Spiritual Life Quotes

The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.

Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes a person's noblest impulses.

To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.

The extra luggage of indiscriminate dreams, desires and attachments will make your life's journey miserable.

Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.

Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.

The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.

Meditation does not mean you have to grin every moment of your life, but to learn to let your bones smile.

The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

It's a paradox of the true spiritual path, but the more conscious we become of what limits us, the more limitless becomes our life.

Love is the secret you unmask yourself to find; it is the foundation of the spiritual life, the destination where all roads of the journey lead.

Simplicity. Simplicity. Simplicity. The three keys to a spiritual life.

The great virtue of those who seek the spiritual path is courage.

The best path to happiness is learning to change as rapidly as life does.

No matter how difficult the trial... we can take comfort in knowing that others before us have borne life's most grievous trials and tragedies by looking to heaven.

The Buddha said that no true spiritual life is possible without a generous heart. . . . Generosity allies itself with an inner feeling of abundance - the feeling that we have enough to share.

All spiritual life begins with a sense of wonder, and nature is a window into that wonder.

Plain intellectual thinking is the peak of ignorance because all that you will know is to play with a few aspects and make others look like fools.

The cause of so much suffering and pain and one of the impediments to our spiritual progress, is the conditioning of expecting things to go our way, even in our spiritual life.

If you see there is no meaning to anything that you are doing, your ego collapses; so you are trying to find all kinds of fake meanings.

Your body and your mind can be receptacles to perceive the whole cosmos - if only you do not identify yourself with them.

In the prayer time, the battle of the spiritual life is lost or won.

Your ability to love, to reach out, and to experience life is limitless. The limitation is only of the body and mind.

He who believes himself to be far advanced in the spiritual life has not even made a good beginning.

No circumstances can ever make or mar the unfolding of the spiritual life. Spirituality does not depend upon the environment; it depends upon one's attitude towards life.

The spiritual life is a reaching out to our innermost self, to our fellow human and to our God.

A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.

In the Bhagavat culture worship of the spiritual master plays a very important role in our life.

The battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart.

Be in love with the moments of your life.

If we continually let go of the moments, we let go of who we are and we lose ourselves.

Let’s not only take great photos, but let’s make great photos with our lives.

Look for the extraordinary in the ordinary.

This particular school of Zen has always considered itself the Marines of the spiritual world, so it has a kind of bias against conceptual thinking in favor of a very rigorous physical life.

A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say where, in the spiritual life, the human will leaves off and divine grace begins.

I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.

For me, the music is spiritual and I think comes to life when we perform it in concert.

Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

Ignoring the source of creation and trying to conduct your life yourself is a terribly egoistic and ignorant attitude towards life.

But I didn't even see God in the show as being very spiritual, I see him or her, it, as being something that is just relevant and very important in her life.

I'm a raging leftist political activist. I've never had a spiritual thought in my life related to God. I'm clear that that's a human invention.

Do you want your life to truly take off? Then change your idea about it. About you. Think, speak and act as the God You Are.

Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.

Obedience . . . allows us to reach a higher and more spiritual level in life, using our agency to do the will of the Lord.

Meditation is a glorious link to connect and harmonize the two ends of life - material and spiritual.

Apathy is a spiritual numbness that creeps in and corrupts the good that God intends for our life and the good that He wants us to accomplish for Him and His kingdom.

Now I know why yoga is so life-giving for so many. I have never experienced a practice that combines such physical challenge and spiritual wellbeing in my life.

If you do not choose to become a steady source of blissfulness for yourself and everything around you, you will remain an immature life.

It is consciousness that sets all limits of life, if there are any limits.