Spiritual Quotes
I think everyone has spiritual encounters and feelings but I don't think everyone chooses to acknowledge them.
After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
Even for a moment do not think that you are the body. Give yourself no name, no shape. In the darkness and the silence reality is found.
When attention is given to the spiritual aspect of one's life, it brings a sense of belongingness, and responsibility, compassion and caring for the whole of humanity.
The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.
Safety is the most unsafe spiritual path you can take. Safety keeps you numb and dead. People are caught by surprise when it is time to die. They have allowed themselves to live so little.
Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to admire everyone else.
The bike accident caused me to start talking about spiritual truths. This accident - where I faced my own death - compelled me to talk about these truths and try to make a movie about them.
Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and its intensified at a festival.
Spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst But you got to change it On the inside first To be satisfied
All great work artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual is produced at those moments when creators forget themselves altogether and are free from self-consciousness.
Colors produce a spiritual vibration, the impression they create is important only as a step towards this vibration.
When you get to a higher level of consciousness, though, when you get into a spiritual approach to life, you are not trying to get someplace else...
But if we see ourselves as connected to God, or as reconnecting to our Source through meditation, then we can attract anything we want into our lives.
With stillness comes the benediction of Peace.
She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love.
That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.
Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.
No individual can ultimately fail. The Divinity which descends into humanity is bound to re-gain its original state.
Each must discover his own way in life, and that way lies in his heart. Let him delve deeply into the depths of his being; his true centre is not far from there.
The creatures that inhabit this earth-be they human beings or animals-are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world.
Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.
The moment you surrender to love and allow it to lead you to exactly where your soul wants to go, you will have no difficulty.
You are always in the process of creating. Every moment, every minute, every day. You are a big creation machine and you are turning out a new manifestation literally as fast as you can think.
It is imperative that we do not fear challenges that we have attracted to promote our growth. Every obstacle we encounter is an opportunity for spiritual evolution.
The most meaningful and spiritual prayers I have experienced contained many expressions of thanks and few, if any, requests.
Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.
Gratefulness is the great task, the how of our spiritual work, because, rightly understood, it re-roots us.
Fighting the wounds of the past will only deepen those wounds. Relaxation is the method that heals the wounds of the mind, not reaction.
Try to make others happy, and don't despair over all the evil in the world. Instead of cursing the dark, let us each light one small lamp.
When one has truly imbibed spiritual qualities, they will spontaneously be reflected in one's thoughts and actions.
The more intellectual you are, the more egoistic you are, and surrendering becomes more difficult.