Quotes About Spirituality

God cares less about what we do than what we are. In the eternal scheme of things, God looks at our hearts, not our résumés.

The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually

In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

It was a very lonely spirit that looked out from underneath those shaggy brows and comprehended men without fully communing with them, as if in spite of all its genial efforts at comradeship, it dwelt apart, saw its visions of duty where no man looked on.

No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

Our civilization cannot survive materially unless it is redeemed spiritually. It can be saved only by becoming permeated with the Spirit of Christ, and being made free and happy by practices which spring out of that spirit. Only thus can discontent be driven out and all shadows lifted from the road ahead.

To me there's no real difference between a fortune teller or a fortune cookie and any of the organized religions. They're all equally valid or invalid, really. And equally helpful.

God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.

There's no way out of this mess, except to become enlightened and then enjoy it. —Robert Thurman A

Our real self is not the captive of Space and Time

But my present point is this: what looks to the flattened-out imagination of late Western modernity like "lifeless" matter is in fact a world throbbing with God-given life. That life is constantly praising its maker by being, particularly and peculiarly, what it is.

You can walk from the time of your youth till the time you grow old, and after that, till you become youthful again; and even after going through such cycle a thousand times, you may still find it difficult to reach the place you want to go. But when you percieve, by the resoluteness of your will, the Buddha-nature in all things, and when every one of your thoughts goes back to its very source in your memory, that will be the time you arrive at the Spirit Mountain.

The path that one person follows is not the correct path for any other person. Each of us must walk his own path to enlightenment— that is the way.

The master sees beyond what is obvious. He sees the unseen, feels the unfelt, and hears the unheard. He looks below the surface for what is hidden and so finds the great heartbeat of the Universe. He smiles, knowing it is his heartbeat, your heartbeat, our heartbeat.

To have anything we want, we need only raise our level of consciousness to the level of consciousness where what we want exists.

The mystics themselves do not seem to have believed their physical and mental sufferings to be a sign of grace, but it is unfortunate that it is precisely physical manifestations which appeal most to the religiosity of the mob. A woman might spend twenty years nursing lepers without having any notice taken of her, but let her once exhibit the stigmata or live for long periods on nothing but the Host and water, and in no time the crowd will be clamoring for her beatification.

I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.

One can only blaspheme if one believes.

I have come to the conclusion, by way of various observations, that man is composed of a soul and a beast. These two beings are absolutely distinct, but closely fitted together, or one on top of the other, that the soul must have a certain superiority over the beast to be in a position to draw a distinction between them.

If the ox could think, it would attribute oxality to God.

The search for religion is the starting point of thought.

Little by little I was starting to like Hiruko, which surprised me. "And are you a Buddhist?" I asked her. "No, I'm not a Buddhist. I'm a linguist." "Is that a religion?" "Not really, but languages can make people happy, and show them what's beyond death.

Sûfizmi politik bir güç olarak devreye sokan ilk sûfi Hallâc'd?r." Louis Massignon

Muhammed ?kbal'e göre, Nietzsche gelsefesindeki 'insan üstü', Hallâc'?n Enel Hak'?n?n Bat?'daki yans?mas?d?r. Tek fark, Hallâc'?n mollalar eliyle katledilmesine kar??n Nietzsche'nin aptal doktorlar eliyle öldürülmesidir.