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What are your favourite spiritual quotes?

Sunstone

Sunstone

De Diablo Del Fora
Premium Member
The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty. -- Kenko

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion. -- Richard Feynman

Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. -- Richard Feynman

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self. -- Albert Einstein
 
Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Rick O'Shez said:
That is the First Noble Truth in Buddhism. ;)
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I've long felt some kinship with Nuddh....er, Buddhists.
The food, the practicality, the orange robes.....

Another favorite speaks to how we don't find inerrant truth about our material
world (reality), but may still use the scientific method to better cope with it.....

"All models are wrong but some are useful." - Gerorge Box (writing on theories)

Note to @LegionOnomaMoi.....
When I refer to a singular "method", I really mean a collection of methods.
 
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Wirey

Wirey

Fartist
“There's nothing mysterious about it, He's not working at all. He's playing. Or else He's forgotten all about us. That's the kind of God you people talk about, a country bumpkin, a clumsy, bungling, brainless, conceited, uncouth hayseed. Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of Creation? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatological mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements? Why in the world did He ever create pain?”

Joseph Heller
 
Rick O'Shez

Rick O'Shez

Irishman bouncing off walls
"Let me give you a little inside information about God. God likes to watch. He's a prankster. Think about it. He gives man instincts. He gives you this extraordinary gift, and then what does He do, I swear for His own amusement, his own private, cosmic gag reel, He sets the rules in opposition. It's the goof of all time. Look but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, don't swallow. Ahaha. And while you're jumpin' from one foot to the next, what is he doing? He's laughin' His sick, ****in' *** off! He's a tight-***! He's a SADIST! He's an absentee landlord! Worship that? NEVER!"

Satan, from the film "Devil's Advocate".
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."

~ Nelson Mandela
 
U

Unveiled Artist

Veteran Member
"God laughed at me today. He said 'if this is what you call stress, look at what I have to deal with." On a quote coin I picked up at Church years ago. More to come...
 
Thief

Thief

Rogue Theologian
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you

don't know who I am quoting
it was carved in stone a thousand years before the Carpenter walked
 
McBell

McBell

Unbound
The night has a thousand eyes
the day but one
yet the light of the whole day dies
with the dying sun

The mind has a thousand eyes
the heart but one
yet the light of the life dies
when love is gone

~unknown (at least to me)
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"It is essential that our love be liberating, not possessive. We must at all times give those we love the freedom to be themselves. Love affirms the other as other. It does not possess and manipulate another as mine. To love is to liberate. Love and friendship must empower those we love to become their best selves, according to their own lights and visions."

~ John Powell

From this site -

http://www.livinglifefully.com/love.html
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
True love is unconditional.

True forgiveness is unconditional.

True acceptance is unconditional.

~ from a great little book called "365 Wisdom Pills".
 
idav

idav

Being
Premium Member
“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
― Joseph Campbell

"This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality.
Embrace this moment. Remember. we are eternal.
all this pain is an illusion."
- Tool: Parabola (song)
 
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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"Don’t meditate to fix yourself, to heal yourself, to improve yourself, to redeem yourself; rather, do it as an act of love, of deep warm friendship to yourself. In this way there is no longer any need for the subtle aggression of self-improvement, for the endless guilt of not doing enough. It offers the possibility of an end to the ceaseless round of trying so hard that wraps so many people’s lives in a knot. Instead there is now meditation as an act of love. How endlessly delightful and encouraging."

~ Bob Sharples, from Meditation: Calming the MindBooks
 
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