Spiritual Quotes

The spiritual journey has to do with learning to think more deeply and take as long a time as we need. That's the path to wisdom.

Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.

The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose.

I can't really connect with things unless they are spiritual in nature, so I have to make acting spiritual for myself, and each role a spiritual journey for me.

I feel connected to a higher power when I'm making music or performing. There's a spiritual experience for me.

Thank God I have the things that my mother and father taught me, the things that I've learned from pastors and spiritual teachers and the books that I read.

The only real protection will come from doing a spiritual practice over a prolonged period of time. Because it retrains us to see the world and ourselves in a different way.

Personal righteousness is a choice. Faith is a gift from God, and one possessed of it can receive enormous spiritual power.

The spiritual experience isn’t one of filling ourselves up— with either religious or intellectual beliefs—but of emptying ourselves so that we can experience what is, directly, unfiltered.

To me, theater is a spiritual experience. Probably the reason I do theater is it, I guess, comes the closest to feeling like God, or to feeling a spiritual experience that people can have together.

Always firmly believing in a higher power, I have also always been in search of a spiritual peace.

Creativity is God's will for us and should be practiced like any other spiritual practice -a day at a time.

Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.

If we didn't have to stand against temptation, we'd never know our own spiritual strength.

God is a wider consciousness than we are, a pure intelligence, spiritual life and actuality. He is neither one nor many, neither man nor spirit. Such predicates belong only to finite beings.

Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.

In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.

The work of God can only be carried on by the power of God. The church is a spiritual organism fighting spiritual battles: only spiritual power can make it perform as God ordained.

If we have a heart to learn and a willingness to follow the example of children, their divine attributes can hold a key to unlocking our own spiritual growth.

Recognize that you are a spiritual being who is part of a large cosmic family of spiritual beings. You have the power, strength, and talent to fulfill your own individual earthly destiny.

The time has come for us to envision ourselves as spiritual beings of light and love.

If you really thought about who you are, who God is, and how much thanks you owe Him, you would want to go to Mass. The Mass would become the source and center of your spiritual life.

We must intend to live [the new spiritual awareness], to integrate each increased degree of awareness into our daily routine. It only takes one negative interpretation to stop everything.

[The church's] job is to provide permanent solace and spiritual leadership to the people as a whole, whatever their government at the moment, so long as it stays within the bounds of moral decency.

Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.

Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.

We can bring our spiritual practice into the streets, into our communities, when we see each realm as a temple, as a place to discover that which is sacred.

Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to help us to see in a new way by developing a stillness of mind and a strength of heart.

An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past.

I love you, Katy. Always have. Always will

It is not that the university as such is against spiritual formation. It is just that often the university does not know how to integrate spiritual formation within its academic disciplines.

I still believe that the university is a place where people can develop their minds and learn skills, but also they can develop their personalities and their spiritual life.

Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and where we can respond freely to God's guidance.

To receive spiritual direction is to recognize that God does not solve our problems or answer all our questions, but leads us closer to the mystery of our existence where all questions cease.

When something makes no sense, sometimes you make something of it. A joke. A spiritual practice. A life.

Our memory of dreams is a glimpse of the full spiritual life that each of us leads beyond the physical.

I have a spiritual practice which helps to keep me grounded and centered.

Spiritual partnership is the partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth.

Becoming integrated and whole is the spiritual path. The body is your vehicle. Your job is to learn about yourself from your experiences and change yourself. This is spiritual growth.

Emotions are messengers that carry information. Spiritual growth depends upon receiving that information & using it.

Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience.

By growing a spiritual practice, we are given all that we need.

Right now we're in a special and powerful position, because the world is having a spiritual awakening.

Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.

Spiritual knowledge is the experience of enlightenment, and requires an understanding of the inner-most workings of the enlightenment cycle.

Power is the active force in life. It is the force that makes awareness. The general term for spiritual power is kundalini. Kundalini is the energy of life that creates awareness.

What makes us happy is to have a spiritual experience ... that experience of ecstasy in the deepest meditation; that's happiness.

Matter is fun for a while; but ultimately, it is the spiritual experience where we leap beyond what we know- that is the happiness.

If you become obsessive in spiritual practice, if you just try and try, you are not going to be happy. You are going to be obsessive.

When I enter into nirvikalpa samadhi, most can see this light, or feel it. This light creates very powerful, steady spiritual transformation. The reason you are here is to sit in this light.