“Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.”
Spiritual feeling
Spiritual Quotes — page 187 of 1176
“Men's minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.”
“"Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is."”
“How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make - leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents or piled stone - we all dwell in a house of one room - the world with the firmament for its roof - and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track.”
“Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.”
“For it was not after we were reconciled to him by the blood of his Son that he began to love us, but he loved us before the foundation of the world, that with his only begotten Son we too might be sons of God before we were anything at all.”
“Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.”
“I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic.”
“Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.”
“I frankly confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have free choice given to me, or to have anything left in my own hands by which I might strive for salvation.”
“Is it not a thing most abominable, that God who feeds so many mouths, should be held in such low esteem by me, that I will not trust him to feed me? Yea, that a guilder, thirty-eight cents, should be valued more highly than God, who pours out his treasures everywhere in rich profusion. For the world is full of God and his works. He is everywhere present with his gifts, and yet we will not trust in him, nor accept his visitation.”
“God wants nothing from you but the gift of a peaceful heart.”
“It is not about mind-watching; but rather recognizing That which watches the mind.”
“We are the space in which thoughts appear, play, and dissolve like clouds drifting in the infinite sky.”
“Never assume that you have attained truth. Don't make any claim to knowledge. Form no conclusion or evaluation concerning truth. The minute you do, your downfall is assured. Whenever you imagine you know something, you cease being open to the living exploration. You have closed a door and cut off the oxygen to the breathing truth.”
“Mind and body have taken the journey, but the real home place is your own heart. It is infinite and so wherever you go, you are always Home.”
“Even avatars have to desire to be in God in every moment. And when avatars die, they desire with all their being to be united with God. ….. Look at Ramakrishna. How much he wept and prayed for the Divine Mother.”
“It remained for the twentieth century to discover that locked within the atom is the energy of the sun itself. For this energy to be released, however, the atom must be bombarded from without. So too, locked in every human being is a store of love that partakes of the divine-the imago dei-image of God, it is sometimes called. And it too can be activated only through bombardment, in its case love's bombardment”
“Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.”
“I think one of the things you and I have to learn is that we have to live without the consolation of belonging to a Church.... Of one thing I am certain. The religion of the future will have to be extremely ascetic, and by that I don't mean just going without food and drink.”