Quotes About Spirituality

The most important part of living realistically is to hold a true view of God. God is ultimate reality. He's the greatest factor in all that's real. When we let the truth about Him nourish us and remold our minds, this revolutionizes our lives.

How much better to fill today with the three great basics of Christian living — faith, hope, and love. All are rooted in God.

When you beat a drum, you create NOW, when silence becomes a sound so enormous and alive it feels like you're breathing in the clouds and the sky, and your heart is the rain and the thunder.

One of her vows was to save all beings, which basically means that she agreed not to become enlightened until all the other beings in this world get enlightened first.

To study the self is to forget the self. Maybe if you sat enough zazen, your sense of being a solid, singular self would dissolve and you could forget about it. What a relief. You could just hang out happily as part of an open-ended quantum array.

The only time they ever throw anything away is when it's really and truly broken, and then they make a big deal about it. They save up all their bent pins and broken sewing needles and once a year they do a whole memorial service for them, chanting and then sticking them into a block of tofu so they will have a nice soft place to rest. Jiko says that everything has a spirit, even if it is old and useless, and we must console and honor the things that have served us well.

Kannon, with her thousand arms and eleven heads, who could hear the voices of things crying out. I said I could totally relate to that, and when she told us that Kannon was the Buddhist saint of compassion

As I bathe myself I pray with all beings that we can purify body and mind and clean ourselves inside and out.

In case you don't know, it's an old tradition among Zen masters to write a final poem on their deathbeds

Jiko also says that to do zazen is to enter time completely.

For the time being, standing on the tallest mountaintop, For the time being, moving on the deepest ocean floor, For the time being, a demon with three heads and eight arms, For the time being, the golden sixteen-foot body of a buddha, For the time being, a monk's staff or a master's fly- swatter, For the time being, a pillar or a lantern, For the time being, any Dick or Jane, For the time being, the entire earth and the boundless sky.

He said he didn't need religion because he had jazz.

gaté gaté, para gaté, parasam gaté, boji sowa ka . . . These words are actually in some ancient Indian language71 and not even Japanese, but Jiko told me they means something like this: gone gone, gone beyond, gone completely beyond, awakened, hurray . . . I

When I wash my feet May all sentient beings Attain the power of supernatural feet With no hindrance to their practice.   Of

It's a mystery how you know what to do, what to say, how to frame a prayer.

Crede în intuiÈ›ie È™i Universul te va c?l?uzi.

She wanted to find out about the gods of this country, but she couldn't find any books on the subject in Spanish, and she doesn't read English, so she asked a lot of her customers, but apparently none of the Japanese knew anything, which made her wonder if people here never came up against the kind of suffering where you can't do anything but turn to your god for help. . .

what has made it possible for us to remain ourselves in spite of so many wars, invasions and occupations, is our spiritual, not our material, strength--our poetry, and not out technology; our religion, and not our factories.

Every day I practice yoga, read poetry, and translate. What do I need politics for?

The land is sacred. The land gives people life, and that which gives life is sacred.

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.

Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.

to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.

For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.