Quotes About Spirituality

No lea libros que le digan que el mundo está llegando a su fin, ni lea escritos de filósofos escandalizadores y pesimistas que dicen que vamos hacia el demonio. El mundo no va hacia el demonio; está yendo a Dios. Es una maravillosa transformación.

Hay tres motivos por los cuales vivimos: vivimos para el cuerpo, vivimos para la mente, y vivimos para el alma. 

When all the gold and silver has been dug from the earth, if man is still in such a stage of social development that he needs gold and silver, more will produced from the Formless. The Formless Stuff responds to the needs of man; it will not let him be without any good thing.

Jesus, The Man and His Work Published from a Lecture by Wallace D. Wattles Cincinnati, Ohio (November 11, 1905)

A person's right to life means his right to have the free and unrestricted use of all the things which may be necessary to his fullest mental, spiritual and physical unfolding -- in other words, his right to be rich.

He wants all these things because it is Himself that enjoys and appreciates them; it is God who wants to play, and sing, and enjoy beauty, and proclaim truth and wear fine clothes, and eat good foods. "It is God that worketh in you to will and to do," said Paul.

God is in me or else is not at all (does not exist).

God and the imagination are one.

We say God and the imagination are one . . . How high that highest candle lights the dark.

After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is the essence which takes its place as life's redemption.

After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.

The dry eucalyptus seeks god in the rainy cloud. Professor Eucalyptus of New Haven seeks him In New Haven.

Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams?

The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.

Human qualities and emotions like love, charity, compassion, tolerance, patience, friendship, desire, hatred, ill-will, ignorance, conceit, etc., need no sectarian labels; they belong to no particular religion.

A] being is nothing but a combination of physical and mental forces or energies. What we call death is the total non-functioning of the physical body. Do all these forces and energies stop altogether with the non-functioning of the body?

There is a path leading to the realization of Nirvana. But Nirvana is not the result of this path. You may get to the mountain along a path, but the mountain is not the result, not an effect of the path.

When this physical body is no more capable of functioning, energies do not die with it, but continue to take some other shape or form, which we call another life.

Here the four elements of solidity, fluidity, heat and motion have no place; the notions of length and breadth, the subtle and the gross, good and evil, name and form are altogether destroyed; neither this world nor the other, nor coming, going or standing, neither death nor birth, nor sense-objects are to be found.

M]an's emancipation depends on his own realization of Truth, and not on the benevolent grace of a god or any external power as a reward for his obedient good behaviour.

When this physical body is no more capable of functioning, energies do not die with it, but continue to take some other shape or form, which we call another life. In a child all the physical, mental and intellectual faculties are tender and weak, but they have within them the potentiality of producing a full grown man. Physical and mental energies which constitute the so-called being have within themselves the power to take a new form, and grow gradually and gather force to the full.

The scent of these arm-pits aroma finer than prayer,This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds.

Nor for you, for one alone,Blossoms and branches green to coffins all I bring,For fresh as the morning, thus would I chant a song for you O sane and sacred death.

Through you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself,In you I wrap a thousand onward years.