Spiritual Quotes

Bodhisattva Vows—


I. Sentient beings are numberless; I vow to awaken with them all.

II. Delusions/sufferings are endless; I vow to heal them all.

III. Dharma gates are boundless; I vow to go through them all.

IV. The Buddha Way is inexhaustible; I vow to embody it all.

—There are various translations; this is a conflation of several.

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“Vow,” in the sense used here, represents a dedication toward something. For example, a basketball player who dedicates herself to making every shot she takes, whether she is actually able to do that or not. If she misses a shot, she (hopefully) doesn’t simply walk off the boards in dejection; she re-dedicates herself and goes again.

Over and over again
turning the Dharma wheel,
falling off, getting on—

Over and over again...

"Ideologists do not speak of themselves as developing doctrine or dogma; for one of the rules of the game, so to speak, is the presentation of belief as objective knowledge where demonstration is adequate and faith unnecessary. But ideologists do develop doctrine just as theologists do; only they call it “theory.”"

IAN ADAMS, The Logic Of Political Belief, 1989

"Fanaticism is ... over-compensation for doubt."

~ ROBERTSON DAVIES, The Manticore, 1972.

La pérdida de una cosa nos afecta hasta no perderla toda.

—Antonio Porchia

(“The loss of a thing affects us until we have lost it altogether.” W.S. Merwin translation)

Originally posted by vistesd
La pérdida de una cosa nos afecta hasta no perderla toda.

—Antonio Porchia

(“The loss of a thing affects us until we have lost it altogether.” W.S. Merwin translation)

Sólo algunos llegan a nada, porque el trayecto es largo.

—Antonio Porchia

(“Only some arrive at nothing, because the journey is long.” )

"Your god is a monster"

Nemesio

Originally posted by mighty chickens 42
y don't u quote quotes out of the bible...that would be more realistic

"what is god but a continueing april fools joke"

Dave

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

—Seneca

He who would do good to another, must do it in minute particulars.

General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer.

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
He who would do good to another, must do it in minute particulars.

General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer.

“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.”


C.S. Lewis

Jesus Walks, by Michael Lee Johnson, from Word Salad Poetry Magazine (Vol. XIII, No. II)

Jesus lives
in a tent
not a temple
coated with blue
velvet sugar
He dances in the freedom
of His salvation
with the night and all
days bearing down with sun.
He has billions of ears
hanging from His head
dangling by seashores
listening to incoming prayers.
Sometimes busy hours drive Him
near crazy with buzzing sounds.
He walks near desert bushes
and hears wind tunnels
pushed by pine stinging nettles.
Here in His sacred voice
a whisper and
Pentecostal mind-
confused by hints of
Catholicism and prayers to Mary-
He heals himself in sacred
ponds tossing holy water
over himself--
touching nothing but
humanity He recoils
and finishes his desert
walk somewhat alone.

"To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love..."

AW Tozer