Spiritual Quotes

Freedom is now or never.

Truth does not belong to an individual.

If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.

To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is complete attention.

Love may be the ultimate solution to all man's difficulties, problems and travails.

It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.

A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.

Real freedom is not something to be acquired, it is the outcome of intelligence.

Achieve order within yourself...an inward tranquility which knows no disturbance at any moment...in the daily life of the home and the office.

Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.

I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.

A Hank Cochran song in the studio is spiritual. It's like singing a hymn in a church.

Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility.

I acknowledge with great gratitude the peace and contentment we can find for ourselves in the spiritual cocoons of our homes, our sacrament meetings, and our holy temples.

I think there is a spiritual scent in us which feels mischief coming, as they say birds scent storms.

If you can break the illusion that you are separate and begin to experience the oneness of the existence, that is yoga.

Only in unawareness you are mortal. In awareness you are immortal.

the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners

Meditation is the nourishment for flowering.

Meditation is an opportunity to move into a dimension where there is no such thing as stress within you.

Bhakti yoga is a way of transforming your emotion from negativity to utmost pleasantness.

When meditation makes you realize that you have so many limitations of your own and they are all created by you, the longing to break them will come.

If you have no agenda of your own, life will work according to its agenda. Your personal agenda is taking you further and further away from that.

Devotion is the spark that can fire up your chemistry and energy to such a level that it creates an explosion of ecstasy within you.

Without raising human consciousness, whatever we do in the world will only lead to more and more suffering.

Meditation does not mean you have to grin every moment of your life, but to learn to let your bones smile.

If you look at creation the way it is, it is explosively beautiful.

Being on the spiritual path means you want to be a success in an existential sphere, not just on a social level.

What is man? ... What a strange union of matter and mind! A machine for converting material into spiritual force.

I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.

When every moment, you experience yourself as the source of creation, not as a piece of creation, then you are realized.

Knowing yourself has to always come from within. The outside can inspire or guide you, but knowing has to come from within you.

Consciousness is not a bunch of thoughts or a certain level of understanding. Consciousness is a dimension that is beyond our physicality.

I think it's really important to create spiritual revolutionaries.

If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.

Swami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West.

Not any particular religion or school of religion, but being an artist, you have to be spiritual, in a way.

Truly, spiritual courage is on the endangered character-quality list.

Those who possess adequate spiritual and mental resources will meet the heartaches or the happiness of each day with courage, calmness and capacity.

It is precisely in times of spiritual dryness that we must hold on to our spiritual discipline so that we can grow into new intimacy with God.

I had the choice to either grow up and find God in the situation or become bitter. I chose to find God. And I experienced freedom like I never knew before.

A spiritual person is vast, like an ocean - but very mighty, very powerful.

As you train your mind, shockingly it brings you prosperity as well as the faculty to maintain it.

If you can rhythmically slow down your breath to four breaths a minute, you can indirectly control your mind and slow it down from its obnoxious behavior.

There are three things you cannot hide: smell of the garlic, fragrance of the flower and the wisdom of the teacher.

Passion is like waves; it comes and goes. Compassion is the constant flow.

You have to bounce in life with joy. Your strength lies in your smiles and your songs.

In the good times of Dada, we detested polished works, the distracted air of spiritual struggle, the titans, and we rejected them with all out being.

It's a paradox of the true spiritual path, but the more conscious we become of what limits us, the more limitless becomes our life.

Without preservation and cultivation of the spiritual, your material success will be as ashes in your mouths.