Spiritual Quotes
The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.
A soul who is not close to nature is far away from what is called spirituality. In order to be spiritual one must communicate, and especially one must communicate with nature; one must feel nature.
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers.
What is the spiritual purpose of the arts? It is to learn structure. Once an artist creates a true structure, then divine love can pour into it and make it a living thing of beauty.
You don't have to learn to be wise. If you just flow you can be successful. Mother Nature will carry you.
Life is simple. Life is not complicated. Life is only one thing: Identify yourself.
We simply cannot call ourselves Christian and continue to judge one another - or ourselves - so harshly.
There are two ways to change things: Either you are forced to change or you have the intuition to change.
Friendship means only one thing: you don't create fences around you, but try to remove fences from the life of another person.
Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.
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 . . .
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.
Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy.
One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.
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.
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.
What joy the gospel gives me! I can approach the throne of God with confidence-not because I've done a good job at my spiritual duties, but because I'm clothed in the righteousness of Jesus Christ.
Pure, spiritual, intellectual love shot form their faces like barbedlightning. It was so unlike the love we experience that its expressioncould easily be mistaken for ferocity.
A blessed spirit is a mould ever more and more patient of the bright metal poured into it, a body ever more completely uncovered to the meridian blaze of the spiritual sun.
Physical perfection, working out, adds to your spiritual perfection if that is your intent.
Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.
Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up & do them
The teaching process becomes most interesting for spiritual seekers once they've managed to hit the lower samadhis. However at that point many seekers become very egotistical.
Spend time with spiritual friends, those who seek light. Purity is gained through strength.
When we interact with others the ego manifests. We have to show that we're superior or that we know more, are more spiritual, evolved - or that we're the worst, everyone is better.
Inner silence works from the moment you begin to accrue it. What the old sorcerers were after was the final dramatic, end result of reaching that individual threshold of silence.
Continued dependence on relief inducers a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.
When I die, don't come, I wouldn't want a leaf to turn away from the sun -- it loves it there. There's nothing so spiritual about being happy but you can't miss a day of it, because it doesn't last.
When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed.
She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken.
Not in government or force, not in slavery or war, but in the creative, and thereby spiritual, power of freedom, shall our inspiration be found.
This latter day work is spiritual. It takes spirituality to comprehend it, to love it, to discern it. Therefore, seek the spirit in all you do. Keep it with you continually. That is our challenge.
We all need each other. Sons of god need daughters of god, daughters of god need sons of god.
There is nothing for you to go back and live over, or fix, or feel regret about now. Every part of your life has unfolded just right.
I like the Beatles. They're at the core of my musicality. And John Lennon's my spiritual father.
Mental and spiritual laws are so powerful that they can be used to multiply, neutralize, or even reverse natural laws!