Quotes About Spirituality

My job is not to get between YOU and God. My job is to put your hand IN God's hand.

If there is a God, he thought, I'll speak directly to him when the time comes, and if there isn't a God I'll have to invent one, and I'll find a way to thank him for the way I feel when I watch her move.

The purpose of Buddhism is not to convert people. It is to give them tools so they can create greater happiness. So they can be happier Catholics, happier atheists, happier Buddhists.

Serena smiled. "The historical Buddha who lived two and a half thousand years ago, Shakyamuni Buddha, he was a man. But enlightenment is a state beyond being male or female

Karma operates not so much as some external credit-and-debit ledger but more as an energy, a charge that grows over time. This is how even small acts of generosity, especially when motivated by the best intention, can become causes for much greater wealth in the future.

We are beyond being helped, even by other more realized beings, unless we are in a receptive mental state.

soul friend". An Anam Cara may play the role of death midwife, helping a being through an important time of transition.

renunciation is the start of our inner journey. Instead of fixating on external circumstances, we look within.

Energy is not created or destroyed. Because consciousness is energy, it, too, is never destroyed. It changes form, yes, but it's always there and always has been there.

Remember the words of the Buddha: 'Though one man may conquer a thousand men a thousand times in battle, he who conquers himself is the greatest warrior.

My little 'bodhicatva,'" he will sometimes call me, a play on bodhisattva, a Sanskrit term that in Buddhism refers to an enlightened being.

If there is a very strong connection, sometimes the same being can come back again and again.

bodhisattva, a Sanskrit term that in Buddhism refers to an enlightened being.

May this act of generosity be a cause for me to become enlightened, so that I may help all other beings attain this same state.

Our true purpose in life –' he paused '– is to awaken to our own energy,

We are connected to each other through innumerable lifetimes and in limitless ways.

Yoga means to unite. To join.

offer myself to Thee to build with me and do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will.

Go with all the Gods in your pockets, and my heart in your hand," he whispered, breathing

Ah, solving that question Brings the priest and the doctor In their

Profound silence would brood over the valley, even weighing down our spirits with indefinable heaviness. There can be no other place in the world where man feels himself so alone, so isolated, so completely ignored by nature, so incapable of entering into communion with her

I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet.

save our souls from being so blind that we pass unseeing when even the common thornbush is aflame with Your glory,

O Lord, take full possession of my heart, raise there Your throne, and command there as You do in heaven. Being created by You, let me live for You; being created for You, let me always act for Your glory; being redeemed by You, let me give to You what is Yours; and let my spirit cling to You alone, for Your name's sake. Amen. —JOHN WESLEY (1703–1791)