Quotes About Spirituality

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.

I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.

I am not an atheist but an earthiest.

The very poor are materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.

My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.

There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.

There is something about the desert.… There is something there which the mountains, no matter how grand and beautiful, lack; which the sea, no matter how shining and vast and old, does not have.

Koyaanisqatsi!

Is this at last the locus Dei? There are enough cathedrals and temples and altars here for a Hindu pantheon of divinities. Each time I look up one of the secretive little side canyons I half expect to see not only the cottonwood tree rising over its tiny spring—the leafy god, the desert's liquid eye—but also a rainbow-colored corona of blazing light, pure spirit, pure being, pure disembodied intelligence, about to speak my name.

pagan and hedonistic people (thank God!), we are learning finally that the forests and mountains and desert canyons are holier than our churches. Therefore let us behave accordingly.

Go thou my incense upward from this hearth And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.

But SACRIFICE does not mean 'death' at all. It means MAKING HOLY

Buddhist tradition, in fact, distinguishes two classes of people, the "common worldlings" and the "saints" (arya), who occupy two distinct planes of existence, respectively known as the "worldly" and the "supramudane." The saints alone are truly alive, while the worldlings just vegetate along in a sort of dull and aimless bewilderment. Not content with being born in the normal way, the saints have undergone a spiritual rebirth, which is technically known as "winning the path.

They believed in angles and alchemy and the devil, and they believed that the universe followed precise, mathematical laws.

God is real, unless declared integer.

A short prayer pierces heaven.

Ye who do truly and earnestly repent you of your sins, and are in love and charity with your neighbors, and intend to lead a new life.

I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three.

Oh, freedom! Oh, freedom!Oh, freedom over me!And before I'd be a slave, I'll be buried in my grave,And go home to my Lord and be free.

When Jesus comes, the shadows depart.

Muscular Christianity

As having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

I am the way, the truth, and the life.