Spiritual Quotes - Page 287

There are no edges to my loving now.

Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof.

We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute.

Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?

To Love is to be God. Never will a Lover's chest feel any sorrow. Never will a Lover's robe be touched by mortals. Never will a Lover's body be found buried in the earth. To Love is to be God.

This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart.

Have you ever gotten breathless before from a beautiful face, for i see you there, my dear.

Sounds are the echo of the "Harmony of the Spheres" which man took into himself when he came down from the divine-spiritual world into the physical world.

You are all human but what makes, what makes you really really spiritual? What you are here for. What you are really here for? What you are really here for is to make a fundamental change upwards. It is simply crossing a border from one place in your mind to another. That's all.

I'm not religious. I would say I'm more spiritual than religious.

Keeping covenants protects us, prepares us, & empowers us.

The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him.

I'm not religious, but I am spiritual. I have my own relationship with a being that I consider to be everywhere. All and everything. I don't need a church or a synagogue or a mosque. I don't need to kneel down, I don't need to stand up, I don't need to be hanging from a thread.

All who are entrusted with spiritual and temporal talents must lay them out for the Lord and Master's advantage.

To share your spiritual self or grounding with anyone brings about a reality that must assert itself.

The struggle inside the cocoon between the defenders of the worm state and the agents of winged possibility is one that I was still living, one that many of us surely experience in times of spiritual emergence. We may find ourselves pounded into mush, hanging upside down from whatever we can cling to — and yet have the possibility and destiny of becoming much, much more.

Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed.

There's a quality we could call vertical attention, which is an attention upward toward ancestors, spiritual states, angels, gods.

Spirituality is that place where the utterly intimate and the vastly infinite meet.

If you work with such people almost on the level of spiritual direction, you see that they are people who prefer a world view of order and even punitiveness. And for some reason, there's a feeling that the male psyche is going to give that to them. And if that's your view of religion, which it is for many people, if they've never come to the mystical level, religion is for social order and to maintain social order.

All spiritual life begins with a sense of wonder, and nature is a window into that wonder.

Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport.

In spiritual direction there is absolutely no domination or control.

The Spiritual Disciplines are things that we do. We must never lose sight of this fact. It is one thing to talk piously about 'the solitude of the heart,' but if that does not somehow work its way into our experience, then we have missed the point of the Disciplines. We are dealing with actions, not merely states of mind.

Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.