Spirituality Quotes - Page 2

They'd put the anesthesia mask on him, and the next instant he was in the recovery room. It was a blackout so complete, it made him doubt the immortality of the soul.

Unconditional Love is the outer expression of Inner Peace.

Your mind is a weapon. Your heart is an asset. Your soul is a treasure. Your life is a jewel.

A positive response to any situation is the key to the feeling of well-being. The more we practice it the easier it becomes. Gradually all automatic reactions are being replaced by a conscious response. When we know we are self-empowered, we take responsibility for our emotions. It is knowing that we have the ability to respond in a way we prefer.

The strength within us comes from God.

Need is what tears people apart. When you want someone, you never really need them. But as soon as you start need someone, they no longer want you.

Words are forces of life.

Life is a funny thing. We claim it to be our own; but the truth is, it's not. It belongs to something much bigger. We, like everything else, are transient. This life is temporary and everything about us is temporary. What we call our life is nothing more than borrowed energy from something much bigger--nature, the universe, God--whatever floats your boat. And one day, when we pass, we will give that energy back to the world we borrowed it from in the first place.

Many search for God in dramatic events, but he is more often veiled in simplicity and humility.

There were silences in my head. I could abandon myself completely to the pleasure of multiple relationships, to the beauty of the day, to the joys of the day. It was as if a cancer in me had ceased gnawing me. The cancer of introspection.

For it is through the darkness of the evening that we are able to see the stars. Without this darkness, we would never get to experience the beauty of the cosmos, or understand the little bits of light in life that shine through the void.

...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.

When the heart sees injustice it turns to the perspective of oneness.It feels no need to produce a big speech to overcome its enemies.In silence it finds its peace.

Stand bloody tall - you're the All.

You simply cannot know the depth of your magnificence without the contrast of life.

Human beings are incredibly slow, Cosmic Ordering is incredibly fast!

Your hopes and dreams are like a giant helium balloon, tugging on your hand to take you above the clouds, to that quiet place of peace and contentment. All you have to do is stop resisting, to let go - and ALLOW your hopes and dreams to take you there.

This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down. We all need such places of ritual safekeeping.

Follow your heart. It will lead you to where you need to be.

In times of adversity we develop our senses of creativity and strength of our souls.

Today I want to belong. I want to feel safe and at home. I want to be aware of what it is like simply to be, without defenses or desires. I will appreciate the flow of life for what it is-my own true self. I will notice those moments of intimacy with myself, when I feel that “I am” is enough to sustain me forever. I will lie on the grass at one with nature, expanding until my being fades into the infinite.

Love gives strength to the spirit.

I'm on a diet I plan to lose Guilt, Fear, Sin, and Doubt then I'll be confident enough to walk about.

Light in your soul kindles the light in your world.

As much as I respect him, he is somewhat of an ignorant fool.

Isn’t reality based on the prevailing culture, the trend that people want to identify with?

I am sad, like the hot dust on the streetsAnd the music of fresh fallen leavesCaught in a sliding summer breeze.

The Hindus believe that in the beginning was sound, a pure vibrational ohm, and as I surf these wave emanations I feel like I've locked onto the fundamental frequency. Seconds go by on the outside but inside it's eternity, outside time and space and back where it all began...

Faith is above all openness an act of trust in the unknown.

The hidden time is an eternity that runs through every moment. It is all-time. The hidden time is a thread, and moments are the beads on the thread.

The speculative thinker makes Christianity into theology, instead of recognizing that a living relationship to Christ involves passion, struggle, decision, personal appropriation, and inner transformation.' (Moore's summary of Kierkegaard)

Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for spiritual joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and spiritual joy you have not yet begun to live.

We spend so much of our life in activity…we almost feel uncomfortable just being – but that is huge restorative break in the wild swirl of activity around us – it’s like pulling back the bow in archery – like taking that big deep breath in before you dive into your day.

I am what I am and not what others make of me.

You push the TRUTH off a cliff, but it will always fly. You can submerge the TRUTH under water, but it will not drown. You can place the TRUTH in the fire, but it will survive. You can bury the TRUTH beneath the ground, but it will arise. TRUTH always prevails!

I never went to bed in my life and I never ate a meal in my life without saying a prayer. I know my prayers have been answered thousands of times and I know that I never said a prayer in my life without something good coming of it.

Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously.

There’s nothing mysterious about Cosmic Ordering, it’s simply a method used to transmute thought into reality.

I am at the gates of my own destruction.(Or so I'm told.)

O Heavenly Children, God has blessed you all with many treasures that only the most purehearted already know. His fruitful garden is vast and without measure, and in your own very bodies, He has planted metals of copper, silver and gold.

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.

The sun is never denied the light it gives; likewise, you are never denied the kindness you bestow.

Just like in the eye of the storm there is always comfort within the chaos. Becoming aware of this however, is your responsibility.

I have experience near-death many times but a divine power saved me.

One of my confreres sketched an explanation that attracted me: since the process of digestion is under the control of the brain, its cessation gave repose to the brain, allowed it a vacation.

Don’t just wish you were rich, use Cosmic Ordering.

Now listen for your song. Everybody’s got a song. When I used to chase the Trane— John Coltrane that is— he used to tell me, ‘If I know a man’s sound, I know the man.’ Do you hear the melody playing in your mind? Does it move you, nudge you off your seat?

We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.

When the melody plays, footsteps move, heart sings and spirit begin to dance.

We live as One Man for contracting our infinite senses we behold multitude or expanding: we behold as one.

The Message of Mohammad is not a set of metaphysical phenomena. It is a complete civilization.

When you cannot do what you have always done, then you only do what matters most.

Music give infinite strength.

You must seek the divinity within with all your heart, soul and mind.

What you do for others today you have done for yourself tomorrow.

The soul's rainbow has more colors than the sky's stars.

A jewelled garden the envy of Aladdin's cave spilled across the courtyard.

Be the patience you seek

Every grievance you hold hides a little more of the light of the world from your eyes until the darkness becomes overwhelming. Everything you forgive restores that light. So ask yourself, who is it that you are really hurting?

All my life I have heard the term happiness thrown around like a buzzword as if it is something to be gained. As I have previously expressed, I do not view happiness as a tangible thing. To me happinesss is the elimination of accumulated darkness. Self-sustaining happiness comes from contentment of acceptance, compassion and sympathetic joy, qualities which cannot be developed like a muscle, but rather they must be actualized by the removal of fetters in the mind