122 Quotes About Temples

How do I pray? Not in any organized form, really; I go to temples sometimes with my family, but they leave me cold. I think of prayer as something intensely personal, a way of reaching my hands out towards my maker. I recite some mantras my parents taught me as a child; there is something reassuring about those ancient words, hallowed by use and repetition over thousands of years.

It doesn't matter that a temple is built in a high place! The important thing is that the minds of the monks in the temple are in a high place!

The soul was the first temple; love was the first religion.

Every beautiful place is your temple, you can always visit them; every useful book is your holy book, you can always read them; every place you find love is your heaven, you can always go there! Don’t get stuck in the temples, in the so-called holy books and heavens of the religions because life is much richer, much superior and much intelligent than all the religions because life is alive, it is dynamic and it continuously develops itself!

If we could simply live in the light of our bodies being temples of the Holy Spirit, our daily life would be transformed.

A temple does not necessarily have to be a building; a perfect view is also a temple; you go there, you sit and you live the spirituality to the full!

Visiting the fields is more sacred than visiting the temples because our existence is based on fields and not on temples!

The best worship is to ease one’s hard life in any way possible; no holy books, no rules, no temples, none is necessary!

When we are under a tree, we are under a temple, a temple of countless goodnesses!