Quotes About Spirituality

We touch the last reality directly in prayer.

No matter how wonderful "The Other Side" seems, you cannot stay if it is not your time.

Unless there is within us that which is above us, we shall soon yield to that which is about us.

God likes to be played like a piano.

Ilumínate más, ciudad maldita. Ilumina tus puertas y ventanas Ilumínate más, luz necesita el partido sin luz de las sotanas.

El cura del pueblo, de apellido Morales, intentó confesar a Ocampo y recibió una amable respuesta: —No se moleste usted, yo estoy bien con Dios y él está bien conmigo.

From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity.

The awakened state of mind is neither male nor female.

Again Master Padma said: Tsogyal, I have told this to everyone, but nobody listens. As soon as the Mara of Death catches hold of you, there is no chance for liberation. Those who do not practice the Dharma will regret this when approaching death. The years, months and days pass by without lingering even a second. This life runs out without pausing for even an hour or a minute, and then we die. The seasons continue, but your life finishes and doesn't wait.

You are not a Dharma practitioner if you don't mingle your mind with the Dharma. (p. 115)

Day and night, look into your mind. If your stream of mind contains any nonvirtue, renounce it from the core of your heart and pursue virtue.

Yeshe Tsogyal was a woman: there may be some people who believe that only men can attain enlightenment, but her life is proof of the opposite. In actual fact, the awakened state of mind is neither male nor female.

The awakened state of enlightenment is your own awareness that is naturally awake. (p. 102)

Tsogyal, if you want to practice the Dharma in an authentic way, it is most important to cut your ties to unwholesome places, companions, and so forth. So give them up!

Fortunate ones, mingle your mind with the Dharma and the happiness of buddhahood will manifest within you! (p. 108)

When samsaric existence is freed in itself, there is no awakened state to accomplish apart form that. Once you realize this, samsara and nirvana are not two.

When samsaric existence is freed in itself, there is no awakened state to accomplish apart from that. Once you realize this, samsara and nirvana are not two.

Buddhahood is attained by recognizing one's nature.

In our own present world age, one thousand Buddhas will appear. Each one will be accompanied by an emanation of Guru Rinpoche to carry out the Buddha's activities.

Prayer is the best weapon we have; it is the key to God's heart. You must speak to Jesus not only with your lips, but with your heart. In fact on certain occasions you should only speak to Him with your heart.

The life of a Christian is nothing but a perpetual struggle against self; there is no flowering of the soul to the beauty of its perfection except at the price of pain

The longer the trial to which God subjects you, the greater the goodness in comforting you during the time of the trial and in the exaltation after the combat.

Do you not see the Madonna always beside the tabernacle?

Through the study of books one seeks God; by meditation one finds him.