Quotes About Spirituality

Let us not confuse true enlightenment with the idolatry of the here and now.

alayhi çalatu Rabbil-Arshi dawman, « que sur lui la prière du Seigneur du Trône soit perpétuellement » !

Il est à peine besoin de dire, après cela, que le Taoïsme est particulièrement mal compris : on s'imagine y trouver toute sorte de choses, excepté la doctrine purement métaphysique qu'il est essentiellement en réalité…

Le nom de « religiosité » ne conviendrait-il pas beaucoup mieux à un tel ensemble de vagues aspirations sentimentales, qu'une étrange illusion fait prendre pour de la « spiritualité » ?

s'il est « difficile de déterminer les commencements du Soufisme dans l'Islam », c'est que, traditionnellement, il n'a et ne peut avoir d'autre « commencement » que celui de l'Islam lui-même, et c'est dans des questions de ce genre qu'il conviendrait tout particulièrement de se méfier des abus de la moderne « méthode historique ».

Lorsque nous trouvons la figure de la croix dans les phénomènes astronomiques ou autres, elle a exactement la même valeur symbolique que celle que nous pouvons tracer nous-mêmes [3] ; cela prouve seulement que le véritable symbolisme, loin d'être inventé artificiellement par l'homme, se trouve dans la nature même, ou, pour mieux dire, que la nature tout entière n'est qu'un symbole des réalités transcendantes.

Les Apsarâs sont les Nymphes célestes, qui symbolisent aussi ces possibilités informelles ; elles correspondent aux Hûris du Paradis islamique (El-Jannah), qui, sauf dans les transpositions dont il est susceptible au point de vue ésotérique et qui lui confèrent des significations d'ordre plus élevé, est proprement l'équivalent du Swarga hindou.

A regular meditation practice is one of the highest forms of self love."

As I align with the Universal Energy of love I feel fully supported."

At some point on the spiritual journey, saying "I am human" stops being an apology and turns into a deep reverence and knowing."

Being human is a portal into your divinity."

Choosing to interpret all of your experiences from a place of love will allow you to strengthen and empower yourself while moving closer to the divine light.

Don't be afraid of emptiness. Emptiness is divine. Let the divine fill up the space in a way that's really right for you. "Trying to fill it up too soon, blocks your gifts."

Each day I make time to connect to my inner being. Doing so, makes navigating through life so much easier

Prayer may not change our outer circumstances but inwardly it can change everything.

We are here for the evolution of our soul. This evolution happens through the mangagement of both the ups and downs of physical life. Evolution is halted by pretending to be happy all the time.

Your connection to yourself is also your connection to the divine. The more you are connected to yourself, the more you are connected to the divine. They are one and the same."

I hear them, the fallen priest and the lady. Their footsteps sound like the soft hush of rain over the stone floors.

How odd it is, that the dead weigh more than the living. You would think it would be the opposite, but it isn't. I think it is because souls give bodies lightness and air. When the soul leaves, the body has nothing left and is desperate to return to the earth.

Yes, I pray and go to church and read my Bible. But sometimes I shake my fist at God. It's not the picture of peace I realize, and I certainly make no claims of wearing the armor of God. I'm lucky if I can get the underwear of decency on, all right?

remember that God uses conflict to stretch and mold us, and oftentimes he won't deliver us out of the fire. Instead, he wants us to walk through it. You can pray all you want, but sometimes, conflict is just going to happen.

Everything you need to heal is inside yourself. You only need support and encouragement to listen to yourself—to your thoughts, feelings, imagery, and inner spiritual urgings. A book, like a therapist or group, can only guide you, helping you to say out loud what you dared not say even to yourself.

If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. A canal spreads abroad water as it receives it, and a reservoir waits until it is filled before overflowing, and thus without loss to itself communicates its superabundant water. In the Church at the present day we have many canals but few reservoirs.

Jesus Christ is alive and here to teach his people himself. He has not contracted laryngitis. His voice is not hard to hear, his vocabulary is not difficult to understand. — Richard Foster