“There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he is indeed close to nirvana.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 141 of 1176
“Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma.”
“Yoga is the study of the functioning of the body, the mind and the intellect in the process of attaining freedom.”
“We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.”
“I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.”
“I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.”
“All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know.”
“I hope there's a life after life - and maybe I can even come back again and get on another train, and ride and gain some more wisdom.”
“My mother understood human nature better and never chided. She knew that a man cannot be saved from his own foolishness or vice by someone else's efforts or protests, but only by the use of his own will.”
“We could all be mediums, and all have absolute knowledge, if the bright light of our ego consciousness would not dim it.”
“The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.”
“Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.”
“Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.”
“God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.”
“The theology of the hammer embraces wholeheartedly the idea that the love of God and love of man must be blended. The word and the deed must come together. One without the other is devoid of meaning … As the deed gets closer to the word, God gets closer to us. The results are always wonderful — and sometimes spectacular!”
“As far as the search for truth is concerned, 98% of our thinking is rubbish. The remaining 2% is garbage. Throw it all out and be empty! Truth cannot be caught by intellect alone - grace is needed.”
“For those whose heart and whose attention is immersed in the truth, they don't need to have to worry.”
“Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means to be contemplative in the heart of the world. Seeing and adoring the presence of Jesus, especially in the lowly appearance of bread, and in the distressing disguise of the poor.”
“The reactionary suicide is ‘wise,’ and the revolutionary suicide is a ‘fool,’ a fool for the revolution in the way Paul meant when he spoke of being a ‘fool for Christ,’ That foolishness can move mountains of oppression; it is our great leap and our commitment to the dead and the unborn.”
“Like a lamp, dispelling the darkness of ignorance”