Quotes About Spirituality

I wait for the hour when that divine Beauty, which ravished the hearts of the Hebrew prophets, Hindu and Buddhist visionaries, Christian and Sufi mystics, and Chinese sages, will make itself known in America today.

and beauty and goodness comes to each man directly, in flashes of spiritual light

For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down...

There are no fixtures to men, if we appeal to consciousness. Every man supposed himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last on the divine soul, I see not how it can be otherwise. The last chamber, the last closet, he must feel was never opened; there is always a residuum unknown, unanalyzed. That is, every man believes that he has a greater possibility.

As a plant upon the earth, so a man rests upon the bosom of God; he is nourished by unfailing fountains, and draws, at his need, inexhaustible power. Who can set bounds to the possibilities of man?

The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal. It

The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.

In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life,—no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate

In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life,—no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.

We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. Shall I not call God the beautiful, who daily showeth himself so to me in his gifts?

you how to get it yourself, that's of great benefit.) Our lives are transformed when we come to ourselves—when we awaken to God in ourselves. This is the path that Jesus walked, and bid us to follow. This is the way of salvation.

Sweet is death forevermore.

all nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.

Philosophically considered, the universe consists of Nature and the Soul.

The condition of true naming, on the poet's part, is his resigning himself to the divine aura which breathes through forms, and accompanying that.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.

Nada es sagrado, excepto la integridad de nuestra alma.

There is a crack in every thing God has made.

We're here to awaken from the illusion of separateness

Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.