Spirituality Quotes

I guess I'm a spiritual secularist, if that's not an oxymoron. My paths of secularism and spirituality are the same: I try to do the appropriate thing at each moment.

Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.

Who realizes what? That is realization.

The essence of spirituality is, to be constantly aware of the oneness of all; at the same time to celebrate the uniqueness of the individual.

The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.'

To struggle is difficult but to surrender is easy. Surrender is the beginning of devotion.

Mind can come. All this world is minds. But something is not concerned with the calculating, interpreting tendency of the mind.

The interdependency of humankind, the relevance of relationship, the sacredness of creation is ancient, ancient wisdom.

I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality.

Perhaps many of us do not like it where we are in the universe now, but we can all be certain that we got where we are -our own decisions to expand in love or withdraw from it.

Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality.

...I want my spirituality to rid me of hate, not give me reason for it.

WE HAVE HAD OUR LAST CHANCE. THE PROBLEM NOW IS BASICALLY THEOLOGICAL, AND INVOLVES SPIRITUALITY AND IMPROVEMENT OF human CHARACTER. IT MUST BE OF THE SPIRIT IF WE ARE TO SAVE THE FLESH.

We live as ripples of energy in the vast ocean of energy.

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.

If you will have patience in difficulties you know the Holy Spirit is within you, if you will also have the strength to be thankful in troubles than is when the Holy Spirit shines through you.

Look at your life as your main career and your divine classroom.

Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.

People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.

All things change, nothing perishes.

Spirituality is not a religion... It is a way of life.

Dance involves physicality, it involves spirituality and even brains.

Spirituality is your original face; it is the discovery of your intrinsic nature.

If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity.

True spirituality is a mental attitude you can practice at any time.

"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.

I see the potential for a new world being born in front of me and all around me, and I feel the only way to bring that potential into being is to know myself.

Religion is believing someone else's experience, spirituality is having your own experience.

Spirituality is that attitude which puts life at the center, and defends and promotes life against all the mechanisms of death, desiccation, or stagnation.

God loves you. God doesn't want anyone to be hungry and oppressed. He just puts his big arms around everybody and hugs them up against himself.

Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

Talking to God should be part of every aspect of life, in times of peace as well as in every battle.

We are equal beings and the universe is our relations with each other.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

We must learn to accept ourselves in the painful experiment of living. We must embrace the spiritual adventure of becoming human, moving through the many stages that lie between birth and death.

Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.

Again, I maintain that no organization can lead man to spirituality.

People don't see this side of me. They don't know I read, like, 800 million spiritual books. Lately I am just really getting into a lot of spirituality.

Spirituality is worthless if it's not practical. Music is my work. I am a musician.

I am an atheist, I have no religious beliefs. And obviously I don’t believe in spirituality of some kind.

In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt.

Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

Spirituality, as expounded by the great saints and sages of the past, is a very broad path. It accommodates all types of belief systems. You need to satisfy everyone.

The whole problem is spirituality-not finances. Spiritually strong = welfare strong.

So often these days eating Indian food passes for spirituality. I don't meditate, I don't pray, but I eat two samosa's every day.

Thus when I have to summarize naturalized spirituality in a single phrase, it is this: the thoughtful love of life.

I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it.