Quotes About Spirituality

I tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable.

Hak cihâna tol?dur kimseler Hakk'? bilmez / An? sen senden iste o senden ayru olmaz.

E?ek dervi? olmaz odun çekmekle tekkeye, deve hac? olmaz gidip gelmekle Mekke'ye.

Ko ölmek endî?esin 'â??k ölmez bâkîdür Ölmek senün nen ola çün cânun ?lâhîdür Ölümden ne korkars?n korkma ebedî vars?n Çün kim i?e yarars?n bu söz fâsid da'vîdür

You can two-time satan But you can't lick the Holy Ghost.

Such religion as there can be in modern life, every individual will have to salvage from the churches for himself.

Religion is a deal, whereas spirituality is a journey

The first principle of monotheist religions is 'God exists. What does He want from me?' The first principle of Buddhism is 'Suffering exists. How do I escape it?

For religions, spirituality is a dangerous threat.

Due to this dualist legacy, every journey on which we doubt the conventions and deals of the mundane world and walk towards an unknown destination is called 'a spiritual journey'. Such journeys are fundamentally different from religions, because religions seek to cement the worldly order whereas spirituality seeks to escape it.

However, just as the gap between religion and science is narrower than we commonly think, so the gap between religion and spirituality is much wider. Religion is a deal, whereas spirituality is a journey.

And if you spend hours praying to non-existing guardian spirits, aren't you wasting precious time, time better spent foraging, fighting and fornicating?

Tales viajes (los espirituales) son fundamentalmente diferentes de las religiones, porque el objetivo de las religiones es cimentar el orden mundano, mientras que el de su espiritualidad es escapar de él.

In fact, monotheism, as it has played out in history, is a kaleidoscope of monotheist, dualist, polytheist and animist legacies, jumbling together under a single divine umbrella. The average Christian believes in the monotheist God, but also in the dualist Devil, in polytheist saints, and in animist ghosts.

Many religions have also made extensive use of books, yet that doesn't mean reading books is a religious practice.

A verdadeira especialidade dos sacerdotes e dos gurus nunca foi provocar a chuva, curar, fazer profecias ou magia. A sua especialidade foi sempre a interpretação. Um sacerdote não é alguém que sabe fazer uma dança da chuva para pôr fim à seca. Um sacerdote é alguém que sabe justificar por que motivo a dança da chuva não resultou, e por que motivo devemos continuar a acreditar no nosso deus apesar de ele parecer ignorar as nossas orações.

St Paul and St Augustine knew perfectly well that if you asked people about it, most of them would prefer to have sex than pray to God.

Hayat?n anlam?n? ve hangi anlat?ya inanaca??n?z? bilmiyorsan?z ne yapar­s?n?z? Seçebiliyor olmay? kutsalla?t?r?rs?n?z.

Until the eighteenth century, religions considered death and its aftermath central to the meaning of life.

The average Christian believes in the monotheist God, but also in the dualist Devil, in polytheist saints, and in animist ghosts. Scholars of religion have a name for this simultaneous avowal of different and even contradictory ideas and the combination of rituals and practices taken from different sources. It's called syncretism. Syncretism might, in fact, be the single great world religion. The

El sincretismo, en realidad, podría ser la gran y única religión del mundo.

no debería ser ninguna sorpresa que millones de piadosos cristianos, musulmanes y judíos consigan creer a la vez en un Dios omnipotente y en un Diablo independiente.

But the soul has no parts. You might argue that human souls did not evolve, but appeared one bright day in the fullness of their glory. But when exactly was that bright day?

one of the most important obligations for spiritual wanderers is to challenge the beliefs and conventions of dominant religions. In Zen Buddhism it is said that 'If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.' Which means that if while walking on the spiritual path you encounter the rigid ideas and fixed laws of institutionalised Buddhism,