“Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 149 of 1176
“We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.”
“Our problem is this: we usually discover him within some denominational or Christian ghetto. We meet him in a province and, having caught some little view, we paint him in smaller strokes. The Lion of Judah is reduced to something kittenish because our understanding cannot, at first, write larger definitions.”
“No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.”
“The sea hath no king but God alone.”
“Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.”
“When the rhythms of our body-mind are in synch with nature's rhythms, when we are living in harmony with life, we are living in the state of grace. To live in grace is to experience that state of consciousness where things flow effortlessly and our desires are easily fulfilled. Grace is magical, synchronistic, coincidental, joyful. It's that good-luck factor. But to live in grace we have to allow nature's intelligence to flow through us without interfering.”
“Nobody can have your psychedelic experience for you; you just have to screw your courage up and raise the cup to your lips or smoke the pipe or whatever it is and face what's in there.”
“When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself - a saint, or a converted sinner, or a churchman (a so-called clerical somebody), a righteous or unrighteous man,...and throws himself into the arms of God...then he wakes with Christ in Gethsemane. That is faith, that is metanoia and it is thus that he becomes a man and Christian.”
“Dealing with my own life takes priority over other people dealing with my life.”
“Live at your highest potential-moment to moment to moment... When do we feel most alive? When we're being ourselves-our highest selves.”
“I'm terrified of marriage. I'm terrified of not doing something so important and at the same time I think you shouldn't rush into these things.”
“The only thing missing from your life is what you're failing to bring to it.”
“To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.”
“Am I, or the others crazy?”
“True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.”
“The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.”
“Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.”
“I'm all over the place, up and down, scattered, withdrawing, trying to find some elusive sense of serenity." The world can't give that serenity. The world can't give us peace. We can only find it in our hearts." I hate that." I know. But the good news is that by the same token, the world can't take it away.”
“My soul is in the sky.”