Quotes About Spirituality

Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.

To me, the idea of heaven would give you certain pleasures, certain joys - but it's very important to have an intellectual understanding of why you want those things.

By 1968, both The Beatles and The Beach Boys had plenty of fame - we were looking for something deeper. The Maharishi taught us how to go beyond thinking and action in order to grow from within.

When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.

There are a lot of poems where I am questing for God. I don't think there is any finding of God.

I read Rumi, the 13th-century Persian poet, every day.

You can say, 'I am a poet, rock-climbing shaman, and my name is Hiawatha Moonbeam,' and people in America will say, 'Hey, that's great. All power to you, man'.

I believe God is a poet; every religion in our history was made of poems and songs, and not a few of them had books attached.

With 'Peradam', the nature of the project was such that it was deeply immersed in spiritual concepts in India and is based on the works of French poet Rene Daumal.

Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

I try to write from a point of view with my faith being always present and always there. don't want to write characters where everyone is saved. So this Madea character for me is not saved.

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.

Sage is cleansing and sacred.

I grew up going to Catholic school and I was altar boy even going back to the days where the altar boys had to learn the Latin clergy for mass.

I felt envious of the cleaners cleaning the Kaaba. They got a chance to stay close to God and clean the house of God.

I have a very close relationship with God. I even fight with Him at times.

Making films has been kind of my way of getting closer to God.

As I got older, I got closer to my faith and I got closer to Jesus, reading the Bible and living my life under God.

For me, music has been, in a sense, my religion, and it is what brings me closest to God or truth or whatever you want to call it.

God created me. And the closest I will ever get with God is this soul, this body. And if I don't have myself, if I don't listen to myself, if I don't trust myself, then I don't trust God, because God created me.

The closest you'll get to God, ever, in your existence, is measured by how close you get to yourself. Because your connection with God is you. He created you. That is the ultimate connection you have with God is you.

'Cloud Atlas' is for everybody. The main character in the movie is humanity.