Quotes About Spirituality

He who cannot bear the loss of his own honour and reputation will never advance in spiritual life". São Filipe Néri, em "St. Philip Neri: Apostle of Rome", de Meriol Trevor.

Faith is the only way we're going to make it. None of us are smart enough to do it on our own.

The dogma of religion is love, and love is obedience to creationism.

At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman. Do you remember?

The Great Goddess—the Divine Ancestress—had been worshiped from the beginnings of the Neolithic periods of 7000 BC until the closing of the last Goddess temples, about AD 500. Some authorities would extend Goddess worship as far into the past as the Upper Paleolithic Age of about 25,000 BC.

In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman. Do you remember?

If you think of religion as something that offers a picture of something more grand than us, reading does the same thing. Reading enables us to lift ourselves from our current situation to something higher – and better. It expands one's own imagination.

Cada um descobre o seu anjo tendo um caso com o demónio.

As pálpebras limpam os olhos de poeiras. Que pálpebras limpam as poeiras do coração?

Rezamos a Deus para, depois de falecermos, nos salvar dos infernos. Mas afinal os infernos já nós vivemos, calcamos suas chamas, levamos a alma cheia de cicatrizes.

É que já vivi tudo tão bonito que só quero visitar lugares que estejam dentro de mim.

A velhice é uma gordura na alma.

Ainda acreditou ser um pássaro que lançava ser seu voo da varanda para o distante chão. Nesse momento ele aprendia que o céu está padecendo de cataratas, repentinas névoas que impedem Deus de nos espreitar.

África rouba-nos o ser. E nos vaza de maneira inversa: enchendo-nos de alma.

Can I truly discover how to integrate myself in the Force if I do not know who I am without it?" - Jacen Solo

Donc, il est juste et vrai que la séparation du spirituel et du sensuel chez un homme est signe de sa virilité, et la séparation du spirituel et du sensuel chez une femme est signe de sa prostitution. Et il suffirait que toutes les femmes, ensemble, se virilisent, pour que le monde, le monde entier, se transforme en bordel. ( from "Roman avec cocaïne" )

We are by our nature caught up in the grandest mystery, our relationship to God, and also in the mystery most immediate to any of us, our own being.

All religions are beautiful in the story, as you say. It's when they're put into practice that they grow ugly.

the Hiéron du Val d'Or was simultaneously Christian and "trans-Christian.

Rennes-le-Château and its environs had been on the ancient pilgrim route, which ran from northern Europe to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

Rastafarl should not deal with sex merely for pleasure but should incorporate it into their divine communication and cause a union which should produce children.

the Rastafari of Pelourinho already live spiritually in the midst of Africa and Jamaica. Thus, their goal is not to abandon where they live but to transform its Babylonian elements.

he was/is God in the same way that they themselves were God, with the difference between themselves and the emperor lying in the degree of inspiration by, or in the dwelling of, the Holy Spirit.

born Rastafari," but had "assumed the posture" in the late seventies or early eighties after being exposed to reggae music.