D Quotes
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“Devotion is diligence without assurance. If faith were rational, it wouldn't be by definition faith. Faith is walking face-first and full speed into the dark.”
Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
“Devotion is just another word for love. And love is a hard thing for anyone to give up, whether the object of that affection is living or dead.”
Source: The Lost Reliquary
“Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.”
“Devotion is love overflowing. Even when there is nobody, it is overflowing - to things, to tables, to chairs, to walls. It is just overflowing, it is not a question of to whom.”
“Devotion is love with unadulterated faith, without a trace of doubt or disbelief. Who is one supposed to be devoted to? It may be the almighty. It could also be any of the prophets, preachers or enlightened souls on earth who have great vision. It could even be the deities and various other manifestations of God. They are the ones who inspire us, guide us and show us the light of wisdom. Once someone realizes that the principles and teachings of any such exceptional entities touch his heart, he reposes immense faith in them and becomes their devotee.”
Source: The Puzzles of Life
“Devotion is not a concept, not a certain kind of ideology, not a certain kind of act, it is the agent of dissolution.”
“Devotion is not about a God. Devotion is about you making your emotions so sweet that your life experience becomes beautiful.”
“Devotion is not drama. Devotion is a way of living. Devotion is the way you walk, the way you breathe, and the way your heart beats.”
“Devotion is the essence of the path, and if we have in mind nothing but the guru and feel nothing but fervent devotion, whatever occurs is perceived as his blessing. If we simply practice with this constantly present devotion, this is prayer itself. When all thoughts are imbued with devotion to the guru, there is a natural confidence that this will take care of whatever may happen. All forms are the guru, all sounds are prayer, and all gross and subtle thoughts arise as devotion. Everything is spontaneously liberated in the absolute nature, like knots untied in the sky.”
“Devotion is the realization that wealth, education and power are God given gifts and not the endowments of fate.”
“Devotion is the spark that can fire up your chemistry and energy to such a level that it creates an explosion of ecstasy within you.”
“Devotion is when your involvement with life is so absolute that you yourself do not matter anymore.”
“Devotion means a profusion of life.”
“Devotion means constantly thinking about God or your teacher. It is like always thinking about your beloved.”
“Devotion means for the total; it is never for Rama, never for Krishna. Of course, Rama and Krishna are implied in the total, but it is never for a chosen one. Love is always for the chosen one, devotion is for the whole. So you cannot be a devotee of Rama. If you are for Rama, you are only a lover; and when you are a lover, then competition is bound to be there. Then Krishna will be a competitor, and Christ will be a competitor, and the same jealousies, the same conflicts, and all the same nonsense will follow. It has followed.”
“Devotion means who you are should merge with what you are doing. Otherwise, whatever your activity may be, it will not be of any great significance.”
“Devotion means your involvement with life is no more conditional.”
“Devotion means your limited entity has been dissolved; a much larger possibility has become a living reality for you.”
“Devotion purchased, will disappear with the highest bidder.”
“Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.”
Source: The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi
“Devotion signifies a life given, or devoted, to God. He therefore is the devout man, who lives no longer to his own will, or the way and spirit of the world, but to the sole will of God, who considers God in everything, who serves God in everything, who makes all the parts of his common life, parts of piety, by doing everything in the name of God, and under such rules as are conformable to His glory.”
Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ; The Spirit of Love
“Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.”
Source: Awakened India
“Devotion to goal, knowing your purpose and calling helps you go through pain, hindrance and crisis”
“Devotion to God is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians.”
Source: Separation and Service or Thoughts on Numbers VI, VII.
“Devotion to God is studying him in every aspect; serving God is teaching what you know of Him to others.”
Source: The Last Barrier: A Journey Into the Essence of Sufi Teachings
“Devotion to God, righteousness and wisdom, will keep us safe on earth.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Devotion to material possession, control or power; is the sole reason for hate. Devotion to the heart ... the sole reason for love.”
“Devotion to sacred cause is divine.”
“Devotion to self is necessary. First, place the mask on yourself and breathe deeply. Then help the others. If you don’t save yourself, they will die.”
Source: Monarchs and Mendicants
“Devotion to something doesn't make you an expert on life; Life makes you an expert on life.”
“Devotion to the Blessed Sacrament is the queen of all devotions. It is the central devotion of the Church. All others gather round it, and group themselves there as satellites; for others celebrate his mysteries; this is Himself. It is the universal devotion. No one can be without it, in order to be a Christian. How can a man be a Christian who does not worship the living Presence of Christ?”
Source: The Blessed Sacrament: or, The works and ways of God: By Frederick William Faber
“Devotion to the facts will always give the pleasures of recognition; adherence to the rules of design, the pleasures of order and certainty.”
Source: Landscape Painting
“Devotion to the family and devotion to the Church are not different and separate things.”
“Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.”
Source: The Essential Writings
“Devotion to you, O Blessed Virgin, is a means of salvation which God gives to those whom he wishes to save.”
“Devotion to your goal makes you live a clean and orderly life , given to search for truthand to helping people, and realization makes noble virtue easy and spontaneous, by removing for good the obstacles in the shape of desires and fears and wrong ideas .”
“Devotion {to the spiritual master} becomes the purest, quickest, and simplest way to realize the nature of our mind and all things. As we progress in it, the process reveals itself as wonderfully interdependent: We, from our side, try continually to generate devotion; the devotion we arouse itself generates glimpses of the nature of mind, and these glimpses only enhance and deepen our devotion to the master who is inspiring us. So in the end devotion springs out of wisdom: devotion and the living experience of the nature of mind becomes inseparable, and inspire one another.”
“Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
“Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.”
“Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future.”
“Devotion, like fire, goeth upward.”
“Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.”
Source: The Spectator, no. 90-505
“Devotional images require devotion: that is the bottom line. Without the patience to live with such a painting, it remains silent. And what is art history in this respect, if not a typically impatient academic pursuit? Its practitioners are constantly fluttering from one image to the next, anxious for intellectual nourishment. The flood of tears that swept over central and western European painting in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries will probably always be a desert for people who move too fast. These are slow paintings, suffused with dull, slow-acting passions.”
“Devotional singing induces in you a desire for experiencing the truth, to glimpse the beauty that is God, to taste the bliss that is the Self. It encourages man to dive into himself and be genuinely his real Self.”
“Devotional songs were once written and sung by saints. Now it's being done my marijuana addicts, juvenile eye-candies, delusional fancy dress wearers and so on. Bhakti movement has come full circle.”
“DeVoto observed in the 1940s that no rancher in his right mind wanted ownership per se of the public lands. That would entail responsibility, stewardship, and worse, the payment of property taxes. What the rancher who is farsighted has always wanted, and what extractive industry wants in general, is private exploitation with costs paid by the public.”
Source: This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
“Devour your fear.”
Source: The Devouring
“devouring myself and panicking”
Source: The Galloping Hour: French Poems
“devouring their dark lips, dark with wine and fleeting love, an ancient memory love had promised but finally never gave, until there were too many kisses to count or remember, and the memory of love proved not love at all and needed a replacement, which our bodies found, and then the giggles subsided, and the laughter dimmed, and darkness enfolded all of us and we gave away our childhood for nothing and we died”
Source: House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition