Do not believe in a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe in a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because...

But no matter how much evil I see, I think it’s important for everyone to understand that there is much more light than darkness.

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

The son needs the father to have access to his source, and the father needs the son to have access to the future and the infinite.

It is in the balancing of your spirituality with your humanity that you will find immeasurable happiness, success, good health, and love.

Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.

Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.

I considered not getting up, but recognized the pain of staying down was worse than the pain of attempting to stand.

In den beginne: de krachtHier en nu: de krachtAan het einde van het einde: de krachtHier, daar, overal: de krachtVan alfa tot omega: de krachtIn de hemel, op aarde: de krachtIn het grootste, in het...

Followers of Jesus stake their claim on the firm belief that God will one day heal the planet of pain and death. Until that day arrives, the case against God must rely on incomplete evidence....

PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.

The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.

Evil originates not in the absence of guilt; but in our effort to escape it.

This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.

To the degree you experience God’s love towards you – seeing you as beautiful and radiant – to that degree sex won’t ruin your life.

The classic Aryan who idolized himself and who existed in his own dreams could not bear to see the Jew, the evidence of divine reality,and he would kill him.

Anything you want very badly is located outside of your comfort zone.

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There is far more spiritual potential within than most people realize. The potential is so great that to define it in words would be impossible.

We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal energies

There is an invisible hand at work in the making of beautiful lives.

Be the compassion you seek.

Hope meets you halfway on a bridge called faith.

The only end to your pain is through fully consuming it and digesting it, otherwise it will consume you.

Life’s experiences are not woven with a constant thread; Life in our world is constantly changing. We must repurpose what we have endured and the lessons we have learned; creating a renewed sense of hope....

There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature or from the arts – a sense of wonder.

In Whom is the Universe, Who is in the Universe, Who is the Universe; in Whom is the Soul, Who is in the Soul, Who is the Soul of Man; knowing Him—and therefore the Universe—as...

Like an alchemical wave sending ripples of love to every part of our being, once we become conscious of an intelligent life force existing within us, everything changes.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

All the momentum in the world makes no difference if you don’t take action. Thinking about how hard the task is going to be, or how long it’s going to take you will only hinder...

As it is there isn’t a single thing isn’t an opportunity for some ‘alert’ person, including practically everybody by the ‘greed’, that, they are ‘alive’, therefore. Etc. That, in fact, there are ‘conditions’. Gravelly Hill...

I am” is enough to sustain me forever. I will lie on the grass at one with nature, expanding until my being fades into the infinite.

There’s something lyrical about an eternal truth. It’s a graceful riff. A free-flowing melody. Light and airy, it floats all around you. And when it lands on your ears, when you hear it for the...

Our unfathomable evolutionary past paints a picture vastly more immense than any spiritual story could ever create because it is raw and real, violent, dirty and beautiful—and because of that—it’s spectacular!

Faith is the muscle of the spirit. It is strengthened through study, prayer, and meditation. As exercise builds muscle and our bodies become strong; study, prayer, and meditation builds faith and our spirits become strong.

Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it’s only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.

If something’s existence is contingent upon the existence of another entity, can we truthfully call them separate beings?

My biggest fear, even now, is that I will hear Jesus’ words and walk away, content to settle for less than radical obedience to Him. 

You are a victim only when you have decided to play the part.

Finding the calmness or serenity in oneself effectively diffuses the judgments of others

Let’s try something new,” associations will leap to greatness.

It is not objective proof of God’s existence that we want but, whether we use religious language for it or not, the experience of God’s presence.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.Where there is hatred, let me sow love,Where there is injury, pardon;Where there is doubt, faith;Where there is despair, hope;Where there is darkness, light;And where there is sadness,...

Although churches seem the most natural space to perform spiritual awakening, the disconcerting reality is that many people in Western society see churches more as museums of religion than sacred stages that dramatize the movement...

Until you try to fly, you will never know how high you can soar.

As the sun went down, I saw a solitary boatman disporting on the smooth lake. The falling dews seemed to strain and purify the air, and I was soothed with an infinite stillness. I got...

Do your best, then put your feet on the table, and to God leave the rest.

I calculated how easy it would be to pull a chair next to the windowsill, climb up, and simply allow my body to fall four stories to the street. Then an inner voice broke in,...

Molecules form and dissolve, returning to the primordial soup of atoms. But consciousness survives the death of the molecules on which it rides. What was once a bundle of energy in a sunbeam turns into...