Quotes About Spirituality

Each soul is weighed as if it were the only one.

He's amazing. He's a different kind of saint, maybe a tougher kind than the Pope.

Explain it to me." "You want to be a saint, Billy. But you want to be a saint on your own terms. You want glorious victories with your sword; most of all, you want victories over your personal weaknesses and faults.

What remains of your church is going to be handed over to the elder brother, to its rightful Lord." "God will not permit it." "Your absent god has already permitted it. Your progressives gave it over to the Christ of this age long ago. There are so many of them. How easy it was to convince them.

Man is a creature of Heaven and earth, but he no longer knows it. He no longer knows himself.

Was there a missing component in all human beings? The rural masses seeking the metropolis; the urban young fleeing to the woods. Women pretending to be men; men becoming more like women; everyone aping divinity in his desperation to escape creaturehood?

Suzuki-roshi's historic Transmission of the dharma to one and only one American man haunts everything that ever happened at Zen Center.

This is one of the principal reasons people seek out spiritual teachers. They figure there is more to most things than meets the eye.

When Japanese Zen monks began to marry in the nineteenth century (and almost all of them are married today), they gave up the defining practice of monasticism—celibacy, aloneness. But they refused to turn in their costumes or close their theaters. Instead, they altered the forms.

Had in him those brave translunary thingsThat the first poets had.

And that's a problem. This excellent emphasis on the higher purpose of heaven often stifles the simple pleasures of earth.

As you grasp for the next rung, remember that ultimately it doesn't matter if you rise or fall. The only thing that was ever meant to satisfy you is God.

Faithful Christian living involves a paradox: our faith is both world-affirming and world-denying. World-affirming

What, then, can we do? We must return to the moral and spiritual foundations of our country and grapple with the consequences of our original sin.

Each of us is a "cell" of the Absolute Mind. If we can expand our minds, we can tune into Absolute Mind, the Mind of God. We ourselves, if we can harness Absolute Mind, can become God.

The temple, or the house of God, truly lies within us rather than outside.

If we see ourselves as alienated from God, we have a huge problem. That's exactly what the Abrahamic faiths do to us – they alienate us from who we really are, from our divine spark. Instead of making us search for God inside ourselves, they project God onto an external figure; remote, alien, infinitely high above humanity.

If the world turns to religions of knowledge and enlightenment rather than place faith in dusty books and fanatical prophets, the vast divide between science and religion will be at last be healed. We can enter a Golden Age of human thinking and spirituality

Read Nietzsche. Reject all mainstream religions. Your objective is not to worship God, but to become God. Only God has all the answers to the mysteries of life. Therefore if you truly seek those answers then you are seeking the ultimate secret: how to transform yourself into God. It is precisely with this quest that the Philosopher's Stone and the Holy Grail are intimately involved. That is why they have supreme spiritual power, why they command such enduring fascination.

If the God Consciousness is at the centre of Indra's Net and the diamonds of the net are our individual consciousnesses then his consciousness is in all of us, and ours in his. Ultimately, we and God are one. And that is the essence of enlightenment. That is the supreme prize awaiting us all.

Will we fall into the abyss, or will we become Supermen and Superwomen, and finally Gods? The future of our souls is about to be decided. We can place ourselves on a divine trajectory, or sink back into the slime, defeated by our inability to overcome our feelings and our addictive stories. The choice, ladies and gentlemen, is yours. These are the highest possible stakes. The moment of decision has come. Enlightenment – or the slime.

We are the new and improved Christians, those who actually understand Christianity. It has nothing to do with worshipping the Son of God, and everything to do with becoming God. Christianity is about making yourself Christ.

God is inside all of us. By venturing into our unconscious, we all have the opportunity to find God at our centre. We can all become God. We have been given a special program – the "God Program" – that allows us to accomplish this transcendent feat. It is this program that underpins all religious feelings, all intuitions about souls and the afterlife.

The kingdom of God is within us. Now go inside yourself and find it!