The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.Alan Watts
I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.Chuck Palahniuk
This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.Cicero
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.Honoré de Balzac
I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn't do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.Dalai Lama
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.Rabindranath Tagore
It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.Simone Weil
That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.Rumi
In the future, IKEA will become an ever more spiritual sanctuary. In the future, your dream life will increasingly look like Google street view. Everyone will be feeling the same way as you, and there's some comfort to be found there.Douglas Coupland
The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle.Rumi
