“When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 180 of 1176
“The function of high school, then, is not so much to communicate knowledge as to oblige children finally to accept the grading system as a measure of their inner excellence. And a function of the self-destructive process in American children is to make them willing to accept not their own, but a variety of other standards, like a grading system, for measuring themselves. It is thus apparent that the way American culture is now integrated it would fall apart if it did not engender feelings of inferiority and worthlessness.”
“I wish I knew where I was going. Doomed to be carried of the spirit into the wilderness, I suppose. I wish I could be more moderate in my desires, but I cannot, and so there is no rest.”
“It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God.”
“A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.”
“In vain people busy themselves with finding any good of man's own in his will. For any mixture of the power of freewill that men strive to mingle with God's grace is nothing but a corruption of grace. It is just as if one were to dilute wine with muddy, bitter water.”
“Christianity affirms that at the heart of reality is a Heart, a loving Father who works through history for the salvation of His children. Man cannot save himself, for man is not the measure of all things and humanity is not God. Bound by the chains of his own sin and finiteness, man needs a Savior.”
“Remove Christ from the Scriptures and there is nothing left.”
“How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?”
“When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.”
“Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.”
“...Where and when God finds you ready, he must act and overflow into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun must overflow into it and cannot refrain from doing that.”
“When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding.”
“Whether an illness affects your heart, your leg or your brain, it's still an illness, and there should be no distinction.”
“Accept your own divinity. Everything is a manifestation of God. When you know that, the power that is LIFE is inside you, you accept your own divinity, and yet you are humble, because you see that see the same divinity in everyone else.”
“The way of the mind is to study many things; the way of the Beingness is to focus on one thing.”
“Mainly we obsess on fixing or pacifying the mind. I simply ask you to observe it from a place of neutrality.”
“Only in eternity shall we see the beauty of the soul, and only then shall we realize what great things were accomplished by interior suffering.”
“Lord free me of myself, so I can please you!”
“But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not.”