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Quotes About Spirituality

Happiness exists I feel it. I cried for my soul, I cried for the world's soul. The world has a beautiful soul.
~ Allen Ginsberg
I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber,poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys. I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?
~ Allen Ginsberg
One does not know yet whether Christ was God or the Devil - Buddha is more reassuring.
~ Allen Ginsberg
who sought heaven under a mountain of stone, sat thinking till he realized the land of blessedness exists in the imagination -
~ Allen Ginsberg
The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy! The nose is holy! The tongue and cock and hand and asshole holy!
~ Allen Ginsberg
Sheep look up revolving their jaws with empty eyes, pacific gods little gods that look at me curious & keep distant from human fame. Creatures revolving thru births and deaths, unharmed horses in a tiny gigantic vale in Wales. I am Bard to my own nature nameless as the very Vast I look at. Lay down on the warm hillside & groaned release from my body sighed thru my breast a great Ooh!
~ Allen Ginsberg
Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.
~ Allen Ginsberg
I have mystical visions and cosmic vibrations
~ Allen Ginsberg
There's a difference between religion and faith, Chandi said, Religion means you've accepted a set of beliefs even if those beliefs would appear to be irrational to anyone who doesn't buy into them. Faith means you've chosen to accept something that you've given yourself the chance to question.
~ Allen Steele
To those who believe the dead do not visit them, I say you have cataracts in your soul. I am a man of science, yet I believe in guardian angels and the haunting by ghosts.
~ Alyson Richman
Christian - One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.
~ Ambrose Bierce
DOG: A kind of additional or subsidiary Diety designed to catch the overflow or surplus of the world's worship.
~ Ambrose Bierce
LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed
~ Ambrose Bierce
IRRELIGION, n. The principal one of the great faiths of the world.
~ Ambrose Bierce
PANTHEISM, n. The doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the doctrine that God is everything.
~ Ambrose Bierce
LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed. The question, Is life worth living? has been much discussed; particularly by those who think it is not, many of whom have written at great length in support of their view and by careful observance of the laws of health enjoyed for long terms of years the honors of successful controversy.
~ Ambrose Bierce
CHRISTIAN, n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Christmas Day has come and gone, the New Year lies ahead. Strange things happen Between the Years, in the days outside of time. Minutes go wild, hours vanish. Idleness becomes a clever thief, stealing the names of the days of the week, muting the steady tick of watches and clocks. These are the hours when angels, ghosts, demons and meddlers ride howling wind and flickering candlelight, keen to stir unguarded hearts and restless minds.
~ Ami McKay
May you rise with the sun, ready to make hay. May the rains come at night to wash your cares away. May you sleep with the angels sittin' on your bed. May you be an hour in Heaven a'fore the Devil knows you're dead.
~ Ami McKay
Bidden or not, God is here.
~ Ami McKay
While it might be fashionable for a lady to attend a publuc lecture on the afterlife, or participate in a seance from time to time, claiming to have seen a ghost yourself does not go down well in polite circles.
~ Ami McKay
Enough to make a man believe in God,' said Temple. 'And that He's somewhere else.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Walk in God's footsteps, Ferro Maljinn." "Huh. They have no God here." "Say rather that they have many." "Many?" "Had you not noticed? Here, each man worships himself.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Magnificent,' muttered Glokta, stretching out his aching back and squinting up, the pure white stone almost painful to look at in the afternoon glare. 'Seeing this, one could almost believe in God.' If one didn't know better.
~ Joe Abercrombie