The Spiritual Life Quotes
Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. ...We do not take the spiritual life seriously if we do not set aside some time to be with God and listen to him.
There is a connection between heaven and earth. Finding that connection gives meaning to everything, including death. Missing it makes everything meaningless, including life.
It is a pity that the words "spiritual life" were ever invented, for they have caused so much confusion. For, in truth, there is only life-everyday life-which is simply what is at every moment.
Thus when I have to summarize naturalized spirituality in a single phrase, it is this: the thoughtful love of life.
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.
The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results.
To keep the heart then, is carefully to preserve it from sin which disorders it; and maintain that spiritual and gracious frame, which fits it for a life of communion with God.
The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature.
Unfortunately, the only meaning that society attributes to life today is an opportunity to make money.
Being discontented, we either seek a different job or merely succumb to environment...instead of causing us to question life, the whole process of existence.
To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.
Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.
Our spiritual life is a venture in the dark, between the soul and God, and no spiritual life is worth the name unless it is so.
Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence.
Half the spiritual life consists of remembering what we are up against and where we are going.
The divorce of our so-called spiritual life from our daily activities is a fatal dualism.
And so you're afraid of the emptiness of your friend's life. But there's no emptiness in the life of a man of knowledge, I tell you. Everything is filled to the brim and everything is equal.
When attention is given to the spiritual aspect of one's life, it brings a sense of belongingness, and responsibility, compassion and caring for the whole of humanity.
When you get to a higher level of consciousness, though, when you get into a spiritual approach to life, you are not trying to get someplace else...
The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.
As you find your soul-reservoir of peace, less and less controversy will be able to afflict your life.
God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.
Physical life is characterized by defensiveness, whereas spiritual life is just the opposite.
Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru's words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.
Life at home is cramped and dirty, it is difficult to live a spiritual life completely, perfect and pure in all its parts while cabinned.
Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
Energy functioning in a pattern becomes matter. That is all life is... Matter and energy are interrelated.
Spiritual life and secure life do not go together; to save oneself on must struggle and take risks.
We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical.
I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.
Often when religious leaders come together, they talk about a particular sexual ethic, or an abstruse doctrine, as though this, rather than compassion, was the test of spiritual life.
Life happens from within. How aware you are of it, decides the quality of your body, your mind, and your experience of life.
Before one accepts spirituality, astrology is very powerful, like a lion. Then when one enters into a deeper spiritual life, astrology becomes a tiny household cat.
Knowing God is like listening to beautiful music. His words have power. He lifts me up & soothes my soul. He makes me dance. He gives me joy.
Awareness of approach to death can be a beautiful thing, a frame into which we can put the work of art that is our life, our personal masterpiece.
Between the marketplace and government there exists all of that which makes life worth living-family life, spiritual life, the art and culture that make our spirits soar.
One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word.