Quotes About Spirituality

In our daily meditations, we pray to the Divine who fills the world, and fills our hearts, and moves us from rung-to-rung, until we arrive at where we have always been. And then we take another step so that the soul can come to encompass the vastness of the knowable as well as the unknowable.

The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me. My eye and God's eye are one eye, one sight, one knowledge, and one love.

Peaceful death is really an essential human right," he writes, "more essential perhaps even than the right to vote or the right to justice; it is a right on which, all religious traditions tell us, a great deal depends for the well-being and spiritual future of the dying person.… There is no greater gift of charity you can give than helping a person to die well.

Modern materialists and religious extremists alike lack the spiritual animistic reverence for non-human beings that every culture once understood as a given.

There are Tantrics who deliberately break taboos and social norms and then there are other Tantrics who, by means of their practices and the way that they practice, that to society in general, it may have the appearance of breaking social norms but in fact that is just the manifestation of the progress of their practice.

When all that's left of us is the pure untainted consciousness without form, we'll know what it means when the last human breath expires.

Beauty and horror, pleasure and pain, joy and sorrow are perceived as interwoven strands in the tapestry of maya.

We are our own gods.

Consciousness is endless, from one incarnation to the next. It simply will and does manifest in other places and times, regardless of what becomes of the human race.

Once a Buddha, always a Buddha.

It takes a lifetime of practice to achieve a spiritually sound state of imperfection.

She was talking to a something deep in me that never got talked to, that hardly even had words.

The clearest and simplest definition of æ°" (qi) is that it is the interchange of Yin and Yang.

Heal the soul first; then healing of the heart, mind, and body will follow.

Forgiveness brings inner joy and inner peace.

Love melts all blockages and transforms all life.

When Zhuangzi was about to die, his disciples expressed a desire to give him a sumptuous burial. Zhuangzi said, "I will have heaven and earth for my coffin and coffin shell, the sun and moon for my pair of jade discs, the stars and constellations for my pearls and beads, and the ten thousand things for my parting gifts. The furnishings for my funeral are already prepared - what is there to add?

The man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven.

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature

Täydellinen ihminen on vapautunut itseydestään; henkistynyt ihminen ei välitä ansioiden tavoittelusta; todellinen Viisas ei välitä maineesta.

As to what is beyond the Six Realms,15 the sage admits it exists but does not theorize.

He set forth his intractable ideas but was never partisan or restricted to his own subjective stance. He moved alone with the spirit of heaven and earth, and did not exalt himself above all things. He did not dispute right and wrong, but sought to live peacefully with the prevalent views.

When I discipline myself to eat properly, live morally, exercise regularly, grow mentally and spiritually, and not put any drugs or alcohol in my body, I have given myself the freedom to be at my best, perform at my best, and reap all the rewards that go along with it.

Work might come later, but for now, he needed God's perspective. And the only way to get it was to stop, look, listen, and remember the goodness and greatness of Almighty God.