Spiritual Quotes

One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.

In our imaginations we believe that love is apart from us. Actually there is nothing but love, once we are ready to accept it. When you truly find love, you find yourself

The spiritual journey is not about acquiring something outside yourself, rather, you are penetrating deep layers and veils to return to the deepest truth of your own being.

Don't fear the light within. May it ignite the Sacred Flame in your soul.

There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.

If words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart.

The lion is most handsome when looking for food.

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

The Highest Thought is always that thought which contains joy. The Clearest Words are those words which contain truth. The Grandest Feeling is that feeling which you call love.

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

Words are spiritual containers.

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.

You cannot live by feelings and emotions; you have to live by your intuition and consciousness.

Love is difficult, because loving is not enough: We must, like God, ourselves be Love.

Compassion will no longer be seen as a spiritual luxury for a contemplative few; rather it will be viewed as a social necessity for the entire human family.

The only things that really need to be accomplished in the home are daily scripture study and prayer and weekly family home evening.

How much harder it is to bear one's splendor than one's miseries!

Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness.

The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience.

The creation of the world is not only a process which moves from God to humanity. God demands newness from humanity; God awaits the works of human freedom.

Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.

If you went to live in the Himalayas and everyone was lovely there, I'm sure it would be fairly easy to be a spiritual master.

Just by the very nature of our birth, we are on the spiritual journey.

Life has come from a very beautiful source. If you remain in touch with that source, everything about you will be beautiful.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

When we become overly concerned about our appearance, our spiritual reputation, our coolness, and our acceptance, we are living as citizens of this world rather than as ambassadors.

The second coming was an event in the spiritual, and not in the natural world.

Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.

Disappointment often focuses on the failure of our own agenda rather than on God's long-term purposes for us, which may use stress and struggle as tools for strengthening our spiritual muscles.

Whatever you imagine, God is the opposite of that.

Maybe I'm being philosophical and spiritual, but I believe that if you put negative energy out there that that is what will come back.

The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.

Less talk - more work! There is too much talking going on. Because of excessive talking, spiritual energy is being wasted.

If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others and you will find the answer.

The keystone of the entire structure of the spiritual and physical universe is Rhythmic Balanced Interchange between all opposites.

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

Your walk with God does not depend on people, places, things or events.

May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them.

At this moment, is there anything lacking? Nirvana is right here now before our eyes. This place is the lotus land. This body now is the Buddha.

To become wholly compassionate requires us to open our eyes and hearts, to behold the pain and exploitation our culture obscures, to arouse deadened emotions, and to rise above our egos.

A humble man who lives a spiritual life, when he reads the Holy Scriptures, while relate all things to himself and not to others.

Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments

To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something

Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now.

Women were naturally pure souls, on so much higher a spiritual plane to begin with than men.

I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.

Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.

Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.