Spirituality Quotes
Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.
Positive words can bend your world in your favor.
When it comes to happiness, there is a choice to be made, let go of negativity, do not let your light fade.
Why is it when we talk to God we are said to be praying and when God talks to us we're said to be schizophrenic?
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam I looked into the soul of the boy next to me.
Meditation is to be aware of what is going on: in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.
Nature reflects the moods of the wizard.
We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
It is only when you touch the higher that you realize how low we may be among the possibilities of creation.
When you blame, you open up a world of excuses, because as long as you're looking outside, you miss the opportunity to look inside, and you continue to suffer.
We live as ripples of energy in the vast ocean of energy.
The spiritual path can only be traveled through the daily experience of love.
The same faint song is heard in everything: "Behold yourself".
The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through contemplating those we evoke those powers in our own lives to operate through ourselves.
The boundaries we erect to divide heaven from earth, mind from matter, real from unreal are mere conveniences. Having made the boundaries, we can unmake them just as easily.
Free me as free is the forest fire, as is the thunder that laughs aloud and hurls defiance to darkness.
Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.
I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.
Man's poverty is abysmal, his wants are endless till he becomes truly conscious of his soul. Till then, the world to him is in a state of flux - a phantasm that is and is not.
When a man sleeps he is shut up within the narrow activities of his physical life. He lives, but he knows not the varied relations of his life to his surroundings, - therefore he knows not himself.
He had never believed that spirituality had to be anemic or aesthetic.
The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.
We are all one. Only egos, beliefs, and fears separate us.
The son needs the father to have access to his source, and the father needs the son to have access to the future and the infinite.
It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary
Courage is often associated with aggression, but instead should be seen as a willingness to act from the heart.
As one of the seven billion human beings, I believe everyone has the responsibility to develop a happier world.
Don't you realize, " Merlin said to his pupil, "that the history of the universe has brought us here to this second?
There is a wellspring of life within you where you can go for cleansing and transformation.
Greater than all the joysOf heaven and earth, Greater still than dominionOver all the worlds, Is the joy of reaching the stream.
Time is just quantified eternity.
So also is the case if I don’t care the one abusing me. He is the one going to be demeaned.
Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter on which it rides.
My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
He felt the urge to go into the desert, to see if it’s silence held the answers to his questions.
The name one gives is inessential.What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by other name would smell as sweet.
All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent
Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.
