Spiritual Quotes

Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.

God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery.

Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl

We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.

The Prophets accept all agony and trust it For the water has never feared the fire.

Love calls - everywhere and always. We're sky bound. Are you coming?

Oh Soul! You worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds.

This mirror inside me shows. I can’t say what, but I can’t not know. I run from body. I run from spirit. I do not belong anywhere.

I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger and anger, and made me a poet who sings about joy.

The living Lord leads His living church.

Together with worldly education, you have to cultivate the human values and undertake spiritual discipline.

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.

You have to learn to be patient and not give up. Look to your parents; they need to be there for you. But having spiritual faith will get you through anything.

No short-cut that tries to bypass the patient unfolding of the true character of God, and our relationship to him as his children, can ever succeed in providing long-term spiritual therapy.

To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is after all the same word we use to describe... essence

True self-reliance does not mean reliance on one's physical strength; it means reliance on something mightier, something which is less perishable... It means trusting in the spiritual.

The basis of the spiritual path is the development in ourselves of what is truly balanced, natural, and meaningful.

The world is full of incredible people who are embodiments of compassion. Some of them have a spiritual path; some of them don't.

Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.

No separation between the spiritual and the physical. It is all one.

Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains.

How could you possibly know that no religion can see the whole truth unless you yourself have the superior, comprehensive knowledge of spiritual reality you just claimed non of the religions have?

But to me the notion that spirituality is separate from the rest of life does not allow for a practical approach to living a life that has extraordinary quality.

Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential.

On my first trip to India, my guru took me to an ashram in Allahabad. I felt like I was walking into a place I had been before. It felt like it was my spiritual home.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

And that is what radio-activity is, a quick return to the state of rest which underlies the spiritual or invisible universe.

The world is full of resonances. It constitutes a cosmos of things exerting a spiritual action. The dead matter is a living spirit.

The gospel we preach must not be just something we hear from men or read from books or even conceived through our meditation. Unless it is delivered to us by God, it can serve no spiritual utility.

Each experience in your lifewas absolutely necessary in order to have gotten you to the next place, and the next place, up to this very moment.

Love is giving and it has nothing to do with what you receive.

When we send Love in response to hate, we become spiritual alchemists.

Everything I need now is here

Feeling unworthy is like putting a huge obstacle into the God force, into the life force which is everywhere.

I think and that is all that I am.

Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless.

Its all spirit and its all connected...Our choice is to live out of harmony with spiritual ways or in harmony with spiritual ways. Everything is spiritual.

Human affairs are like a chess game. Only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players.

When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)

With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

People become concerned with being more humble than other people.

Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.

I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum.

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

The knowledge and spiritual conviction we receive from the Holy Ghost are the result of revelation.

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.

Know the one who wants nothing to be the wealthiest.

Spiritual maturity is a lifelong pursuit. We grow in spiritual maturity moment by moment, day by day, year by year.