Spiritual Quotes
Friendship means only one thing: you don't create fences around you, but try to remove fences from the life of another person.
The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear.
Human beings are of such nature that they should have not only material facilities but spiritual sustenance as well. Without spiritual sustenance, it is difficult to get and maintain peace of mind.
Truth is something which you must see immediately — and to see something clearly you must give your heart and your mind and your whole being to it immediately.
Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.
We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.
Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.
Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer.
Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.
Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?
The master never seemed to have his fill of gazing at his firstborn child. "What do you want him to be when he grows up?" someone asked. "Outrageously happy," said the master.
Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.
Compassion automatically brings happiness and calmness. Then, even if you receive disturbing news, it will be easier to take, as your mind is still.
My view of the afterlife is that it's made of different levels, depending on how spiritual a life we live.
The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . .
It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.
Whether or not we follow any particular spiritual tradition, the benefits of love and kindness are obvious to anyone.
The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.
Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.
Insulting the electorate and accusing it of spiritual weakness and sinfulness are not the ways to get yourself the job of president.
In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as that of heaven.
Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in ignorance is so claustrophobic.
We are all in Christs energy. We are all in the divine plan. We are all on the sacred journey, if you want to put it into some very spiritual words. And I like to sing about it, so thats what I do.
Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy.
I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.
The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.
One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.
So the first step in seeking happiness is learning. We first have to learn how negative emotions and behaviors are harmful to us and how positive emotions are helpful.
What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding by which he forfeits his spiritual crown.
It is true that the trees are for human use. But these are aesthetic uses as well as commercial uses-uses for the spiritual wealth of all, as well as the material wealth of some.
Our business is to stand strongly for principles, but never to attack persons, about whose lives we can know but little.
Looking deeply at life as it is in this very moment, the meditator dwells in stability and freedom.
We undertake certain spiritual exercises to achieve alignment with the creative energy of the universe.
The certain way to victory...lies in making everything on Imperial soil contribute to the war effort...combining the total material and spiritual strength of the nation...