All Quotes By Tag: Spirituality

“Being christian is about being christ-like, not about being christ-follower.”

“فكل من هؤلاء الفلاسفة يعبر عن الوجودية بصورة مختلفة لكنهم كلهم متفقون على إن الفكر المجرد يقود إلى شيء فظيع في مختلف المجالات. بما في ذلك مجال المعرفة. ففي رأي هؤلاء المفكرين أن المعرفة التي نصل إليها بفكرنا هي النظريات والقوانين الرياضية التي تجعل الإنسان مجرد اّلة. لكنهم يأملون أن يصلوا إلي نوع من الاختبار الصوفي العلوي الغامض الذي يختلف عن الفكر المجرد ويؤدي إلي الكليات.”

“Rainer Maria Rilke greeted and wrestled with the angels of his Duino Elegies in the solitude of a castle surrounded by white cliffs tall trees and the sea. I greeted most of mine in the solitude of a house that still vibrated with the throbs of a singular life that had helped shape many lives and with the ache of attempts to render useful service to that life. The River of Winged Dreams was therefore constructed as a link between dimensions of past and future emotions and intellect and matter and spirit.”

“The boundaries we erect to divide heaven from earth, mind from matter, real from unreal are mere conveniences. Having made the boundaries, we can unmake them just as easily.”

“The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.”

“The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.”

“It’s the poet we love in Caeiro, not the philosopher. What we really get from these poems is a childlike sense of life, with all the direct materiality of the child’s mind, and all the vital spirituality of hope and increase that exist in the body and soul of nescient childhood. Caeiro’s work is a dawn that wakes us up and quickens us; a more that material, more than anti-spiritual dawn. It’s an abstract effect, pure vacuum, nothingness.”

“That’s the thing about love It can take you up to the mountaintop and can drop you And the impact will either kill you or make you a new person”

“If one thousand of you participate in the murder of one child, then one thousand of you are a thousand times guilty.”

“No crime is a means to an end. No crime can be rationalized.”

“If one million of you give assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one million of you are a million times guilty.”

“As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word? A society of people hoping to become politically superior needed first to become spiritually valid.”

“Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter on which it rides.”

“God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.”

“Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.”