Quotes About Spirituality

What many Christians focus on is a view of the world as full of opportunities for grace.

I think that much of our depression, anxiety, and addiction has to do with what John writes about: the soul's need and longing for transcendence. This need is instinctual and unavoidable.

It lasts, and will last forever, because God loves it. Everything that is has its being through the love of God.

Sometimes God feels very far away, and so we long for God. Not because we believe that God and self are ultimately existentially separate, but because here in the midst of our relative reality our souls yearn to return to where we come from: Absolute Love.

For women mystics, contemplative life is not so much a matter of transcending the illusions of mundane existence or attaining states of perfect equanimity as it is about becoming as fully present as possible to the realities of the human experience. In showing up for what is, no matter how pedestrian or tedious, how aggravating or shameful, the what is begins to reveal itself as imbued with holiness. How do we make space in our lives for this kind of sacred seeing?

Letting your heart break open all over again when you remember the unbearable beauty of the Beloved's in visible face.

I am told that only two groups carry very little negative baggage inside of Christianity: Franciscans and Quakers.

The more you turn inward, the more available the sacred becomes. when you sit in. silence and turn your gaze toward the holy mystery you once called God, the mystery follows you back out into the world. When you walk with purposeful focus on breath and birdsong, your breathing and the twitter of the chickadee reveal themselves as miracles. .

Was everything redneck actually mystical?

Their prayer was rage.

C'était quelqu'un de complexe, avec de nombreuses strates d'émotions qui remontaient à la surface, certaines spirituelles, certaines torturées de manière plus séculière, et il brûlait d'amour pour moi.

My mom always says I cut my teeth on the church pew.

In fact, prayer and certainty are the same thing; both mean the power to truly see into the future, the true future, not the image of the eternal return of the past: no one prays for the sun to come up tomorrow. Through belief, we see the future and already inhabit it.

The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curing himself.

Sunt uneori st?ri care parc? îÅŸi pierd durata. Nu ÅŸtii - sau nu-Å£i aduci aminte - când au început, ce le-a dezl?nÅ£uit, cum se transform?. Åži totuÅŸi, din beatitudinea aceea turbure se desprinde uneori un cuvânt, un strig?t, o melodie sau m?car o singur? not? muzical?, care îÅ£i r?mâne necontenit prezent?, f?r? s? te mire precaritatea sau chiar nesemnificaÅ£ia ei.

He who reaches them without having done wrong Will exist there like a god. Free-striding like the lords forever!

the true God gives so we can become joyful givers and not just self-absorbed receivers.

The practice of non-violence requires a belief in divine vengeance.

Faith is an expression of the fact that we exist so that the infinite God can dwell in us and work through us for the well-being of the whole creation. If faith denies anything, it denies that we are tiny, self-obsessed specks of matter who are reaching for the stars but remain hopelessly nailed to the earth stuck in our own self-absorption. Faith is the first part of the bridge from self-centeredness to generosity.

I wish the Ganges could wash the grief from my heart, but it can't.

One aspect of developing spiritually is to learn how to distinguish our compulsive behavior, sins, emotional desires, drives, and inner movements from the peace that comes from God. Familiarity with God's gift of "peace that surpasses understanding" (Philippians 4:7) makes it possible to discern God's leading from our own inclinations, since what is not from God cannot convey a peace that lasts.

Angels are everywhere. Know you've found one when you see happiness & hope.

Our eternal reward forgives us at the palace of wisdom.

The Age of Aquarius expunges the righteous establishment.