Spiritual Quotes

We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.

I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.

The universe and the light of the stars come through me.

Faith is the antidote for fear.

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.

Spiritual blossoming simply means blossoming in life in all dimensions - being happy, at ease with yourself and with everybody around you.

Business is a spiritual pursuit. Your business will not grow unless you grow as a person

I know you're tired but come, this is the way.

God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.

The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.

The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.

The question of bread for myself is a material question; but the question of bread for my neighbour, for everybody, is a spiritual and a religious question.

Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Self-transformation is not just about changing yourself. It means shifting yourself to a completely new dimension of experience and perception.

God is speaking to all of us, all the time. The question is not, to whom does God talk? The question is, who listens?

The domain of rhythm extends from the spiritual to the carnal.

The Eucharist is the Sacrament of Love; It signifies Love, It produces love. The Eucharist is the consummation of the whole spiritual life.

The impermanent, which is the body, is given too much importance. The permanent, which is the Atman, is completely forgotten. This should change.

The spiritual quest begins, for most people, as a search for meaning.

Friendship cannot become permanent unless it becomes spiritual. There must be fellowship in the deepest things of the soul, community in the highest thoughts, sympathy with the best endeavors.

This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests.

The spiritual thirst that is latent in everybody can never come to a place of fulfillment unless people begin to think of each other as potential brothers and sisters.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle.

In the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child, without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy.

Just as the thought of fire does not warm the body, so faith without love does not actualize the light of spiritual knowledge in the soul.

Say not, I have found the path of the soul Say rather, I have met the soul walking upon my path.

There are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space.

Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion.

I lived in a project and...didn't have a good education. But...I'd listen to the preacher, who said that God would show me the way. Everything starts from that confidence.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

The most holy and important practice in the spiritual life is the presence of God - that is, every moment to take great pleasure that God is with you

Energy can't be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere.

Only a spiritual being has awareness.

Soul development should take precedence over all things.

We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God's great universe.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration into the laws of nature.

As you allow the beloved to grow within you, you will discover a steadfastness to the spiritual journey.

The Truth has shared so much of Itself with me That I can no longer call myself A man, a woman, an angel, Or even pure Soul.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself.

There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.

You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you're looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.

A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.

I do firmly believe that universal forces are at work that pull us inexorably toward the deserving results of our actions.

My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it? "Look," He answered, "your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.

Once you understand that the false needs time and what needs time is false, you are nearer the Reality, which is timeless, ever in the NOW.

In the end it all comes down to enthusiasm. Your creativity is basically your expression of God-force.

We all have spiritual DNA; wisdom and truth are part of our genetic structure even if we don't always access it.

Spirituality doesn't look like sitting down and meditating. Spirituality looks like folding the towels in a sweet way and talking kindly to the people in the family eve though you've had a rough day.

All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.