Spirituality Quotes
To be able to die consciously, we need to prepare for death while we are still living.
No church or synagogue pew can produce a higher awareness of God than sitting at the base of a tree and observing His creation.
To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come and clean away dirty energy. Even smile in your liver.
This is what it means to be mindful. To watch the thoughts as they come and go without judgment while completely accepting what arises in the present moment.
Make your life a prayer. Live your mediation.
You are the space in which these thoughts arise, but not the thoughts themselves.
For many of us, especially being so fortunate to live in a first-world country, the vast majority of pain we experience is due to the seriousness with which we identify with our thoughts.
Spirituality is a way of life. it is not just doing meditation.
The Light is always there. How much light comes to you depends on you.
Deep within ourselves, we find the inner being, the inner source of love, which is our true nature. Love is the only reality, because only love works.
Again and again, counteract the agitation and turbulence of the mind by relaxing more deeply, not by contracting the body or mind.
Observing is not just seeing. It is watching with attention.
All paths are valid, but in the end you will find that the realization of the ultimate truth is a pathless path.
Being enlightened ironically means realizing that there is no separate entity that can be enlightened or unenlightened.
Looking forward” to what you think enlightenment might be at some grand point in the future keeps you from seeing the truth of its presence right now.
Awareness is that which is reading these words right now, whatever “that” is. You know without a doubt that there is something reading these words right now and awareness is precisely what that is.
Not knowing anything, not searching for anything, understanding that we can’t hold on to anything, leaves us with nothing — nothing except our original nature, pure awareness.
The one who believes himself to be a person needs to try to find that person. This is a solution, an antidote, offered to a ghost that thinks it actually exists.
The One that experiences itself as your body-mind is the same One that experiences itself in every other body-mind, form, or appearance that exists.
Just knowing that there is no gate to pass through doesn’t mean that we are at the end of the search, not if we are still standing outside that gateless gate.
Nothing can be the total truth in the worlds of manifestation and the more solid your concepts, the more likely they are going to sink you, sooner or later.
Even amazing states of bliss, peace, clarity and spaciousness have nothing to do with awakening as these are just experiences coming and going in the impersonal awareness that you are.
In enlightenment, the seer and the seen disappear. Or, more accurately, are seen through as illusions. In reality, they were never there, apart from being concept and misunderstanding.
Only in stillness does the imperceivable become discernible
Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty.
We may be focused on looking forward and upward yet looking inward can be the easiest path to take.
Meditation leads you to your spiritual information, and takes you on a journey of getting to know yourself and your creations.
Zen movement is a meditative practice.
Almost all sadness comes from thinking about the past, and all worry from thinking about the future — present-mindedness is your only safe haven.
When we constantly meditate on another's faults, it is because we are neglecting our own unhealed wounds.
Only in the present is your mind free to do what it does best — solve problems.
The easiest way to leave the past behind is to remember that love does not live in the past, only memories — love lives in the present.
Start deep within yourself and slowly build outward toward your goal.
True wisdom is being able to say 'it is what it is' with a smile of celebratory wonder on your face.
When you commune with your ever-present inner calm, you are released from the madness and pain of all outer turmoil.
Look deeply at yourself, and see in yourself the divine architect's incomprehensible art!
Intuition is to develop a trust in yourself, and to the silent whisperings of your heart. If you trust yourself, you can trust others, you can trust existence.
Nobody ever reaches to God, God comes to you when you are open and receptive, when you are ready.
The deepest realization of meditation is that your being is a non-being. It is a nothing, a vast emptiness without boundaries. It is a no-self. The feeling of self, of "I" is false.
Only when the seeker is lost, the truth is there. Seek, and you will miss. Seek not, and you will find. The very seeking becomes a barrier to truth, to the ultimate experience.
To attain to enlightenment is to attain to all. When you are not, you become the whole.
With mindfulness there is more to unlearn than there is to learn.
In every problem, there's a concealed solution...locking itself underneath...unlock, peruse, find and solve.
A healer's power stems not from any special ability, but from maintaining the courage and awareness to embody and express the universal healing power that every human being naturally possesses.
When you can no longer tell the difference between being yourself and being love, you are not far from waking up.
Search not for happiness outside yourself, for nothing could be further from the truth.