Spiritual Quotes
And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity, lightheartedness, and joy are not part of that role.
Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner energy field. ... When you resume thinking, it will be fresh and creative.
Spiritual life is not dry, it is also exceuted happily, 'susukham'. The result of that is not just happiness, but bliss, spiritual joy.
The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust
Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith is the soul of religion, and works the body.
What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.
In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
Mindfulness is both a state of being and a daily spiritual practice, a form of meditation.
The small things you do everyday- smiling at a stranger or paying someone a compliment -bring you closer to your spiritual truth , the purity of your soul
One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word.
Although I am a committed Catholic priest, and nowhere hide that fact, my focus is very much a spiritual journey.
Between the marketplace and government there exists all of that which makes life worth living-family life, spiritual life, the art and culture that make our spirits soar.
All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.
The only way to acquire spiritual knowledge and keep It burning brightly is to be humble, prayerful, and to strive diligently to keep all of the commandments.
The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.
Why separate your spiritual life and your practical life? To an integral being, there is no such distinction.
Spiritual wisdom is now available to everyone, disseminated to the masses as never before in world history.
I think we're intrinsically spiritual. We're spiritual beings in a physical universe and we are here to make a spiritual contribution.
Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.
Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that.
Let us never forget that an age prospers or dwindles in proportion to its devotion to the Holy Eucharist. This is the measure of its spiritual life and its faith, of its charity and its virtue.
If Christians are ever to be united, they must be united in Christ, their living head and the source of their spiritual life.
One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God
The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is a ritualistic justification of their possessions.
Art is mainly about wrestling with material reality, not striving after a spiritual ideal.
You should not delay the good things in life. Just do them. Whenever you get a chance to do spiritual practice or seva, don’t miss it. Those are the real precious moments of your life.
The source of your mind is love and whatever you do to go to that source, is spiritual practice.
A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes.
Everyone needs a spiritual guide: a minister, rabbi, counselor, wise friend, or therapist. My own wise friend is my dog.
Lack of self-worth is the fundamental source of all emotional pain. A feeling of insecurity, unworthiness and lack of valueis the core experience of powerlessness.
Awareness of approach to death can be a beautiful thing, a frame into which we can put the work of art that is our life, our personal masterpiece.
I am as vast as God; there is nothing in the world O Miracle: that can shut me up in myself.
Purify your life by keeping the commandments. This will help you qualify for the Spirit, who will assist you in your quest.
If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual practitioner
When we learn new behaviors and break through to higher levels of consciousness and love, we can fulfill the deeper spiritual hunger within.
On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel or insight.
I have come to recognize evolution not only as an active process that I am experiencing at the time, but as something I can guide by the choices I make.
Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that materialists overlook by getting trapped in the purely physical.
Will I find spiritual communion with God sweet enough, and hope in his promises deep enough, not just to cope, but to flourish and rejoice in him?
A natural man hath no such thing as free-will at all, if you take it for a power of doing that which is good and well-pleasing unto God in things spiritual.