Quotes About Spirituality

Naked flights of art unshackled and incandescent songs of poetry undiluted return to the soul what hate, ignorance, fear, and violence steal from the heart.

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from a life dedicated to transforming the themes of injustice, grief, and despair that we all encounter during some unavoidable point of our existence into a sustainable life-affirming poetics of passionate creativity, empowered spiritual vision, and inspired commitment.

Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual leader Jelalludin Rumi during the early 1990s when the unparalleled lyrical grace, philosophical brilliance, and spiritual daring of his work took modern Western readers completely by surprise. The impact of its soulful beauty and the depth of its profound humanity were so intense that they reportedly prompted numerous individuals to spontaneously compose poetry.

If with all your power you kissed the angel of love, what then might happen?

Your tears are muscles, hinged on wings lunar and solar. Your touch: life and death. (from poem Angel of Mercy)

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral." —Frank Lloyd Wright

The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic...

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers

Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.

The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song. Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.

Prayer begins where our power ends.

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.

God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.

To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.