Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Words spoken about the Way have no taste. When looked at, there's not enough to see. When listened to, there's not enough to hear. When used, it is never exhausted.

We have seen the highest circle of spiraling powers. We have named this circle God. We might have given it any other name we wished: Abyss, Mystery, Absolute Darkness, Absolute Light, Matter, Spirit, Ultimate Hope, Ultimate Despair, Silence.

The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is.

When I'm asked to define God, I'm almost wordless.

God is to me the Great Unknown. I believe in Him, but I find Him not.

I'm working my way toward divinity.

It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there.

I have the feeling that behind a certain dimension we cannot anymore see, understand, feel, smell, hear - nothing. What people are calling God I am not defining, but I am a 'possibilitiest.'

I think there are more religious overtones in music because these artists want to be connected to greatness. What is greater or higher than God himself?

Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Some prayers are followed by silence because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than we can understand.

O admirable necessity! O powerful action! What mind can penetrate your nature? What language can express this marvel? None, to be sure. This is where human discourse turns toward the contemplation of the divine.

What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?

Anyone who has had an experience of mystery knows that there is a dimension of the universe that is not that which is available to his senses. There is a pertinent saying in one of the Upanishads: When before the beauty of a sunset or of a mountain you pause and exclaim, ‘Ah,’ you are participating in divinity. Such a moment of participation involves a realization of the wonder and sheer beauty of existence. People living in the world of nature experience such moments every day. They live in the recognition of something there that is much greater than the human dimension.

What is religion? That which is never spoken.

Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.

And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: 'I.

The Christian faith is mysterious to the core. It is about things and beings that ultimately can't be put into words. Language fails. And if we do definitively put God into words, we have at that very moment made God something God is not.

God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.

Transcendence is something between a metaphor and a miracle.

Like the ocean is your god-self; It remains for ever undefiled. And like the ether it lifts but the winged. Even like the sun is your god-self; It knows not the ways of the mole nor seeks it the holes of the serpent. But your god-self does not dwell alone in your being. Much in you is still man, and much in you is not yet man, But a shapeless pigmy that walks asleep in the mist searching for its own awakening.

Mystery is the essence of divinity

Heaven is beyond our imagination . . . . At our most creative moment, at our deepest thought, at our highest level, we still cannot fathom eternity.

There exists no God. What exists is godliness, and that godliness surrounds you. We are all in the same ocean.

Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.