Quotes About Spirituality

Every fire on this ghat is lit from a dhuni (sacred fireplace) that has been burning continuously here since Satya Yuga. It is not for anyone to bring their own matchbox!

It's like Holy Communion. When Christ died he gave his body to us so that we could have spiritual life. My friend has given us his body so that we can have physical life.

To Pedro, God was the love which existed between two human beings, or a group of human beings. Thus love was all important.

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel. Piet Mondrian The Artist's Way A Spiritual Path to Greater Creativity by Julia Cameron

Whoever touches the body of a patient, touches the body of Christ.

Every thought we have is a form of energy that continues to exist forever.

The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture; and these, it is said, are of the greatest service or of the greatest injury to the dead man, at the very beginning of his journey thither.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.

Life is the flight of the alone to the alone.

The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.

The purification of the Soul is simply to allow it to be alone; it is pure when it keeps no company.

Self-knowledge reveals to the soul that its natural motion is not, if uninterrupted, in a straight line, but circular, as around some inner object, about a center, the point to which it owes its origin.

Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls. Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. [...] Then it was as if One voice sounded. One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing; now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.

Next to this, we must consider the soul receiving its beauty from intellect

Il faut assigner le premier rang à la Beauté, qui est identique avec le Bien et dont dérive l'Intelligence qui est belle par elle-même.

The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.

Numa forbade the Romans to revere an image of God which had the form of man or beast. Nor was there among them in this earlier time any painted or graven likeness of Deity, 8 but while for the first hundred and seventy years they were continually building temples and establishing sacred shrines, they made no statues in bodily form for them, convinced that it was impious to liken higher things to lower, and that it was impossible to apprehend Deity except by the intellect.

I asked him if Buddhists believe we all get a specific destiny. "We don't think there's a specific place in your life to go. Everybody's destiny is to become an enlightened being and reach the everlasting state of mind.

I am not in the body of life. I hover on the extremities. I float.

T]he formless self is free from all suffering even as it compassionately 'takes on' the suffering of all.

We are still too much a part of the story of what is happening to religious consciousness to assess its meaning.

Although Buddhism can be practiced "religiously," in many respects, it isn't really a religion. Because of its emphasis on questioning and working with the mind, it is spiritual in nature. But because it relies on logical analysis and reasoning, as well as on meditation, many Buddhist teachers regard Buddhism as a science of mind rather than a religion.

The Buddhist view asserts that the nature of all beings is primordially pure and replete with positive qualities. Once we wake up enough to see through our confusion, we see that even our problematic thoughts and emotions are, at heart, part of this pure awareness.