Quotes About Spirituality

any form of expression that ceases to be an experience and becomes an art form loses its glowing divinity"

It isn't really magic, except that it is. It's not magic that reaches into the world ands changes things. It's all inside my body. I thought, sitting there, that everything is magic. Using things connects them to you, being in the world connects you to the world, the sun streams down magic and people and animals and plants grow from sunlight and the world turns and everything is magic.

I don't know what I think about Jesus, but I know what I think about Aslan.

The devil doesn´t exit. That´s what I´d tell them if they asked me. The humanly human exists...the transit.

I was laughing with God,' Elizabeth said in her Italian journal. In the years since, she had come to know the peace that comes from finding God everywhere, in everything, in everyone. As Gandhi would one day put it, 'If you don't find God in next person you meet, it's a waste of time to look further.

A spiritually optimistic point of view holds that the universe is woven out of a fabric of love. Everything that is happening is ultimately for the good if we're willing to face it head-on and use our adversities for soul growth.

Lifeforce energy is distributed through the body by seven chakras or energy transformers

For this is the vision that unites all seven paths and creates the rainbow bridge to a new earth and a new heaven.

In Bali, even mundane things are reminders of the sacred.

No matter what the outer appearance of things may be, let me think of the "bookmark prayer" of Saint Teresa of Avila: Let nothing upset you, Let nothing afright you. Everything is changing; God alone is changeless. Patience attains the goal. Who has God lacks nothing; God alone fills all her needs.

Tonglen is one of the most powerful practices of forgiveness and compassion that one can learn.

The further we go on the spiritual path, the more we realize what beginners we really are.

During the day, if you are invited to share your spiritual practice with anyone, remember that humility, non-judgment and respect for other's points of view are the best measure of spiritual attainment.

One of the most insidious forms of spiritual materialism is attachment to intellectual attainment.

Centering prayer is a form of meditation that is a conscious letting go of small mind and its continuous self-centered fantasies.

Control of breath is the cornerstone for health and for letting go of our small mind and entering the Big Mind of God.

The serenity prayer of Reinhold Niebuhr is a classic. Say it with all your heart and let its wisdom penetrate your mind: God give me the courage to change the things I can, the serenity to accept the things I can't and the wisdom to know the difference.

Mother Meera is a contemporary Hindu saint who teaches that if we want anything we have to ask for it with our whole heart in a way that "your heart can be empty and God can fill it." To pray in this way it is necessary to remember that God has already given you the kingdom.

Yoga is a Sanskrit word meaning "union," the union of our mind with Divine Mind.

Peace be with you. The darkest day of the year has dawned, and the Great Medicine Wheel has shifted from the West to the North.

Shift to belly breathing as often as you can, repeating "Letting go of small mind" on the inbreath and "I am one with Big Mind" on the outbreath.

All Souls' Day is celebrated in many countries as a day both for remembering the dead and for celebrating the liberating aspects of death.

May there be peace on earth, may the hearts of all beings be open, may all be reborn in forgiveness, may all creation reflect the Glory of God.

It takes courage to re-own our lost parts, but authentic spirituality requires that we make the shadow visible and that we make that which is divided whole.