Quotes About Spiritual

according to Native American legends, dogs with different-colored eyes could see both heaven and earth.

All God's angels come to us disguised.

But all God's angels come to us disguised...

emissary from the realm of angels, rapt and consumed by the sublime!

he is filled with the solemn intoxication that comes of intricate ritual faultlessly performed.

I am here,' said the voice slowly. 'My body wanted to come but it's a bit busy at the moment. Things to do, people to see.' After what seemed like a sort of ethereal sigh it added, 'You know how it is with bodies.

Inasmuch as I am a spiritual man, I do believe in God - I think that He created an order for the world; I believe that, in constantly bombarding Him with requests for miracles, we're also asking that He unravel the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would be a cartoon, not a world.

their relationship had a spiritual dimension. Think about that for a moment. Language is power. Prentiss was like a spiritual guide. She gave Jennie power—and Jennie used it.

The first stage of the awakening journey is the calling. The calling arrives when we first feel that spiritual impulse that galvanizes our attention. All of a sudden we sense a greater mystery to life that we seek to experience more deeply; it literally calls us.

The changeless is what knows the change, the changeless is unconditioned

The word parable comes from a Greek word meaning "comparison or analogy" and is essentially a very brief story that conveys a spiritual truth. A parable is a bit like a riddle: it has a meaning you can't completely understand with the logical, conditioned mind. A parable is meant to present your mind with something that pushes you to go beyond your current level of understanding in order to comprehend it.

in a true awakening, it is realized very clearly that even the awakening itself is not personal. It is universal Spirit or universal consciousness that wakes up to itself. Rather than the "me" waking up, what we are wakes up from the "me". What we are wakes up from the seeker. What we are wakes up from the seeking.

The heavenly state is the context of eternity in which the world resides.

The beginning of the spiritual journey is what I call "life after awakening.

The polished brass is mirror of the form, wine of the soul.

I think there's something heavenly about numbers, anyway.

Was that really and truly what people were secretly feeling everywhere? Was that what, ultimately, war did to you? It was not the physical dangers—the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping of a rifle bullet as you drove over a desert track. No, it was the spiritual danger of learning how much easier life was if you ceased to think…

You sort of underestimate the human being when you say that every least thing that is an abstract experience is spiritual. It isn't. It's just your real self. You can be capable of fantastic abstract experiences, right in this life.

universal consciousness who have opened their eyes in an earthly body, operated

The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.

Just like a conductor is requried to orchestrate a band, to Realize God, we need a spiritual Master to hold our hand.

It will take spiritual fortitude—followed by focused, strategic action—to win the fight against White supremacy.

Buddhist cosmology is a spiritual legacy of the past, yet it remains a force capable of stirring the imagination of people today. Like old ceremonial garments no longer worn, it retains an attraction for us and can transport our minds to the spiritual world of ancient and medieval people, in the same way that the Greek myths, though they have lost their significance as a religion, continue to maintain their hold on our imagination.

The spiritual decadence of man, according to Hindu tradition, goes hand in hand with progress in metallurgy from the Golden Age (Satyä Yugä) to the Iron Age (Kali Yugä).