“To each his own way and his own prayer. God does not take us at our word. He looks deep into our hearts. It is not the ceremonies or rituals that make a difference, but whether our hearts are sufficiently pure or not.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 175 of 1176
“Life without an ideal is spiritual death.”
“When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.”
“Tune into the presence of miracles, and in an instant, life can be transformed into a dazzling experience, more wondrous and exciting than we could even imagine.”
“So can you do me a favor? If I pull it together, make it sooner than later.”
“Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.”
“If you are having the experience of anxiety, your body is making adrenaline and cortisone, if you are having the experience of tranquility, your body starts making valium, if you are having the experience of exhilaration and joy, your body makes interleukins and interferons which are powerful anti-cancer drugs. So, your body is constantly converting your experiences into molecules.”
“This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity, since it has such a remembrance of the best, such a concern for the future, since it is enriched with so many arts, sciences, and discoveries, it is impossible but the being which contains all these must be immortal.”
“Our heart is like a reservoir from which our lives flow.”
“If you've got on the one hand death, dogmatism, domination, and on the other you've got desire in the face of death, dialogue in the face of dogmatism, democracy in the face of domination, then philosophy itself becomes a critical disposition of wrestling with desire in the face of death, wrestling with dialogue in the face of dogmatism, and wrestling with democracy, trying to keep alive a very fragile democratic experiment.”
“Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.”
“People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?”
“Be sure that your motive in praying is to glorify God.”
“No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.”
“If my thought-dreams could be seen/ They'd probably put my head in a guillotine.”
“The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.”
“I believe that music is God's voice.”
“Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.”
“Zen is not “attained” by mirror-wiping mediation, but by “self-forgetfulness in the existential 'present' of life here and now.” We do not “come”, we “are.” Don't strive to become, but be.”
“To live is to express oneself freely”