Spirituality

"Underlying our glitzy modern consumer culture there is a deep spiritual undernourishment and malaise that manifests all kinds of symptoms: nervous disorders, loneliness, alienation, purposelessness So blanking out, running away, burying our heads in sand or videotape will take us nowhere ...

"By means of all created things, without exception, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, whereas in fact we live steeped in its burning layers." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ...

"As my prayer became more attentive and inward, I had less and less to say. I finally became completely silent.... This is how it is. To pray does not mean to listen to oneself speaking. Prayer involves becoming silent, and ...

"I tried to find Him on the Christian cross, but He was not there; I went to the temple of the Hindus and to the old pagodas, but I could not find a trace of Him anywhere. I searched on ...

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." - Buddha ...

"Jesus is living next to you, in the brothers and sisters with whom you share your daily existence." - Pope Francis ...

"Oh great creator of being, grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives." ...

“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love each other.” - Jonathan Swift ...

"When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing — nothing." - Saint Francis of Assisi ...

“Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.” - Samuel Ullman ...