The Spiritual Life Quotes

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.

A sincere seeker knows what his goal is: the highest Truth. He will not delay his journey. In spiritual life, we aspire for the highest Truth, for God, nothing else.

Fear is not life-giving enough to sustain itself. We can move in the direction of fear only so long before it brings us to our knees, or to our end.

Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.

I kind of limp along like so many of us do in these realms. Occasionally I've felt the grace of another presence in my life. But I can't develop any kind of spiritual structure on that.

Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored.

When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up-it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.

To bring about a fundamental, radical revolution, we must begin with ourselves.

Creativity is a religion. When you get into it, you will find your life becomes more spiritual.

Humility is the most important quality in the spiritual life. When it is lacking spiritual growth stops.

Meditation is that dimension of science which focuses on creating the right kind of interior, so that you can live a peaceful and joyous life.

Only when man is willing to change himself, there can be a true revolution.

As the body cannot be sustained without corporeal food, nor continue in natural life, so without this life-giving food the soul cannot persist in the spiritual life of grace.

Our spiritual life cannot be measured by success as the world measures it, but only by what God pours through us- and we cannot measure that at all

Intelligence essentially means that your intellect is sharp enough to see life the way it is.

We neither need a political revolution nor a religious revolution. What we need is an inner transformation in human beings.

In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not to attain it.

The secret of life is to be found in life itself, in the full organic, intellectual and spiritual activities of our body.

[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be killed and it is ready to fight tooth and nail to avoid that.

It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.

Being must be felt. It can't be thought.

The world is starving for a new spiritual truth - a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life.

In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance.

The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.

World economies are always so tenuous and we are subject to so many losses in life, but a compassionate attitude is something we can always carry with us.

I always think that we live, spiritually, By what others have given us in the significant hours of our life. These significant hours do not announce themselves as coming, but arrive unexpected.

A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal.

The spiritual life is always about letting go. It is never about holding on.

Spiritual life is contractual. The sacred cannot dialogue with the unresponsive.

In the mental calmness of a spiritual life, I have found that the answers to the whys in our lives are able to come to you. In my music I find the same thing.

At the soul level, we get precisely what we need in our lives for our spiritual growth. How we judge what we get determines whether we experience life as painful or joyful.

In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make, sustain and are friends.

To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.

There are no planes in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down.

I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak if you try to.

Spiritual life doesn't make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.

The nature of the spiritual life is that we are certain in our uncertainty.

The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world.

In intellectual honesty, we should be willing to study and explore the spiritual life with all the rigor and determination we would give to any field of research.

The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.

Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.

The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.

Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes a person's noblest impulses.

To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.

The extra luggage of indiscriminate dreams, desires and attachments will make your life's journey miserable.

Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.

Meditation does not mean you have to grin every moment of your life, but to learn to let your bones smile.

It's a paradox of the true spiritual path, but the more conscious we become of what limits us, the more limitless becomes our life.

The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

Real happiness in life comes from the mental capacity to adapt to any situation.