Spiritual Disconnection Quotes

I went to the West and saw Islam, but no Muslims; I got back to the East and saw Muslims, but not Islam.

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.

Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments the gods remain deaf to the agony of the human race. Confucius cares not for the poverty, squalor and misery of the people of China. Buddha remains undisturbed in his philosophical indifference to the famine and starvation of outraged Hindoos; Jahve continues deaf to the bitter cry of Israel; while Jesus refuses to rise from the dead against his Christians who are butchering each other.

My new work deals with emptying my body: 'Boat emptying, stream entering.' This means that you have to empty the body/boat to the point where you can really be connected with the fields of energy around you. I think that men and women in our Western culture are completely disconnected from that energy, and in my new work I want to make this connection possible.

Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.

Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

I couldn’t be with people and I didn’t want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective whooshed and I was far out in space, watching the world. I could see millions and millions of people, all slotted into their lives; then I could see me—I’d lost my place in the universe. It had closed up and there was nowhere for me to be. I was more lost than I had known it was possible for any human being to be.

The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.

Humans have been in the grip of pain for eons, ever since they fell from the state of grace, entered the realm of time and mind, and lost awareness of Being. At that point, they started to perceive themselves as meaningless fragments in an alien universe, unconnected to the Source and to each other.

I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky; It was a childish ignorance, But now 't is little joy To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy.

When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.

A lot of people who are religious, I think they get lost. They go to church just to go to church.

Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world.

I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.

My church's antics were such that we were constantly at odds with the world. That reinforced our 'otherness' on a daily basis.

(Beth) "I don't care anymore." I turned my face up toward Heaven. "That's not my home anymore. You are.

...my heart may have been in it but my soul was not.

Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.

He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.

The borderlanders are people who are kind of caught in the middle. They think there must be another world out there. There probably is a God, but they are either turned off by the church or wounded by the church or wary of the church for whatever reason.

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.