Spiritual Duality Quotes

Body is not veiled from soul, neither soul from body, Yet no man hath ever seen a soul.

God created us in such a way that our inner self is in the spiritual world and our outer self is in the physical world. This was so that the spiritual part of us, which belongs in heaven, could be planted in the physical part the way a seed is planted in the ground.

I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil. We all have everything within us and the Kingdom of Heaven is nigh and within us, and if you look hard enough you'll see it.

God hides the fires of hell within paradise.

Life is effort. So says the body. Life is blessing. So says the soul.

Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit.

He who cannot hate the devil cannot love God.

He (man) is both dust of earth and breath of God.

I had this duality growing up with my dad being a strict Catholic and his brother being a priest and my mother finding God in nature, so I've taken a little from both [traditions].

Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

You may have orthodox heads, and yet you may have the devil in your hearts.

I think the Bhagavad Gita is about both the forces of light and the forces of darkness that exist within our own self, within our own soul; that our deepest nature is one of ambiguity. We have evolutionary forces there - forces of creativity, and love, and compassion, and understanding. But we also have darkness inside us - the diabolical forces of separation, fear and delusion. And in most of our lives, there is a battle going on within ourselves.

A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.

I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.

Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.

Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.

The truth is that man is one individual with two aspects, just like one line with two ends. If you look at the ends, it is two. If you look at the line, it is one. One end of the line is limited, the other end of the line is unlimited. One end is man, the other end is God.

Each of us has heaven and hell in him.

Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world.

The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be?

My body is but the lees of my better being.

Where God is, there is no other. Where world is, there is no God. These two will never unite. Like light and darkness.

As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed.

The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity.

As the snake is separate from its slough, even so is the Spirit separate from the body.