Spiritual - Quotes

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Spirituality is not religion. Religion divides people. - Rady

The foundation of all spiritual practice is love. - The Dalai Lama

The main thing is that we are part of the reality in ourselves to perfect one’s power of discovery and that leads to the discovery of our organic ourselves without fear of immersing ourselves in the earth, the sea, fire or air. - Pierre Alechinsky 

The Path isn’t a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things that you thought you understood and see deeper and deeper truths. - Unknown

The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts. - Marcus Aurelius

The spiritual path is not a solo endeavour. In fact, the very notion of a self who is trying to free her/himself is a delusion. We are in it together and the company of spiritual friends helps us realize our inter-connectedness. - Tara Brach 

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter. - Paulo Coelho 

There are two rules on the spiritual path. Begin and continue. - Sufi Saying

There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. - C. G. Jung

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

Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. - Unknown

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. - Carl Jung

When people go within and connect with themselves, they realize they are connected to the universe and they are connected to all living things. - Armand Dimele 

When you are evolving to your higher self, the road seems lonely. But you’re simple shedding energies that no longer match the frequency of your destiny. - Unknown

Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear. - Shunryu Suzuki

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All spiritual practice is the art of shifting perspectives. - Teal

I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul. - Rumi

I’m touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful – collecting these shards of spirituality – that we may be helping to bring about a healing. - Leonard Nimoy

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation. - J. Krishnamurti

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. - Mahatma Ghandi

It is not arrogant or egotistical to feel good inside. You had nothing to do with it. It’s simply the honest response to clearly perceived Reality. - Erich Schiffman

Learning how to love is the goal and the purpose of spiritual life — not learning how to develop psychic powers, not learning how to bow, chant, do yoga, or even meditate, but learning to love. Love is the truth. Love is the light. - Lama Surya Das

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. Jim Rohn

Love is how it feels to recognize our essential unity. Awakening to oneness is the experience of Big Love. Knowing you are one with all, you find yourself in love with all. - Timothy Freke

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. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination. - A. R. Rahman

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. - Carl Sagan

Simply being with other people who are also seekers and who are involved in the same quest you are is very meaningful. - Dan Wakefield

Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal. - Deepak Chopra 

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One of the most spiritual things you can do is embrace your humanity. Connect with those around you today. Say, “I love you”, “I’m sorry”, “I appreciate you”, “I’m proud of you”… whatever you’re feeling. Send random texts, write a cute note, embrace your truth and share it… cause a smile today for someone else… and give plenty of hugs. - Steve Maraboli

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention. - Deepak Chopra

Spirituality does not require that you work hard toward achieving a result in the future as much as it requires you to be fully “present, sincere and committed now, with absolute honesty and willingness to uncover and let go of any illusions that come between you and the realization of Reality. - Adyashanti

The sun shines down, and its image reflects in a thousand different pots filled with water. The reflections are many, but they are each reflecting the same sun. Similarly, when we come to know who we truly are, we will see ourselves in all people. - Ammachi

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Most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships. Some travel into the mountains accompanied by experienced guides who know the best and least dangerous routes by which they arrive at their destination. Still others, inexperienced and untrusting, attempt to make their own routes. Few of these are successful, but occasionally some, by sheer will and luck and grace, do make it. Once there they become more aware than any of the others that there's no single or fixed number of routes. There are as many routes as there are individual souls. - Robert M. Pirsig

Spirituality exists wherever we struggle with the issue of how our lives fit into the greater cosmic scheme of things. This is true even when our questions never give way to specific answers or give rise to specific practices such as prayer or meditation. We encounter spiritual issues every time we wonder where the universe comes from, why we are here, or what happens when we die. We also become spiritual when we become moved by values such as beauty, love, or creativity that seem to reveal a meaning or power beyond our visible world. An idea or practice is ‘spiritual’ when it reveals our personal desire to establish a felt-relationship with the deepest meanings or powers governing life. - Robert C. Fuller

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There is a peaceful place inside that welcomes you. A space so safe, so still, that there is no forward or backward – only the eternal flow of the present moment. Enter this place where the truth of your being resides and appreciate who you are. - Rusty Berkus

Every single person has within an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness. Every single human being can experience that -- infinite intelligence, infinite creativity, infinite happiness, infinite energy, infinite dynamic peace. - David Lynch

I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic energy, the love in your body, your integrity, and your perception of the nature in you and outside of you. - Wilelm Reich

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. - Swami Vivekananda

Love is the secret you unmask yourself to find; it is the foundation of the spiritual life, the destination where all roads of the journey lead. - Elizabeth Lesser

The truly spiritual life does not remove us from the world; it leads us deeper into it. - Henri J.M. Nouwen

Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment. Know the sweet joy of the way. - Dhammapada

First we love within, then we love the world. - Elizabeth Lesser

A Parable

A monk decides to meditate alone, away from his monastery. He takes his boat out to the middle of the lake, moors it there, closes his eyes and begins his meditation.

After a few hours of undisturbed silence, he suddenly feels the bump of another boat colliding with his own. With his eyes still closed, he senses his anger rising, and by the time he opens his eyes, he is ready to scream at the boatman who dared disturb his meditation.

But when he opens his eyes, he sees it’s an empty boat that had probably got untethered and floated to the middle of the lake.
At that moment, the monk achieves self-realization, and understands that the anger is within him; it merely needs the bump of an external object to provoke it out of him.

From then on, whenever he comes across someone who irritates him or provokes him to anger, he reminds himself, “The other person is merely an empty boat. The anger is within me.”

Is There Life After Death?

Is there life after death? Revered monk Thich Nhat Hanh answers age-old question.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/thich-nhat-hanh-life-after-death_55e5ff24e4b0c818f61971c7

by Antonia Blumberg

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Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. - Carl Jung

Because let’s be honest, the idea of a god sending himself to sacrifice himself to save us from himself is a little bit much for any sane, logical person to accept. - Unknown

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I understood myself only after I destroyed myself. And only in the process of fixing myself, did I know how I really was. - Sade Andria Zabala

Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light. - Bruce Lee

If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration. - Nikola Tesla

Compassion is an aspiration, a state of mind, wanting others to be free from suffering. It’s not passive – it’s not empathy alone – but rather an empathetic altruism that actively strives to free others from suffering. Genuine compassion must hav e both wisdom and loving kindness. That is to say, one must understand the nature of the suffering form which we wish to free others (this is wisdom), and one must experience deep intimacy and empathy with other sentient beings (this is loving kindness). - The Dalai Lama (Essence of the Heart Sutra)

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Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. it can be no other way. this is not philosophy. This is physics. - Albert Einstein

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye. - Buddha

Nothing hurts a good soul and kind heart more than to live amongst people who cannot understand it. - Hazrat Ali Ibn Abi-Talib A.S

No one saves us but ourselves. Now one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. - Buddha

If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration. - Nikola Tesla

Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life and yet, less attached to it. - Ram Dass 

A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures. - James E. Faust

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The wonderful thing to understand here is that the energy that you radiate or send out attracts other situations, events, persons, etc. which are in harmony with your internal energy field. - Unknown

We are all visitors to this place. We are just passing through, our purpose is to observe, learn, grow and love and then we return home. - Unknown

The perfect man has no self; the spiritual man has no achievement; the sage has no name. - Chuang Tzu

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. - Eden Phillpotts

Mindfulness means being awake. it means knowing what you are doing. - Jon Kabat Zinn

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. - Marcus Aurelius

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door. - Emily Dickinson

If you have truly attained wholeness, everything will flock to you. - Lao Tzu

The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf. - Shakti Gawain

Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose. - Jedi Master Yoda

You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body. C.S. Lewis

Paradise in snot a place, it's a state of consciousness. - Sri Chinmoy

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Make no mistake about it – enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. Its seeing through the façade of pretence. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true. - Adyashanti

If the whole world is holding on to you and you are not holding on to anything, then you are free. Let everything come and hold you, but you are not holding anything. That’s how you leave the mind and enter freedom. - Mooji

Everything on Earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian Theory of Existence. - Morning Dove Salish

Your soul always knows what to do to heal your body and your mind. You must listen to your intuition and follow instructions. - Caroline Myss

When you awaken… It’s not about seeing different things in life. It’s about seeing the things in your life differently. - Rhonda Hendricks

To study The Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things. - Dogen

Your spiritual journey is the kindness and assistance that you extend to whomever you meet. - Elizabeth Gilbert

Listen to the wind, it talks. Listen to the silence, it speaks. Listen to your heart, it knows. - Native American Proverb

Be still. Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity. - Lao Tzu

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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. When you can no longer think of a reason to continue, you must think of a reason to start over. There’s a big difference between giving up and starting over in the right direction. And there are three little words that can release you from your past regrets and guide you forward to a positive new beginning. These words are : ‘From now on …’ - Unknown

Gratitude is an attitude that hooks us up to our source of supple. And the more grateful you are, the closer you become to your maker, to the architect of the universe, to the spiritual core of your being. It’s a phenomenal lesson. - Bod Proctor

Being spiritual does not mean being dead serious. - Sadhguru

Purity or impurity depends on oneself, no one can purify another. - Unknown

Your spiritual journey is whatever light and grace you bring to whatever you do. - Elizabeth Gilbert

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness. - Eckhart Tolle

Awakening is not changing who you are but discarding who you are not. - Deepak Chopra

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If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things in nature have a message you understand; Rejoice, for your soul is alive. - Eleanora Duse

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. - Lao Tzu

We are visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love … and then we return home. - Australian Aboriginal Proverb

When an illness is a part of your spiritual journey, no medical intervention can heal you until your spirit has begun to make the changes the illness was designed to inspire. - Caroline Myss

Your Soul and My Soul are part of the great Soul known as the universe. We are universe within the Universe. Although many, We are One. - Julie Parker

An awakened teacher can only be your lighthouse, casting light on your path, but you must understand it and walk your own path. - Frank M. Wanderer

For true stability and naturalness of mind and essence to emerge, there must be a seamless, unimpeded flow of energy and spirit. - Unknown

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up. - Eckhart Tolle

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. - Eden Phillpotts

If your path is difficult, it is because of your high calling. - Unknown

If you don’t go within, you go without. - Neale Donald Walsch

When the energy is open, smooth and unbound, it will go towards the creative and positive. - Unknown

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Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the Source. Returning to the Source is stillness, which is the way of nature. - Lao Tzu

Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about un-becoming everything that isn’t really you so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place. - Unknown

When you step aside and tune in to the wisdom of the universe, you are preparing the way for new opportunities and exiting possibilities to show up in  your life. - Sherri Bishop

Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become. - Paramahansa Yogananda

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. - Lao Tzu

Trust the process of life to unfold just the way it needs to for your soul’s perfect path. - Sherri Bishop

When you stop doing what insults yoru Soul, your Journey accelerates and your Life begins to fill with Joy. - Unknown

The heart of all spiritual teaching is simple. Be love. Be peace. Be harmony. Be compassion. Be joy. - Unknown

It’s your journey and yours alone. Others may take it with you, but no one can take it for you. - Rumi

To truly hear, you must quiet the mind. - Sherri Bishop

Spiritual - Food For Thought

Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors. - Andrew Boyd

Make no mistake about it – enlightenment is a ‘destructive process’. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the façade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true. - Adyashanti

Since there is no way we can succeed in our spiritual practice while our mind is tense and unhappy, we should always practice in moderation, allowing our mind to remain joyful and relaxed. Then our mediation will work, our mind will become clearer, and our memory will improve. - Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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All things arise from Tao. They are nourished by virtue. They are formed from matter. They are shaped by environment. Respect of Tao and honour of virtue are not demanded, but they are in the nature of things. By virtue they are nourished, developed, cared for, sheltered, comforted, grown, and protected. Creating without claiming, doing without taking credit, guiding without interfering. This is primal virtue. - Tao Te Ching

Your work is not to drag the world kicking and screaming into a new awareness. Your job is to simply do your work … sacredly, secretly, and silently ... and those with ‘eyes to see and ears to hear’, will respond. - The Ardurians

Moving one step towards finding the answer to the question, Who Am I?, we brought consciousness from outside to inside. - Acharya Mahaprajna

Desires and expectations are the sources of disappointment. Don’t cling to them. Do your work, walk your way. - Zen saying

Be mindful of your Self-talk. It’s a conversation with the Universe. - David James Lees

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As you develop your awareness in nature, you begin to see how we influence all life and how all life influences us; a key and critical feature for us to know. - Unknown

Free yourself from anger and desire. This is the means by which you come to know the soul, and thereby attain the highest spiritual state. - The Bhagavad Gita

Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand – relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it. - Osho

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness. - Dalai Lama

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. - Joseph Campbell

Just be silent, utterly silent. Let peace descend over you, and the revelation of the mysterious truth of existence is yours. - Osho

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls. - Joseph Campbell

The universe will show you the way. You just have to have the guts to go there. - Caprice Johnson

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again. - Joseph Campbell

This is it. But if you fixate on it, It isn’t anymore. - Zen Proverb

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Our different existences are based on one subtle mind. The subtle mind is the holder of all good and bad karma. When we act/produce/react, it becomes a form of imprint on our mind which is the subtle mind. Actually the main goal is to go deeper into our subtle mind. Meditate with the subtle mind, that is our goal. - Dagyab Rinpoche

If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your one self-transformation. - Lao Tzu

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

The essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others. When you have a pure, sincere motivation, then you have right attitude toward others based on kindness,  compassion, love and respect. - Dali Lama

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Spirituality is not something connected with holy books, not connected with religions. It is something that grows within you if you can manage a little sense of humour, a little sense of playfulness. - Osho

The Universe is not punishing you or blessing you. The Universe is responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting. - Abraham Hicks

The Heart is the only Reality. The mind is only a transient phase. To remain as one’s Self is to enter the Heart. - Sri Ramana Maharshi

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn’t more complicated than that. Practice Mindfulness. - Unknown

Sit quietly and tune into your self. You will find that within that calm and peace, there are many answers. - Unknown

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots. - Rumi

As I unclutter my life, I free myself to answer the callings of my soul. - Dr. Wayne Dyer

No mud, no lotus. - Thich Nhat Hanh