Spiritual progress is like a detoxification
We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
You will achieve definitive self-fulfilment only in the next life.
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
Devotion does not mean only chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.