Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
The Catholic ideal is to order the whole of life towards unity, not by the denial and destruction of the natural human values, but by bringing them into living relation with spiritual truth and spiritual reality.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger
If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.