“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 185 of 1176
“When you accept yourself, the Universe accepts you.”
“The world turned into a big black hole while my daughter was on the verge of life and death.”
“When you have done everything that you can do, surrender. Give yourself up to the power and energy that's greater than yourself.”
“There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.”
“When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.”
“While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light”
“Maybe that's why there's an insecurity sometimes in acting, because it's not like there's a correlation between hard work and how people receive you.”
“I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.”
“A church that likes power likes prayer.”
“First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you on all sides. ...Try to submerge yourself in that light, giving up all belief in a separate self, all attachment to your illusory ego.”
“An unreflective mind is a poor roof. Passion, like the rain, floods the house. But if the roof is strong, there is shelter. Whoever follows impure thoughts Suffers in this world and the next. In both worlds he suffers And how greatly.”
“I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise.”
“When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.”
“Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe. .. We should not say 'I am an Athenian' or 'I am a Roman' but 'I am a citizen of the Universe.”
“Deep faith eliminates fear.”
“If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.”
“Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.”
“You shouldn't go to college unless God has definitely called you to go.”
“Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.”