spiritual concept Quotes

The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.

'Discipleship' as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I've tried to redeem the idea of discipleship, and I think it can be done; you have to get it out of the contemporary mode.

I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.

I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.

God is, to me, pretty much a myth created over time to deny the idea that we're all responsible for our own actions.

... in the end, Goddess is just a word. It simply means the divine in female form.

Beauty is a gift of God.

The body is the external coating and the mind is the internal coating of the Atman who is the real perceiver, the real enjoyer, the being in the body who is working the body by means of the internal organ or the mind.

Man Made 'God' in his own image. The eternal, the infinate, the unnameable was reduced to a mental idol that you had to believe in and worship as 'my god' or 'our god'.

In God's eyes, there's not before and after. Every moment of time is simultaneous to God.

'God' is the name given to the most 'important' human idea. In English, as in other languages, the original sense of the word is obscure. But the character of the name is the same in all languages: it is a question. 'God' is the question 'Is there something more important than, something besides, man?'

God is Man's greatest invention

It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind

One of the ideas that runs through this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] is this Buddhist notion that the mind is incredibly powerful; not the brain but the mind.

The grace of God is infinite and beyond our ability to measure. His grace has no beginning and therefore no end.

God is gracious beyond the power of language to describe.

Love of an idea is the love of God.

There’s nothing bad about reincarnation per se, it’s basically a very good system, cost-effective and ecologically friendly.

I'm sorry that some self-styled anarchists have picked up on the word spirit and have turned me into a theological ecologist, a notion which I think is crude beyond all belief.

Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination.

The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is.

God is able to do more than man can understand.

What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being?

I had no idea LOVE would catch on the way it did. Oddly enough, I wasn't thinking at all about anticipating the Love generation and hippies. It was a spiritual concept. It isn't a sculpture of love any longer. It's become the very theme of love itself.

Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.