Quotes About Spirituality

Horace Dinsmore was, like his father, an upright, moral man, who paid an outward respect to the forms of religion, but cared nothing for the vital power of godliness.

Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God.

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.

Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.

A better name for nirvana might be endless love. Love not even in the sense that we see it if we're watching the romantic movie, but love in a sense of no absence.

It is a sad thing when you hear Christians with a groan in them. When I meet the groaner, I say in my heart, "God, move that man on into the place where he comprehends what Christianity is."

People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are unable to hear the voice of my silence.

Lady Bast, guide my feet. Guard my path. Know my heart resides with you.

Because you cannot see him, God is everywhere.

BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there;

Midnight has come, and the great Christ Church Bell And many a lesser bell sound through the room; And it is All Soul's Night, And two long glasses brimmed with muscatel Bubble upon the table. A ghost may come; For it is a ghost's right, His element is so fine Being sharpened by his death, To drink from the wine-breath While our gross palates drink from the whole wine.

God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days.

The most important pieces of equipment you need for doing yoga are your body and your mind.

Yoga answers a lot of physical problems such as back pain, stress issues, and any kind of joint problems or illnesses. Even more important is the spiritual questioning that comes up around our middle years. We wonder what do I want to hand down to my children, and how do I want to spend my days on this earth? I think yoga begins to help us look at what our passions and our dreams are. And it helps give us the courage once we find passion to actually pursue that!

We begged you, Lord, to divide right from wrong and instead you divided the waters above the firmament from those beneath it. We begged for the knowledge of good and evil, and you gave us all kinds of rules and regulations like the rules of soccer

There are many sparks of sanctity in each person in [a] group. And when you collect all the sparks of sanctity into one place, as brothers, with love and friendship, you will certainly have a very high level of sanctity...

Even if a person excels in Torah and good deeds more than all his contemporaries, if he has not learned the secrets of Torah and the wisdom of truth, he must reincarnate in the world (...) Now the matter is clarifiedthe whole part of the revealed Torah is but a preparation to become worthy and merit attaining the concealed part. It is the concealed part that is very wholeness and the purpose for which man is created.

Because there is no difference or disparity of form between them (...) "The Torah and the Creator and Israel are one."

"The whole Torah is the names of the Creator." All the stories and the laws and the sentences, all are His Holy Names.