“This is why God created so many different religions: to be training grounds to make a path for every people, culture, custom, and tradition. Religions polish people to be qualified to enter the region of the original homeland. Because of humankind's many different cultural backgrounds, God sought and set the standard of comparison and has been leading the way toward one unified religious world.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 253 of 1176
“The mistake is that we cling to the body when it is the spirit that is really immortal.”
“There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them.”
““Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” This sentence alone would save mankind, if all books and prophets were lost. This purity of heart will bring the vision of God. It is the theme of the whole music of this universe. In purity is no bondage. Remove the veils of ignorance by purity; then we manifest ourselves as we really are and know that we were never in bondage. The seeing of 'many' is the great sin of all the world. See all as Self and love all; let all idea of separateness go.”
“It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.”
“Being is a spiritual proposition. Gaining is a material act. Traditionally, American Indians have always attempted to be the best people they could. Part of that spiritual process was and is to give away wealth, to discard wealth in order not to gain.”
“In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.”
“Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
“Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.”
“Love is the Water of Life Everything other than love for the most beautiful God is agony of the spirit, though it be sugar- eating. What is agony of the spirit? To advance toward death without seizing hold of the Water of Life.”
“And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.”
“Suffering is a gift; in its hidden mercy”
“Your thoughts are a veil on the face of the Moon. That Moon is your heart, and those thoughts cover your heart. So let them go, just let them fall into the water.”
“Even though you tie a hundred knots, the string remains one.”
“My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless ; 'Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved. I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are one; One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call.”
“There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there's another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity.”
“We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.”
“Our purpose here on earth: to manifest the very nature of our spirit, which is touched by the spirit of God.”
“I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question.”
“I think we are part of the earth. The concept of the rainforest being the womb of life is something I believe in...the value system must get back to the environment as it was originally, the magnificence from where we emerged.”