“Become friendly with the present moment, because if you do not become friendly with the present moment you cannot become friendly with life.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 198 of 1176
“Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is.”
“You cannot fight against the ego and win, just as you cannot fight against darkness. The light of consciousness is all that is necessary. You are that light.”
“The formless dimension of life is this moment. This moment is timeless and formless - the eternal itself.”
“It (LSD) opened my eyes. We only use one-tenth of our brain. Just think of what we could accomplish if we could only tap that hidden part! It would mean a whole new world if the politicians would take LSD. There wouldn't be any more war or poverty or famine.”
“I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.”
“...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.”
“Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.”
“Take your troubles to the Chapel, get down on your knees and pray. Your burdens will be lighter, and you'll surely find the way.”
“I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.”
“Religion is a defense against the experience of God.”
“When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power.”
“One cannot simply read the Bible, like other books. One must be prepared really to enquire of it. Only thus will it reveal itself. Only if we expect from it the ultimate answer, shall we receive it. That is because in the Bible God speaks to us. And one cannot simply think about God in one’s own strength, one has to inquire of him. Only if we seek him, will he answer us.”
“I'm never offered any sort of roles. I need to audition in a typically lengthy process to receive roles.”
“With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.”
“If my mind be not engaged in worship, it is as though I worshipped not.”
“Take your eyes and your ears and your hands and your feet and your thoughts and your heart: Give them completely to Christ”
“Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race.”
“There is a God-shaped hole in the life of every man.”
“There must be some kind of way out of here,' said the joker to the thief.”