Spiritual Development Quotes

If you can't appreciate the full worth of my courage, you can't admire my mastery.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

Wise individuals frequently say very little, but what they do say hits the mark. Such remarks often remain in the mind of the recipient for a long time, possibly a lifetime.

~ Donna Goddard

It's tough to get out of one's inherited imbecilic culture, and a thus inherited or endowed lunatic belief system. A freethinker must overcome every deadened system. Especially one's own.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

My desire in life, is to learn what I have to teach; to suck all the marrow of life, and pass it onto others.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

Amazing how things so simple, so often evade us... Remember there's a planet full of people out there, don't mourn over the past. Chin up, rope in those that can pull you up, and cut loose the ones just beneath you, everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't, don't get stuck on one lesson.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

I kindly ask you to place your name in 1 Corinthians 13:4-6. And read it out loud. This verse will help you reflect on your own behavior, to become the right type of person for yourself and others.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

We are more alike than different. We Are One.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

What do you call a slap that`s waiting an inch away from your cheek refusing to back away? A caress

~ Angelos Michalopoulos

A psychic reading is not just about career opportunities, good fortune or meeting tall, dark strangers. It is a sacred portal to manifesting your true destiny.

~ Anthon St. Maarten

where does creativity come from? Creativity comes from the Universe itself. “There is music and poetry in the Universe itself — surely we hear it on planet earth.” And Creativity comes from our joys and sorrows, our deep-hearted experiences. It also comes “from and in the heart of God. All our spiritual traditions the world over agree that creativity follows through the human heart and that it flows from the Divine Heart.”Creativity is seen as a spiritual, inwardly-driven activity, directly influenced by a Higher Power, or God. That is the ultimate in inspiration for me: to know I have “permission” to be creative and to be a creator too.

~ Matthew Fox

Are you kidding me? This is an issue that you need to consider according to your own principles rather than specific rules.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

Any silly ism or stupid book that considers men above women, must be shunned like a lowlife demon. For, all's one, barring none.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

If a religion asks one to kill another just because he or she follows not this ism, nor agrees with it; then, it's a hell-hole, worse than a prison. Run away, and far from it. As though your butt is on fire. And before you, yourself are imprisoned.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

How I treat my daughter today, is how my daughter will treat you, tomorrow.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

Strip yourself naked, of your fancied ideas about What Is. Then, seek It. That Which Is. Otherwise, all you're going to find is dick.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

First rule of spirituality - thou shall not believe in your own bullshit.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Most probably your belief system is screwed up. And so were your ancestors, before you. And now, maybe so are you. Overcome it, you!

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Any religion that cannot stand up to a modern scientific reasoning, and to rational proof, is asinine

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Bricks on your back are easier to carry than pebbles on your soul.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

As much longing for worldly happiness (of 5 senses) there is, that much less is the spiritual development.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah said, Where there is no money, there is no learning. The rabbis explain that unless people's stomachs are full and satisfied, they cannot study, grow spiritually, and do good works.

~ H.w. Charles

We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We drown in the thick sweetness of our sensual excess, and our shameless opulence, while our discontent souls suffocate in the arid wasteland of spiritual deprivation.

~ Anthon St. Maarten

A bird with a broken wing cannot survive nor will a man with a broken spirit endure.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Food for the ego is poison for the soul.

~ Donna Goddard

As you develop, the people around you also develop. As you progress, the world progresses with you to a certain degree.

~ Choa Kok Sui

Any good person who is motivated to attain awareness of the whole truth should follow the Universal Way to calm his mind and harmonize it with all aspects of life.

~ Lao Tzu

I love widely and deeply, the Naive sense of Primitivism I manage to project in my Art. It always gives me a sense that it is not developed or derived from anything else, and it is unaffected by objective reasoning. Very similar to my nomadic life.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties…Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.

~ Elisabeth Tova Bailey

Suffering is an essential component of life. No person escapes suffering, which is indivisible from life itself. Suffering is what places in in contact with the self; it is what allows us to understand the spiritual nature behind our existence.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Serious spiritual practice is more than serene walks in the woods, lit candles and incense. You have to be committed. You have to be willing to enter into your own darkness and transcend it.

~ Maria Erving

Conscious Parenting on Children's Happiness and matrix of influences: 'We live surrounded by an increasingly complex matrix of impulses allowing strangers of all sorts (TV, media, Internet) interfere in our children’s mental, emotional and spiritual development. Understanding this intricate network and how does the human brain interacts with it is increasingly becoming our door to happiness and health.

~ Nataša Nuit Pantović

And here I am. God and I, ever One, and Alone.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Remember that your role in this experience that we call life is quite significant! Never equate your significance to temporary stuff, or in comparison to others – you’re more than that!~Steele Steele

~ Stormie Steele

Dare to oppose yourself.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Not God, but man-made gods kill, by self-will.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Weak people pretend they're perfect. Courageous people acknowledge and confront their weaknesses.

~ Karim Camara

Surround yourself with people who will believe in you, challenge you and encourage you.

~ Karim Camara

Fools follow foolishly their imaginary lookalikes as god. Such silly follies exist not. Seek 'What Is'. And is not.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Truth respects no ism.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

As children play games with imaginary things, initially a seeker indulges in little things. So simple people believe in simple things.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas