“Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 99 of 1176
“Fasting is the first principle of medicine.”
“You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.”
“This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.”
“When the Negro learns what manner of man he is spiritually, he will wake up all over. He will stop playing white even on the stage. He will rise in the majesty of his own soul.”
“I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land--every color, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike--all snored in the same language.”
“The energy of life entering and leaving your body flows evenly throughout the universe. With that current, the mind of the cosmos communicates with all things.”
“If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.”
“The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves”
“Music helps not the toothache.”
“Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.”
“A human life is a schooling for eternity.”
“There are all sorts of things embodied in the Lego brick - geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and colour... It is a faintly spiritual activity that everybody connects with.”
“The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.”
“Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.”
“Leave your existence to existence, stop caring for yourself so much and let the universe care for you; it is the best mother.”
“Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration with exposition needs a great push. People ask me: 'What will convert America and save the world?' My answer is prayer. What we need is for every parish to come before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament in holy hours of prayer.”
“People of peace, men and women of desire, such is the splendor of the Temple in which you will one day have the right to take your place. Such privilege should astonish you less, however, than your ability to commence building it down here, your ability, in fact, to adorn it at every moment of your existence. Remember the saying 'as above, so below', and contribute to this by making 'as below, so above'.”
“Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.”
“A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent.”