Spirituality Quotes
In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.
Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.
One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.
Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.
Seeds of past karma cannot germinate if they are roasted in the fires of divine wisdom.
Awe is what moves us forward.
To the wizard death is merely a belief.
How "spiritual" you are has nothing to do with what you believe, but everything to do with your state of consciousness.
True communication is communion- the realization of oneness, which is love.
We are game-playing, fun-having creatures, we are the otters of the universe.
Who have not led the holy lifenor riches won while young, they linger on as aged cranesaround a fished-out pond.
Chopra concludes his work with, "Your goal and mine isn't to imitate Jesus. It is to become part of him----or, as he said, to abide in him.
There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
When you catch yourself slipping into a pool of negativity, notice how it derives from nothing other than resistance to the current situation.
Ain't no such thing as a little fault or a big fault. Satan get his foot in the door, he ain't going to rest till he's in the room. You is in the Word or you ain't--ain't no halfway with God.
The more you make your thoughts (beliefs) into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.
It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small things with great love." - Mother Theresa
For us physicists believe the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one.
I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.
We live as One Man for contracting our infinite senses we behold multitude or expanding: we behold as one.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
There is no future in a job. The only future is inside oneself. We look inside rather than outside. We become producer rather than consumers of other peoples’ production.
In these writings, and in all my teaching work, I continue to ask the question, “What about the children?
Energy is what I believe all of us are. We're just conscious awareness dancing for itself for no other reason but to stay amused.
Don’t follow someone else’s map. You should glean teachings from all directions, keeping true to those that bring progress yet remaining open to changes in yourself.
When you touch someone who authentically represents a tradition, you not only touch his or her tradition, you also touch your own.
There is no God in Buddha’s teachings. There is no religious ritual in Buddha’s teachings. All that there is, is simple “Karma” or “Work” – that is the “Dhamma” or “Duty” or “Religion” he preached.
What difference makes what you believe? What happens will happen anyway, exactly the same, no matter what you believe. What you do makes the important part. What you do.
In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.
It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live.
For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.
If you can be aware that you have a living body, and notice when there's tension in your body, that's already an important insight.
Don’t let a day go by without asking who you are…each time you let a new ingredient to enter your awareness.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete, The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.
Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply "trying to understand the mind of God".
When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)
The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.
Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.
