Spiritual Quotes

Thankfulness is a humble, open and prayerful attitude that helps you receive more of God's grace.

I define God as an energy. A spiritual energy. It has no denomination, it has no judgment, it has an energy that when we're connected to it we know why we're here and what we're here to do.

My driving force is spirituality.

You have to be in the world to understand what the spiritual is about, and you have to be spiritual in order to truly be able to accept what the world is about.

You are not the drop in the ocean, but the ocean in the drop.

When you expand your awareness, seemingly random events will be seen to fit into a larger purpose.

Don't try to steer the river.

Within every desire is the mechanics of its fulfillment.

There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood.

With spirit we are all children of the cosmos; Without it we are orphaned and adrift.

Our essential nature is one of pure potentiality.

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification.

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

There is a discipline, a spiritual code that you should adhere to, that you do not hurt anyone in any way shape or form either mentally or physically.

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.

I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed.

There is nothing in the cosmos, either in the material plane or the spiritual plane which cannot be directly cognized.

As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.

There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.

Prayer if it is real is an acknowledgment of our finitude, our need, our openness to be changed, our readiness to be surprised, yes, astonished by the "beams of love."

He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.

The holy name of Krishna has extraordinary spiritual potency because the name of God is nondifferent from God Himself.

The highest summit of spiritual perfection is knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Since one cannot visually experience the presence of the Supersoul, He appears before us as a liberated devotee. Such a spiritual master is none other than Krishna himself.

The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the more deadened you become to reality

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar?

Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.

To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for you inner state at any given moment. That means now

You cannot be both unhappy, and fully present in the Now.

Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.

Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. Its far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, its not a big stretch from hymns.

Practice presence -- embrace the place where life happens.

When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?

Each person's life – each lifeform, in fact – represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself.

The most important advance in the next fifty years will be in the realm of the spiritual - dealing with the spirit of thought.

It is my conviction that there is perhaps no single factor more important in a spiritual home and in building spiritual strength in our children than the teaching and practice of prayer.

Arrogance and fanaticism cause the hardening of positions taken and entrenchment can only lead to a dead end.

The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours.

When you give, you reveal a spiritual truth, that the flow of life never runs dry.

Physical life is characterized by defensiveness, whereas spiritual life is just the opposite.

Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken.

For most people, spiritual awakening is a gradual process. Rarely does it happen all at once. When it does, though, it is usually brought about by intense suffering.

The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.

One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love.

We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.

Life at home is cramped and dirty, it is difficult to live a spiritual life completely, perfect and pure in all its parts while cabinned.

You are not happy because you're healthy, you are healthy because you're happy