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:
Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
But each day brings its petty dust
Our soon choked souls to fill.
It may be that no life is found,
Which only to one engine bound
Falls off, but cycles always round.