Spiritual Quotes
There will always be a spiritual light that beckons to us, giving us the hope of rescue and relief.
Great things are possible only to strong souls and it's from the trivial events of daily life that strength is won.
One has to ascertain the right path for his activities by following in the footsteps of great saintly persons and books of knowledge under the guidance of a spiritual master.
It is imperative that one approaches a spiritual master, for by such association one proportionately develops his consciousness towards the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
I want people to leave the theater wrestling with the idea that our pain - physical, emotional, and spiritual pain - is more than just a condition that needs to be silenced, numbed, or "fixed."
The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.
I don't think atheism means one does not believe in a spiritual life. I think it means one does not follow the tenets of the established religions.
I'm not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn't have to be as lonely as it is.
It is secular spiritual music, the gospel blues. It's music from the heart instead of the head.
Shamanism is a kind of universal spiritual practice with indigenous cultures around the world, and one important element of it is taking care of spirits.
We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existence of spiritual life in a community.
If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.
A simple but radical spiritual practice is to accept whatever arises in the Now, within and without.
What is spiritual experience? A snowflake melting, a bee sucking honey, a fat man at a traffic light. Trivia.
You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
For me the university has always been an ideal context for spiritual formation. I always felt that if you want to offer spiritual formation at the university, you can.
The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.
It is just a wonderful, wonderful time to be alive and to be able to be part of the ever-growing spiritual awareness that is happening around the world.
The issue of spiritual power is to meet the limited mortal circumstance with unlimited thought.
The person who constantly studies without doing spiritual practice is like the fool who attempts to live in the blueprint of a house.
Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.
Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes a person's noblest impulses.
Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.
In intellectual honesty, we should be willing to study and explore the spiritual life with all the rigor and determination we would give to any field of research.
Spiritual vision requires that what we see with the eyes of our hearts will be more real to us than what we see with our natural eyes. We must see what is invisible to others.
The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world.
All living beings are spiritual beings because all of life breathes. Breath is an indication that spirit is present.
About once a week I think about going and living in a cave and meditating instead. I think that would be a more peaceful life, where my spiritual journey was not interrupted by egomania so regularly.
Common sense is the fundamental factor in all spiritual disciplines. No rule is an eternal rule. Rules change from place to place, time to time and from one condition to another condition.
The power of spiritual knowledge gives you centeredness, which brings out passion in work & dispassion in meditation.
Our job is not to worship history and culture like fetishes, but to feed them into our living, creative stream of personal life for spiritual and intellectual reprocessing.
Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives
Because Music is a language that lives in the spiritual realms, we can hear it, we can notate it and create it, but we cannot hold it in our hands
Having the Creator in my life, having the spiritual connection to the divine intelligence that created me.
Only after several years of training did I come to realize that the deepest purpose of the martial arts is to serve as a vehicle for personal spiritual development.
There's so many different ways humans have used music to express the spiritual part of our nature and to connect us with the divine. So for me the pathway is through music.
Our conflict is in relationship, at all levels of our existence; and the understanding of this relationship, completely and extensively, is the only real problem that each one has.
True understanding is possible only when we are fully conscious of our thought, not as an operative observer on this thought, but completely and without the intervention of a choice.