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Would God be a frequent contact or an in case of emergency in your phone? If he is only an in case of emergency, he will you in different emergencies so he can be frequently contacted.
— Andrea Ball, Seek God: 40 Days of Intimacy & Growth
Our human lives serve much like frames for our spiritual lives.
— Matt Kellum, A Mirror Image: Looking Deeper Within to Reflect Jesus
Kindness has no boundaries. It is the language of the soul.
— Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
This is not just primitive rural superstition; [juju] is practiced by all kinds of people, from illiterate herd boys to multi-dregreed university professors. If you don't understand the power of this belief, you will never truly grasp the rich albeit often incomprehensible spirituality of Africa.
— Lawrence Anthony, The Elephant Whisperer
Being totally inclusive is essential for the outcome to possess any true value
— Tim Mann artist
It is not about the glory of the human form more about being human.
— Tim Mann artist
We cannot suppress our defining humanity and innate spirituality. The quivering pulsation of life force buried within the scarlet corpus of our blood waits like a winged angel adamant to erupt from a cocoon of unholy encapsulation whenever we return to ligature of our primitive essence.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
I went on to explain that there are at least 3 stages to life, beginning with you as victim, then moving on to you as creator of your life, and ending—if you’re lucky—with you be- coming servant to the Divine.
— Joe Vitale, Zero Limits: The Secret Hawaiian System for Wealth, Health, Peace, and More
Listen closely. Even the trees exhale sweet love songs that roll off their boughs and echo out to all of creation. Love is always in the air.
— Cristen Rodgers
The dead never truly die. They simply change form.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
At the end of the day, the argument between spirituality and about spirituality, is all against the nature of spirituality. In arguing spirituality, we go against its very nature. The important question: “Am I being kind in what I am saying/doing”? And that is all. In all truth, to eat an ice cream cone and to smile with the joy of a child, is about a billion times more spiritual of an activity, than to discuss views about spirituality. The experience of innocence; the experience of joy—this edifies ourselves and others. And that is spirituality. An ice cream cone can be the most spiritual object in the universe, at any given time.
— C. JoyBell C.
You are not supposed to go out and find love. Love will find you when you are ready.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
You do not find love. It finds you.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
I don't need to write light, to see light. You are only disabled, if you disable yourself. I may have an illness, but I am not the illness Truth is, despite what they may say, I'll get out of this world alive. I am the Gospel of Myself.
— Alexej Savreux, Graffiti on the Window
Things can be added, but that doesn't mean that anything is missing.
— Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
Life never seems to prepare us sufficiently for epiphanies. ... they are not magical intrusions from another world, but reality, naked, and without shame.
— Monks of New Skete, In The Spirit of Happiness: A Book of Spiritual Wisdom
I would make it a rule to eradicate from my patient any strong personal taste which is not actually a sin, even if it is something quite trivial such as a fondness for county cricket or collecting stamps or drinking cocoa. Such things, I grant you, have nothing of virtue in them; but there is a sort of innocence and humility and self-forgetfulness about them which I distrust. The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring twopence what other people say about it, is by that very fact fore-armed against some of our subtlest modes of attack. You should always try to make the patient abandon the people or food or books he really likes in favour of the “best” people, the “right” food, the “important” books.
— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
What I think is true is that at a certain stage in his life, he deliberately ceased to take any interest in himself except for a kind of spiritual alumnus taking his moral finals...Self-knowledge for him had come to mean recognition of his own weakness and shortcomings and nothing more. Anything beyond that he sharply suspected, both in himself and in others, as a symptom of spiritual megalomania. At best, there was so much else, in letters and in life, that he found much more interesting than himself.
— Jocelyn Gibb, Light on C. S. Lewis
What I think is true is that at a certain stage in his life, he deliberately ceased to take any interest in himself except as a kind of spiritual alumnus taking his moral finals...Self-knowledge for him had come to mean recognition of his own weakness and shortcomings and nothing more. Anything beyond that he sharply suspected, both in himself and in others, as a symptom of spiritual megalomania. At best, there was so much else, in letters and in life, that he found much more interesting than himself.
— Jocelyn Gibb, Light on C. S. Lewis
What I think is true is that at a certain stage in his life he deliberately ceased to take any interest in himself except as a kind of spiritual alumnus taking his moral finals...Self-knowledge for him had come to mean recognition of his own weakness and shortcomings and nothing more. Anything beyond that he sharply suspected, both in himself and in others, as a symptom of spiritual megalomania. At best, there was so much else, in letters and in life, that he found much more interesting! As far as I am able to judge, it was this that lay behind that distinctive combination of an almost supreme intellectual and 'phantastic' maturity, laced with moral energy, on the one hand, with...a certain psychic or spiritual immaturity on the other
— Jocelyn Gibb, Light on C. S. Lewis
What you are seeing and hearing right now is nothing but a dream. You are dreaming right now in this moment. You are dreaming with the brain awake.
— Miguel Ruiz
Time Management means managing ourselves with the timezones when we are naturally energetic.
— Rajasaraswathii
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,
— Monks of New Skete, In The Spirit of Happiness: A Book of Spiritual Wisdom
Cynicism leads to despair, while fixating on the efforts that seemed to work in the past makes an idol out of spiritual states.
— Monks of New Skete, In The Spirit of Happiness: A Book of Spiritual Wisdom
...spiritual dryness is not a problem. It only seems a problem because it's such a contrast with the good feelings of the honeymoon stage. ...this night will continue to go on, often getting worse, throughout our life. But if we persevere in our spiritual journey, we will be able to perceive in it positive meaning and learn to understand it. Then we can move beyond it to the freedom that places our feelings in proper perspective.
— Monks of New Skete, In The Spirit of Happiness: A Book of Spiritual Wisdom
{God's] presence is not contingent upon our feeling it. It simply is. We must learn to remember this and calm ourselves. By His apparent 'absence', He is leading us to a more mature level of consciousness, self-offering, and love. He is leading us from the love of God for the sake of His gifts to love of God for His own sake.
— Monks of New Skete, In The Spirit of Happiness: A Book of Spiritual Wisdom
Your spirituality is simply the positive, loving side of yourself, the energy of joy and togetherness. It's the feeling you have when your dog bounds up wagging its tail, or the biggest laugh you have with your best friend. Or that feeling in a concert when sixty thousand people sing along in unison to a song you love, or the moment when you are looking into the eyes of someone you love, or when you feel at your most confident and happy, as if you can do anything. It is all the most positive aspects of our existence. In short, it is love.
— Matthew Todd, Straight Jacket
As long as he retains externally the habits of a Christian he can still be made to think of himself as one who has adopted a few new friends and amusements but whose spiritual state is much the same...And while he thinks that, we do not have to contend with the explicit repentance of a definite, fully recognised, sin, but only with his vague, though uneasy, feeling that he hasn’t been doing very well lately. This dim uneasiness needs careful handling. If it gets too strong it may wake him up...if you suppress it entirely...we lose an element in the situation which can be turned to good account. If such a feeling is allowed to live, but not allowed to become irresistible and flower into real repentance, it has one invaluable tendency. It increases the patient’s reluctance to think about the Enemy. All humans at nearly all times have some such reluctance; but when thinking of Him involves facing and intensifying a whole vague cloud of half-conscious guilt, this reluctance is increased tenfold...In this state your patient will not omit, but he will increasingly dislike, his religious duties...He will want his prayers to be unreal, for he will dread nothing so much as effective contact with the Enemy.
— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
In life, you either choose to be a powerleess victim or one of the choosen ones, who now has the power to understand the pain of others.
— Linda Alfiori
Want Truth more than you want to awaken and the awakening takes care of itself.
— Maria Erving
God is not a being among other beings, but the infinite Whither that makes possible the very functioning of our human spirit.
— Elizabeth A. Johnson, Abounding In Kindness: Writings for the People of God
Creation, in all its splendor and misery, in all the beauty and ugliness of its myriad forms, is how God manifests His presence in time. Creation is God in time.
— Marcelo Gleiser, A Tear at the Edge of Creation: A Radical New Vision for Life in an Imperfect Universe
Truth shines light on darkness by questioning it.
— Maria Erving
God sends someone for each and every one of us to help with our loss. We just have to accept it.
— Saim .A. Cheeda
I will keep on loving you until eternity comes to make me love you more
— Munia Khan
I love to help children's souls shine.
— Bracha Goetz
I write about myself so you can fathom a personification of sadness. About God because when you asked me if I were religious I told you faith is what I try my darndest to keep dearest. About fear so that I gradually gain perspectives between the night sky and stars. About love because that concept seems out of reach I am not built with the capacity for much. About a leaf falling because tears are pretty much similar. About romance because hope sometimes settles in the dark. About nature because forces are both abstract and concrete it blows the temple in my heart. About loneliness so I can hear you say I am not the only one feeling that way. I write about feelings so I can cope with the fear that they might one day not be able to come again. About hell because there are odds and possibilities. About us because there are odds and possibilities, albeit lesser. About heaven because days are too warm here I hope it rains tonight. I write about death so when it comes it tastes like rain, at night, in heaven. I write about you so perhaps you won't forget to remember me.
— Noor Iskandar
Regarding beliefs and belief systems: We argue what and how we feel, rather than what we - actually - know or assume to be facts or factual evidence. Thus, it is justifiably prudent to challenge that which has been adopted or enforced by tradition. If such examination is discouraged by fearful tactics - we must not shy away from soulful searching.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Let your BE inform your DO.
— Tehya Sky
When life's surface reality seems to get too challenging and you can't think your way out of your reality, quit thinking. Simply drop into the space between thoughts where your unlimited potentiality resides.
— Sue Ziang, Young Mind Young Body: Transformational Approach to Rejuvenating Youth and Vitality
Orthodoxy, however, entails a revolution in our metaphysical conception of the relationship between God and humanity, and therefore between the uncreated Unum and the maior dissimilitudo of the creature before the Unum. Properly understood, the apostolic confession of the unity of Christ does not stand midway between a “too unitive Christology” on the one hand, and a “too differentiating Christology” on the other; rather, it wholly recapitulates the nature of the difference of man before God.
— Aaron Riches, Ecce Homo: On the Divine Unity of Christ
The specific sufferings of Jesus do not amount to redemption: rather, redemption is wrought through the uniqueness of the person who suffered and the perfect charity for which, in which and by which he suffered. The uniqueness of the suffering of Christ, then, lies in the pro knobs, which is bound to the freedom through which the Son endures “every human suffering” on account of love. To say that Jesus endured “every human suffering” does not mean that he specifically suffered every thing that every person ever did or could suffer, but the he “sums up” in this Passion the suffering so fate world, mystically including them in his own suffering and recapitulating them in the form of perfect love. The whole weight of this psychological and physical dereliction of humanity is, in Christ, suffered and sorrowed now within God himself, in the sense that the human sufferings of Christ are “one” with the divine filial relation that constitutes his unity with the Father.
— Aaron Riches, Ecce Homo: On the Divine Unity of Christ
YOU... are a portal to the divine.
— Tehya Sky
Praying in a Temple is like Lighting a Candle. One kills the ignorance and the other kills the darkness .
— gaurav rao
Holiness is found in how we treat others, not in how we contemplate the cosmos. As our experiences in marriages, families, and friendship teach us, it takes relationships to provide the friction that wears down our rough edges and sanctifies us.
— Terryl Givens
An abundant life is one where we are physically strong, mentally sound, and spiritually aflame. I
— Toni Sorenson, Aligned By Christ
Safeguarding our health will allow us to fulfill our divine potential and serve others more effectively.
— Toni Sorenson, Aligned By Christ
Jesus took care of himself. He ate healthy food. He rested when he was weary. He sought time alone when he needed to recharge. He laughed with his friends. He wept when he was sad. He walked long distances and climbed hills and moved. From barren wilderness to unpredictable waters, he spent the majority of his time outside in nature. He loved wholeheartedly. He served others. He cooked. He studied and learned and grew in wisdom. Jesus cared for himself physically, mentally and spiritually. 	To be aligned with him, we must do no less.
— Toni Sorenson, Aligned By Christ
If knowing something got you where you needed to go, you'd be there already. Put your hand to your heart, take a deep breath in...listen to your heart. It knows.
— Eileen Anglin
Religion should teach about hope to come for all, not terror for some
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Good gods are scarce because the majority of gods are created by evil men
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Why do religious believers hate unbelievers? The feel threatened by them, they feel besieged by them. Religions consider themselves as separate tribes in their own rights and feel like unbelievers will one day overrun their strongholds
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Every word that comes after "And the Lord told me. . . “is a pious lie
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Some people are so stiff and inhumane as the dogma's they believe in
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Give me something to worship whatever.” Cries the human soul 
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Spiritual leaders, priests and prophets are lamps burning in the dark, seeking meaning for humanity.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Science cannot disprove god. Science studies the things that are. The eternal question is who or what made them to be
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Why doesn't the pope convert to Calvinism? Why doesn't the Dalai Lama, convert to Christianity, why doesn't Billy Graham convert to Islam, Why doesn't the Ayatollahs convert to Buddhism, Why isn't Buddhism swept away? Religious leaders know that all religions are equal; they know that no one of them has the monopoly to the knowledge of God. They know that each religion is trying to find the hidden God and that no one religion can claim to have found him beyond doubt. That's why they remain where they are and respect each other.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Can really anybody put his hand on his heart and profess to know beyond doubt what happens on the other side of this life?
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
There is nothing behind the curtains of religions, people put there whatever their imaginations can fathom
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Once you believe that god is not a private property of anybody, you are on your way to becoming a new messiah. Maybe your own if not the world's
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
One man's faith is considered idolatry by another
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Apologetics=faith is weak, lets defend it
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
I have watched for as long as stars existed, and only lived a short time. I am not as old as you, and ageless. You are family, beyond words, beyond song, you are mine and I am yours.
— Simon Skiles, On Being Unicorn
Theology is like assuming that there is a black cat in a dark room where in fact there is no black cat, and endeavoring to study the cat's properties and how it may have evolved from its ancestors.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
The eyes of god are upon you, I mean the eyes of society. We are prisoners of societies in which we live
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
You take away my golden dreams and my visions of paradise, in its place you wake me up and hand me your reasons and facts and crude reality. You have ruined my life. If I commit murder or hang myself, let the god I used to pray to repay you in full.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
If you don't keep challenging your mind and your self, you're going to loose the ability to grow as a human being both physically and spiritually.
— Lateef Abader
Tomorrow go out and do one good deed something you would'nt normally do, then make it a habit and add another each and every time you've owned and mastered the one before and then even you can turn Iron into Gold
— Lateef Abader
A spiritual realm is more obedient than a temporal one. In a spiritual realm, people obey the Supreme Being through his priests; in a temporal realm people don't obey wholeheartedly as they distrust their corrupt officials.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
If you believe that God is good and that He loves you without regard to whom you are or what you do, you will worship Him wholeheartedly. You will praise him with thanksgiving. If you believe He is angry against you, you will come to him with fear and trying to appease his anger. And you don't know when His anger will be over. Such a god keeps you in a perpetual psychological anguish. That is the typical kind of god we usually worship. That is the typical god approved by authority.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people in the world
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
God has not yet revealed himself to no one in no unclear terms. Religions are attempts to find him on that level they are all equal 
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
What is needed is not that a religion be true, meaning that what it claims exist beyond the ink it is written with in a holy book. That is hard to prove. What is important is that a religion be a good system to help us mere mortal deal with our short and troubled life in the universe. Whether what we hope for in the afterlife materializes or not is not important, what is important is that we believe it will materialize and that gives us hope.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Much terror in religion is not the will of god, it is created by power hungry clerics who thirst for absolute power and claim it for god. God does not seek power, he is already powerful.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
No holy book is more inspired than the other. They are all inspired according to their gods.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Anyone can write a holy book, if he feels god is calling him to do so
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
No one knows what god thinks of anything. He only knows and no one can claim to penetrate into his mysteries. Those who do that are liars and must be avoided at all costs
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
It's utter arrogance to think that we can know what god ought to be or do. If we don't understand we must continue our search or recognize our ignorance
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
All religions are "revealed" and "inspired". After all nothing happens without the "will" of god.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Yoga is the process of eliminating pain – pain form the body, mind and the society.
— Amit Ray, Yoga The Science of Well-Being
Like the spider spinning its web, we create much of the outer world from within ourselves. The universe is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
— Gloria Steinem, Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
If we believe that god is the creator of evil, maybe there is evil also in heaven, if that is the case, we are not out of the woods yet
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Don't create unbelief or doubt in people's minds. When you do so you ruin their lives and you have nothing to give them in its place. It's ok if people delude themselves those delusions keep their day running. 
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
As the theologian Alan Jones has said:One of our problems is that very few of us have developed any distinctive personal life. Everything about us seems secondhand, even our emotions. In many cases we have to rely on secondhand information in order to function. I accept the word of a physician, a scientist, a farmer, on trust. I do not like to do this. I have to because they possess vital knowledge of living of which I am ignorant. Secondhand information concerning the state of my kidneys, the effects of cholesterol, and the raising of chickens, I can live with. But when it comes to questions of meaning, purpose, and death, secondhand information will not do. I cannot survive on a secondhand faith in a secondhand God. There has to be a personal word, a unique confrontation, if I am to come alive.
— M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
An atheist is a disappointed true believer he is an angry and hungry soul who has failed to find a real god to whom he can anchor his hope 
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
All religions are man-made God has not yet revealed himself beyond doubt to anybody. 
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
When you have doubts about God, the right position to take is agnosticism, atheism is outright arrogance
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
The more time you invest into studying religion, the more likely you are to disbelieve in the gods
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Religion is a theory about everything that needs to be proved only after death those who prove or disprove it never come back to us to tell the story 
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
It's impossible to do science without faith. Sometimes scientists build theories on the premises of faulty assumptions until they discover they were in error and begin again from square one until they discover the true theory. It's quite different with theologians, they build false theory upon false theory until they give you detailed descriptions of heaven and hell and construct dogmas to protect their errors and if you dare say they are in error they condemn you to eternal damnation they arrived at through false theories
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
There is no difference between ancient and modern paganism. Christianity has five gods: three that band together against one who apparently has managed to stand his ground for millennia, and a mother of god who is worshiped at the same level as the other members of the quadrinity
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
On close analysis, it would seem that there is a possibility that we are god's robots
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
I believe only in one God, creator of everything that exists, visible and invisible, good and evil. I believe that he will ultimately save every soul and give it eternal life.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Yes an atheist priest can perfectly minister to a believing congregation and miracles can happen in that congregation. Miracles depend on the faith of the believer, not that of the officiant. A bartender who never takes alcohol can serve alcohol to his clients. What is necessary is that the priest believes he is doing the good work. The congregation needs faith and it helps them. It would be evil to deny them such a service in the name of his lack of faith. - Bangambiki Habyarimana
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and create the afterlife.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Belief in God puts our life on autopilot. We know that someone up there is watching us and is in control. Losing our faith puts off the autopilot, we have to run it manually, and check if everything is alright for ourselves. No wonder religion has a wide appeal; most of us are lazy and would like a supreme being to be in charge
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
On my journey from the fantastical to the practical, spirituality has gone from being a mystical experience to something very ordinary and a daily experience. Many don’t want this, instead they prefer spiritual grandeur, and I believe that is what keeps enlightenment at bay. We want big revelations of complexity that validates our perceptions of the divine. What a let down it was to Moses when God spoke through a burning bush! But that is exactly the simplicity of it all. Our spiritual life is our ordinary life and it is very grounded in every day experience. For me, it is the daily practice of kindness, mindfulness, happiness, and peace.
— Alaric Hutchinson
Religion is pure hypnosis
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
All religions are guesswork
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
My gut instinct is that these heavens and hells exist nowhere else except in our hearts and minds
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Don’t curse the gods you will feel shame when you have to call on them for help 
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Those of us who have already chosen to embrace a love ethic, know that when we let our light shine, we draw to us and are drawn to other bearers of light. We are not alone.
— bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
Knowing what's ETERNAL will sustain you through the EPHEMERAL.
— Tehya Sky
Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice.
— Gloria Steinem, Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.
— Gloria Steinem, Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
God is powerful. Even those who claim not to believe in him fear him. Though their mouths may confess to disbelieve in him, their hearts yearn for him.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
All atheists will go to heaven. If god exists, not believing in him does not take him away and he cannot justly condemn those who seek him earnestly and cannot find him. He would even reward their earnest search for him.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
He is an atheist anyone who does not believe in my god and the wrath of god is upon him; I am in my right to meet that wrath on him," thunders the fanatic
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
You can't have it both ways. Either you believe in my god or you go to hell
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Beauty is the moment when time vanishes and eternity arises.
— Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
World needs positive energy. Put your happy energy into the universe.
— Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
A compassionate heart radiates rays of beauty that remove the clouds of million hearts.
— Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
You can't solve a spiritual problem with a physical solution.
— T.D. Wilcox, Broken to Bulletproof: Becoming God's True Man
Do you have an anchor? I have found that a solid anchor is indispensable to one who intends to live life fully. To have an anchor is to be centered and well grounded. It is to have a vital spiritual base.
— Steve Goodier, Joy Along the Way: Sixty-Second Readings That Make the Trip Worthwhile
Maybe we should live our lives in a constant state of expectation, always curious and excited about the possibilities that could unfold in front of us. Maybe it is our sense of vision that colors our reality.
— Allison Fallon
Grace is giving yourself a free pass and realizing that it isn't free at all.
— Erin Loechner, Chasing Slow: Courage to Journey Off the Beaten Path
If someone who is agitated comes to visit you, wanting to discuss their agitation and weigh the pros and cons of what action he should take, my suggestion is to give him the mantram album and say, "why don't you just write Rama, Rama, Rama a thousand times?
— Eknath Easwaran, The Mantram Handbook
Atheists are the most honest of the human race. These people are unable to live a double life; they are unable to lie to themselves. Of course it's an evolutionary handicap, and if that handicap was widespread, our species would run the risk of extinction
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Spiritual grace adds to a life and it is crucial ingredient in any person’s quest to attain self-realization.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Scientists have an expression for hypotheses that are utterly useless even for learning from mistakes. They refer to them as being "not even wrong." Most so-called spiritual discourse is of this type.
— Christopher Hitchens, god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours’, as long as they each earn and have more money than their neighbours, and, equally important, their neighbours know that.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I NEVER KNEW YOU.Only those who do not practice sin can stand in the presence of the holy God.1 John 3:6No one who remains in Him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has seen Him or known Him.
— Mac Canoza
Worship is forever.
— Mac Canoza
The world outside is a strange, but relentless mirror.
— Nebo D. Lukovich, Inner Peace, Outer Success: The Reintegration System: Spiritual Growth, Healing, Solving Problems and Achieving Goals with Cutting-Edge Mind Techniques
We live, move, breathe, and having our being in the Love-Light of God
— Gary Eby
To suggest that the grief of Christ issues from his perfect wisdom andcharity would confirm that true sorrow is human and therefore cannotcorrespond to despair, since the hopelessness of despair would yield nothingabout which to sorrow. If life is meaningless, there is no reason tomourn. Truth is what makes grief authentic and real, and so it followsthat Truth Incarnate, come down from heaven to our vale of tears, wouldgrieve at the highest pitch. The “tragic experience of the most completedesolation”49 depends on “the knowledge and experience of the Father.”50Or as Adrienne von Speyr puts it: “The Father is never more present thanin this absence on the Cross.
— Aaron Riches, Ecce Homo: On the Divine Unity of Christ
Every religion in the world has had a subset of devotees who seek a direct, transcendent experience with God, excusing themselves from fundamentalist scriptural or dogmatic study in order to personally encounter the divine.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Do not give your heart to that which does not satisfy your heart.
— Abba Poemen
Authentic prayer changes us, unmasks us, strips us, indicates where growth is needed.
— Teresa of Avila.
...only a fool would believe in miracles because - let us say you are a child and an adult lifts this table. That's a miracle. Or you're a chemist and you combine acid and base and you make smoke, an explosion or whatever. To somebody ignorant, that's a miracle. But for everything there is a process, and so when you see a miracle, it's just ignorance of the process. So that only a fool would believe in miracles...
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Perfect Questions Perfect Answers: The Power of Mantra Meditation
Who is so fancy, esoterica saves the day?Who is the Yogi, Namaste?
— Kristen Henderson
Receptive prayer is one of the most powerful weapons against spiritual u-turns.
— Glenn C. Stewart
From the club of what atheist call false hope and false god (which offer solace to weak minds), atheist are calling you to their club of no god and no hope (which offers nothing in return. Join the club only if you are a strong minded individual capable of handling your life alone without the help of gods. )
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
I did wonder what happened when we died, though, and I'd wondered about it for most of my life. Thinking that nothing happened, that there was absolutely nothing following all of this pain, seemed just as silly as magic. No, there had to be something.
— David Joy, Where All Light Tends to Go
An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't find him. Atheism is a cry of despair
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
I know what is going on in the heart of an atheist. Deep anguish that there is nothing beyond, nothing to live for, nothing to give him hope. I know because I endured the same predicament.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
After losing faith, even an atheist feels a yawning void in his soul that needs filling; there is nothing imaginable that he can fill with it. It was all along meant to be filled with the sacred, with the unknown and unknowable power. That's the curse or blessing of humanity
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
For each new morning let there be flow of love. Let there be light of happiness in every direction.
— Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
Strengthen your heart muscles by removing the sufferings of others.
— Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
Spirituality is to Religion, what Love is to Marriage. Spirituality is an emotional state of the mind, just like Love, while Religion on the other hand, is a social construct, quite like Marriage.
— Abhijit Naskar
We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Love is such a tremendous force of feeling! When you can't stop loving, you simply cannot stop it.
— Munia Khan
To the extent you expand your consciousness is the extent to which you experience being divine.
— Erin Fall Haskell
Lighten up. Brighten up. Smile.
— A.D. Posey
Man-eaters are finally shot dead.
— Mahendra Jakhar, The Butcher of Benares
Today is yesterday, today is tomorrow. For it's only one day that comes and goes, over and over again.
— C.C. Wyatt, Ferret
The source of my suffering and loneliness is deep in my heart. This is a disease no doctor can cure. Only Union with the Friend can cure it.
— Rabia Basri
The Soul is attached to the world, and her Love contains the passion, beauty, and awe that make life worth living.
— Elisa Romeo, Meet Your Soul: A Powerful Guide to Connect with Your Most Sacred Self
Spirituality is feeling a oneness with humanity.
— Debasish Mridha
There is no force in Earth or Heaven above,No, not even the damned of Hell can stop relentless Love. ---Kari, The Valkyrie, Chapter Sixteen,Valley of the Damned Epic Martial Poem/Allegory
— Douglas M. Laurent
Stay strong in strength of spirituality.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The true energy of Love confidently and unwaveringly burns away all sediment that clings to story while dropping us hard into the naked and raw hum of Right Now.
— Elisa Romeo, Meet Your Soul: A Powerful Guide to Connect with Your Most Sacred Self
There is no force in Earth or Heaven above,No, not even the damned of Hell can stop relentless Love.  ---Kari, The Valkyrie, Chapter Sixteen,Valley of the Damned Epic Martial Poem/Allegory
— Douglas M. Laurent
Thou seekest Lailâ. Yet she manifesteth herself within thee.Thou deemest her to be elsewhere, but elsewhere existeth not.That is a madness, well-known to lovers. So be on your guard, for otherness is the epitome of separation.Seest thou not, how her beauty enfoldeth thee.She disappeareth only if thou refusest part of thee.Come close to me, thou sayst to her, to her who is thine All.And when she loveth thee, she leadeth thee to thyself.Bliss ineffable is the meeting with her.No one reacheth her, who knoweth not essence without form.I have dissimulated about her,After I had truly displayed her through my veil.I hid her from myself, with the garment of mine own existence,And, out of jealousy, I hid her from the envier.Dazzling beauty! Should the light of thy countenanceTouch the eyes of a blind man, he would see each particle of dust.She is adorned with every grace pertaining unto beauty.And wherever she appeareth, she is desired by those who love.(Diwân)
— Muhammad al-Harrâq
Once you know your Soul, you are never again subject to give your authority away. You own your truth directly and with certainty.
— Elisa Romeo, Meet Your Soul: A Powerful Guide to Connect with Your Most Sacred Self
A fiery spirit bursts from your soul.
— A.D. Posey
To be spiritual is not to be spiritual.August 11, 2016Petra Cecilia Maria HermansReligious Leader
— Petra Hermans, Voor een betere wereld
Being intellectually perfect is a very easy task, but being experiential perfect is the very tough task, needs very much courage and equanimity. - Abhinav Rajput
— Abhinav Rajput
Sometimes one really need to have a spiritual eyes and mind, to be able to see and understand somethings
— Nurudeen Ushawu
Memories of lost love they do enpain,Fleeting images of what once was never again to gain.Hold tight those memories that slip through the mind,				To walk in those fields again with her—a dream divined.Oh to be with that lost Valkyrie forevermore again,To hold her hand delicate until the last world’s end.To be at peace once amore in deep loving soul,Husband to wife in embracing hold.			How he loved her so, but she was now gone,Leaf to the wind, heart tossed and tumbled torn.Memories like arrows stick deep—ohhh so deep,Shafts of pain and joy assail the soul’s lonely keep. --Angel-Heart, Ch. 22 Valley of the Damned
— douglas m laurent
As she left the cold arena Angel had to laugh,Beaten by that of a wisp girl and her subliming cunning craft.—Jove lay silent in his orbit; brooding, deep, dreamless forweep,And faithful dog Sirius rising tracked behind on dusk’s purpling adeep.		Scratched he his chin; counted the cold and early evening stars,He had miles to go that night, they being so very far.Only the music of the wint’ring span,Vanished he away in the shimmering land. . . . . . .
— douglas m laurent
The Valkyrie’s heart was wrought of dazzling gold full of the most finest and firmest of loves, this being the secret of her many moods and akimbo inspirangular mercies.		—On Kari, Ch. Fifteen Valley of the Damned
— douglas m laurent
Cynicism is proof of our intimacy issues with the Divine.
— Elisa Romeo, Meet Your Soul: A Powerful Guide to Connect with Your Most Sacred Self
Without peace, we cannot be creative.
— Kamlesh D. Patel
Highest miracle is to discover who you are – the ultimate possibility.
— Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step
Entitlement is an expression of conditional love. Nobody is ever entitled to your love. You always have a right to protect your mental, emotional, and physical well-being by removing yourself from toxic people and circumstances.
— Janice  Anderson
With a burning ambition, sustained focus, and daily action - there simply are no limits to what you will achieve.
— Curtis Rivers, Seven Paths to Freedom
The real winners I've met in life weren't necessarily skilled or perfect. They just had the tenacity to never, ever give up.
— Curtis Rivers, Seven Paths to Freedom
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.
— Curtis Rivers, Seven Paths to Freedom
The Soul's path is not straight and orderly; it's windy, often bumpy, and has an incredible view.
— Elisa Romeo, Meet Your Soul: A Powerful Guide to Connect with Your Most Sacred Self
From a personality point of view, you develop judgment, but from the sou's point of view, you develop appreciation.
— Ram Dass, Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart
The purity of peace, which is genuine happiness, cannot be found outside of you in material possessions, accomplishments, or other people. Pleasure is a fleeting emotion based on an external factor. But true happiness is who you are, and does not depend on anything else. When you are at peace, you are more than enough. You are pure life--complete, fulfilled, whole, and you are everything you could possibly want or need. You feel sufficiently independent and whole, yet connected to life and every being on the planet. Peace is true fulfillment. Once peace is consistently maintained, it is unwavering, no matter the strength of the storm surrounding you.
— Janice  Anderson
The soul journey is about giving birth to your true self
— Elisa Romeo, Meet Your Soul: A Powerful Guide to Connect with Your Most Sacred Self
I sailed up to the cold stars but they were cold no longer, and I grew bigger and bigger until I was the stars and they were me, and I was Union, and for a single solitary glittering instant I was the universe.
— George R.R. Martin
Knowledge without love is worse than ignorance. Action without love is madness...
— Edgar Maass, Don Pedro and the Devil
Harvey wanted to dive into his ugliness; he intentionally reached for those long hours of soul desolation. He waited. He paced, ready to face down whatever was to come.Paulette’s, though, busted loose uninvited, catching her completely off guard when she was already hurting, feeling crumbled, and vulnerable. When all she really wanted was some quiet gentle feelings for a change. A few flowers. Some sunshine. A way out of all that inner torment for even just a moment.Had she had brought only nastiness out of her childhood? Hadn’t there been anything sweet she could remember instead?As she wandered back to her cabin, searching for even a single fond memory, light faded everywhere around her.Aw, c’mon, she thought. Everyone had some happy childhood memories. She had to have at least a couple.How about the coloring? Children enjoy coloring; how about that? She’d spent hours and days on her art. It was as close as she could remember to having her Mamma stand over her with anything even remotely resembling approval. Her books and comics could be tales of Jesus, but coloring books had to be Old Testament because “No child’s impure hand could touch a crayon to the sweet beautiful face of our beloved Lord and savior Christ Jesus.”So the little girl had scrunched down over Daniel in the lion’s den. Samson screaming in rage, pain, and terror as they blinded him with daggers and torches. The redder she made the flowing wounds of a man of God shot full of arrows, the richer the flames around those three men being burned in an iron box, the longer Mamma let her stay out of that closet.- From “The Gardens of Ailana
— Edward Fahey, The Gardens of Ailana
Paulette awoke with an ache in her heart, a grinding in her gut. If there really was a God, why would He have let anyone put a child through that? …She had survived, but at what cost? She was an itinerant professor, living in her head, not her heart. She had broken away, but abandoned her sister; hadn’t contacted her family in years.Paulette wondered what she was looking for in these weekend workshops. Absolution wasn’t on the curriculum. What could she possibly hope to accomplish? To be a healer you need to connect with people. You need to touch, and let yourself be touched. And not just with your hands.Watching these nurses, she envied them their friendships. Here were real buddies truly caring about each other, taking jabs, sharing private jokes and fears. She’d never had that. Even witnessing it from across a room, or a yard, only made her feel that much more lonely.She got along with people well enough. Agreed with whatever they said, watched their pets, helped them move from one apartment to another. But no one really knew her.Paulette had never been flush with self-confidence. People took that as humility, but humility isn’t painful and crippling. She hadn’t yet learned that humble and self-destructive aren’t the same thing at all. They’re not even on the same team.And now here she was at a workshop for healers. Had she come here to heal; or to be healed?It was one of those warm, charming days that write poems about themselves, and then settle these very softly into your mind. Paulette sensed what felt like a rain-laced breeze stirring her soul; sodden, and yet beautiful; laden with both the dismal, and the promising.- From “The Gardens of Ailana”, a fiction largely based around adults still traumatized by having been abused as children, in the name of their parents’ religion.
— Edward Fahey, The Gardens of Ailana
Love is The answer
— Gerard Bellarmino
Spiritual mentors or peers who are mature in their relationship with God and whose present walk with God we trust can seek God with us and provide us with a sort of “safety net.” If we feel the Spirit is leading us to do something but recognize that much is at stake if we are wrong, we may do well to talk the matter over with other mature Christians. Proverbs advised rulers that wisdom rests in a multitude of counselors, and that advice remains valid for us as well. In the end, we may not always settle on the counsel others give us—like us, they too are fallible—but if they are diligent students of the Scriptures and persons of prayer, we should humbly consider their counsel.
— Craig Keener
Spiritual maturity is a natural part of sentient evolution
— Jonathan R. Banks, A New World: The Science of Higher Dimensional Computation and Metaphysics
During these past years, not being able to speak with you, I dedicated myself to reviewing, within myself, the sacred books I know by heart. I had the idea I should summarize them in a single volume. Then, in a single chapter, then in a single page, and finally in a single sentence. This sentence is the greatest thing I can teach you. It seems simple, but if you understand it, you will never have to study again." The Rabbi recited it. And life, from that moment on, changed for Alejandro. "If God is not here, He is nowhere; this instant itself is perfection.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky, Where the Bird Sings Best
Love is the essence of life
— Gerard Bellarmino
You Are Worthy
— Gerard Bellarmino
Sin is merely the lack of Love
— Gerard Bellarmino
Love is life and life is Love
— Gerard Bellarmino
Time is the skin of existence.
— Renzo Dante (Saligiare)