Worldly Quotes - Page 13

• The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.

  Walter Raleigh

  Light, Grace, Mind

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• At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and affronted with balderdash daily and hourly by chalky pedagogues, I was at large in a wicked seaport of half a million people, with a front seat at every public show, as free of the night as of day, and getting earfuls of instruction in a hundred giddy arcana, none of them taught in schools.... [But] if I neglected the humanities, I was meanwhile laying in all the worldly wisdom of a police lieutenant, a bartender, a shyster lawyer, or a midwife.

  H. L. Mencken

  Education, School, Night

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• Nothing of that which is conducive to help man, collectively or individually, to live not "happily" but less unhappily in this world, ought to be indifferent to the Theosophist-Occultist. It is no concern of his whether his help benefits a man in his worldly or spiritual progress; his first duty is to be ever ready to help if he can, without stopping to philosophize.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Spiritual, Men, Progress

  Collected Writings, Volume XI, p. 465, www.katinkahesselink.net. October 1889.

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• That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune.

  Robert Blair

  Real, Heart, Knowledge

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• Shut the world out, withdraw from all worldly thoughts and occupations, and shut yourself in alone with God, to pray to Him in secret. Let this be your chief object in prayer, to realize the presence of your heavenly Father.

  Andy Murray

  Prayer, Father, Secret

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• When a man sought knowledge, it would not be long before it could be seen in his humbleness, his sight, upon his tongue and his hands, in his prayer, in his speech and in his disinterest (zuhd) in worldly allurements. And a man would acquire a portion of knowledge and put it into practice, and it would be better for him than the world and all it contains - if he owned it he would give it in exchange for the hereafter.

  Hasan of Basra

  Prayer, Men, Hands

  Quoted in Ibn Al-Mubârak, Al-Zuhd wa Al-Raqâ`iq Vol.1 p. 156,

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• Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because he wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Men, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1957). “Christian Missions, Their Place in India”

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• The salvation of man does not lie in his holding himself far removed from the worldly, but in consecrating it to holy, to divine meaning.

  Martin Buber

  Lying, Men, Doe

  Martin Buber (2015). “Hasidism and Modern Man”, p.18, Princeton University Press

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• After having been lost in the world, suddenly, through the pressure of suffering, the realization comes that the answers may not be found out there in worldly attainment and in the future. That's an important point for many people to reach. That sense of deep crisis-when the world as they have known it, and the sense of self that they have known that is identified with the world, become meaningless.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Self, People, Suffering

  Source: home.online.nl

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• If bliss is to scratch an itch, what greater bliss, no itch at all? So too, the worldly, desirous, find some bliss, But greatest is the bliss with no desire

  Nagarjun

  Desire, Scratches, Bliss

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• Take Bach or Schubert: Their music was dedicated to God but filled and shaped their worldly lives. If you are a committed atheist, you lean back and miss all the richness of that history.

  Martin Walser

  Atheist, Missing, Worldly Life

  "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. September 3, 2012.

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• Success is a spiritual process, not a worldly one.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Success, Spiritual, Process

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• "Spirituality" in business sounds lofty. How practical is it? The answer is "very." There's a fundamental way in which Spirit and consciousness contribute to worldly success-and it has long been ignored.

  Patricia Aburdene

  Business, Long, Sound

  Patricia Aburdene (2005). “Megatrends Two Thousand and Ten”, Hampton Roads Publishing Company Incorporated

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• A passion is a contranatural movement of the soul or an irrational love, or an blindfold hatred toward any material thing, or because of it: for example, for food, or for women, or for riches, or for worldly glory, or any other sensible thing; or for the sake of such things, as in a senseless hatred for someone on account of the things mentioned above.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind.

  Nazr Mohammed

  Inspirational, Mind, Riches

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• In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates.

  Willis Regier

  Phrases, Worldly Wisdom, Breaths

  Willis Goth Regier (2010). “Quotology”, p.46, U of Nebraska Press

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• True depression is a terribly real thing. Some of the noblest men and women in the world have been prone to it ... They may have no reason for feeling more unhappy at that particular period than at any other. Their worldly circumstances may be just what they have been for a long time past, and perfectly satisfactory. But there suddenly closes down on them a fog of the mind which exaggerates and distorts everything.

  J. E. Buckrose

  Depression, Real, Past

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• The harm that comes to souls from the lack of reading holy books makes me shudder... What power spiritual reading has to lead to a change of course, and to make even worldly people enter into the way of perfection.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Spiritual, Book, Reading

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• Aphorisms have never seduced anybody, but they have fooled some into considering themselves worldly-wise.

  Mason Cooley

  Wise, Aphorism, Considering

  "City Aphorisms, Twelfth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1993.

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• Renouncing the worldly pleasures is a comfort for both the human heart and body.

  Umar

  Heart, Comfort, Body

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• For a deed to be totally pure, it must be done without any thought of reward, whether worldly or divine.

  Bill Vaughan

  Deeds, Rewards, Done

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• I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Hate, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841). “Essays”, p.171

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• I'm convinced that a large percentage of people that we call worldly Christians are perhaps not Christian to begin with and that may be the trouble.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, People, May

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• If he who has little wit needs a master to inform his stupidity, he who has much frequently needs ten to keep in check his worldly wisdom, which might otherwise, like a high-mettled charger, toss him to the ground.

  Christian Scriver

  Stupidity, Needs, Littles

  Christian Scriver (1857). “Gotthold's Emblems: or Invisible things understood by things that are made. Tr. by R. Menzies”, p.147

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• serene illumination, or just sitting, is not a technique, or a means to some resulting higher state of consciousness, or any particular state of being. Just sitting, one simply meets the immediate present. Desiring some flashy experience, or anything more or other than 'this' is mere worldly vanity and craving.

  John Daido Loori

  Mean, Vanity, Illumination

  John Daido Loori (2010). “The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza (Large Print 16pt)”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

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