“What are the path of love and the path of meditation? There are basically two different paths to enlightenment. These two paths… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“Suppose that members of a religious movement, such as Christianity, maintain that the existence of some powerful god and its goals or… — Matt McCormick Copy Share Image
“In a democratic society, presumably, the public business is carried on in conversation with the actual values of people who are the… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
“New Rule: You don't have to teach both sides of a debate if one side is a load of crap. President Bush… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“It must be this overarching commitment to what is really an abstraction, to one's children right or wrong, that can be even… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Darwin and Nietzsche were the common spiritual and intellectual source for the mean-spirited and bellicose ideological assault on progress, liberalism, and democracy… — Arno J. Mayer Copy Share Image
“The theological perspective of participation actually saves the appearances by exceeding them. It recognizes that materialism and spiritualism are false alternatives, since… — John Milbank Copy Share Image
“Before, Sazed had looked at the doctrines themselves. This time, he found himself studying the people who had believed, or what he… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“The duties, which a man performs as a friend or parent, do not seem merely owing to his benefactor or children; nor… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, acquainting them with the principal historical… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Saint John Paul II wrote, “when its concepts and conclusions can be integrated into the wider human culture and its concerns for ultimate… — Ilia Delio Copy Share Image
“Consequently, when Muslims today say they revere Jesus and even that they recognize Christianity as a legitimate faith, they are being disingenuous.… — Robert Spencer Copy Share Image
“This century will be called Darwin 's century. He was one of the greatest men who ever touched this globe. He has… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“If we are to make the ordinary man aware of the spiritual uity out of which asll the separate activities of our… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“Religions all over the world have for centuries been telling people to serve humanity, ut this has not produced any effect, On the contrary,… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“It is not the development of material need which sets the modern vocabulary of aspiration apart from anything which has gone before,… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
“That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the… — Charles Magaiza Copy Share Image
“New Rule: Death isn’t always sad. This week, the Reverend Jerry Falwell died, and millions of Americans asked, “Why? Why, God? Why…didn’t… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Finally, in terms of overall spiritual intelligence—which we have been briefly tracking—on the other side of the leading edge of evolution we… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“A man on his deathbed left instructions For dividing up his goods among his three sons. He had devoted his entire spirit… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“BROADBENT [stiffly]. Devil is rather a strong expression in that connexion, Mr Keegan. KEEGAN. Not from a man who knows that this… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I see things in windows and I say to myself that I want them. I want them because I want to belong.… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
“As for the vice of lust - aside from what it means for spiritual persons to fall into this vice, since my… — Juan de la Cruz Copy Share Image
“With his five senses he engages this real world. All things necessary to his physical existence he apprehends by the faculties with… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
“The Misbâh has chapters on “knowledge” (- ilm, ch. 62), “certain knowledge” ( yaqîn, ch. 88), “wisdom” (hikmah, ch. 99), and “ignorance”… — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“Every church became a theatre, where orators, instead of church teachers, harangued, caring not to instruct the people, but striving to attract… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“A psychologist came to me for a personal meeting and said, "It's good that it's not a cult." There are two kinds… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“Among the conventional adab anthologies, we encounter a somewhat different organization of the traditional material in the Kitâb Adab ad- dunyâ wa-d-dîn… — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“A monk lived near the temple of Shiva. In the house opposite lived a prostitute. Noticing the large number of men who… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Thomas Merton said it was actually dangerous to put the Scriptures in the hands of people whose inner self is not yet… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Religion has clearly performed great services for human civilization. It has contributed much towards the taming of the asocial instincts. But not… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Healing is the way of the heart. This book is an invitation to open our heart. Healing is a love affair with… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“On Pleasure Pleasure is a freedom-song, But it is not freedom. It is the blossoming of your desires, But it is not… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Here’s a sentence in a book I’m reading: ‘We belong, of course, to a generation that’s seen through things, seen how futile… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
“Despite an icy northeast wind huffing across the bay I sneak out after dark, after my mother falls asleep clutching her leather… — Bob Thurber Copy Share Image
“We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The world is broken up by tribalism—the British, the German, the Swiss, the Hindu, the Buddhist, are tribes. See the fact that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Does God get what God wants? That’s a good question. An interesting question. And it’s an important question that has given us… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“...The spiritual Oriental teachers say a person has three forms of mind,'' Beatrice was explaining to him once, while they were on… — Anton Sammut Copy Share Image
“If I know the classical psychological theories well enough to pass my comps and can reformulate them in ways that can impress… — Stephen Muse Copy Share Image