Leo Tolstoy (September 09, 1828 – November 20, 1910) At the thought of God, happy waves of life welled up inside me. Everything came alive, took on meaning. The moment I thought I knew God, I lived. But the moment I forgot him, the moment I stopped believing, I also stopped living.
Jyoti Donovan On Enlightenment And God
Jyoti Donovan Enlightenment is all there is. It's already here, and it's always here. It's you and me and all of this totality. It's the only thing going on, eternally. It's recognizing that all is God—not God as an all-knowing deity separate from the world, answering prayers or delivering judgments, but God as the source …
Hafez On God
Hafez (1315 - 1390) Slipping on my shoes, boiling water, toasting bread, buttering the sky: that should be enough contact with God in one day to make anyone crazy.
Bertrand Russell On Fear, Religion, And God
Bertrand Russell (May 18, 1872–February 2, 1970) Fear is the basis of religious dogma, as of so much else in human life. Fear of human beings, individually or collectively, dominates much of our social life, but it is fear of nature that gives rise to religion. The antithesis of mind and matter is ... more …
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Tao Writer On God
Tao Writer (April 17, 1948 -) God is a concept not a being. God is the black face of the universe, the stars, the planets, the solar systems, the dragonfly, the elephant, the mouse, the spider, the woman, and the man, but these are life forms we know exist. There are obviously countless others in …
Hermann Hesse On God
Hermann Hesse (July 02, 1877 – August 09, 1962) If you are now wondering where to look for consolation, where to seek a new and better God, a new and better faith, you will surely realize, in your present loneliness and despair, that this time you must not look to external, official sources, to Bibles, …
Rainer Maria Rilke On God
Rainer Maria Rilke (December 04, 1875 – December 29, 1926) You are the deep innerness of all things. The last word that can never be spoken. To each of us you reveal yourself differently: to the ship as a coastline, to the shore as a ship.
George Carlin On God
George Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority of them will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.
