Spiritual Quotes

It's not what you do - it's the intensity of your feeling that determines how far you go in the spiritual life.

Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves.

If you think of spiritual practice as unpleasant work - it is not spiritual practice as I know it.

Selfliss giving rounds the edges in spiritual practice. Many people can meditate very well but they're still very egotistical.

Your spiritual journey and your spiritual welfare are really dependent on two primary factors: One, your ability to meditate and two, your ability to give of yourself.

My yoga practice was and will always be a spiritual experience. I can honestly say, "Yoga delivered me back to GOD!"

We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.

Joseph Campbell, who when asked what spiritual practice he followed said, "I underline books." Me too.

One can be a full-fledged Christian and at the same time, enjoy the reality of a universal spiritual truth.

All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear.

It takes something of a poet to apprehend and get into the depth, the lusciousness, the spiritual life of a great poem. And so we must be in some way like God in order that we may see God as He is.

If two people are at completely different stages in their spiritual life, that can present a real problem.

Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold. When wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.

For spiritual teachers, it is important not to identify with the image people inevitably have of them.

Spiritual awakening - is becoming awake to the aliveness of this moment.

I feel that it is vital that we all re-open our spiritual gifts and open up to the voice of the Divine.

Robert Gass and 'On Wings of Song' bring about magical transformation and inspire people with extraordinary, uplifting, and spiritual music.

At every stage of spiritual growth, the greatest ally you have is your body.

The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.

I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'

At the end of the spectrum when you get to that 12th step, when you have that spiritual awakening we make ourselves available to help other people.

What's more important that spiritual life? It seems to me it's the bedrock of everything essential about being human.

You really can't justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.

There is...a tendency to think of the spiritual life as primarily introspective, divorced from the concerns of everyday life....Faith that does not translate into actions is no faith at all.

It is a wonderful thing if one can use one's place of work as a place of spiritual practice as well.

You cant have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.

Spiritual life is contractual.

The spiritual journey is what the soul is up to while we attend to daily living.

Compromise is necessary so long as you never give up who you are. That isn't compromise; that's spiritual death. You have to remain true to yourself.

Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.

Of course, we are to pray for spiritual awakening, and in various ways we can do something toward it. But we must remember that neither Paul nor Apollos gives the increase.

I believe joy is a spiritual practice we have to work at.

If you need a transfusion of spiritual strength then just ask for it. We call that Prayer. Prayer is powerful spiritual medicine.

My sangha, what I seem to attract, are people who have been practicing a long time, they're teaching, they're more serious about their spiritual journey.

Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.

Spirituality and spiritual life give us the strength to love.

Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic, material, and spiritual life.

Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you’re secretly looking up at the skies not for illumination or direction, but to gauge, miserably, the odds of rain?

If the spiritual life be healthy, under the full power of the Holy Spirit, praying without ceasing will be natural.

Prayer is the natural and joyous breathing of the spiritual life by which the heavenly atmosphere is inhaled and then exhaled in prayer.

How do I integrate spirituality into my everyday life? Throw out the concept of "spiritual life" and "everyday life." There is only life, undivided and whole.

When I started, these [yoga] were very functional practices, as I said, productive to lose weight, or whatever, and now it has become a very spiritual kind of practice.

I don't think of the ashram world as being any more spiritual than the corporate world.

It is important to meet people where they are. It reminds me of yoga, to which people may flock for the physical benefits, often to find that the spiritual benefits match or even outweigh them.

Nothing is more piquant than when a man of genius possesses mannerisms; not so when they possess him -- this leads to spiritual petrification.

As in the physical world, so in the spiritual world, pain does not last forever.

I see everything through a spiritual lens.

I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation.

What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.

The past is dead; The future is imaginary; Happiness can only be in the Eternal Now Moment.