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:
The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
The soul has this proof of its divinity: that divine things delight it.
Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. ... The other eight are unimportant.
Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution,
She lives whom we call dead.
And in the wreck of noble lives
Something immortal still survives.
Ah, the souls of those that die
Are but sunbeams lifted higher.
Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.
There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.