Quotes About Spirituality

the experience of the undivided reality".

For those in the Self, there is no [separate] seeing—only being.

In this Gospel, Jesus reminds seekers, "It will not come by waiting for it." He said to them, "What you look forward to has already come, but you do not recognize it.

The Self is all-pervasive; all "else" is absent.

As a spark proceeds from fire, "individuality" emanates from the Absolute Self.

So long as "mind" survives, "religion" will also exist. But no religion will persist in the silence that results from looking within. It is the ego that comes up, in the form of saying, "my religion should be embraced by all.

He lived on that high level, on the same highlands of the spirit that were disclosed in the Upanishads and Sufi classics. To go where Eckhart went is to come close to Lao Tzu and Buddha, and certainly to Jesus Christ.

he is that Self. Then, only, can he view everything as a form of the Self.

To see the false as the false, you need to lay aside all the search-oriented teachings, and focus on (contemplate) the reality that your presence and the Absolute presence cannot be other than the same presence.

Talks With Ramana alone,

Ramana says: "Love is not different from the Self…[in this sense] God is love…. Love itself is the actual form of God…. Call it pure bliss, God, or what you will.

Being omni-present—as every spiritual and religious tradition declares—it must of necessity be as immediate to us as is our every heartbeat, our every breath. Therefore, there is nowhere that we need to go, and nothing that we need to do, in order to be "in contact" with the Absolute.

William James wrote in The Varieties of Religious Experience that religion "consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto.

lo cierto es que en cierto modo quiero que me sigan sacando de quicio, pues no me gustaría llegar tan lejos en la búsqueda del nirvana como para perder este espíritu de lucha. Si la iluminación total significa dejar de hacer juicios de valor de cualquier tipo y dejar de esforzarse por cambiar las cosas, entonces no contéis conmigo2.

To know myself as woman in the image of God to know God as Mother and to know my own mother as a window into God: these three are inseparable.If one is implausible to the heart the other two are as well.

Dios se aburre igual que el Diablo. El uno arriba y el otro abajo bostezan lúgubremente de la misma manera.

Porque él no le dio a su carne, que tan poco viviría, ni un traje decente, ni una alegría que lo reconciliara con el vivir, él no había hecho nada por el placer de su materia, mientras que a su espíritu no le fue negada ni la geografía de los países para quienes los hombres aún no han descubierto maquinas para llegar.

elegiremos un término medio entre Krisnamurti y Rodolfo Valentino... pero más místico, una criatura que tenga un rostro extraño simbolizando el sufrimiento del mundo.

The Lord's Prayer? asked the inspector. No, oh no, my mind went blank, said the Pápago, I prayed for my soul, I prayed to the Holy Mother, I begged the Holy Mother not to abandon me.

En el querer los mexicanos somos todos iguales. Ante Dios, también —dijo el taxista.

In dreams, as in the Gospels, one usually possesses the gift of tongues.

A life in which the gods are not invited is not worth living. It will be quieter, but there won't be any stories.

Y?jñavalkya immediately separated out the two essential points in every sacrificial act: substitution and the transposition from the visible to the realm of the mind.

learn to cooperate and become one with the power of God. Lake