Quotes About Spirituality

Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives

When Jesus says you must leave your family to follow Him, he doesn't necessarily mean physically. He means leave your dependence on them, make an emotional break with them.

One of the goals of a spiritual practice is self-awareness, and one of the best tools of self-awareness is simple emotional vulnerability.

I do not deal with the text [of the Bible] scientifically. I read it, I'm interested in its layers of meaning, but my relation to it is much more an emotional one.

Until you've reached that point where you've perfected your lower nature and cleansed your emotional being, jnana yoga will have to wait.

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.

Because of the Incarnation, I salute all remaining matter with reverence.

There are many ways to salvation, and one of them is to follow a river.

I am haunted by waters.

Calling the earth activists, lightworkers, spiritual warriors. Stay awake. Take action. Spread awareness.

Cleanliness begins with the love for godliness

Godliness is the root of cleanliness.

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

Jah come to break downpression, rule equality, wipe away transgression, set the captives free.

there are no nationalities in heaven.

When I was young, I used to go to Baha'i camp, and they taught me a lot about the equality of religions.

The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.

To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory and excellence of a Christian.

We must die to become true human beings.

Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this.

The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.

Christianity does NOT replace the technical. When he tells you to feed the hungry and doesn't give you lessons in cookery. If you want to learn THAT, you must go to a cook rather than a Christian.

Kashmir has always been more than a mere place. It has the quality of an experience, or a state of mind, or perhaps an ideal.