“Mary means Star of the sea, for as mariners are guided to port by the ocean star, so Christians attain to glory through Mary's maternal intercession.”
Spiritual feeling
Spiritual Quotes — page 133 of 1176
“If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.”
“The Holy Spirit is the most perfect gift of the Father to men, and yet He is the one gift which the Father gives most easily.”
“The question is never ‘Are you in a storm?’ The question is ‘Is Jesus in your boat?’”
“The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.”
“Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.”
“You should be a person who can establish the Heavenly Kingdom rather than just the one who can go there. Those who can go to heaven are those who wish to be dependent on God, but those capable of building the Kingdom are those who can let God depend on them.”
“Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Start now.”
“Lamps are different, but light is the same.”
“If you put on shoes that are too tight and walk out across an empty plain, you will not feel the freedom of the place unless you take off your shoes. Your shoe-constriction has you confined. At night before sleeping you take off the tight shoes, and your soul releases into a place it knows. Dreams glide deeper.”
“Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.”
“There is someone who looks after us from behind the curtain. In truth we are not here, this is our shadow.”
“Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful.”
“If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to the struggle for social change then it is a wonderful medicine.”
“If you follow every dream, you might get lost.”
“Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.”
“The kingdom of God is available to you in the here and the now. But the question is whether you are available to the kingdom. Our practice is to make ourselves ready for the kingdom so that it can manifest in the here and the now. You don't need to die in order to enter the kingdom of heaven. In fact, you have to be truly alive in order to do so.”
“Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.”
“We all, we all good people just trying to escape the negative influence that come around us and that's the story of my life, you know? Trying my best to get around the ills and I bumped my head a few times but I think, you know, music is my savior for right now, for me and my whole group.”
“The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.”