Quotes about Spirituality

Have you ever experienced the embarrassed and red-faced look of shame and self-recognition on the face of anyone who has been loved gratuitously after they have clearly done wrong? This is the way that God seduces us all into the economy of grace—by loving us in spite of ourselves in the very places where we cannot or will not or dare not love ourselves.

Truly enlightened people see oneness because they look out from oneness, instead of labeling everything as superior and inferior, in or out. If you think you are privately "saved" or enlightened, then you are neither saved nor enlightened, it seems to me!

Jesus is never upset with sinners. He is only upset with people who do not think they are sinners.

The biblical revelation is about awakening, not accomplishing. It is about realization and not performance principles.

Mere obedience is far too often a detour around actual love. Obedience is usually about cleaning up, love is about waking up.

It is the primary form of "dying to the self" that Jesus lived personally and the Buddha taught experientially. The growing consensus is that, whatever you call it, such calm, egoless seeing is invariably characteristic of people at the highest levels of doing and loving in all cultures and religions.

you must first "go into the tomb" with Jesus (Romans 6:4)

Once your life has become a constant communion, you know that all the techniques, formulas, sacraments, and practices were just a dress rehearsal for the real thing—life itself—which can actually become a constant intentional prayer.

I wondered if God might have an easier time using animals to communicate who God is, since they do not seem as willful and devious as we are.

We have always made it hard for God to give away God for free.

JULIAN OF NORWICH AND THE FIRST

One day the religion of Christ will take another step forward on earth. It will embrace the whole man [sic], all of him, not just half as it does now in embracing only the soul. —Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco