Quotes About Spirituality

Death is not the ultimate tragedy of life. The ultimate tragedy is depersonalization--dying in an alien and sterile area, separated from the spiritual nourishment that comes from being able to reach out to a loving hand, separated from the desire to experience the things that make life worth living, separated from hope.

It would take many centuries before Christian preachers started to teach that when Christ said, 'Blessed are the poor for theirs in the Kingdom of Heaven,' he meant not just the poor in spirit (the pious), but the actual impoverished masses of people.

Spiritual awakening is exactly dropping the sense of one's narrow separateness; it is essentially and profoundly altruistic.

Needless to say, dualistic thinking is nonetheless commonplace. In Western society, until recently, the overriding tendency was to accord a moral dignity to the "human" which elevated it above the merely natural. Of course this was done by associating humanity with an even higher realm inhabited by God, the angels, the saints, and so forth.

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.

For two thousand years or more man has been subjected to a systematic effort to transform him into an ascetic animal. He remains a pleasure-seeking animal.

The belief in the bodily resurrection has no religious foundation, and the doctrine of immortality refers to the after-existence of the soul only.

Let nothing trouble you let nothing worry you everything passes away expect God God alone is sufficient

Four Universal (Bodhisattva) Vows: "Sentient beings are numberless, I vow to save them; the deluding passions are inexhaustible, I vow to destroy them; the Dharma gates are manifold, I vow to know them; the Buddha Way is supreme, I vow to master it.

My body is but wax and wick for flame. When the candle burns out, the light shines elsewhere.

Mine is a heart of carnelian, crimson as murder on a holy day.

We need god to prosper those without him will not.

Entonces triunfará María, Madre de Dios (a la que Nostradamus indica como una curiosa perífrasis, siendo «maría» el plural del nombre latino «mare»), de la cual se ha dicho que «las puertas del Infierno no prevalecerán contra ella».

The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it

There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.

I live all the daytime In faith and in might And in holy fire I die every night.

Everything that we experience is a communication . In fact, so is the world too a communication -- the revelation of spirit. The time is gone when the spirit of God was comprehensible to us. The meaning of the world has been lost to us. We have seen only its letters. We have lost that which is appearing behind the appearance.

In most religious systems we are regarded as parts of the godhead which, if they do not obey the impulses of the whole, and even if they do not intentionally act against the laws of the whole, but only go their own way and do not want to be parts of it, are medically treated by the godhead—and either endure a painful cure or even are cut off.

De la "eu sunt" porne?te drumul r?ului în jos ?i cel al binelui în sus.

There is no religion that is not Christianity.

Il senso per la poesia ha molto in comune con il senso per il misticismo. [...] Rappresenta l'irrappresentabile, vede l'invisibile, sente il non sensibile.

The whole of the visible is incorporated in the invisible and the audible in the inaudible, and the tangible in the intangible. There is no doubt that everything that can be thought about is incorporated into everything that cannot be thought about.