“I wish I studied more religions, I wish I read the Bible, the Quran. I think as I get older, I will start to really dive into religions, just because I feel like there's truths in all of those books. Clearly. I'm saying there's truths in all of them.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 172 of 1176
“In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.”
“You can't live in this world but there's nowhere else to go.”
“I drink to separate my body from my soul.”
“Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.”
“If you don't see God in the next person you meet, look no further.”
“Do not blindly believe what others say. See for yourself what brings contentment, clarity and peace. That is the path for you to follow.”
“I have passed in ignorance through a cycle of many rebirths, seeking the builder of the house. Continuous rebirth is a painful thing. But now, housebuilder, I have found you out. You will not build me a house again. All your rafters are broken, your ridge-pole shattered. My mind is free from active thought, and has made an end of craving.”
“In exactly the same way, ... scatter your body, your feeling, your perception, your predispositions, your discriminative consciousness, break them up, knock them down, cease to play with them, apply yourself to the destruction of craving for them. Verily, ... the extinction of craving is Nirvana.”
“We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.”
“The rainforest is being cut down at alarming rates, and orangutans are losing their habitats and are being killed, as a result, faster than we can save them, but there is a solution. In Borneo, small parcels of rainforest land can be a lifeline for orangutans so long as they link together protected forests, enabling animals to move safely over greater distances.”
“Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don't have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.”
“Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity”
“I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at interfacing with that sort of gear.”
“There are two Gods, there is the God that people generally believe in - a God who has to serve them. This God does not exist. But the God whom people forget - the God whom we all have to serve - exists, and is the prime cause of our existence and of all that we perceive.”
“Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great; he is free from the experience of hostility; he is a poet, and most like an angel.”
“He who walks alone, waits for no-one.”
“I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”
“How wonderful is the human voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul. The intellect of man is enthroned visibly on his forehead and in his eye, and the heart of man is written on his countenance, but the soul, the soul reveals itself in the voice only.”
“One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.”