Watch and pray, so that you do not fall into temptation; for the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Every time you pass on greed, envy, and hatred, in the form of feelings, words, or deeds, to another candle, that is to another person, you create karma that will sooner or later catch up with you.

I can now say that I am ready to forgive my mama, that I have forgiven her, for the fact that she left, because she probably had her reasons.

Yielding does not save us from being devoured; it only delays the devouring. Recognizing this can strengthen our resolve to seek true relief through purification and transcendence, rather than through submission and yielding.

Without renewal through the Spirit of God, there is no morality. But that also means: no one is compelled to live in the same tracks as before.

His God-centered life did not distance him from the problems of his time or from the beauty of creation, but enabled him to love all and everything, without possessing and without violence.

A pleasant, positive, and optimistic mind, however, does not become senile. Nevertheless, excessive thinking, delusions, and illusions, and in particular negative thinking, can weaken memory.

The fear of Allah is not a whip that drives us away from His mercy, but it is a "security" that binds our hearts firmly in times of temptation, and a guide that grasps our hands in this house of action, which is followed by an afterlife and an accounting.

That really inspires me as a queer person to think that I don't have to ask permission to do queer theology. I don't have to entrust the queer story or the queer narrative to heterosexual Christians because they are more trustworthy, right?

Refuge means that we seek protection. We seek protection until we are no longer affected by any cause of suffering. That is, until we have completely dissolved the causes of suffering in our continuum of mind.

Yes, God gives us this wonderful opportunity to leave everything negative behind us, and it is now up to us to embrace this wonderful opportunity with sincerity but also, of course, with gratitude.

After we have caused harm to someone we love, it is our obligation to acknowledge the other person, even if it is not within our power to make things fully right again.

aligning one's life with virtue, with ways of being that do as little harm as possible to ourselves and to others, as far as we can, through our thoughts, our speech and our actions

The ego shatters into infinity or sinks into nothingness. These are two ways in which the ego is completely lost.

Football was for a long time, spiritually speaking, my idol, one could say retrospectively, but the content of my life.

I have always believed that to be true. But I thought it referred to the one who has passed on. I could not understand how it applied to the one who was left behind. Now I understand.

The speaker held the view that, in order to determine the stance of a religious tradition on a particular ethical question, one must investigate how the different answers are legitimated in the light of that culture.

Prasad is the Holy One who has been found; all his sins are eliminated. We are subject to the Lord, who shows us grace; in the circle of the community it is delightful for us.

Songs with theological and spiritual content should be a focus of the songbook, but interreligious and cross-worldview songs may also be submitted.

Because he disparaged the Hindu New Year festival, a Swiss tourist on Bali has to spend a year in prison.

It's all about liberation. It's all about practicing something that completely transforms our life, right.

The meaning of life therefore lies in training one's own mind so that one is freed from illusions, hatred, and egoism.

Whether Jesus sees a congregation as alive is decided by the relationship to him. Not now by some general relationship to him, it is decided by your relationship to him.

When you refuse to forgive yourself, you throw your higher self and your lower self into the same pot and subject both to the same punishment. You give your higher self no chance.