spiritual confinement Quotes

One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine.

The Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might efficiently deal, to pigeonhole it once and for all so that we never had to reevaluate it. With hammers of cant and spikes of dogma, we crucified and crucified again, trying to nail to our stationary altars the migratory light of the world.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

Ask yourselves this question: How often is Jesus inside and knocking at the door to be let out, to come out?

Those walls and bars are there for a reason,” said Crake. “Not to keep us out, but to keep them in. Mankind needs barriers in both cases.” “Them?” “Nature and God.” “I thought you didn’t believe in God,” said Jimmy. “I don’t believe in Nature either,” said Crake. “Or not with a capital N.

I describe a world with no exit, convinced that God accompanies man throughout his history.

The soul is the prison of the body.

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.

Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the drag of the matter they inhabit, yet it is the spirit that they fear.

Monastic incarceration is castration.

Prison house for the soul

Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.

The iron bolt...mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in a gloomy prison.

A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.

This souls'prison we call England.

The strength of the genie comes from being in a bottle.

And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')