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Spiritual Insights Quotations
& comparative religion studies

Spiritual Insights Quotations
Comparative Religion studies
  Humanity has a history over recent centuries of intolerance and disputation over many things - not least Religion !!!

  Many people today would like to see the emergence, and continuance, of a World of Peace and Tolerance and tend to view studies in Comparative Religion in a very positive light as a potential contributor to greater mutual understanding and respect.

  Given the immense historical-cultural importance of forms of religion across the Globe over several millenia we cannot but accept that most people feel a "call" towards Spirituality. Yet, in our everyday lives, we are undoubtedly aware of worldly "callings" as well as those of the Spirit.

 

  Our site was to some extent inspired by "The Perennial Philosophy," Aldous Huxley's celebrated work in comparative religion, where a limited range of agreement between world faiths was discussed.

In the Introduction to The Perennial Philosophy Huxley suggests that there is a tradition held in common by the world faiths whereby Reality "cannot be directly and immediately apprehended except by those who have chosen to fulfil certain conditions, making themselves loving, pure in heart, and poor in spirit."

Our own further studies have led us to accept that "Divine Edification" (aka Enlightenment) becomes more readily available to those who are not only Loving, Pure in Heart, and Poor in Spirit, but who also cultivate other Spiritual Attainments as set out in the scrollable panel below:-

The approach adopted in our own studies, in which we sincerely tried to be scholarly and definitive, being one of assessing Spiritual Insights Wisdom Quotes gleaned from Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Islamic, Jewish, and Taoist, mysticism for Spiritual-Poetical "impact". This "impact" we hold to be evidence of something innate to human nature responding to deep spiritual truths that have been somehow distilled, and captured, in the essence of these Spiritual Insights Wisdom Quotes.
We consider that we have identified a range of KEY quotations that "Somehow Encapsulate" Enlightenments, Wisdoms and Spiritual Insights about "deep spiritual truths" as recognised by the major world religions, and also about another highly significant area of agreement between world faiths that is to do with the relationship between "Spirituality and the wider world."

These sets of quotations were brought together as a result of studies that were specifically directed towards the identification of the most evident areas of agreement between the respective innermost spiritual teachings of several World religions.

  We believe that the results of our studies greatly extends the range of established and accepted similarities between the spiritual teachings of several world faiths to the point that we now consider that there is such a close similarity between the spiritual teachings of the world religions that, where spiritual teachings alone are being considered, it is perhaps more appropriate to speak of Complementary Religion and less appropriate to speak of Comparative Religion!

We have deemed it appropriate to separate these Spiritual Insights into two categories - those that seem to be of more "Central" significance and an "Other" category of Insights.
These "Central" Spiritual Insights - virtually identical in each of the major World Religions - can be accessed through the following links:-


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quotations about "Central" Spiritual Insights
drawn from sources as indicated :-
 

christian mysticism islamic mysticism
jewish mysticism hindu mysticism
buddhist mysticism taoist mysticism

  There may well be other faiths (not least Sikhism) that should properly be included in any definitive consideration of Mysticism in world religions !!!
 
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