Dear God, please reveal to us your sublime beauty, that is everywhere, everywhere, everywhere, so that we will never again feel frightened.
Within the Scripture there is a balm for every wound, a salve for every sore.
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
It takes energy, mental toughness and spiritual reinforcement to successfully deal with life's opportunities, and to reach your objectives.
Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
The present moment dies every moment to become the past , is reborn every moment into the future. All experience is now. Now never ends.
Be everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.
Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.
Coincidences are spiritual puns.
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.
The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.
You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you.
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.
The central idea of the Eastern Fathers was that of theosis, the divinization of all creatures, the transfiguration of the world, the idea of the cosmos and not the idea of personal salvation...Only later Christian consciousness began to value the idea of hell more than the idea of the transfiguration and divinization of the world...The Kingdom of God is the transfiguration of the world, the universal resurrection, a new heaven and a new earth.
Ultimately there is light and love and intelligence in this universe. And we are it, we carry that within us, it’s not just something out there, it is within us and this is what we are trying to re-connect with, our original light and love and intelligence, which is who we are, so do not get so distracted by all this other stuff, you know, really remember what we are here on this planet for.
We prepare the ground for our prayer when we shed something which is not Christ's, which is unworthy of him, and only the prayer of one who can, like St. Paul say, 'I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me,' is real Christian prayer.
We're human beings trying to understand and cultivate what it means to feel divine love. We have to start with small, realistic goals.
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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