Spirituality Quotes
Meditation leads you to your spiritual information, and takes you on a journey of getting to know yourself and your creations.
We may be focused on looking forward and upward yet looking inward can be the easiest path to take.
Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty.
Only in stillness does the imperceivable become discernible
In enlightenment, the seer and the seen disappear. Or, more accurately, are seen through as illusions. In reality, they were never there, apart from being concept and misunderstanding.
Even amazing states of bliss, peace, clarity and spaciousness have nothing to do with awakening as these are just experiences coming and going in the impersonal awareness that you are.
Nothing can be the total truth in the worlds of manifestation and the more solid your concepts, the more likely they are going to sink you, sooner or later.
Just knowing that there is no gate to pass through doesn’t mean that we are at the end of the search, not if we are still standing outside that gateless gate.
The One that experiences itself as your body-mind is the same One that experiences itself in every other body-mind, form, or appearance that exists.
The one who believes himself to be a person needs to try to find that person. This is a solution, an antidote, offered to a ghost that thinks it actually exists.
Not knowing anything, not searching for anything, understanding that we can’t hold on to anything, leaves us with nothing — nothing except our original nature, pure awareness.
Awareness is that which is reading these words right now, whatever “that” is. You know without a doubt that there is something reading these words right now and awareness is precisely what that is.
Looking forward” to what you think enlightenment might be at some grand point in the future keeps you from seeing the truth of its presence right now.
Being enlightened ironically means realizing that there is no separate entity that can be enlightened or unenlightened.
All paths are valid, but in the end you will find that the realization of the ultimate truth is a pathless path.
We do not want to be beginners (at prayer), but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners all of our lives. --Thomas Merton
Your destiny - by hook or crook, by this way or that, at some corner or nook - will catch up with you.
You are given a life, a death. Understand both while living, and before dying. Or you'd have wasted a life, a death.
Even if things do not work out as you thought they should for you, they do - in their own way, as they were meant to.
On a supra human level, yeah, I got That Which Is. Yet on a simple human level, rare are times when either my left or my right foot is not in some kind of shit.
Any silly ism or stupid book that considers men above women, must be shunned like a lowlife demon. For, all's one, barring none.
I love religious nuts. They make me remember I have them too. So, being a health nut, I scratch them religiously. Just as I do my butt.
Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams...
I liked this God very much because you hardly had to talk to it and it never talked back. Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
The circumstances of our lives are pieces of a larger scheme in the puzzle of life, and in His Perfect Wisdom, the pieces fit.
If you begin to live life looking for the God that is all around you every moment becomes a prayer.
If you are religious, pray. If you are philosophical, contemplate. If you are spiritual, meditate.
To try to pray is to pray. You can't fail at it. It's the only human endeavor I can think of where trying is doing. Reaching out is holding on. Joining in is letting go.
The battle for our lives, and the lives of our children, our husbands, our friends, our families, and our nation, is waged on our knees.
The battle for our lives, and the lives of our children, our husbands, our friends, our families, & our nation, is waged on our knees.
People’s love for us may change, depending on what we do or don’t do to please them. But God’s does not—it’s everlasting.
The quality of your relationships will determine the quality of your life. And this is something worth praying about.
When we forgive someone, it doesn’t justify what they’ve done. It releases them into God’s hands so He can deal with them.
God answers all our prayers. Sometimes the answer is yes. Sometimes the answer is no. Sometimes the answer is you've got to be kidding!
The phrase “timing is everything” is never more true than in your walk with God—HIS timing is everything.
When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.
In the darkest times of your life, your praise to God should be the loudest. Let the enemy know you’re not afraid of the dark.
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the face but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
O Lord God! What plans do you have for me this year?
When something happens to you that is beyond words, life is happening to you. When the Ultimate is happening to you, you are beyond words.
I Don't Write Because God Gives Me A Fresh Word Everyday, I write Because of The Words He Has Already Spoken Yesterday That Changed Today.