Divinity Quotes

“Divinity means unfolding and expressing life in new ways. Divinity means radiating peace, bliss and beauty in the world. Divinity means overcoming the limitations of nature in new ways.”
― Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion

“The human creature, humiliated and offended in ways that are inconceivable to the mind and heart, defies the blind and deaf divinity.”
― Françoise Mauriac

“[T]he concern of man is not his future but his present, not the world but his soul. We must be just, we must strive, we must engage ourselves with the business of the world for our own sake, because through that, and through contemplation in equal measure, our soul is purified and brought closer to the divine. ... Thought and deed conjoined are crucial. ... The attempt must be made; the outcome is irrelevant. Right action is a pale material reflection of the divine, but reflection it is, nonetheless. Define your goal and exert reason to accomplish it by virtuous action; successs or failure is secondary.”
― Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio

“I am a karmayogi-someone who becomes conscious of herself and the Divine through work, not through meditation in some ashram or saying Hail Marys”
― Kelly Cutrone

“The padres set great store by addressing prayer to personal gods: 'Genuine prayer exists only in religions in which there is a God as a person and a shape and endowed with a will.'

That was stated by a famous Protestant. The anarch does not want to have anything to do with that conception. As for the One God: while he may be able to shape persons, he is not a person himself, and the he is already a patriarchal prejudice.

A neuter One is beyond our grasp, while man converses ten with the Many Gods on equal terms, whether as their inventor or as their discoverer. In any case, it is man who named the gods. This is not to be confused with a high level soliloquy. Divinity must, without a doubt, be inside us and recognized as being inside us; otherwise we would have no concept of gods.”
― Ernst Jünger, Eumeswil

“Divinity is great enough to be divine; it is great enough to call itself divine. But as humanity grows greater, it grows less and less likely to do so. God is God, as the Moslems say; but a great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it. That is the paradox; everything that is merely approaching to that point is merely receding from it.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

“When you have the power to love, that strength, that courage is infinite; that love is infinite. There is nothing finite about it's presence, for love. never. dies.”
― Solange nicole

“What is Self-realization? It is giving up the pretension that you are not the Self, that you are a mere body. People say to me, 'You are God Himself.' I reply, 'You are also He.' 'We are not He'-they rejoin. What else is this, but that they simulate and, for some lila of their own, hide behind a mask their real and divine nature?”
― Swami Ramdas, The Essential Swami Ramdas

“For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam’s front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters?

And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable.”
― Vera Nazarian, Northanger Abbey and Angels and Dragons

“The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only matter in spontaneous motion; and, most grievous word of all, that what men call their souls die with the death of the body, as music dies when the strings are broken.”
― John Morley, Diderot and the encyclopædists, by John Viscount Morley. Volume v.2 1923 [Leather Bound]

“Since it is through the possession of happiness that people become happy, and since happiness is in fact divinity, it is clear that it is through the possession of divinity that they become happy. But by the same logic as men become just through the possession of justice, or wise through the possession of wisdom, so those who possess divinity necessarily become divine. Each happy individual is therefore divine. While only God is so by nature, as many as you like may become so by participation.”
― Boethius

“We are the new and improved Christians, those who actually understand Christianity. It has nothing to do with worshipping the Son of God, and everything to do with becoming God. Christianity is about making yourself Christ.”
― Michael Faust, Hegel: The Man Who Would Be God

“I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of
divine vanity.”
― Kedar Joshi

“Divinity is recognizing that you’re already successful, and you are on the way to achieve your highest potential. Divinity is keeping the objectives of the soul clear, beyond the guilt, shame and embarrassment of life.”
― Amit Ray, Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity

“Joinin' threads is called musubi. Joinin' people is also musubi. The passage of time is musubi, too. They all use the same word. It's a name for our god, and the god's power. It describes the braided cords we make, divine acts, and the flow of time itself. [...] Comin' together to form a shape, twistin' and tanglin', sometimes comin' undone, breakin' off, then reunitin'. That's a braided cord. That's time. That's musubi.”
― Makoto Shinkai

“There is no grand design, no chosen land, only beating hearts and helping hands.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“I am the Fire of Yazd,
I won't be extinguished by warring apes.
I am the Glaciers of Kailash,
I won't be tainted by smallmindedness.

I am the full Moon over Mecca,
I won't be colonized by empires of insects.
I am the Sound of Sema over Konya,
I won't be silenced by noisy nationalists.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Sonnet 2992

I am the Fire of Yazd,
I won't be extinguished by warring apes.
I am the Glaciers of Kailash,
I won't be tainted by smallmindedness.

I am the full Moon over Mecca,
I won't be colonized by empires of insects.
I am the Sound of Sema over Konya,
I won't be silenced by noisy nationalists.

My current comes from spinning particles,
my compass points to where no map can lead -
I won't fit inside insect colonies
with compost for brain
and bloodlust for divinity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“I don't want fewer believers, I want belief centered on compassion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“La medicina no ve la fe,
my existence is the proof.

Marham na mazhab dekhe,
marham na dekhe mulk.

Kutsallık kimlik aramaz,
merhem mezhep görmez.

Rain doesn't check bank balance,
medicine doesn't require faith test.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Soar for justice upon unflinching wings,
visit no pulpit selling life-choking creed.
March like thunder, bloom like spring -
divine in deed is divine indeed.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Only Cathedral Worth Worship (Sonnet 3118)

Heart is the organ of culture
(metaphorically, not neurologically),
heart is the highest cathedral,
heart doesn't just pump blood into the soul,
it pumps culture into the soil.

Monkeys think culture comes from rituals,
sheep think holiness comes from scripture,
all the while defeating the purpose of being,
by outsourcing their becoming to vultures.

Love of religion makes you a believer,
love of humanity makes you holy.
Love of country makes you a citizen,
love of the world makes you human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Only cathedral worth worship is the heart.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“The Unmystic (Sonnet 3137)

There is no spirituality except kindness,
no church, no chakra, no vibration,
manifestation, nothing,
just plain ordinary kindness,
the mundane, day to day kind -

if you need any of the supernatural stuff,
that's alright, there's nothing wrong with that,
just don't confuse them as anything more
than personal therapy, old or new.

Different people have different therapeutic needs,
some need church, some alcohol, some sports,
others are into those newage stuff, and I myself
cannot spend a day without some music -

just remember, superstition always comes dressed as
enlightenment, and fanaticism comes dressed as fact.
Spirituality has no relation to fictitious beings,
spirituality is our relation to our fellow beings.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Metaphor is the message.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes

“Someone needs help, you help. That's it, that's all there is. No prophecy, no afterlife benefit, no frequency, no alien ancestry, no elite club of mystics, nothing.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“There is no god except a beautiful heart.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Stranger is god, helping is the prayer.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Spinning and bending and chanting don't make you holy, they are workout at most - don't confuse workout for awakening, real awakening is when children displaced in a distant land makes your blood boil, like your own home being invaded, otherwise, all that whirling and aum-ing is one big circus.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“The original sin is not adam eating an apple, that's just bedtime story for adults, real original sin is when you separated god from human, and placed it in the sky.

God was human, until we invented religion. Organized religion is the original sin, that dissociated humanity from its own divinity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human