Spirituality: Quotations

"I was at this time of living, like so many Atheists or Anti-theists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I was also very angry with God for not existing. I was equally angry with Him for creating a world." -C.S. Lewis

"You can't wake a person pretending to be asleep"

Old Indian proverb.

“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled
to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
Harlan Ellison

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances of the truth.

-Socrates

"Sans Dieu Rien." -anon

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
"Sans Dieu Rien." -anon

Originally posted by wolfgang59
Sans théière rien
Wolfie

Originally posted by googlefudge
Sans dieu des théières rien
GF

The central problem of understanding states of consciousness is understanding who or what experiences the state. Our theories evolve with the center missing; mainly the “I”, the Witnesser.

—Arthur Deikman; quoted in James H. Austin, M.D. Zen and the Brain

“You” are no content al at all.

—Eugene Gendlin (my quotation marks)

No holiness, vast emptiness.

—Bodhidharma

Originally posted by wolfgang59
We will be in trouble from the Académie Française!!

"Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief." -Oscar Wilde.

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication"

Leonardo da Vinci

Thanks, divegeester.

Imagine the perplexity of a man outside time and space, who has lost his watch, and his measuring rod, and his tuning fork. -- The life and opinions of Dr Faustroll, 'pataphysician (Alfred Jarry).

"It's not that everyone is out to get you, it's just that everyone is out for themselves."

-Whodey

Originally posted by KellyJay
I don't like this quote, it seems to me that nothing of God rests in this
outside of one trying to cover one's bets.
Kelly