Quotes About Spirituality

As I listened to this priest, all the presence and mystery disappeared from the room and everything returned to the relative world.

It's not your ego that realizes it's God, but your true essence. It might be more accurate to say God within you realizes it's God; the radiance realizes that you are the radiance.

Relinquishment is what spiritual teachers mean when they say, "die before you die.

The very last phase of spiritual awakening is what I call "the transmutation." Transmutation is what transfiguration and relinquishment make possible. In it, your orientation to life is entirely selfless. It's not that you want to be selfless or you're practicing being selfless: rather you're selfless in the sense of no self.

Imagine if you took it on in yourself to reorient your life trajectory toward your divinity. Your divinity: I so loved the world, that I gave it all of myself.

Jesus said, "Blessed is he who came into being before he came into being.

In the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus says, "There is light within a man of light, and he lights up the whole world.

It's as if you wake up from the dream of thinking that you're already awake in your ordinary waking state. When you are spiritually awakened, what you thought was an awake state now seems like a dream.

True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer. All methods aiming at achieving a certain state of mind are limited, impermanent, and conditioned. Fascination with states lead only to bondage and dependency. True meditation is abidance as primordial awareness.

We cannot storm the gates of heaven. Instead we must allow ourselves to become more and more disarmed. Then the pure consciousness of being becomes brighter and brighter, and we realize who we are. This brightness is what we are.

Otherwise spirituality and our daily life become two separate things. That's the primary illusion -- that there is something called "my spiritual life," and something called "my daily life." When we wake up to reality, we find they are all one thing. It's all one seamless expression of spirit.

I have found that one of the keys to really being free is to live in the same way as you meditate.

The Gospel of Thomas presents the Kingdom of Heaven as something that exists right here and right now. In fact, it's all about what's right here and right now. In it, we find Jesus saying, "The Kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it.

The very root of sin, to use Jesus' language, is something that can be forgiven. It's forgivable because it's an unconscious act, a result of being spiritually asleep. We can't be blamed for being unconscious, for acting out our unconsciousness, even for feeling the effects of our unconsciousness within our psychology.

Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.

To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

The memory of pain falls drop by drop upon our heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.

I feel that if I could sweep all this away . . . all the buildings and the sects and the fierce squabbling churches . . . that I might see Christ's quiet figure riding into Jerusalem on a donkey--and believe in him.

But what really happens after you are dead - that is what I want to know? I cannot tell you Renisenb. You should ask a priest these questions. He would just give me the usual answers. I want to know. We shall none of us know until we are dead ourselves.

Watch and pray," he said. "Watch and pray. The day of judgment is at hand.

Where am I myself, the whole man, the true man? Where am I with God's mark upon my brow?

Such people forget that life and death are the affair of the good God.

As we practice the work of forgiveness we discover more and more that forgiveness and healing are one.