Quotes about Existence

Boredom, cynicism, and despair are spiritual diseases because they disconnect us from the most primal truth about ourselves—that we are here.

We crave coming together and connecting with others because this is what the entire universe has been doing for billions and billions and billions of years.

Particles couldn't contain the fullness of Spirit, and that led to something new.

What this particular religious system that I was working in did was ever so subtly divide the world up into two spheres Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã‚¦ the spiritual, and then the rest of life. As if spiritual is a dimension of life that some people have, and some don't. As if spiritual means less real than the stuff of everyday life like money and bodies and kids and houses and jobs. As if spiritual is about another time and another place when you die and leave this place.

Heaven, for Jesus, wasn't less real, but more real.

The universe is unfinished, and God is looking for partners in the ongoing creation of the world.

A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.

But bid life seize the present? It lives less in the present Than in the future always, And less in both together Than in the past. The present Is too much for the senses, Too crowding, too confusing— Too present to imagine.

What is truth but to live for an idea?

Everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his relationship to the Infinite.

There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.

Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?