Quotes About Spirituality

If I lived a billion years more, in my body or yours, there's not a single experience on Earth that could ever be as good as being dead. Nothing.

I'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience.

Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it is shared, you are down in duality.

You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus to meditate.

What is revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use 'higher dimensional' in the mathematical sense.

When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience.

The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps over one.

You need your reason to pass through the world and also to experience the nagual, because if you become all nagual, we'll lock you away in an institution.

It is a fact beyond question that there are two kinds of Christian experience, one of which is an experience of bondage, and the other an experience of liberty.

For me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me.

I shall now proceed to my own experience, which hath truly convinced me, the Lord is awakened as one out of sleep; and the voice of the Lord will shake terribly the earth.

My soul is my guru; my experience is my guru.

Beyond all experience is the one who is experiencing. Beyond all change is the One who never changes.

If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience.

Spirituality is a kind of virgin wisdom, a knowing that comes prior to experience.

I'm not religious, but I've always been attracted to the rituals of religion; as a kid, Sunday church was the closest thing I had to an interactive, theatrical experience.

In order to experience the Ultimate Reality you have to be out of your mind.

I think that when people experience something that seems to be supernatural, in some ways it cuts through the secular mindset.

God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.

In a difficult situation one never-failing guide is to ask yourself: "What would Christ have done?" Then do it-as nearly as you can.

Any attempt at liberation, no matter how great it might be, if it does not take into consideration the necessity of dissolving the ego, it is condemned to failure.

Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.

The reason why we fail to prevail with unconverted men is due to our more fundamental failure to prevail with God in prayer.

This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.