Quotes About Spirituality

As a kid, there was a painting of 'Appeal to the Great Spirit' that I would see when I would get oatmeal bowls out of the cupboard. This painting, it was so real to me that it frightened me.

I've had encounters with animals that have been really mystical. I've always been really into animals. But the way they appear in the paintings, they come from my mind's eye more than: 'I'm gonna draw a dog now.' It isn't thought out: 'Now I'm gonna draw a bird.' They just appear.

When you pancake a guy, and you feel their breath exhale, to me that's their soul leaving their body.

Christianity is not about the divine becoming human so much as it is about the human becoming divine. That is a paradigm shift of the first order.

Fighting in the name of god is the biggest paradox ever.

I think creating of any sort, whatever line you're in, is paramount - you can be an architect, you can be a banker, you can be anything - I think that when you create, you're closest to God and yourself.

I believe in the paranormal and I accept it but I don't change my life around it. I'm not an avid follower, as it were. I am open-minded.

I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.

For me, I feel like God is intuition and an inner knowing. I think it's difficult to be successful without that because that's where you have to come from if you're really going to knock it out of the park. For me, it's more a sort of a universal energy.

I'd grown up very Catholic, parochial school, and Warlock was a way of working a lot of things out.

I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all aspects of the same infinite consciousness that we call God and Creation.

Participation is easily obtained with Latin chant.

I was in Kashi to take the holy dip, and when you go to Kashi you have to give up something that you enjoy the most. I gave up shopping, particularly sarees, from thereon. I now only buy the essential items.

Kentucky isn't particularly religious.

In my family, we were on again off again Unitarians, partly because my father, raised Roman Catholic, had had enough of church.

Human beings are partners of the Almighty in bringing life into the world, and we are his partners also in healing.

I'm just saying, it's got to be about something more than just body parts when you're with somebody.

I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.

Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

By the time I went to college, I knew the major passages of the Bible pretty much by heart.

I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Cosmic energy enters the body through the medulla and then passes to the cerebrum, in which it is stored or concentrated.

I think everyone, especially after the passing of a loved one, starts to hope that maybe there will be something better on the other side.