Quotes About Spirituality

The word buddha, however, simply means "awake" or "awakened." It does not refer to a particular historical person or to a philosophy or religion.

Unspontaneity is of their essence. In these rites I discover that something is approaching me here that I did not produce myself, that I am entering into something greater than myself, which ultimately derives from divine revelation. This is why the Christian East calls the liturgy the "Divine Liturgy", expressing thereby the liturgy's independence from human control.

Dear young people: What will you leave to the next generation? Are you building your lives on firm foundations? Are you living in a way that opens a space for the Spirit in the midst of a world that wants to forget God, or even rejects him in the name of a falsely-conceived freedom? How are you using the gifts you have been given, the 'power' that the Holy Spirit is even now prepared to release within you?

We have to let God's love break through the hard crust of our indifference, our spiritual weariness, our blind conformity to the spirit of this age. Only then can we let it ignite our imagination and shape our deepest desires. That is why prayer is so important: daily prayer, private prayer in the quiet of our hearts and before the Blessed Sacrament, and liturgical prayer in the heart of the Church.

I think the essential point is a weakness of faith.

How much filth there is in the Church, even among those who, in the priesthood, should belong entirely to Him. How much pride, how much self-sufficiency.

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?

To the greater glory of God.

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

My God—very literally, my God—we can't go on … having regular bowel movements … while creation happens!

You may be GOD,...............but I am an ATHIEST !

Dan doa-doa itu, apa artinya dia kalau bukan gerakan dari minus ke plus? Tahu kau apa artinya doa? Permohonan pada Tuhan, gerakan dari yang paling minus pada yang paling plus.

Bagi mereka yang beriman, yang percaya pada Allah, tak ada sesuatupun di dunia ini dapat merusuhkan hati.

Makin jauh dari Mahadewa dia (manusia) makin kejam.

Siapakah yang tahu rahasia para dewa kalau bukan kaum brahmana?

Kuburan dengan hiasan dan sesaji seperti itu adalah tempat mayat seseorang yang rohnya menjadi tempat Pamali turun dikala masa hidupnya, dan sampai orang itu mati roh tersebut masih sering datang.

Kesalahan tindakan tidak pernah terampuni, kecuali hanya oleh Hyang Mahadewa. Untuk itu a?a Mahadewa, karena manusia tidak bersikap pengampun.

Mati adalah gampang, Calon Arang. Tetapi mati itu tidak berguna kalau tidak membawa kesucian.

Para dewapun tak jarang belajar dari manusia, bahkan dibebaskan oleh manusia.

Yang tidak memerlukan Hyang Mahadewa juga tidak diperlukan olehnya. Tetapi hukumnya berjalan terus, dengan atau tanpa manusia.

There is a great lamp within you, and the rays of that lamp are your life. In these little lamps outside, the wick burns oil and then burns out. The lamp within does not burn anything, but gives bliss.

Understand. Delight in the discovery of life. Delight in the discovery of this breath. Delight in the discovery of the divine that resides inside of you.

In the spiritual life every person is his or her own discoverer, and you need not grieve if your discoveries are not believed in by others. It is your business to push on find more and increase individual happiness