Quotes About Spirituality

Mind can neither recognize nor create beauty. Only for a few seconds, while you were completely present, was that beauty or that sacredness there.

When you don't know who you are, you create a mind-made self as a substitute for your beautiful, divine being and cling to that fearful and needy self. Protecting and enhancing that false sense of self then becomes your primary motivating force.

Spiritual seekers look for self-realization or enlightenment in the future. To be a seeker implies that you need the future. If this is what you believe, it becomes true for you: you will need time until you realize that you don't need time to be who you are.

THE SOURCE OF CHI Is the Unmanifested what in the East is called chi, a kind of universal life energy? No, it isn't.

Entonces usted comienza a darse cuenta de que hay un vasto reino de inteligencia más allá del pensamiento, que el pensamiento es sólo un minúsculo aspecto de esa inteligencia. También se da cuenta de que todo lo que importa verdaderamente — la belleza, el amor, la creatividad, la alegría, la paz interior — surgen de un lugar más allá de la mente. Usted comienza a despertar.

Ultimately, there is only one problem: the time-bound mind itself. There is no salvation in time. You cannot be free in the future. PRESENCE IS THE KEY to freedom, so you can only be free now.

La salud mental — la conciencia — sólo puede llegar a este mundo a través de usted.

The energy that was trapped in the pain-body then changes its vibrational frequency and is transmuted into Presence. In this way, the pain-body becomes fuel for consciousness. This is why many of the wisest, most enlightened men and women on our planet once had a heavy pain-body.

The way of the cross is a complete reversal. It means that the worst thing in your life, your cross, turns into the best thing that ever happened to you, by forcing you into surrender, into "death," forcing you to become as nothing, to become as God — because God, too, is no-thing.

En los seres humanos actuales, la conciencia está completamente identificada con su disfraz. Sólo se conoce a sí misma como forma y por lo tanto vive en el temor de la aniquilación de su forma física o psicológica. Esta es la mente egotista, y este es el punto en el que se establece una disfunción considerable.

La mayoría de los seres humanos están todavía en las garras del modo egótico de conciencia: identificados con su mente y dominados por ella. Si no se liberan de su mente a tiempo, serán destruidos por ella.

Jesus's statement that "your whole body will be filled with light

Die before you die and find that there is no death.

Diabolical forces are formidable. These forces are eternal, and they exist today. The fairy tale is true. The devil exists. God exists. And for us, as people, our very destiny hinges upon which one we elect to follow.

If we think we are usually good, then God is usually irrelevant.

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You know, I don't believe that religions are religions. No, I believe they are philosophies with some good ideas and some fuckin' weird ones.

The more one knows of one's religion the less one believes - no one living knows more of mine than I.

But then there is no love in the land of Midian—only religion, which preaches love and practices hate.

Poetry is the deification of reality.

All those who seek truth, seek God, whether this is clear to them or not.

At first, after her conversion she thought she would have to renounce all that was secular and live totally immersed in God, but then she realized that, even in the contemplative life, you cannot sever all connection with the world, that the deeper you are drawn into God, the more you must go out of yourself to the world in order to carry the divine life into it.

Once while Edith was visiting the cathedral of Frankfurt, a woman with a market basket entered and knelt down in one of the pews to pray briefly. This was something entirely new to her, leaving as deep an impression as the university lectures.

So he writes for contemplative souls, and at a very particular point along their way he wants to take them by the hand, at a crossroad where most halt, perplexed, not knowing how to proceed.