Quotes About Spirituality

Spiritually evolved people, by virtue of their discipline, mastery and love, are people of extraordinary competence, and in their competence they are called on to serve the world, and in their love they answer the call. They are inevitably, therefore, people of great power, although the world may generally behold them as quite ordinary people, since more often than not they will exercise their power in quiet or even hidden ways.

Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. This

We are born that we might become, as a conscious individual, a new life form of God.

Most people want peace without the aloneness of [spiritual] power. And they want the self-confidence of adulthood without having to grow up.

Vindecarea constituie rezultatul iubirii. Este o functie a iubirii. Oriunde exista iubire exista vindecare. Si oriunde nu exista iubire exista totusi putina - dar pretionasa - vindecare. In mod paradoxal, o psihologie a raului trebuie sa fie o psihologie prin care se manifesta iubirea. Trebuie sa fie plina de iubire de viata.

But is all this what God has done to humans or what humans have done to God?

love ''as the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

genuine love transcends the matter of cathexes. When love exists it does so with or without cathexis and with or without a loving feeling.

some people may yearn for riches, not for money's sake but in order to send their children to college or provide themselves with the freedom and time for study and reflection which are necessary for their own spiritual growth.

And there is yet another joy, even greater. It is the joy of communion with God.

Aware of their intimate connectedness to God, they experience a surcease of loneliness. There is communion.

We live our lives in the eye of God, and not at the periphery but at the center of His vision, His concern.

wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

If we can make ourselves into totally disciplined, wholly loving individuals, then, even though we may be ignorant of theology and give no thought to God, we will have prepared ourselves well for the coming of grace.

if you want to talk to God, it's best to do it where you don't have to shout to have yourself heard.

The Kabbalah says if we have not fulfilled our condition during one life, we must commence another... until we have acquired the condition that fits our reunion with God.

Everyone in the tribe believed in life after death and the spirit's ability to be reborn and live again in a new body. The undying soul was unquestioned. Did not the leaves fall off the tree and become part of the soil that nourished the tree which spouted new leaves?

Time creates history. Meditation creates the moment.

The more you listen to your breath, the more you can hear the voice of your soul.

Am I mystical again, reader? Then I hope you are too, or will be before you have done with this same beautiful mystical life of ours.

A boca podia ser o cálix, os lábios a pátena. Faltava dizer a missa nova, por um latim que ninguém aprende, e é a língua católica dos homens. Não me tenhas por sacrílego, leitora minha devota; a limpeza da intenção lava o que puder haver menos curial no estilo.

Então levado do remorso, usei ainda uma vez do meu velho meio das promessas espirituais e pedi que me perdoasse e salvasse a vida de minha mãe, e eu lhe rezaria dois mil padre-nossos. [...] Eram mais dois mil; aonde iam os antigos? Não paguei uns nem outros, mas saindo de almas cândidas e verdadeiras tais promessas são como a moeda fiduciária - ainda que o vendedor as não pague, valem a soma que dizem.

Éramos religiosos, tínhamos o céu por testemunha.

O louvor dos mortos é um modo de orar por eles.