Spirituality Quotes
Alice Bailey, Marianne Williamson, Helena Blavatsky and Eckhart Tolle account for most of the top entries, so the page leans toward modern and esoteric writing. The best-sourced pieces are less solemn. Woody Allen says he does not want to achieve immortality through his work but through not dying, and Henry Miller, in Sexus (1949), counts sex among the nine reasons for reincarnation.
Two flags. “Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology” is credited to Larry Niven and marked misattributed. “Corporations have neither bodies to kick nor souls to damn” is credited to Andrew Jackson and disputed, which says more about how the topic tag was applied than about spirituality.
Most quoted on spirituality:
What should it be, that thus their faith can bind?
The power of Thought, the magic of the Mind!
From meetings and partings none can ever escape. Nor from magic.
One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
6. I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.
There was a little man, and he had a little soul;
And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!
“Ambition wedded to sloth,” said Molnar. “Let no one say you don’t think like a true magician.”
All ends in one eclipse,
Sunshine or snows,
We gain a grave, and afterwards—God knows.
But this main-miracle that thou art thou,
With power on thine own act and on the world.