“For the spiritual being, intuition is far more than a hunch. It is viewed as guidance or as God talking, and this inner insight is never taken lightly or ignored.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 264 of 1176
“Opening to the power of intention, you begin knowing that conception, birth and death are all natural aspects of the energy field of creation.”
“The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.”
“I'm trying to arrange my life so I don't have to be present.”
“Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life?”
“Leave your thoughtlessness behind you then you may begin to understand. Clear the emptiness around you with the waving of your hand.”
“I went to the springs while the sun was still up, and sitting on a rocky outcrop above the cave mouth I watched the light grow reddish across the misty pools, and listened to the troubled voice of the water. After a while I moved farther up the hill, where I could hear birds singing near and far in the silence of the trees. The presence of the trees was very strong...The big oaks stood so many, so massive in their other life, in their deep, rooted silence: the awe of them came on me, the religion.”
“There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.”
“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.”
“Grace alone brings about every good work in us.”
“Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; that Truth might be accused of false witnesses, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood; that Strength might grow weak; that the Healer might be wounded; that Life might die.”
“Lately I was near the beehives and some of the bees flew onto my face. I wanted to raise my hand, and brush them off. 'No,' said a peasant to me, 'do not be afraid, and do not touch them. They will not sting you at all, if you touch them they will bite you.' I trusted him; not one bit me. Trust me; do not fear these temptations. Do not touch them; they will not hurt you.”
“It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.”
“When you have an ego, you are limited to your own strengths and weaknesses. But if you are totally surrendered to God, nothing is impossible for you.”
“Space for the Spirit to breathe.”
“I was doing great plays. It wasn't changing the world. I was getting good agents and doing film and TV and I wasn't happier. I was like "Wow, there is an unease inside of me." And that led me back on my kind of more spiritual path to the Baha'i faith in a new and fresher way and I came to also understand at that point that there was no difference between being devout and being an artist. There is no difference between creativity and spirituality and philosophy and that is what Soul Pancake, the book, and SoulPancake.com are about is: it's all about human expression and it's about seeking to transcend.”
“Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.”
“If angels come not to minister us it is because we do not invite them, it is because we keep the door closed through which they might otherwise enter.”
“Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.”
“The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.”