“The deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. It is beyond words, and it is beyond speech, and it is beyond concept. Not that we discover a new unity. We discover an older unity. My dear Brothers [and Sisters], we are already one. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are.”
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“For although God is right with us and in us and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find him.”
“Contemplation is life itself, fully awake, fully active, and fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous awe at the sacredness of life, of being. It is gratitude for life, for awareness, and for being. It is a vivid realization of the fact that life and being in us proceed from an invisible, transcendent, and infinitely abundant Source.”
“The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel.”
“Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages.”
“If you live in Birmingham, then being awake is not necessarily a desirable state.”
“If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.”
“We live as if we were unaware of our impending destruction”
“Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.”
“Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one's ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.”
“A spiritually established life is not an easy task. But a materially satisfied life is an impossible task.”
“It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.”
“You know what music is? God's little reminder that there's something else besides us in this universe; harmonic connection between all living beings, every where, even the stars.”
“Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.”
“Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.”
“Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves.”
“The nearer we are to God, the less we will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from God, the more will long faces come. The more we know God, the more misery vanishes.”
“Every moment, a voice, out of this world, calls on our soul, to wake up and rise.”
“It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.”
“The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone.”