Spiritual Quotes - Page 63

The world is no more than the Beloved's face. And the desire of the One to know its own beauty, we exist.

In the civil society, the individual is recognized and accepted as more than an abstract statistic or faceless member of some group; rather, he is a unique, spiritual being with a soul and a conscience.

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

That's what Hanukkah is about: trying to survive the darkness on the far-fetched hope there's still some life and light left in the universe. It's more than just a religious story. The days have been growing shorter, imperceptibly but inescapably darker.... Heading into the night of the winter solstice, every spiritual tradition has some kind of festival of light. We're all just whistling in the dark, hoping against hope that someone up there will see these little Hanukkah candles and get the hint.

Live simply and virtuously, true to your nature, drawing no line between what is spiritual and what is not.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from your desires until you are satisfied only with Christ brings contentment.

The aim of education is to guide young persons in the process through which they shape themselves as human persons-armed with knowledge, strength of judgment, and moral virtues-while at the same time conveying to them the spiritual heritage of the nation and the civilization in which they are involved.

No great spiritual awakening has begun anywhere in the world apart from united prayer.

Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.

I am guilty of believing that the human race can be humanized and enriched in every spiritual inference through the saner and more beneficent processes of peaceful persuasion applied to material problems rather than through wars, riots and bloodshed.

Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.

At the deepest level, an 'open heart' is spacious presence, in which the sense of separateness between yourself and the 'other' dissolves and there is the recognition of oneness, of shared consciousness. That recognition is love. Sensing the formless essence in another and recognizing it as one with your own essence - that's what love is. All this is an intrinsic part of the awakened consciousness and the revelation of the spiritual dimension of life.

Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.

Walk with those seeking truth... RUN FROM THOSE WHO THINK THEY'VE FOUND IT.

Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

At the profoundest depths in life, men talk not about God but with Him.

Base yourself in loyalty and trust. Don't be companion with those who are not your moral equal. When you make a mistake, don't hesitate to correct it.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

If we are pure at heart, we would not wish one person well and not another. We should see there is no difference between one person or another. Then our pure thoughts can be evenly spread between all people. Sunshine can reflect on clean water but not on dirty water. God's light will be reflected by those persons with a pure heart.