Quotes About Spirituality

Sufi" es un nombre para el ser humano realizado.

Sufism is the knowledge whereby man can realize himself and attain permanency.

El Sufismo es el conocimiento mediante el cual el hombre puede realizarse y lograr su permanencia.

It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.

The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.

Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.

The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.

no el mucho saber harta y satisface al ánima, mas el sentir y gusta de las cosas internamente.

la experiencia de conversión, de cualquier clase que ella sea, tiene como común denominador un derrumbamiento total del ego.

Solo lo que da sentido a nuestra muerte, le da sentido a nuestra vida

For it is not knowing much, but realising and relishing things interiorly, that contents and satisfies the soul.

Up to his twenty-sixth year the heart of Ignatius was enthralled by the vanities of the world. His special delight was in the military life, and he seemed led by a strong and empty desire of gaining for himself a great name.

Next it dawned on him that the former ideas were of the world, the latter God-sent; finally, worldly thoughts began to lose their hold, while heavenly ones grew clearer and dearer.

En los que proceden de bien en mejor, el buen ángel toca a la tal ánima dulce, leve y suavemente, como gota de agua que entra en una esponja; y el malo toca agudamente y con sonido y inquietud, como cuando la gota de agua cae sobre la piedra. Y a los que proceden de mal en peor tocan los sobredichos espíritus contrario modo.

The Third Method of Prayer is that with each breath in or out, one has to pray mentally, saying one word of the Our Father, or of another prayer which is being recited: so that only one word be said between one breath and another, and while the time from one breath to another lasts, let attention be given chiefly to the meaning of such word, or to the person to whom he recites it, or to his own baseness, or to the difference from such great height to his own so great lowness.

Nothing vague, idle, or purely speculative, is to occupy man in the retreat. He comes to learn to conquer himself; to free himself from evil passions; to reform the disorder, great or little, of his past life, and to regulate it for the future by a plan conformable to the Divine will.

Propio es del mal espíritu morder, tristar y poner impedimentos, inquietando con falsas razones para que no pase adelante; y propio del bueno dar ánimo y fuerzas, consolaciones, lágrimas, inspiraciones y quietud, facilitando y quitando todos impedimentos, para que en el bien obrar proceda adelante.

Es propio del enemigo enflaquecerse y perder ánimo, dando huida sus tentaciones, cuando la persona que se ejercita en las cosas espirituales pone mucho rostro contra las tentaciones del enemigo. Cuando el enemigo de natura humana trae sus astucias y suasiones a la ánima justa, quiere y desea que sean recibidas y tenidas en secreto.

El que lleva a Dios en su corazón lleva el Cielo con él dondequiera que va

De qué te sirve ganar el mundo, si al final pierdes tu alma?

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

I've burnt all the holy pages I used to carry but poems flare in my heart