“When you catch on to your awakening, the world does not change. You just see it differently, that's all. You acquire a feeling of immortality. A feeling of divine bliss, so to speak, when things no longer have the power to affect you.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 118 of 1176
“If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in.”
“I looked for God. I went to a temple and I didn't find him there. Then I went to a church and I didn't find him there. The I went to a mosque and I didn't find him there. Then finally I looked in my heart and there he was.”
“Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.”
“Manchester's got everything except a beach.”
“I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.”
“Everything I do, I do it for somebody I've never met before, something in the great beyond. That's my primary relationship, really, is with something divine. I feel a connection as real with that as I've ever had with anybody on this earth.”
“Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows, Help us to see That without the dust the rainbow Would not be.”
“Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.”
“Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These and other suchlike considerations, always have, and always will prevail with mankind, to believe that there is a Being who made all things, who has all things in his power, and who is therefore to be feared.”
“There is one thing that, when cultivated and regularly practiced, leads to deep spiritual intention, to peace, to mindfulness and clear comprehension, to vision and knowledge, to a happy life here and now, and to the culmination of wisdom and awakening. And what is that one thing? It is mindfulness centred on the body”
“In the end, reconciliation is a spiritual process, which requires more than just a legal framework. It has to happen in the hearts and minds of people.”
“The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.”
“People will let you down in this life, promises will be broken, you should expect less of others and trust more in yourself.”
“Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.”
“Life on this earth first emerged from the sea. As the polar ice melts and sea level rises, we humans find ourselves facing the prospect that once again we may quite literally become ocean.”
“Look! Nature is overflowing with the grandeur of God!”
“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.”
“If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer.”
“I don't have to be anything at all. I don't even have to be myself, because there is no such thing as not being myself. I am inescapably myself.”