Quotes about Spirituality

you no longer need to protect or defend the mere part. You are now connected to something inexhaustible.

Both Catholics and Protestants have failed our people by mystifying the very notion of mysticism. The word itself has become relegated to a "misty" and distant realm that implies it is only available to very few and something not to be trusted, much less attractive or desirable. For me, the word "mysticism" simply means experiential knowledge of spiritual things, as opposed to book knowledge, secondhand knowledge, or even church knowledge.

How do you sell emptiness, vulnerability, and nonsuccess?

It's heaven all the way to heaven. And it's hell all the way to hell. Not later, but now.

For all who have tried to know Jesus without Christ, many of the core church teachings offered a disembodied Christ without any truly human Jesus, which was the norm for centuries in doctrine and in art. Art is the giveaway of what people really believe at any one time.

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)