Prayer is easily ruined when we make it a project - part of a spiritual self-improvement plan. Rather than pushing yourself forward by resolve, allow God to lead you by desire. The most typical evidence of grace at work within us is not awareness of duty but awareness of desire.