Religion Quote by D.T. Suzuki Download Open image ““But nothing awakens religious consciousness like suffering.”” — D.T. Suzuki ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Philosophy of Mind Religion Religion-and-philoshophy Spirituality
“I think man will never renounce real suffering, that is destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Suffering contains a hidden spiritual message. It exists until the message is heard.” — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Our suffering comes from our unlived life--the unseen, unfelt parts of our psyche.” — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
“On the contrary, it made me feel that faith is all the more essential. Pain and darkness have been our lot since the Fall… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“RELIGION is like a rocket. Use it to raise your consciousness only. Drop it when you are in your ORBIT.” — Nishant Dutt Copy Share Image
“...you can't rationalize suffering - it's indeterminate - the real unknowable variable God substitutes in...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.” — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
“...and then I remembered this basic religious principle that God isn't there to take away our suffering or our pain but to fill it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The suffering of the Christian or anyone else in this world is never ultimately an accident. All suffering is within the pale of divine… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“Not the kind of unconsciousness that torments the dead, but the kind that kills the living.” — Tara Hudson Copy Share Image
The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Copying is slavery. The letter must never be followed, only the spirit is to be grasped. Higher affirmations live in the spirit. And where… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Zen, in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's own being, and it points the way from bondage to… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
The mistake consists in our splitting into two what is really and absolutely one. Is not life one as we live it, which we… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Until we recognize the SELF that exists apart from who we think we are - we cannot know the Ch'an ( ZEN ) MIND — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Facts of experience are valued in Zen more than representations, symbols, and concepts-that is to say, substance is everything in Zen and form nothing. — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes hold of… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, "What do I need to get to be happy?" The question becomes, "What… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Zen abhors repetition or imitation of any kind, for it kills. For the same reason Zen never explains, but only affirms. Life is fact… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
To point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon. — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Personal Style comes from within. It's when the woman, her individuality and spirit come through. She uses clothes to express who she is and… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
