Quotes About Spirituality

Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.

It's not how many mystical experiences you have, but how you use them. Let the understanding from them influence you a lot. Let it change your life.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

I always believe that prayer changes things, but now I have realized that prayer changes us and then we change things.

Before we can change the world around us God wants to change the world inside us.

The human soul is like a whiteboard. You never know how dirty it can get (living in this world) until someone's love makes a clean spot. Anyone can clean a dirty board, but only the Son of God can clean a dirty soul.

Joy comes from the Lord who lives within us,not from what's happening around us.

Forget about the future, and live each day according to the teachings, confident that God loves his children. Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity.

A relationship with God is the most important relationship you can have.

If you can bring your consciousness, your awareness, your intelligence to the act, if you can be spontaneous, then there is no need for any other religion, life itself will be the religion.

Don't value the things in this world too much and never let those things cause you to be away from GOD. Let GOD always be the focus of our life.

Instead of focusing too much on improving lifestyle focus on improving inner self.

Aquiles solloza. Me acuna, no come ni pronuncia otra palabra que no sea mi nombre. Contemplo su rostro como si lo viera a través del agua, igual que un pez observa el sol. Vierte una catarata de lágrimas, pero yo no puedo enjugárselas. Este es mi elemento ahora: la media vida de un espíritu insepulto.

Non avevo altare, ma non ne avevo bisogno: ogni luogo in cui mi trovavo era il mio tempio.

All that smoke and savour rising so delicately from our altars. It leaves only ash behind.

You don't have to follow a religion if you listen to the divine voice within you, pay close attention to instincts and intuitions.

The sound-syllable Om represents the fundamental thought-form of all-pervading reality.

Here, when you looked into darkness, there was God.

When Death Is Close

Nothing you say can fuck up the space for God.

I felt the wild need for any or all of these people that night. Lying there alone, I began to feel - perhaps even to know - that I did not exist apart from their love and need of me. Of this latter I felt less sure, but it seemed possible, if the equation worked both ways. Falling asleep I thought, 'Maybe this, for me, is the hand of God.

I admit that I may have been lonely. I know that loneliness can produce bolts of hot pain, a pain which, if it stays hot enough for long enough, can begin to simulate, or to provoke -- take your pick -- an apprehension of the divine. (This ought to arouse our suspicions.)

How could all the shreds of blue garbage bags stuck in brambles, or the bright blue tarps flapping over every shanty and fish stand in the world be, in essence, the fingerprints of god? I will try to explain this.

You must spend more time thinking about the divine.