Aberjhani Quotes

The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic.

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

My dream is that people will find a way back home, into their bodies, to connect with the earth, to connect with each other, to connect with the poor, to connect with the broken, to connect with the needy, to connect with people calling out all around us, to connect with the beauty, poetry, the wildness.

'Whale Talk' is a tough book, but it is also a compassionate book about telling the truth and about redemption. I didn't draw the tough parts out of thin air; they are stories handed to me by people in pain.

Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.

Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.

Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed.

In the Guru's house religion and worldly enjoyment shall be combined—the caldron to supply the poor and the needy, and the scimitar to smite the oppressors.

No one wants critical, 'You can't do this or that' religion. People want authentic love, and that's what we are displaying.

Nature is God's workshop. The sky is his resume. The universe is his calling card. You want to know who God is? See what he has done.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul.

Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find.

The essence of any religion is good heart. Sometimes I call love and compassion a universal religion. This is my religion.

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?

I do not believe that to be religious in the best, authentic sense a man has to destroy his love life and mummify himself, body and soul.

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind.

In the true order of things one does not do something in order to be happy-one is happy and, hence, does something. One does not do some things in order to be compassionate, one is compassionate and, hence, acts in a certain way.

Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.

Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others... And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

The motivation of all religious practice is similar: love, sincerity, honesty. The way of life of practically all religious persons is consistent. The teachings of tolerance, love, and compassion are the same.

I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems.

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.

I always try to share with others the idea that in order to become compassionate it is not necessary to become religious.