Edward Young Quotes

Do I believe in God? I don't know what that really means. I don't know what my personal connections with G-o-d are. But spirituality is soulfulness.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

The soul... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.

Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

I'm interested in the eternal soul. That's what I write about.

My spiritual journey began at conception.

I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.

Self-awareness is a trait that not only makes us human but also paradoxically makes us want to be more than merely human. As I said in my BBC Reith Lectures, “Science tells us we are merely beasts, but we don’t feel like that. We feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, forever craving transcendence

‗In life, at sometime or another we come to a point where all relationships cease—where there is only us and Allah. There are no parents, brother or sister, or any friend. Then we realise that there is no earth under us nor is there sky above, but only Allah who is supporting us in this emptiness. Then we realise our worth – it is not more than a grain of sand or the leaf of a plant. Then we realise our existence is only confined to our being. Our demise makes not a whit of difference to the world around us, nor to the scheme of things.

I now consider myself quite religious and spiritual although that sounds like a terrible cliche.

I feel God when I find myself in a situation which spontaneously opens me to the larger reality that exists all around.

the deeper one is drawn into God, the more one must 'go out of oneself'; that is, one must go to the world in order to carry the divine life into it.

Spirituality actually must be above politics. Or some other sort of business.

Every time you are passing the test, you are coming closer to Krishna.

Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.