Quotes About Spirituality

Today's religions are nothing but the long-lived mythologies!

Walking does good to the fat and giving alms does good to the sinners; these both make one feel lighter!

West is too materialist; East is too spiritual; North is too cold; South is too loose!

What a miserable creature man is that he prays in fear to the skies and begs help from the unknown every time he falls down to the ground!

You live in the city? You live in the graveyard! You want to be resurrected? Apply to the nature!

You need a temple to feel good spiritually? Go to a beautiful garden!

If only we could get rid of every dead thing inside our own bodies and souls!

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

The eye in which I see God is the same eye in which God sees me. My eye and God's eye are one seeing, one knowing, and one loving.

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.

If the soul knows God in creatures, night falls. If it sees how they have their being in God, morning breaks. But if it sees the Being that is in God himself alone, it is high noon! See! This is what one ought to desire with mad fervor—that all his life should become Being.

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

To be right, a person must do one of two things: either he must learn to have God in his work and hold fast to him there, or he must give up his work altogether. Since, however, we cannot live without activities that are both human and various, we must learn to keep God I everything we do, and whatever the job or place, keep on with him, letting nothing stand in our way.

If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only say, 'I live so that I may live.' That is because life lives out of its own ground and springs from its own source, and so it lives without asking why it is itself living.

God is at home. We are in the far country.