“God is a wild man...should you encounter him...hang on for dear life-or let go for dear life is a better way to say it.”
Spiritual feeling
Spiritual Quotes — page 140 of 1176
“The thing about faith is that you have to have it before you need it.”
“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”
“It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars.”
“As my prayer became more attentive and inward, I had less and less to say. I finally became completely silent... This is how it is. To pray does not mean to listen to oneself speaking. Prayer involves becoming silent, and being silent, and waiting until God is heard.”
“When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all degraded since then. I do not know what kind of nation we are that is cutting art, music, and gym out of the public-school curriculum.”
“We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.”
“Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.”
“My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.”
“The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the pangs and tribulations of exile will you truly enjoy your homecoming.”
“Stay with friends who support you in these. Talk with them about sacred texts, and how you are doing, and how they are doing, and keep your practices together.”
“Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.”
“Each of us is a moving center, a space of divine mystery”
“There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.”
“Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.”
“I know men, and I tell you, Jesus is more than a man. Comparison is impossible between Him and any other human being who ever lived, because He was the Son of God.”
“And I, who timidly hate life, fear death with fascination. I fear this nothingness that could be something else, and I fear it as nothing and as something else simultaneously, as if gross horror and non-existence could coincide there, as if my coffin could entrap the eternal breathing of a bodily soul, as if immortality could be tormented by confinement. The idea of hell, which only a satanic soul could have invented seems to me to have derived from this sort of confusion - a mixture of two different fears that contradict and contaminate each other.”
“Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked”
“I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.”
“Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.”