Esoteric Quotes

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Aleister Crowley

“PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.” ― Susan Pease Banitt

“When your back is to the wall and you are facing fear head on, the only way is forward and through it.” ― Stephen Richards, Releasing You from Fear

“When everything gets answered, it's fake.” ― Sean Penn

“It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith... these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that, they are getting people killed. This is really my concern. My concern is that our religions, the diversity of our religious doctrines, is going to get us killed. I'm worried that our religious discourse- our religious beliefs are ultimately incompatible with civilization.” ― Sam Harris

“Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature.” ― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

“If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad theology. ” ― Karen Armstrong, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness

“The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it” ― Nouwen Henri J. M.

“Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. Years ago I wrote an essay that began, "Some people think that God is in the details, but I have come to believe that God is in the bathroom.” ― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith