Spiritual Quotes

Why, you who hate me, do you love me,
and hate those who love me?
You who deny me, confess me,
and you who confess me, deny me.
You who tell the truth about me, lie about me,
and you who have lied about me, tell the truth about me.
You who know me, be ignorant of me,
and those who have not known me, let them know me.
For I am knowledge and ignorance.
I am shame and boldness.
I am shameless; I am ashamed.
I am strength and I am fear.
I am war and peace.
Give heed to me.
I am the one who is disgraced and the great one.

(ibid.)

Soilent Green is people....IT'S PEEEEEPULLLL!!!!!!!
Charlton Heston aka Jesus

Originally posted by Starrman
You are admitting that he allows a certain amount of evil to go unchecked in preparation for a greater amount of good? How is this possible? If he is all powerful there is no need for him to do this, the greater good could be accomplished without any need for evil. Therefore he is malevolent to allow ANY evil to exist if he is able but unwilling for any amount of time.

Just to be is a blessing.
Just to live is holy.

—Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

“These beauteous forms [of nature]…felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; and passing even into my purer mind with tranquil restoration – feelings too of unremembered pleasure…little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.”

(Wordsworth)

Don't be dismayed at good-byes.
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

Illusions, Richard Bach, Delacorte Press, New York, 1977

Most of the boundaries between traditions are artificial. Truth has no boundaries. The differences are mostly in emphasis.

-Thich Nhat Hanh

The fantastic notion, namely, that outside of them [outside of people] there exist objective sources of 'Good' and 'Evil' acting upon their essence" is without foundation—there is no external good and evil.

Gurdjieff

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"The worst poverty is not to know Christ."

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta

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"The temptation today is to reduce Christianity to merely human wisdom, a pseudo-science of well-being."

Pope John Paul II

"I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God"

--Unknown

I think not,therefore am I?

Infinite

These solitary hills have always been dear to me.
Seated here, this sweet hedge, which blocks the distant horizon opening inner silences and interminable distances.
I plunge in thought to where my heart, frightened, pulls back.
Like the wind which I hear tossing the trembling plants which surround me, a voice from the inner depths of spirit shakes the certitudes of thought.
Eternity breaks through time, past and present intermingle in her image.
In the inner shadows I lose myself,
drowning in the sea-depths of timeless love.

Giacomo Leopardi

There is no messiah—and you’re it!

—Rabbi Robert N. Levine (from his book by that title)

"Be the change you want to see in the world."

Ghandi