1,001 Pearls of Spiritual Wisdom by Kim Lim

Author:Kim Lim
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse
Published: 2014-02-19T16:00:00+00:00

The Holy Land is everywhere.

—Black Elk

I had been my whole life a bell and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

—Annie Dillard, describing a transcendental experience with a tree

Mystics understand the roots of the Tao but not its branches; scientists understand its branches but not its roots.

—Fritjof Capra

To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms … `this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

—Albert Einstein

KYE HO! Wonderful!

You may say “existence,” but you can’t grasp it!

You may say “nonexistence,” but many things appear!

It is beyond the sky of “existence” and “nonexistence”—

I know it but cannot point to it!

—Dakini Lion-Face

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least …

—Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God’s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

—Meister Eckhart

“What are we born for?”

“For infinite happiness,” said the Spirit. “You can step out into it at any moment …”

—C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

This isn’t instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.

—Elie Wiesel

Of all that God has shown me

I can speak just the smallest word,

Not more than a honey bee

Takes on his foot

From an overspilling jar.

—Mechthild of Magdeburg

I am the life-force power of the universe. I am the life-force power of the 50 trillion beautiful molecular geniuses that make up my form, at one with all that is.

—Jill Bolte Taylor

WHO has not found the heaven below

Will fail of it above.

God’s residence is next to mine,

His furniture is love.

—Emily Dickinson

I cannot say

which is which:

the glowing

plum blossom is

the spring night’s moon.

—Izumi Shikibu

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings—it’s all a miracle.

—Arthur Rubinstein

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to…let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can…creep into God.

—Søren Kierkegaard

Welcome the one who has kissed you from within. It is from inside everything comes.

—Mooji

This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

—Franz Kafka

In the faith which is “God’s marriage to the soul,” you are one in God, and God is wholly in you…With this faith, in prayer you descend into yourself to meet the other.

—Dag Hammarskjöld

The coming of the kingdom of God is not something that can be observed, nor will people say, “Here it is,” or “There it is,” because the kingdom of God is in your midst.

—The Holy Bible, Luke 17:21

For the enlightened, all that exists is nothing but the Self,

So how could any suffering or delusion continue for those who know this oneness?

—The Isha Upanishad

I looked for God. I went to a temple and I didn’t find him there.

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