Quotes About Spirituality

Morality, art, spirituality, and creativity are universal human abilities embedded in our DNA.

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, you must free yourself from them too.

echoing John the Baptist's cry: 'the kingdom of heaven is near' (Matthew 3:

Hence the first religious effect of the Agricultural revolution was to turn plants and animals from equal members of a spiritual round table into property

Dios. El sacerdote exclamaba «Hoc est corpus meum!» («¡Este es mi cuerpo!»), y, ¡abracadabra!, el pan se convertía en la carne de Cristo.

Paganism is more of an attitude of mind than a fixed creed. It is always tempting to ask, "what do Pagans believe?" but a better question is "what do Pagans do?

If religion or spirituality makes us more disconnected from other people, less compassionate, less rational, then it is harmful. If on the other hand, it enables us to feel more love and compassion for others, and be better able to cope with the sorrowful aspects of life, then it is helpful.

And what kind of religion can make do without the devil?

Acredite na vida, siga em frente e sempre é bom pedir uma ajuda extra ao seu guia espiritual. Ele já deve estar do seu lado, ansioso para dar-lhe uma mãozinha e ter a satisfação de vê-lo deslanchar.

É deixar de procurar no outro o que ele nunca será capaz de lhe dar, e desenvolver esses sentimentos em você, manifestando-os em tudo que fizer, como cuidar da sua saúde, da sua beleza física, alimentar seu espírito aumentando seu conhecimento de assuntos que lhe causam prazer. Tudo isso causa grande bem-estar. Cultivar a beleza em tudo que fizer, faz muita diferença.

In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe there's a higher power but I'm hesitant to reach out to him because I don't know if I'm worthy of his attention.'

this broken, anxious world is oozing with God.

There are a lot of people who consider themselves 'spiritual ' but that can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. I don't really talk about it that often, because there's too much talk in the world. Especially with Christians, there's more proselytizing than there is actual living proof of it. That's kind of sad.

I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics in life in spirituality in business just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.

Et maintenant, je n'ai plus peur de Le voir, Car si je Le vois, je Lui crache à la gueule...

The Holy Spirit, one in mission and purpose with the Godhead, continues the work of connecting us to God by always and everywhere going native. In this sense it is possible to say that God, through the Holy Spirit is still becoming incarnate.

Ultimately, our questions must emerge not from mental categories, but from deep within the heart. They must rise to the surface of our beings as we sit in silence, so that they are not just the old questions which we raise whenever we have nothing else to talk about or just for the sake of argument. They need to be the questions which make a difference in our lives.

elders serve as conduits between the divine realm and the mundane world, making the abstract truths of spirituality accessible to the community by embodying them in their everyday behavior.

God is always present. The question is, how present are we?

Do not exalt any path above god. There are many paths that lead to god. So people are capable of finding and following the ways that suit them, provided they do not stand still.

True prayer is a bursting forth of the soul to God. What can be more natural and more human than turning to God's listening presence with our thanks and our burdens?

she has carried this sacred sense of community building into

No one who hasn't taken a vigil for the night and had it out with God can get to the place where their love and faith become real. We

Anyone who has had a truly "spiritual" moment, a moment of breaking through our day-to-day reality and touching the divine, knows how difficult it is to communicate that experience to others—or even to recapture it later for ourselves. The