Quotes About Spirituality

So when the night overshadowed him, he saw a star. He said: Is this my Lord? So when it set, he said: I love not the setting ones.

Take patience as your pillow, hug poverty, discard lusts, oppose your desires and know that you are seen by God, so look at how you are.

Three things take the slave to God's pleasure: 1) Increase in seeking forgiveness 2) Gentleness 3) Increased charity giving

The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.

The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.

God is not a dead equation!

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.

You remember what Goethe said in the moment of his death [...] 'More light.' Death opens up the way to more light, and carries us to those regions where we stand face to face with eternal Beauty and Truth. I remember the time when I read Goethe's poems with you, and I hope you also remember those happy days when we were so near to each other spiritually speaking. Iqbals Briefwechsel mit Emma Wegenast (S. 45, Iqbal and Goethe, Christina Oesterheld)

Who am I? Who art Thou? Where is the world?

Although rare, even to this day such are found in this community. Who do their wudu using the tears they shed during their predawn supplications.

Short is the enjoyment of this world. The Hereafter is (far) better for him who fears Allaah, and you shall not be dealt with unjustly even equal to the Fatilaa (a scalish thread in the long slit of

I found this book simple but very deep, some chapters on the heavy side but well worth reading for the new comers and also for the veteran in the field of meditation

it is hard to keep your feet on the earth while your heart looks for the heavens.

I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.

Anarchism is not only a stateless society but also a harmonized society that exposes man to the stimuli provided by both agrarian and urban life, to physical activity and mental activity, to unrepressed sensuality and self-directed spirituality, to communal solidarity and individual development, to regional uniqueness and worldwide brotherhood, to spontaneity and self-discipline, to the elimination of toil and the promotion of craftsmanship.

Our modern cities have become in large part agglomerations of bedroom apartments in which men and women spiritually wither away and their personalities become trivialized by the petty concerns of amusement, consumption, and small talk.

Everything has a tax, and the tax for the bodies is recommended fasting.

Holiness is the suspended animation of the mind, for awakening in a better place.

Loneliness is the inner self-improvement of the soul. For the most part, you feel the soul. And you feel the world at a particularly subtle level of consciousness.

The third eye is the telescope of truth.

We are in the womb of materialism, in a cocoon of illusion.

Many struggle in the maze of religion and religious differences. They are like dogs fighting over a bone, seeking their own selfish interests. The solution is to remember that there is only one Creator, who provides for all of us. The more we remember the One, the less the fighting.

A prophet will only show you the way to God. Perhaps, guide you through, just like a gatekeeper.