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Best Spiritual Quotes
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. W.B. Yeats
More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate. Roy T. Bennett
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, man cannot live without a spiritual life. Buddha
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. Nicolas Chamfort
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. Augustine
Knock, And He’ll open the door Vanish, And He’ll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He’ll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He’ll turn you into everything. Jalal Ad Din Rumi
Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not. Deepak Chopra
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things. Paulo Coelho
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong. John Lennon
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. Carl Sagan
Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself. Roy T. Bennett
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you really are. Carl Jung
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. Anais Nin
The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God’s love for us does not. C.S. Lewis
You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. Anne Lamott
To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, but to live gratitude is to touch heaven. Johannes A. Gaertner
No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn’t in submission to God! T. D Jakes
The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God. Mother Teresa
It isn’t until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within that you can begin to take control. Oprah Winfrey
Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing. Brian Weiss
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. Swami Vivekananda
If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers. Ed Sullivan
Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again the first kiss of the rest of your life. A kiss that confirms that the universe is aligned, that the world’s greatest resource is love, and maybe even that God is a woman. With or without a belief in God, all kisses are metaphors decipherable by allocations of time, circumstance, and understanding. Saul Williams
You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone. Amit Ray
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your weakness. Mother Teresa
It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters. Amit Ray
Religion is for people who’re afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who’ve already been there. Vine Deloria Jr.
A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller. Paul Klee
A quiet conscience makes one strong! Anne Frank
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically. Neil DeGrasse Tyson
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware; joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. Henry Miller
What you are is God’s gift to you, what you become is your gift to God. Hans Urs von Balthasar
You can’t have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation. Cory Booker
How hurtful it can be to deny one’s true self and live a life of lies just to appease others. June Ahern
The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. So are our emotions in the presence of great art or music or literature, or acts of exemplary selfless courage such as those of Mohandas Gandhi or Martin Luther King, Jr. The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both. Carl Sagan
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. William Shakespeare
It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished. Fulton J. Sheen
Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life slow down and let go. Oriah Mountain Dreamer
The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down. Stephen Richards
Peaceful is the one who’s not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself. Rumi
One thing you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready made path. It is not so cheap, to reach to the ultimate realization of truth. You will have to create the path by walking yourself; the path is not ready made, lying there and waiting for you. It is just like the sky the birds fly, but they don’t leave any footprints. You cannot follow them; there are no footprints left behind. Osho
Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives. Brené Brown
I have lived with several Zen masters all of them cats. Eckhart Tolle
Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it. Richard Rohr
Rejection is an opportunity for your selection. Bernard Branson
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life. William Blake
I’m not afraid of death because I don’t believe in it. It’s just getting out of one car, and into another. John Lennon
You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you. Julia Cameron
The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God. Rob Bell
At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it. Thich Nhat Hanh
Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an tho a cloud’s shape nor hue nor size don’t stay the same, it’s still a cloud an so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud’s blowed from or who the soul’ll be morrow? Only Sonmi the east an the west an the compass an the atlas, yay, only the atlas o clouds. David Mitchell
What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body. Caroline Myss
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn, or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. Denis Waitley
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. Albert Einstein
He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself. Albert Schweitzer
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again. Joseph Campbell
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them. Vincent McNabb
Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man. Zhuangzi
The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love. Marianne Williamson
Re examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul. Walt Whitman
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. Henri Nouwen
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed. The insight into the mystery of life, coupled though it be with fear, has also given rise to religion. To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness. Albert Einstein
When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you. Stephen Richards
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. Mahatma Gandh
The words I Love You kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second. Aberjhani
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from. Elizabeth Kübler Ross
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance. Viktor E. Frankl
If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation. Osho
We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That’s it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper. Sam Harris
Sometimes religion gets in the way of God. Bono
Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer. Crying includes all the principles of Yoga. Kripalvanandji
You have to expect spiritual warfare whenever you stand up for righteousness or call attention to basic values. It’s just a matter of light battling the darkness. But the light wins every time. You can’t throw enough darkness on light to put it out. Thomas Kinkade
Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people. You become vulnerable and can be easily hurt when your feelings of security and happiness depend on the behavior and actions of other people. Never give your power to anyone else. Brian Weiss
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. Jack Kornfield
I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the way and sees life not as a competition. They reach the summit last because they know God isn’t at the top waiting for them. He is down below helping his followers to understand that the view is glorious where ever you stand. Shannon Alder
Realization is not the acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage. Ramana Maharshi
With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you that’s my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you. Osho
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear. Daniel Defoe
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. Pope John Paul II
Energy can’t be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere. Keanu Reeves
You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret you return to the beauty you have always been. Aberjhani
Wake up and live. Bob Marley
Self talk reflects your innermost feelings. Dr. Asa Don Brown
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own. Barbara Kingsolver
No matter your religious or spiritual beliefs for every person who inhales and exhales you are alive, you can dream. Georgia Dawkins
You are one thing only. You are a Divine Being. An all powerful Creator. You are a Deity in jeans and a t shirt, and within you dwells the infinite wisdom of the ages and the sacred creative force of All that is, will be and ever was. Anthon St. Maarten
Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. Hermann Hesse
Folks, it’s time to evolve. That’s why we’re troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything’s failing? It’s because, um they’re no longer relevant. We’re supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right? Bill Hicks
God will test you because he wants you to grow up. He wants you to mature. He wants you to develop a walk with him that is not based on your fluctuating emotions but on your commitment to him as you learn to walk by faith. Greg Laurie
If you don’t behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave. Fulton J. Sheen
Good humor and laughter are far too wonderful not to come straight from the heart of God. Beth Moore
I once listened to an Indian on television say that God was in the wind and the water, and I wondered at how beautiful that was because it meant you could swim in Him or have Him brush your face in a breeze. Donald Miller
The reality of loving God is loving him like he’s a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely gave you some stuff. Criss Jami
The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it. Henri J.M. Nouwen
Big heartedness is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey. Matthew Fox
The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought. Dan Brown
Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light. Francine Rivers
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. Susan B. Anthony
Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force. Franklin D. Roosevelt
As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life. Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind. Anthony de Mello
Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved. Jane Goodall
Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself. Believe in yourself, your abilities and your own potential. Never let self doubt hold you captive. You are worthy of all that you dream of and hope for. Roy T. Bennett
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we’re alive to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. Elisabeth Kübler Ross
Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you. Aberjhani
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Ludwig van Beethoven
Beautify your inner dialogue. Beautify your inner world with love light and compassion. Life will be beautiful. Amit Ray
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves. Alan Watts
The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. Black Elk
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. Francis of Assisi
Our way of thinking creates good or bad outcomes. Stephen Richards
You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple. Anthony de Mello
There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow. Aaron Lauritsen
When you realize there is no lacking, the whole world belongs to you. Lao Tzu
These things will destroy the human race politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness, and worship without awareness. Anthony de Mello
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world. George Eliot
Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light. Imam Al Haddad
Love is the doorway through which the human soul passes from selfishness to service. Jack Hyles
The spiritualization of sensuality is called love it is a great triumph over Christianity. Friedrich Nietzsche
If you think you’re enlightened, go spend a week with your family. Ram Dass
Happy people produce. Bored people consume. Stephen Richards
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. Calvin Coolidge
Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature. Amit Ray
Let the breath lead the way. Sharon Salzberg
If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self righteous, or if it led you to kill in God’s name, it was bad theology. Karen Armstrong
Happy people build their inner world; unhappy people blame their outer world. Dalai Lama
What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute. Aberjhani
When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they? Virginia Woolf
It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that, they are getting people killed. This is really my concern. My concern is that our religions, the diversity of our religious doctrines, is going to get us killed. I’m worried that our religious discourse our religious beliefs are ultimately incompatible with civilization. Sam Harris
Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face. Dolores del Río
Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go. Rebecca Solnit
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. Margaret Fuller
If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit. Thomas Merton
I see poetry as spiritual medicine. Mahmoud Darwish
Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there’s a big disappointment, we don’t know if that’s the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don’t know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don’t know. Pema Chödrön
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life. Eckhart Tolle
Soul connections are not often found and are worth every bit of fight left in you to keep. Shannon Alder
Relax into the moment and let the universe do the driving. If there was a secret to happiness in life, I’d say that was it. Jed McKenna
