Spiritual Quotes
I think there is a spiritual hunger, and I think that people are really tired of getting kind of a two-dimensional take on religion in most of the media.
"My former master taught me to accept birth and death." "Then what have you come to me for?" asked the master. "To learn to accept what lies in between."
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
The moment you speak something out, you give birth to it. This is a spiritual principle, and it works whether what you are saying is good or bad, positive or negative.
We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.
The stronger the ties that bind us to God, the more likely we are to live, react, and behave in harmony with...greater joy, peace, and happiness.
Music is going to break the way because music is in a spiritual thing of its own. It's like the waves of the ocean. You can't just cut out the perfect wave and take it home with you.
Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself.
It takes the same energy to complain as it does to compliment. When there is a short circuit, there is a complaint, and when the energy is flowing, there is a compliment.
I like spiritual songs. They struck me as truthful and serious. They brought me down to earth and they lifted me up all in the same moment.
If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.
Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us. Peace is the gift, not of volitional struggle, but of spiritual hospitality.
Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise.
Far too many young people today have no spiritual roots. The've been deprived of values by an agnostic, contemporary culture.
God is to me that creative force, behind and in the universe, who manifests Himself as energy, as life, as order, as beauty, as thought, as conscience, as love.
For the Fascist, everything is the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. In this sense Fascism is totalitarian.
Once you realize that the way you exist right now is not enough, that there is something more, your spiritual process has already begun.
Spiritual process is not about chanting a mantra or closing your eyes, spiritual process is essentially about enhancing your perception.
Yoga is a way to produce a chemistry of blissfulness. Once you are blissful by your own nature, you can deal with outside situations effortlessly.
The Divine is constantly waiting at your doorstep to move in if only you allow the necessary space.
A spiritual process is not a divorce from life. It is an irrevocable love affair with life.
When you do something just because it is needed, you involve yourself totally without it meaning anything to you, then action becomes liberating.
If you are not moving closer to what you want in sales (or in life), you probably aren't doing enough asking.
Your history is animal. Your future is divinity. Right now, you are like a pendulum, swinging between the two.
If you cultivate your body, your mind, your emotions, and your energies to a certain level of maturity, meditation will blossom.
Detachment does not mean non-involvement. You can be deeply involved but not entangled.
Inner peace is found by facing life squarely, solving its problems, and delving as far beneath its surface as possible to discover its verities and realities.
We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.
I believe in a spiritual world - not as anything separate from this world - but as its innermost truth. With the breath we draw we must always feel this truth, that we are living in God.
You can not understand "Scripture" without seeing through the eyes of the Spiritual Master or Advanced Devotees.
The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.
The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is 'I'; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.
I wouldn't say that I'm overly religious, but I have a pretty good relationship with my spiritual being.
You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.
There's so much to learn! And just when we think, "I've got it. I really understand what's going on," we're shown a whole new stage set on which to play.
To reach a goal you have never before attained, you must do things you have never before done.
Because God is with you all the time, no place is any closer to God than the place where you are right now.
The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.
One of the greatest influences a person can have in this world is to influence a child.
To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul.