Spiritual Quotes

It is a strange thing ,that every child is born with a closed hand , and every body dies with an open hand !

When I say be creative I don't mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

The dance goes from realizing that you're separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.

I strive to express the spiritual nature of the Universe. Painting for me is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.

When we pay attention, whatever we are doing...is transformed and becomes part of our spiritual path.

Because every day of your life was written on God's calendar before you were born, everything that happens to you has spiritual significance.

First you believe, and then you see the Light. Next you go towards the Light. Soon you are IN the Light. Now you ARE the Light.

In spiritual things, this world is all wintertime so long as the Saviour is away.

Anyone happy in this age and place Is daft or corrupt. Better to abdicate From a material and spiritual terrain Fit only for barbarians.

If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me; For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.

I am weary of personal worrying, in love with the art of madness.

The intellectual quest, though fine as pearl or coral, is not the spiritual search. That spiritual search is on another level. Spiritual wine is a different substance.

Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one.

Don’t wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, Leave and let the sea be you.

Outside ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I'll meet you there.

We love that s why life is full of so many wonderful gifts.

You think the shadow is the substance.

Behead yourself!... Dissolve your whole body into Vision: become seeing, seeing, seeing!

I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life.

He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun

Information is not synonymous with knowledge. Information is only data, parts of the whole. Knowledge has a moral imperative to enhance intellectual and spiritual unity.

Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.

I think Shambhala can be a very strong force as a social example of how you can try to live a life balanced in terms of both the spiritual and the secular.

There's always the threat of "spiritual one-up-manship" that we must avoid.

Through yoga, meditation and other spiritual practices, we can learn the ways of personal equanimity. We can also learn how to use language in beneficial ways.

In fact, the environmental crisis is related to the crisis of aesthetics, crisis of social cohesion and the crisis of spiritual values.

You must know for which harbor you are headed, if you are to catch the right wind to take you there.

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

I had never been to Hawaii, and now I say that my body is from L.A. but my heart is from Hawaii, because I'm in love with it and it's home on every level, from a spiritual, soulful place.

To find perfect composure in the midst of change is to find nirvana.

What should we "do" with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.

Where there are two people, there is untruth.

Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom - physical, mental, and spiritual - and help others to do so.

This is the principle of Universal Brotherhood of man with one another, with all life down to the little ants.

Spiritual entrepreneurship is the unsung route to growth in the modern economy.

The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does his present life become to him; because he sees more clearly and perceives more sensibly the defects of human corruption.

Do not too many believe no zeal to be spiritual but what is censorious or vindictive? Whereas no zeal is spiritual that is not also charitable.

Everyone said to me growing up, "You're like an American. You have to go to America. That's your spiritual home."

Autobiography of a Yogi is justifiably celebrated as one of the most entertaining and enlightening spiritual books ever written.

In ancient times the ritual, mythological and doctrinal aspects of spiritual space were predominant.

Today, some of the most spiritual people I know claim to be without religion.

You are an infinite spiritual being having a temporary human experience.

Your physical self is inspired by a divine force that beats its heart, digests its food and grows its fingernails, and this same force is receptive to endlessly abundant health.

We are not a body with a soul, but a soul with a body. When the body dies the soul returns to the source.

If you've ever felt inspired by a purpose or calling, you know the feeling of spirit working through you.

Learn to be comfortable with the concept of infinity, and see yourself as an infinite being.

You are in a partnership with all other human beings, not a contest to be judged better than some and worse than others.

My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships.