Spirituality
The very desire with which you want to understand is itself a prayer to God (Augustine, Sermon 152.1).
Barukh: The world, which was made for us, abides, but we, for whom it was made, depart.
My final journey into the dark has begun. Anonymous.
“¿No estoy yo aquí que soy tu madre?” (Am I not here, I who am your mother?). Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe
My brothers and sisters, to prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries, let us call to mind our sins. A pause for silent reflection follows. (Catholic mass)
Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. –Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
When the mind rests serene in the oneness of things, dualism vanishes by itself." Seng Tsan"
You are made in the image of what you desire. To unify your life unify your desires. To spiritualize your life, spiritualize your desires. To spiritualize your desires, desire to be without desire. Thomas Merton, Firewatch.
Our ordinary approach to reality and truth is so poverty-stricken that we don't realize that the truth is not one truth, but all truth....There are all sorts of philosophical, psychological, religious, and emotional tactics that we use to motivate ourselves, which say that we can do something but nobody else can. Chögyam Trungpa
If my eye is to discern color, it must itself be free from all color. The eye with which I see God is the same with which God sees me. My eye and God's eye is one eye, and one sight, and one knowledge, and one love. Meister Eckhart, Sermon on True Hearing.
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is 'thank you,' it will be enough. Meister Eckhart
Hagakure: Our bodies are given life from the midst of nothingness. Existing where there is nothing is the meaning of the phrase, 'Form is emptiness.' That all things are provided for by nothingness is the meaning of the phrase, 'Emptiness is form.'' One should not think that these are two separate things.
"The sound of the Gion shōja bells echoes the impermanence of all things; the color of the sōla flowers reveals the truth that the prosperous must decline. The proud do not endure, they are like a dream on a spring night; the mighty fall at last, they are as dust before the wind." Murasaki Shikibu: (early eleventh century) Heike Monogatari (The Tale of the Heike)
Tell people there’s an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure. ~ George Carlin