Spiritual Quotes

Be quiet now and wait. It may be that the ocean one, the one we desire so to move into and become, desires us out here on land a little longer, going our sundry roads to the shore.

You wander from room to room Hunting for the diamond necklace That is already around your neck!

By listening to your higher self, or Atman, you can return to the truth that's already inside of you and in the process change not only yourself, but the entire world, through positivity and love.

No amount of time in front of the mirror will make you as attractive as having the Holy Ghost with you.

Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea.

All mankind's inner feelings eventually manifest themselves as an outer reality.

Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual childhood.

James Brown's Live at the Apollo is not just a musical whiplash, it's a spiritual cleansing. You can just close your eyes and see him doing the splits, kicking the mic stand and doing a 360.

When you learn to love hell you will be in heaven.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Life is not accomplishing some special work but attaining to a degree of consciousness and inner freedom which is beyond all works and attainments.

The goal of fasting is inner unity.

Physically walking where Jesus walked is less important than walking as He walked.

A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy.

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

My will is not a place, but a condition. Do not ask Me where and when, but ask Me how.

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.

Don't let any obstacle stop you. Always remember that you have spiritual and mental qualities within you that can overcome even the seemingly impossible.

Comfort will never come to one who does not touch the stillness within himself.

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is brutal. The brutality of ignorance is such that it will make you dead while alive.

The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.'

Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning.

A word on miracles.... Don't let those that have not yet transpired, blind you to those that have.

I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.

If you strive to make yourself in such a way that nobody can help loving you, life will blossom, everything will yield.

It is the eternal, inescapable law that growth comes only from work and preparation, whether the growth be material, mental, or spiritual. Work has no substitute.

The thoughtful believer recalls God's faithfulness in the past when confronted by any new threat. Part of spiritual maturity is strong sense of one's own history.

Destiny is what every human being creates for oneself. Fate is when you fail to create your own destiny.

Spiritual consciousness does not make your problems go away; it does, however, help you view them from a different vantage point.

The first step towards knowing is to see that you do not know.

Meditation is not an act, it is a quality. Meditation is not something that you do - it is something that you become.

When you come before spiritual master, be prepared to get chastised. Spiritual Master's business is to do that. Shisya means who is ready is accept 'sashan' or ready dor getting chastisement.

Ecstasy carries you completely outside your ego boundaries. In ecstasy you know yourself as cosmic ego, unbounded in time and space.

To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.

If I die in Atlanta my work shall then only begin, but I shall live, in the physical or spiritual to see the day of Africa’s glory.

There are so many wizards of the computer, stock market, test tube, and spectator sport, but so few of the art of life.

The essence of spirituality is, to be constantly aware of the oneness of all; at the same time to celebrate the uniqueness of the individual.

All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.

I really believe that coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

We are not cistern made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.

The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

...evolution is the gradual development and stratification of progressive series of wholes, stretching from the inorganic beginnings to the highest level of spiritual creation.

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.

Christ is ever in the world of existence. He has never disappeared out of it.... Rest assured that Christ is present. The Spiritual beauty we see around us today is from the breathings of Christ.

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

When another recognizes you, that recognition draws the dimension of Being more fully into this world through both of you. That is the love that redeems the world.

True conversion occurs as you continue to act upon the doctrines you know are true and keep the commandments, day after day, month after month.