Fingers Quote by Richard Rohr Download Open image “Religions should be understood as only the fingers that point to the moon, not the moon itself.” — Richard Rohr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fingers Moon Religion Should Understood
As the old Zen saying reminds us, the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. — Helen Palmer Geisel Copy Share Image
Religion is the finger pointing to God. People are too busy licking the finger to notice where it's pointing. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Anthroposophie is not a religion but a tool for understanding of religions. — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“When you point a finger at the moon to indicate the moon, instead of looking at the moon,the stupid ones look at your finger.” — Mao Tse-tung Copy Share Image
One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When you point to the moon, what do you see in front of your finger; Your task is to feel, not to think, when… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
When finger point at moon, don't look at finger or you'll miss the moon. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
A religious belief is not a statement about Reality, but a hint, a clue about something that is a mystery, beyond the grasp of… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“We have become human doings more than human beings, and the verb “rest,” as Jesus uses it, is largely foreign to us.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
In solitude, at last, we’re able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive, and contain… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“In the end, we do not so much reclaim what we have lost as discover a significantly new self in and through the process.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“I would wonder if you could be a hero or heroine if you did not live in deep time, that is, Past, present, and… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“I believe contemplation shows us that nothing inside us is as bad as our hatred and denial of the bad. Hating and denying it… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
We don't have much wisdom about the second half when things really open up and end up looking a lot more progressive. In my… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger is now brought home, smiling gamely, with a broken collarbone and incredible contusions-… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
Sam reached his hand toward mine and I automatically put my fingers in his. With a guilty little smile he pulled my hand toward… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This… — Katrina Kenison Copy Share Image
The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Shhh.” He put a finger to her lips. “Hear me out. I cannot deny that I would've liked to have made babies with you.… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
[Sport officials] blocked their support of us. But those individuals [ Muhammad Ali, the Jim Browns, the Bill Russells, Kareem Abdul Jabbar ] were… — John Carlos Copy Share Image
Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I would have touched it like a child But knew my finger could but have touched Cold stone and water. I grew wild, Even… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image