Spiritual Quotes
True Sufism is resistance: spiritual, intellectual, social, cultural, political and economic resistance. It cannot be, for sure, supporting dictators.
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all that there is to perceive.
Spirituality is impacted not only by remembrance but by diet, stress, sleeping and eating habits among other things. Take care of yourself.
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
If you remain static and wait for success to come to you it will certainly not happen.
Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved.
The ambition of the spiritual traveller never wants to stop with what it has been shown save that the voices of reality call to him, "what you seek is ahead of you.
Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel.
My moral and spiritual formation does not allow me to be a dictator... If I were a dictator, You can be sure that many things have happened.
There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer.
Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
For what lies inside of man is the whole spiritual cosmos in condensed form. In man's inner organism we have an image of the entire cosmos.
Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit.
With unfailing kindness, your life always presents what you need to learn. Whether you stay home or work in an office or whatever, the next teacher is going to pop right up.
The world is no more than the Beloved's face. And the desire of the One to know its own beauty, we exist.
Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary.
This chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is enacted from the spiritual platform and thus this sound vibration surpasses all lower strata of consciouness - namely sensual, mental and intellectual.
Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
There's nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.
The secret to peace-of-mind is to not identify with anything other than your true self.
People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.
Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?
Invest your energy in the things you can control.
When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.