Spiritual Quotes

Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely live with both? If you cling to pleasure what happens? You get attached, do you not?

Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.

Every one of us is more beloved to the Lord than we can possibly understand or imagine.

I have many friends who do not believe in luck; they believe in blessings. Likewise, I do not believe in coincidences; I believe in miracles.

You each have the same energy and it sings within you. You need not be shy of it, it is your own. You need not look to gurus, or Gods, or Seths. It dwells within your own being.

Judaism, Christianity & Islam are innovations on fragments from the periphery of the African cultural and spiritual system.

Few of us take the pains to study the origin of our cherished convictions.

The science and technology of how this life functions and what we can do with it, is what we refer to as yoga.

If you want to create a beautiful world, people in positions of responsibility and power should know a certain sense of joyfulness and peacefulness.

Being spiritual is a far more intelligent way to exist. It means being in tune with the intelligence of the Creator.

Plain intellectual thinking is the peak of ignorance because all that you will know is to play with a few aspects and make others look like fools.

In tension you cannot perceive; in laxity you cannot perceive. Only if you are intense and relaxed, you perceive everything just the way it is.

The spiritual process is always individual. You may sit in a group, but only the individual can evolve, only the individual can liberate himself.

Whether it is suffering or joy, going through experiences in life is not so much of a karma. Depriving yourself of any experience is the big karma.

The Infinite Universal Power is more than just a narrow-minded gatekeeper to a spiritual County Club.

Once you touch a dimension which is boundless, the idea of time and space disappears. What is here is there; what is there is here.

If you see there is no meaning to anything that you are doing, your ego collapses; so you are trying to find all kinds of fake meanings.

One who is constantly resting within himself is capable of endless activity.

Your ability to love, to reach out, and to experience life is limitless. The limitation is only of the body and mind.

When you exist here only as a body and a mind, suffering is inevitable.

The spiritual process has always been referred to as a journey - constant change.

Your body and your mind can be receptacles to perceive the whole cosmos - if only you do not identify yourself with them.

All beliefs will crash somewhere. Only reality will sustain itself.

Meditation means ultimate freedom within you.

Once you have access to the source of creation within you, your health and wellbeing will naturally be taken care of.

Are you here to experience life or think about it?

If you walk through life with ease and without any sense of entanglement, that is maturity.

As we learn to see each other through our spiritual eyes, the physical differences will cease to matter.

The genuine writer cannot ignore the fact that the family is losing its spiritual foundation.

Change follows change in us, almost without transition; we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe; a single step divides our sublimest ecstasies from the darkest depth of spiritual despondency.

When the teacher, the spiritual master, is praying for the mercy of the Lord to enlighten the student, then by the blessings of the Lord the student gets the blessing of knowledge.

The spiritual master can instruct the disciple though many different formats.

In the Bhagavat culture worship of the spiritual master plays a very important role in our life.

If we fail to solve this moral and spiritual crisis we may be doomed like the great nations of the past.

The first, the middle and the last thing to do is to pray.

One way to express the spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there.

Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy--death.

I am a Christian, but I also dont really see myself as a religious person. I see myself as more of a spiritual person.

I fear we are too much concerned with material things to remember that our real strength lies in spiritual values.

Only a life of goodness and honesty leaves us feeling spiritually healthy and human.

When was the last fast time you thanked the Lord for a trial or tribulation? Adversity compels us to go to our knees; does gratitude for adversity do that as well?

We haven't yet got eyes that can gaze into all the splendour that God has created, but we shall get them one day; and that will be the finest fairy tale of all, for we shall be in it ourselves.

Every truth ever discovered, each new spiritual light that will ever burn bright has already been seeded in our consciousness.

Come and see...place no head above your own

You are all the Buddha.

I'm a fifth generation Jew from the South, and I would say that I felt this connection to my religion, but it wasn't a spiritual connection.

The only way you can really evaluate spiritual advancement is to see how someone treats those who are close to them.

Spiritual balance is how you deal with opposition, outside of yourself and within.

Man and woman become a devil to each other when they do not separate their spiritual paths, for the nature of created beings is always the nature of differentiation.

Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health.