Spirituality Quotes - Page 39

• Whatever you imagine, God is the opposite of that.

  Dhul-Nun al-Misri

  Spiritual, Opposites, Imagine

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• The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce with mankind, but "the true saint" goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moment.

  Abu-Sa'id Abul-Khayr

  God, Spiritual, Single Mom

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• Learning to see love and to express that love is the purpose of living this life. What's real has love at its heart; the universe is constructed from love, and that love is very much tied to our power of attention and imagination.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Spiritual, Real, Heart

  Fred Alan Wolf (2002). “Matter Into Feeling: A New Alchemy of Science and Spirit”, p.116, Red Wheel/Weiser

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• The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is praying.

  Anthony of Padua

  Spiritual, Prayer, Perfect

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• In original nature There is no this and that. The Great Round Mirror Has no likes or dislikes.

  Seungsahn

  Spiritual, Mirrors, Likes

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• We are all more or less ill till we find -Self-enquiry our Oneness with everyone else.

  Douglas Harding

  Self, Oneness, Enquiry

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• This universe is formed out of both consciousness forces and matter. While the study of matter has been the domain of traditional science, the study of consciousness is the science of spirituality.

  Shriram Sharma

  God, Spiritual, Soul

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• The word Atman (Soul) means the "breath of life". Atman is the principle of man's life, the Soul that pervades his being, his breath, his intellect and transcends them. Atman is what remains when everything that is not the self is eliminated. It is the unborn and immortal element in man, which is not to be confused with body, mind or intellect.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  God, Spiritual, Confused

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• The self (Soul) is the constant-witness consciousness. Through all months, seasons and years, through all divisions of time, the past, present and future the consciousness remains one and self luminous. It neither rises nor sets. The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  God, Grief, Past

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• Just as the Atman (Soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath the drive and activity of the universe.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  God, Spiritual, Reality

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• The universe is founded in consciousness and guided by it. The final reality is Universal Consciousness. The Supreme Consciousness is Omnipresent. Its evolutionary powers pervade the entire Universe. All processes of Nature are governed by the laws of this Absolute Force.

  Shriram Sharma

  God, Reality, Law

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• Compassion also brings us into the territory of mystery - encouraging us not just to see beauty, but perhaps also to look for the face of God in the moment of suffering, in the face of a stranger, in the face of the vibrant religious other.

  Krista Tippett

  God, Religious, Compassion

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• [The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were tired of all the inconveniences of the Sioux. So they brought out their cannons. 'You want to be an Indian now?' they said, finger on the trigger.

  Aaron Huey

  God, Tired, Government

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• Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity.

  Louise Fresco

  God, Honesty, Soul

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• Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it.

  Barry Schuler

  God, Soul, Use

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• Insight occurs when, and to the degree that, one knows oneself.

  Andrew Schneider

  Degrees, Insight, Spiritual Awareness

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• We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.

  C. West Churchman

  Foundation, Who God Is, Overcoming Adversity

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• In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the form that is already there; and in that lies not liberation but alienation, the cutting off from things as they really are.

  Colin Gunton

  Lying, Cutting, Desire

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• Light that is One though the lamps be many.

  Robin Williamson

  Light, Lamps, Spiritual Awareness

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• Perhaps the only limits to the human mind are those we believe in.

  Willis Harman

  Believe, Creativity, Mind

  Willis W. Harman, Institute of Noetic Sciences (1988). “Global mind change: the promise of the last years of the twentieth century”

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• Compassion is the litmus test and culminating touchstone of a spirituality of Earth.

  James Conlon

  Compassion, Earth, Tests

  James Conlon (1994). “Earth Story, Sacred Story”, Twenty Third Publications

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• The holy name of Krishna has extraordinary spiritual potency because the name of God is nondifferent from God Himself.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Spiritual, Names, Krishna

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• Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the moon while looking on the rain, to lower the blinds and be unaware of the passing of the spring - these are even more deeply moving. Branches about to blossom or gardens strewn with flowers are worthier of our admiration.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Spring, Rain, Flower

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• Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

  David Bowie

  Clever, Fear, Recovery

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• God is in the details.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  God, Educational, Learning

  Quoted in Architectural Forum, May 1958 See Flaubert 3; Modern Proverbs 24; Warburg 1

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