Spiritual Quotes

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.

We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.

Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.

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.

The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear.

To bring about a fundamental, radical revolution, we must begin with ourselves.

Moving ourselves to the background and others to the foreground is evidence that the (spiritual) search is achieving its purpose.

It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.

Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be.

Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.

I love to see people win. You can literally see a person change through achievement on this emotional and spiritual level.

I think science and spirituality are one and the same, I don't think they're really different. The film makes pretty clear that quantum physics is validating all kinds of spiritual teachings.

Perhaps some have created their own difficulties but don't the rest of us do exactly the same things? Are we not all beggars?

One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will.

As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual.

Creativity is a religion. When you get into it, you will find your life becomes more spiritual.

When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence.

Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.

The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process.

Thinking well is integral to acting righteously. Truth and spirituality are of a piece: to know the truth is to do it. There is no dichotomy between the two. To be spiritual is to know/do the truth.

Once you realize you're a spiritual being, you see life so differently. You respect things. You're more responsible to yourself and others.

Prayer is the Lord's great sterilizer against the germs of spiritual disease.

If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of Michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy.

Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions.

Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.

Devotion is a tool to dissolve yourself into nothingness and become the very hand of the Divine.

Blissfulness does not compel you to behave in any particular way. Out of bliss, I can laugh or cry; I can sit quietly or be active in the world.

Meditation is that dimension of science which focuses on creating the right kind of interior, so that you can live a peaceful and joyous life.

Only when man is willing to change himself, there can be a true revolution.

For the Divine to function through you, it is important to make every breath, every pulsation in the body, and your very existence an offering.

Meditation means to go beyond the limitations of body and mind.

On the spiritual path, the first thing is to experientially ascertain where your are right now. You can only start the journey from where you are.

If thinking minds, questioning minds, doubting minds, are talking about faith, their whole life will become fake.

There is no need to make spirituality a part of education. If you make education non-imposing and non-suppressive, people are naturally spiritual.

Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.

Spiritual process is not for the dead or the dying; it is for the living who want to become fully alive in all dimensions of life.

When you are truly meditative, there is no time and space for you. Time and space is just a creation of the mind.

Intelligence essentially means that your intellect is sharp enough to see life the way it is.

We neither need a political revolution nor a religious revolution. What we need is an inner transformation in human beings.

What would we have to hold in compassion to be at peace right now? What would we have to let go of to be at peace right now?

Some people fold after making one timid request. They quit too soon. Keep asking until you find the answers. In sales there are usually four or five "no's" before you get a "yes."

The spiritual leader should outpace the rest of the church, above all, in prayer.

We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole.

When you believe, or are led to believe, you are unable to act upon the greatest desires of the soul, the result is mental and spiritual enslavement.

The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism, of a sort so sincere it can only end in martyrdom.

If you have political reform in the Islamic world, the spiritual reform would follow.

If you're afraid of being grabbed by God, don't look at a wall. Definitely don't sit still.

I don't love the postmodern statement: "You shouldn't be spiritual if you are the artist."

Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.