Spirituality Quotes
Spirituality does not lie in meditating on the body of an ex-master. Spirituality exists in mediating on your own inner body.
I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality
I think being really connected to a higher power, of having a spirituality to me, has been really good for me and I pray all the time.
I realize that I've had a very idyllic vision of what spirituality looks like. Honestly, most of Western culture has an idyllic and simplified idea of what enlightenment entails.
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.
Courage is often associated with aggression, but instead should be seen as a willingness to act from the heart.
In these writings, and in all my teaching work, I continue to ask the question, “What about the children?
Positive words can bend your world in your favor.
Who have not led the holy lifenor riches won while young, they linger on as aged cranesaround a fished-out pond.
When it comes to happiness, there is a choice to be made, let go of negativity, do not let your light fade.
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.
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.
The name one gives is inessential.What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by other name would smell as sweet.
So also is the case if I don’t care the one abusing me. He is the one going to be demeaned.
Free me as free is the forest fire, as is the thunder that laughs aloud and hurls defiance to darkness.
When you touch someone who authentically represents a tradition, you not only touch his or her tradition, you also touch your own.
Our problems don’t stem from our ignorance so much as our disobedience of that which we know to be right.
How "spiritual" you are has nothing to do with what you believe, but everything to do with your state of consciousness.
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.
We live as One Man for contracting our infinite senses we behold multitude or expanding: we behold as one.
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.
All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent
He felt the urge to go into the desert, to see if it’s silence held the answers to his questions.
Don't you realize, " Merlin said to his pupil, "that the history of the universe has brought us here to this second?
Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply "trying to understand the mind of God".
The more you make your thoughts (beliefs) into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.
He had never believed that spirituality had to be anemic or aesthetic.
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.
It is only when you touch the higher that you realize how low we may be among the possibilities of creation.
For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.
When you catch yourself slipping into a pool of negativity, notice how it derives from nothing other than resistance to the current situation.
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
For us physicists believe the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one.
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.
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.
True communication is communion- the realization of oneness, which is love.
Meditation is to be aware of what is going on: in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.
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.
Greater than all the joysOf heaven and earth, Greater still than dominionOver all the worlds, Is the joy of reaching the stream.
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.
God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself and your role on Earth is to attach yourself to that divine force and let yourself be released to it.