Quotes Tagged "spirituality"

Sometimes, to protect a secret we will say it so openly that most will not suspect the truth of what we are saying.

You have to believe what you're saying if you're going to convince me. I just can't break that rule, even if I want to.

Your mind can be your enemy or friend. If you always follow your heart, your mind will feel neglected. If you follow only your mind, your heart will never forgive you. Never ignore your conscience, yet always be conscious of reason. Make your heart and mind friends and you will have peace of mind throughout life's seasons.

It doesn't matter what you think about consciousness, higher truths, or different dimensions - it's what you do and what you are that counts.

People often associate complexity with deeper meaning, when often after precious time has been lost, it is realized that simplicity is the key to everything.

You must feed yourself the truth because the world is sure to serve you lies.

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.

When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the slightest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinions for or against anything. To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease of the mind.

A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been wailing a tender agony of parting, never mentioning the skill that gave it life as a flute

Since living is believing, no one can be completely lacking in faith.

Never forget that you are not in the world; the world is in you. When anything happens to you, take the experience inward. Creation is set up to bring you constant hints and clues about your role as co-creator. Your soul is metabolizing experience as surely as your body is metabolizing food

Life is not a competition. No one has to lose for someone else to win. A true blessing blesses everyone.

We may talk lightly but never carelessly. We keep at bay the flow of common, ignorant thought which runs its damaging course through the pathways of ordinary human conversation.

Don’t follow someone else’s map. You should glean teachings from all directions, keeping true to those that bring progress yet remaining open to changes in yourself.

It is useful to study different traditions in order to be free of attachment to any one way of expressing what is beyond expression. (x)

We can't just restrict ourselves to what we know, because we are talking about the unknown.

Love is supposed to lift you up, not hold you down. It is supposed to push you forward, not hold you back.

We do not engage in idle or intentional gossip which undermines someone else's integrity or which spreads the seeds of fear by talking unthinkingly about illness, disasters, and all the other fears which run rampant in the world.

Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.