“The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it.......Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 184 of 1176
“It's like I have a loaded gun in my mouth and I like the taste of metal”
“In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.”
“I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution.”
“Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.”
“Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people would say, a great deal to do with our failure to think of the world as existing in relation to the mystery of God, not just as a huge warehouse of stuff to be used for our convenience.”
“Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.”
“Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is impractical, for everything else will perish.”
“Man is the best mirror, and the purer the man, the more clearly he can reflect God.”
“That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.”
“Being an Indian means living with the land. And the only way we'll be able to do that is to gain our freedom.”
“The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart.. The light which fills the heart is the light of God, which is pure and separate from the light of intellect and sense.”
“Don't look to anyone for your needs, for the One who created you, waters you.”
“Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?”
“Escape from the black cloud that surrounds you. Then you will see your own light as radiant as the full moon.”
“There is my body, in it an ocean formed of his glory, all the creation, all the universes, all the galaxies, are lost in it.”
“Eventhough you are not equipped, keep searching: equipment isn't necessary on the way to the Lord. Whoever you see engaged in search, become her friend and cast your head in front of her, for choosing to be a neighbour of seekers, you become one yourself; protected by conquerors, you will yourself learn to conquer. If an ant seeks the rank of Solomon, don't smile contemptuously upon its quest. And of all your skills, and wealth and handicraft, Weren't they first merely a thought and a quest?”
“Praying is the most important thing you will do on any day”
“Both heaven and hell are within us.”
“Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue.”