Spiritual Quotes

If we take judging ourselves and others out of our life, we will mostly be living in paradise.

You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don't live it.

Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.

We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.

Your life becomes what you believe.

Adversity in the things of this world opens the door for spiritual salvation.

Our souls cannot be forced to grow, but like flowers, our spiritual selves can be nurtured until they blossom and flourish.

Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being

The soul...is audible, not visible.

Bible study is essential to spiritual maturity.

Spiritual pride is the worst of all pride, if it is not the worst snare of the devil. The heart is peculiarly deceitful on just this one thing.

When all material advancements utilized in spiritual need that is the real advancement of human civilization.

As long as our consciousness is materialistic, there is no room for joy. However on the spiritual platform three things automatically happen: eternity, knowledge and bliss.

Spirituality is not about what you know. It is about growing, deepening, evolving and becoming a living reflection of your spiritual identity.

If you shift from compulsiveness to consciousness, being joyful will not be an effort.

The most fundamental and the most important aspect of the spiritual process can in no way be stopped by anybody - except yourself.

Believing that what you do not know cannot exist is the crown of ignorance.

Life happens from within. How aware you are of it, decides the quality of your body, your mind, and your experience of life.

You are a piece of creation. If you go against any other piece of creation, you are unknowingly going against yourself.

The replacement of negative thought with positive thought brings about a spiritual and physical change that can heal.

To create something and not to be attached to what you have created is a spiritual process.

Any serious man or woman in search of spiritual ideas will find a surprising challenge and an authentic source of inspiration and intellectual nourishment in the writings of Paul Brunton.

We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical.

I love Australia passionately. I love our landscape. It's influenced most of my work, really. Almost everything I've written is about the landscape. Trying to find, the sacred, the spiritual in it.

If the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul.

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.

If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more prevalent than the fear of one another.

I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

When spiritual leaders have done their jobs, the people around them have encountered God and obeyed his will.

In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical propositions.

The spiritual world is hidden and perfectly revealed in the physical world.

After 32 years as a priest , I think its fair to say that most institutional churches are very limited in addressing higher levels of spiritual consciousness.

I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.

If light is the spiritual quality of painting, color is surely its heart and passion.

When I get intimate with my paintings, it's a real good spiritual thing to get off my chest. Same as playing the instruments is a great release.

We do not build or create a spiritual consciousness; we merely get rid of all that obscures our pure vision

Close both eyes to see with the other eye.

God has allowed some magical reversal to occur, so that you see the scorpion pit as an object of desire, and all the beautiful expanse around it as dangerous and swarming with snakes.

Ecstatic Love is an ocean, and the Milky Way is a flake of foam floating on it.

We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts.

Buddhas continue to live on through their teachings as dharma bodies. Their spirits become manifest in the sangha (spiritual community) where their teachings are passed on.

This universe is formed out of both consciousness forces and matter. While the study of matter has been the domain of traditional science, the study of consciousness is the science of spirituality.

God's promises are not fortune cookies. We do not use them in order to get a spiritual "fix" for the day.

Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; your next, to long intensely for liberation. The very intensity of longing will guide you; you need no other guide.

There is no devil in the universe except mankind's own inharmonious thoughts & feelings, both individual and enmass.

Dostoevsky was the first to reveal to us this teeming multiplicity of emotions, this complexity of our spiritual universe.

We don't have two lives-a "spiritual" life here and a "regular" life there. Our life in Christ is one unified lifestyle, and it is who we are wherever we are.