Quotes About Spirituality

Getting people into the wilderness for a transcendent experience empowers people for years, if not for their entire lives.

As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole.

The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.

To experience a little hunger now and then can be a beautiful reminder of the deeper hunger of our souls.

Satori is a brief flash. Suddenly the light breaks through. For a short timeless time we experience eternity in its unmanifest form. It's comparable to salvikalpa samadhi.

Managing the power of choice, with all it's creative and spiritual implications, is the essence of the human experience.

Look to your experience in dreams to know how you will fare in death. Look to your experience of sleep to discover whether or not you are truly awake.

Heavenly rest will be so refreshing that we will never feel that exhaustion of mind and body we so frequently experience now. I'm really looking forward to that.

Through lovingly embracing the full range of our experience- human and divine- we can heal the split that existed between the spirit and the form, in ourselves individually and in the whole world.

I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.

Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds.

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.

Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.

Overcoming sin, blessed though it surely is, is but the bare minimum of a believers experience. There is nothing astonishing in it. Not to overcome sin is what ought to astonish us.

Yoga is the effort to experience one's divinity personally and then to hold on to that experience forever.

By reacting to aggression with aggression we lose the opportunity to spiritually benefit from the experience.

To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.

What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.

Death is only an experience through which you are meant to learn a great lesson: you cannot die.

The world was simply and sheerly divided into 'the aware', those who had the experience of being vessels of the divine, and a great mass of 'the unaware', 'the unmusical', 'the unattuned.

I have absolutely no fear of death. Why would I? There's nothing to fear-only joy to experience.

I have gone from "being" my experience to being infinite consciousness having the experience and observing the experience.

The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing.

But one thing the New Age folks and those who pursue alternative spiritual visions need to be aware of is how easily we can become and at times in my experience are like the religious right.