“Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 270 of 1176
“My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while.”
“We are the same as plants, as trees, as other people, as the rain that falls. We consist of that which is around us, we are the same as everything.”
“Everything changes, nothing remains without change.”
“The poisonous serpent of afflictions is sleeping in your mind; just as if a black viper were asleep in your room. You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it. When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease.”
“Amid ancient lore the Word of God stands unique and pre-eminent. Wonderful in its construction, admirable in its adaptation, it contains truths that a child may comprehend, and mysteries into which angels desire to look.”
“Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.”
“The way must be in you; the destination also must be in you and not somewhere else in space or time. If that kind of self-transformation is being realized in you, you will arrive.”
“To live in the present moment is a miracle.”
“Nothing is evil which is according to nature.”
“Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?”
“I don't want to be religious, I want to be spiritual. Anybody can be religious. Some people jog religiously. You don't want to be that, you want to be spiritual. You want to have a relationship with God as opposed to doing what everyone else does.”
“I have learned to accept it, even ask for it, this 'more than I can handle.' Because in these times, God shows Himself victorious. He reminds me that all of this life requires more of Him and less of me. God does give us more than we can handle. Not maliciously, but intentionally, in love, that His glory may be displayed, that we may have no doubt of who is in control, that people may see His grace and faithfulness shining through our lives.”
“Darkness is not chased away with sticks, not even cannons. One simply lights a small candle and the darkness flees before it.”
“You will stop turning to food when you start understanding in your body, not just your mind, that there is something better...Truth, not force, does the work of ending compulsive eating.”
“Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake. A way to discover what you love. A practice to return yourself to your body when the mind medleys threaten to usurp your sanity.”
“The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.”
“There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.”
“Spirituality: the last refuge of a failed human. Just another way of distracting yourself from who you really are.”
“There's an idea that the human body is somehow evil and bad and there are parts of it that are especially evil and bad, and we should be ashamed. Fear, guilt and shame are built into the attitude toward sex and the body. It's reflected in these prohibitions and these taboos that we have.”