“Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 177 of 1176
“We live in a world, a medieval type of world, where someone can accuse you - through gossip and hearsay, and all of a sudden you're supposed to respond to specific charges from people you don't know, are not aware of who these people are, and you're supposed to respond to their specific allegations?”
“So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.”
“The image of God always abides in the soul, whether this image be obsolete and clouded over as to amount to almost nothing; or whether it be obscured or disfigured, as is the case with sinners; or whether it be clear and beautiful as is the case with the just.”
“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.”
“The Lord did not create suffering. Pain and death came into the world with the fall of man. But after man had chosen suffering in preference to the joys of union with God, the Lord turned suffering itself into a way by which man could come to the perfect knowledge of God.”
“Job never saw why he suffered, but he saw God, and that was enough.”
“I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it”
“Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.”
“On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is.”
“The most satisfied and enlightened people realize that successful and dynamic living starts from within. Before you can care for others, you must care for yourself.”
“You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.”
“In our culture, snails are not considered valiant animals - we are constantly exhorting people to "come out of their shells" - but there's a lot to be said for taking your home with you wherever you go.”
“Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us.”
“To me an Indian is one who has got a Vedantic brain which probes deep and soars high; an Islamic body that is vibrant and valiant; a Buddhistic heart overflowing with compassion and kindness and Christian limbs of service and sacrifice.”
“Prana, according to the Vedanta, is the principle of life. It is like ether, an omnipresent principle; and all motion, either in the body or anywhere else, is the work of this Prana. It is greater than Akasha, and through it everything lives. Prana is in the mother, in the father, in the sister, in the teacher, Prana is the knower.”
“If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren't looking within.”
“Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you.”
“Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.”
“A secret freedom opens through a crevice you can barely see.”