Ressurrection Quotes

“The difference between what he had been then and what he now was, was enormous...Then he was free and fearless...now he felt himself caught in the meshes of a stupid, empty, valueless, frivolous life...He remembered how proud he was at one time of his straightforwardness, how he had made a rule of always speaking the truth...and he was now sunk deep in lies...lies considered as truth by all who surrounded him.”
― Leo Tolstoy Ressurrection

“Let them judge me as they like, I could deceive them, but myself I cannot deceive...and strange to say, in this acknowledgement of his baseness there was something painful yet joyful and quieting. More than once in Nekhlyudov's life there had been what he called, 'a cleansing of the soul.' A state of mind in which, after a long period of sluggish inner life...he began to clear out all the rubbish that had accumulated in his soul and caused the cessation of true life. After such an awakening, Nekhlyudov always made some rules for himself...wrote in his diary, began afresh... ”
― Leo Tolstoy Ressurrection

“Meditation means the meeting of the individual with the universal, the meeting of the part with the whole. That is what we are seeking and searching for. Meditation is a bridge between the part and the whole. It is a bridge between you and God.
There is one thing to be fulfilled: you have to slowly disappear. In the same proportion as you disappear, God starts appearing. At the ultimate meeting point, you are not found at all, only God is found.
Meditation is a subtle death and resurrection. It is the death of the small ego, and a rebirth of the ultimate.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, Man is Part of the Whole: Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Compassion, Freedom and Grace

“Nada no mundo é tão grandioso e belo como Jesus Cristo. Em Jesus nada é tão grandioso e belo como sua morte. Não é exagero pensar que Jesus, em sua morte, é o que existe de mais grandioso e belo que Deus pôde realizar no mundo: é esta sua obra-prima.”
― François-Xavier Durrwell, La morte del figlio: Il Mistero di Gesù e dell’uomo