The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it
The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.
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.
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we'll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we're all one but continue to try to win.
I think the new spirituality will be a spirituality that's not based on a particular dogma. And that steps away from the old spiritual paradigm that we have created on this planet, which comes from a thought that there is such a thing as being better.
Zen... does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.
In the faces of men and women, I see God.
There's no greatest moment in the arts. It's a life; it's a continuity thing. You can't have a great moment because it's spiritual. It's a belief; it's a calling. If you're an artist, doing your own thing on your own, it's while you're doing it that counts. It's a process. If you get too elated, you can get too depressed.
When a garden is used as a place to pause for thought, that is when a Zen garden comes to life. When you contemplate a garden like this it will form as lasting impression on your heart.
Bring into play the almighty power within you, so that on the stage of life you can fulfill your high destined role.
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.
The interdependency of humankind, the relevance of relationship, the sacredness of creation is ancient, ancient wisdom.
The religions of the world must be assessed, not on the basis of their convoluted theologies, but in terms of the extent to which they serve as forces of liberation and empowerment.
Spiritually, life is a festival, a celebration. Joy is of the essence of life.
There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood.
The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.
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