Quotes About Spirituality

Mulu the Rainforest: Pray for us. Mudmother, Soulsister: Pray for us. Green One, Patroness of Planted Things: Preserve us.

A joyful task,' he says and she realizes that he welcomes the idea of years of searching, tile by tile, inscription by inscription, cornice by cornice and niche by niche, that the painstaking search of Sinan's greatest achievement, decades long, is the holy task; that the secret letter is cut in every stone and tile. By the time you find it, you have realized the supreme unimportance of finding it. A Sufi lesson.

I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.

WOLF BROTHER is the kind of story you dream of reading and all to rarely find.

Finally, Luther, Bunyan, and Thérèse all developed mature religious philosophies that differed from those of their communities because (from a psychiatric standpoint) each needed desperately to find a cure for obsessions and compulsions and, in order to do so, needed to find an entirely new perspective from which to view obsessional fears.

Where was the religion for a man who believed that good and bad must coexist, even within the individual? Where was the religion for a man who believed in God but not in God's religion?

A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods.

Ramadan is a boot camp for the Muslim body and soul. In this Holy month, make everyday count.

He moved toward her like a pilgrim on holy ground.

At Donovan, I joined Kairos, a prison-based ministry group, and attended church regularly. Kairos—that's Greek for "God's Time"—became an integral part of my life.

Teaching: One hour's teaching is better than a whole night of prayer. Saying of the Prophet

There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.

The sight of God in woman is the most perfect of all." Ibn Arabi.

One of the great Sufis said: 'A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one.

The Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia

If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.

Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature

Saying of the Prophet Desire Desire not the world, and God will love you. Desire not what others have, and they will love you.

If wine is the enemy of religion, I shall devour the enemy of religion.

Abu-Yaqub al-Susi: the Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: 'the Sufis are not merchants'.

It is not Sufism if it does not perform its function for you. A cloak is no longer a cloak if it does not keep a man warm.

Sufism, the "secret tradition," is not available on the basis of assumptions which belong to another world, the world of intellect.