The Spiritual Life Quotes
Detachment does not mean non-involvement. You can be deeply involved but not entangled.
The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust
Spiritual life is not dry, it is also exceuted happily, 'susukham'. The result of that is not just happiness, but bliss, spiritual joy.
You should not delay the good things in life. Just do them. Whenever you get a chance to do spiritual practice or seva, don’t miss it. Those are the real precious moments of your life.
Inner peace is found by facing life squarely, solving its problems, and delving as far beneath its surface as possible to discover its verities and realities.
If you are not moving closer to what you want in sales (or in life), you probably aren't doing enough asking.
The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is a ritualistic justification of their possessions.
All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.
To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul.
Meditation will change your life for the better, enhance your physical health, improve your sleep, and help you achieve your goals, both material and spiritual.
Giving thanks is a key that opens a door to greater connectedness and greater participation in the life of the world. It is one of the most powerful spiritual practices available to us.
One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word.
But to me the notion that spirituality is separate from the rest of life does not allow for a practical approach to living a life that has extraordinary quality.
Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith is the soul of religion, and works the body.
Let us never forget that an age prospers or dwindles in proportion to its devotion to the Holy Eucharist. This is the measure of its spiritual life and its faith, of its charity and its virtue.
Why separate your spiritual life and your practical life? To an integral being, there is no such distinction.
We must find a way to replace yearning for what life has withheld from us with gratitude for what we have been given.
If Christians are ever to be united, they must be united in Christ, their living head and the source of their spiritual life.
The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.
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.
I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum.
If you want to have a spiritual life you must unify your life. A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.
Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
How’ is always more important that ‘what.’ See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.
Think of your work life therefore, not as separate from your spiritual life but as central to your spiritual life. Whatever your business, it is your ministry.
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.
We must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there are no rules.
Joy is the triumph of life; it is the sign that we are living our true life as spiritual beings.
As long as you are a part of the physical process of the existence, there is nothing that does not change.
The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.
Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.
Revival is an infusion of new spiritual life imparted by the Holy Spirit to existing parts of Christ's body.
The inner attitude of the heart is far more crucial than the mechanics for coming into the reality of the spiritual life.
Knowledge can only be limited. Ignorance is boundless. In recognizing our ignorance, we will touch that which is boundless.
To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means
The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.
It's easy to operate under the illusion that what we are doing is so important we cannot stop doing it. ... Stopping is a spiritual act. It is the refuge where we drink life in.
One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole
You know that you have fully experienced love when you turn into love - that is the spiritual goal of life.
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.