Posts tagged religion
These quotes are pretty ok
quotes for thinking about
Religion in fact is not knowledge, but a faith and aspiration; it is justified indeed both by an imprecise intuitive knowledge of large spiritual truths and by the subjective experience of souls that have risen beyond the ordinary life, but in itself it only gives us the hope and faith by which we may be induced to aspire to the intimate possession of the hidden tracts and larger realities of the Spirit. That we turn always the few distinct truths and the symbols or the particular discipline of a religion into a hard and fast dogmas, is a sign that as yet we are only infants in the spiritual knowledge and are yet far from the science of the Infinite.
You find God the moment you realize that you don’t need to seek God.
(Source: bodhisattvaquotes, via ocular-splendor)
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
Everything I’ve ever let go of had claw marks on it.
David Foster Wallace
(via saltonaslugg)
(Source: entropicarus, via tothepersoninthebelljar)
(Source: alice-jiang, via willrhinehart)
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
(via quote-book)
