Spiritual Quotes

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

If you know how to keep yourself pleasant within, irrespective of what is happening around you, Ultimate Liberation cannot be denied to you.

It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.

I really think that's the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow.

It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past...

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love.

When the raindrop touches the ocean, can it tell a story.

The way to change others' minds is with affection, and not anger.

Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?

I Have Learned so much from God That I can no longer call myself A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, A Buddhist, a Jew.

Now and again, it is necessary to seclude yourself among deep mountain and hidden valleys to restore your link to the source of life.

One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.

Jesus comes not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and the weak-kneed who know they don’t have it all together, and who are not too proud to accept the handout of amazing grace.

The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony.

There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.

You will not see anyone who is truly striving after his spiritual advancement who is not given to spiritual reading.

True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

Fear is something that really causes the people not to ascend within the spiritual and physical realm. Once you have Jah as a shield and a guide, you got to arm yourself and nothing can you any harm.

It's in that convergence of spiritual people becoming active and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity now rests.

The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique manifestations of the human spirit.

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.

Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.

All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction.

Mind is madness. Only when you go beyond the mind, there will be meditation.

If you want to do a certain thing, you first have to be a certain person. Once you become that certain person, you will not care anymore about doing that certain thing.

The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, and which separates us from God and produces so many contagious spiritual disorders, is selfishness.

Grace was not given to heal the spiritually sick but to decorate spiritual heroes!

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell

Zen... does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness.

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It's the determination and the will in the guy.

What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.

Forces of light on earth shall overcome the force of darkness. Complete spiritual enlightenment on earth will occur.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.