“The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 269 of 1176
“I wasn't accepted because I didn't accept the drug culture that most of my peers were involved in. Now it's like a locked room.”
“All things proclaim the existence of God.”
“We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.”
“My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence of God. The sum-total of this life is God. .. Man is not at peace with himself until he has become like unto God. The endeavor to reach this state is the supreme, the only ambition worth having. And this is self-realisation. This self-realisation is the subject of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures... to be a real devotee is to realise oneself. Self-realisation is not something apart.”
“Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.”
“I hold it a blasphemy to say that the Creator resides in a temple from which a particular class of His devotees sharing faith in it are excluded.”
“I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.”
“I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.”
“Don't let life affect your worship; let your worship effect life”
“Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease. First realize that you are sick; then you can move toward health.”
“Act without expectation.”
“The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious. Bound, rigid, and trapped, you cannot experience liberation.”
“He is not half through yet, and to what he will come in the end not even Elrond can foretell. Not to evil, I think. He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can.”
“Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.”
“What is society but an individual? [] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.”
“To wait. In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions all together occupy a bare one percent of our time. The remaining ninety-nine percent is just living in waiting. I wait in momentary expectation, feeling as though my breasts are being crushed, for the sound in the corridor of the footsteps of happiness. Empty. Oh, life is too painful, the reality that confirms the universal belief that it is best not to be born.”
“I can cheat fear today - but won't it return tomorrow? Rather, I must embrace this fear... and find peace in its bosom.”
“The subconscious mind will translate into its physical equivalent a thought impulse of a negative or destructive nature, just as readily as it will act upon thought impulses of a positive or constructive nature. This accounts for the strange phenomenon which so many millions of people experience, referred to as "misfortune" or "bad luck."”
“We know that violent measures against religion are nonsense; but this is an opinion: as socialism grows, religion will disappear. Its disappearance must be done by social development, in which education must play a part.”