All Quotes By Tag: Spirituality
“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.”
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“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”
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“If one thousand of you participate in the murder of one child, then one thousand of you are a thousand times guilty.”
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“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.”
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“Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter on which it rides.”
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“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.”
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“Time is just quantified eternity.”
“Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.”
“It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.”
“It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.”
“Love gives you eyes.”
“Who are you? No really. Way, way down deep. Who are you?”
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“We may be living past and future lives at the same time we are living this one.”