Spirituality Quotes - Page 61

Science is good, is not God.

One of the most important of life´s lessons is to learn independance, to understand freedom. This means independence from attachments, from results, from opinions, and from expectations. Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does not mean abandoning a loving and meaningful relationship, a relationship that nourrishes your soul. It means ending dependency on any person or thing. Love is never a dependency.

Sometimes the only thing we can do for people is pray.

Anger is loud, rage is deafening, and wrath is thunderous; only love can silence them.

Our life consists not in the pursuit of material success but in the quest for worthy spiritual growth. Our entire earthly existence is but a transitional stage in the movement toward something higher, and we must not stumble and fall, nor must we linger fruitlessly on one rung of the ladder. Material laws alone do not explain our life or give it direction. The laws of physics and physiology will never reveal the indisputable manner in which the Creator constantly, day in and day out, participates in the life of each of us, unfailingly granting us the energy of existence; when this assistance leaves us, we die. And in the life of our entire planet, the Divine Spirit surely moves with no less force: this we must grasp in our dark and terrible hour.

Efficient Christians are those who walk with God.

Spirituality is keeping the spirit up against all odds and obstacles of life.

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

This didn't sound good. It sounded like the optimism was escaping from him.

Every sacred soul has in a sacred body.

Billions of years before I was born I did not need religion, why should I need it, billions of years after I cease to exist

The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.

Seeking nothing, emulating nothing, breathing gently, he moved in an atmosphere of imperishable calm, impresihable light, inviolable peace.

You do not have an existence independent of your environment, but rather you are your environment, and your environment is you.

Your mind is an entire world, your heart is an entire cosmos, and your soul is an entire universe.

If we study the Scriptures, we find the well of salvation.

Language has created a barrier that prevents us from seeing existence as it truly is.

Religion is a belief with a set of rules, regulations, and rituals created by someone with his thoughts, imaginations, experiences, and wisdom. Most religions bring about positive changes for society. Spirituality is a perception of inner truth, inner beauty, and inner reality. Spirituality involves trusting your own experiences.

Love spiritually, not strategically.

The foundation of all personal development, actually, is self-acceptance and self-love.

You know that you won’t remain Centered all the time, and it is a normal part of human life to drift left or right of Center sometimes.

I spend a lot of time looking up.

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings there’s too much corruption in the world

... the rules of transcendence insist that you will not advance even one inch closer to divinity as long as you cling to even one last seductive thread of blame.

An inch of light can conquer a mile of darkness.

Reality is like a fine wine,” he said to me. “It will not appeal to children.

When you turn your dreams on there is no off switch.

Positive simply means unifying energies, while negative simply means separating energies. It's not about what's good or bad, right or wrong. It's about embracing what feels good and brings us closer to peace.

One of the functions of leadership is to lead, and weak managers may simply check and check and check with others because they are not capable of leading when it is required of them to lead. Benedict says that in matters of importance the abbot or prioress is to ask everyone in the community, 'starting with the youngest,' and then the abbot or prioress is to 'do what seems best.

Great spirit, Great soul.

The highest goal of spirituality is Self-realization, but what does that mean? It means to feel your Self as a living reality in this moment, and there is always only this moment. (10)

Many people profess a belief in the existence of a spiritual realm, often aligning with their religious training or background. (Recent surveys indicate that, on average, between 48 percent and 59 percent of Europeans claim to believe in an afterlife, while between 72 percent and 74 percent of people in the United States assert a belief in life after death.) But when confronted with the loss of a child, a spouse, or another deeply loved person, one may find that his or her belief set is deeply challenged, and some suffer a crisis of faith.

God is a sound frequency, and we can all tune in if we just listen. Some find The Rhythm through different melodies, but it's all music.

Spirituality has a language of it's own and some people haven't learned to speak it.

It's not the law of religion nor the principles of morality that define our highways and pathways to God; only by the Grace of God are we led and drawn, to God. It is His grace that conquers a multitude of flaws and in that grace, there is only favor. Favor is not achieved; favor is received.

Now is the time to recall the enthusiasm of our first fervor, the determination to offer ourselves unreservedly, and at the same time to let go of the craving for emotional consolation,

Do not envy any one. Their travel path is different from yours.

Your omnipresence is marvellous!I breathe and you enter me.I exhale and enter into you.

The tragedy is that what you disapprove of in others is the very thing you disapprove of in yourself.

In an era of globalization, we recognize that we are part of a global society, but we have no idea how to make such a society work. So far, no unified vision or leadership has emerged to guide us in this endeavor. We have not yet found a way to expand the spiritual ideals of democracy so that they pertain to every human being, every animal, and every plant. Until we do, human civilization and the Earth's ecosystem will continue to be in peril.

God has given me a lifeboat and said... 'Moody save all you can

Young lovers. If you get it right, it's amazing what you can share. The challenging part is maintaining it.

We must understand the essence of our faith to be something other than a list of opinions, propositions, or statements that our group holds but cannot prove. (p. 22)

Some say the bible teaches that with our tongues we can speak, set things into motion both good and bad, life and death. What we bind and loose on earth will be bound and loosed in heaven.

If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?

Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.

Rainer Maria Rilke greeted and wrestled with the angels of his Duino Elegies in the solitude of a castle surrounded by white cliffs tall trees and the sea. I greeted most of mine in the solitude of a house that still vibrated with the throbs of a singular life that had helped shape many lives and with the ache of attempts to render useful service to that life. The River of Winged Dreams was therefore constructed as a link between dimensions of past and future emotions and intellect and matter and spirit.

the universe is always delivering to us what we need for a spiritual awakening

Our spiritual character is formed as much by what we endure and what is taken from us as it is by our achievements and our conscious choices.

I'm Noah, and you are the ship coasting along the banks and as long as you are my valentine I will sail between your eyes..

The power of fiction is a great thing. But, after all, reality is just a little more important.

Life is a mighty joke that is not meant to be funny.

Gracious self is the divinity within.

Thoughts, by their nature, come and go endlessly in you. But you are not the thought; you are the one seeing the thought, so any thought of who you are cannot be the truth of who you are.

Open the doors of your heart and they will come…And for every cruel arrow,Sweet caresses of delirium alsoTo nourish your soul.

Revelation ends when prayer ends.

Willful blindness sees no end of damage done.

Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.

The only real flesh was the flesh that existed in his imagination. Since, therefore, he regarded the flesh as an ideal abstraction, rather than as a physical fact, he had relied on his spiritual strength to subjugate it.

Without Christ a people may always have the freedom to do, but never the power to complete.