Spiritual Development Quotes

No book dropped from up there. If it did, you say, then something is screwed up somewhere between your neck, and the top of your head.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Even the Master, in one way or another, is a student throughout life.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Testimony in new age writing affirms the way in which embracing a love ethic transforms life for the good. Yet a lot of this information only reaches those of us who have class privilege. And often, individuals whose lives are rich in spiritual and material well-being, who have diverse friends from all walks of life who nurture their personal integrity, tell the rest of the world these things are impossible to come by. I am talking here about the many prophets of doom who tell us that racism will never end, sexism is here to stay the rich will never share their resources. We would all be surprised if we could enter their lives for a day. Much of what they are telling us cannot be had, they have. But in keeping with a capitalist-based notion of well-being, they really believe there is not enough to go around, that the good life can only be had by a few.

~ Bell Hooks

God expects you to have the mentality of a conqueror. See yourself as a victor in Christ Jesus, and go about life with a holy swagger!

~ Pedro Okoro

it’s more important to struggle with a question than to come up with an answer.

~ Edward Shirley

I've known humans, and I know beasts. The beast is better. It is unpretentious. It kills for food. Humans do 'cause they're just not any good.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

If your religion requires, as an article of faith, to hate people of other religions and faiths, you and your ism are screwed up, mate.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

The 2 Perfect Recipes for Rearing & Raising Godly Children are: Stay On Your Knees for Direction & Stand On Your feet as an Example

~ Agu Jaachynma N.e.

Come on, let your silly egotistical self be gone! And then only THAT WHICH IS will be shown.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

The unwholesome may be otherwise, but the Whole is ever holy.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Once there is realization of self challenge, ego versus soul, competition with others becomes futile.

~ T.f. Hodge

If your needs are little, you are rich enough.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Acceptance means events can make it through you without resistance

~ Michael Singer

It's always best to feel fulfilled first, before finding a man. Then you'll know the value of yourself, and you'll hold the key to your own happiness. So you won't turn into a vulnerable, needy, emotional mess the minute you fall in love.

~ Menna Van Praag

(Bonhoeffer's) change was not an ungainly, embarrassing leap from which he would have to retreat slightly when he gained more maturity and perspective. It was by all accounts a deepening consistent with what had gone before.

~ Eric Metaxas

Deepening awareness and nonjudgmental acceptance of one’s thoughts fosters a new relationship with them, creating the space to purposefully shift mental focus away from the ruminative thought patterns that pave the road to suffering.

~ Dan Mager

Following the Universal Way means practicing selflessness and extending virtue to the world unconditionally. In this way one not only eliminates the heavy contamination accumulated throughout many lifetimes but may also bring about the possibility of restoring one's original divine nature and become an integral being of the multi-universe.

~ Lao Tzu

Not by refraining from action does man attain freedom from action. Not by mere renunciation does he attain supreme perfection.

~ Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

Today religious nuts outnumber monkey nuts in the world.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Staring thus closely at time we suddenly realize that what many look upon as a bromide is really a bombshell; namely, the fact that there is no time like the present. Indeed, no! For it is the only time God grants to any of us. He does not give us years, months, days, or even hours. He grants us nothing but the truly, indivisible, yet immense and immeasurable, Now. This is your time - part of your hour.

~ M. Raymond

Prayer's value is not that it makes challenges go away,but that it changes my perception and experience within them.~ Life at First Sight: Finding the Divine in the Details

~ Phyllis Edgerly Ring

Without our Spiritual nature, life's a gift we can never fully unwrap.~ With Thine Own Eyes: Why Imitate the Past, When We Can Investigate Reality?

~ Ron Tomanio

After your daily bread, if you ask God for anything, ask 'him' to make you right in the head.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

If I bad mouth the Truth, and nothing but the Absolute Truth, then, kick my butt. Otherwise, ye of bad faith, keep your stupid trap shut.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

The 'Good News' is, the messiah cometh. The bad news is, he never does.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Truth in, untruth out. Seek thus, within-without

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Life is too short to bullshit.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

But there is no such being as an ordinary man or woman if by ordinary you mean what so many people mean: negligible. Each human being is so tremendous that he or she merits a reverence that is really religious. For each is a creation of God; each a mirror of Divinity; each a feature or a facet on the Face of Christ; each an object of constant care and concern to the Trinity. There is nothing ordinary in the sense that so many of us use that word, about any human being.

~ M. Raymond

Be great. Get thy Self. Know who you are. Beyond this body, and being. You are more than what you're seeing.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Five acts - humility, gratitude, vegetarianism, yearning, and crying - get you It. Have you tried it?

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

The power to change comes from within and they have to want to change. Instead, be a role model and encourage by example.

~ Sharon Law Tucker

If your fancied god hates those you hate, then, this bumbling idiot is as little, and as buggered, as you are, O' little one.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

God wants you to face the reasons why you separate yourself from Him. He will show you what you fear, what you need, and what you desire. He will inventory your beliefs and values, and help you line them up with His truth.

~ Michael Barbarulo

To move into what God has in mind for you, it is necessary to discover your purpose, to know where you are going, and to understand the reason for your existence.

~ Pedro Okoro

The practice of cultivating altruism has a beneficial effect not only from the religious point of view but also from the mundane point of view, not only for long term spiritual development but even in terms of immediate rewards.

~ Dalai Lama Xiv

The sheer size, extent, and magnitude of the blood vessels tell us two things: the awesomeness of God’s work in man and the fact that as human beings, every one of us is a walking wonder, an amazing work of art.

~ Pedro Okoro

I seem to have contracted a style, yet I'm not quite sure what that style is - except that it won't let me write certain things on Facebook. I have contracted a name too it seems. And a face. And a body. And forty seven different flavors of who am I. I have a mother. I have a father. A sister. And a brother. Friends. Three dogs. A knife. A spoon. Dental Floss and a pair of fancy tight jeans. Is the world waiting for me to save it? What is this thing called World anyway and who was it told me it was false but that I should work like hell to save it? Purifying forty seven flavors of who am I. I've no idea what this means or even if it's allowed on Facebook. Mother, sister, father, brother, friends, dogs - a small sharp knife with a bent point that refuses to fit in the slot. Did God come to tell me She is real? The world false? Did Buddha? It's just an ordinary Wednesday night and I seem to have contracted a style - and a name - and a body - but when I look for the one who did, I can't seem to find him anywhere. Yet here came all these words.Good night, my friends. Sleep. Sleep like you've never slept before.

~ Freddie Owens

Quincy laughed. If I were Elizabeth I shouldn't thank either of you for that comforting diagnosis. Would it do any good to open Aunt Sarai's grave and drive a stake through her? If you believe in as much sorcery as that, you must regret the days of witch-burners, Carew.Carew said quietly, No. Witch-burners were barbarous blunderers. If I wanted to suppress a dangerous letter, could I do it by burning the envelope and leaving the letter loose? The witch would come back unchanged; I should merely have postponed the danger until another time and place. And have further handicapped myself to meet it, by depriving the witch, by violent death, of the years allotted her, or him, for evolution.Joseph said with dry humor, She might not have used them for that, Carew. At least not for your idea of it.Carew shrugged. That would be her responsibility, not mine. And, in any case, she would be that many years nearer the time of her inevitable change.This time Joseph did not answer, only smiled.

~ Evangeline Walton

It is widely unknown, but nonetheless true that Catholicism fervently promotes the 'spiritual disciplines' whereas Protestantism has largely neglected them altogether. Does 'volunteerism' facilitate the formation of Christ's character in us or rather does it reveal our level of Christ-like maturity through the work of the Holy Spirit in us? Jesus modeled son-ship and gave all of His time, shared his talents,and invested all of His treasure while affirming others as He proclaimed through demonstrations the Kingdom of God.'Christ-likeness cannot be self-efforted' (Woods, 2007). ~R. Alan Woods [2013]

~ R. Alan Woods

Some quotes from Standing Stark:“The mind is the charioteer of experience, while the body is the vehicle that carries out the orders of its driver. The gift we have been given is the one called possibility, whose intent offers to tie all together, creating strands of a whole life rather than a disintegrated one.”“It is our own microcosmic journey that gives life meaning and weaves us into the macrocosm of existence. Life does begin with each of us. It then expands outward to touch others with how we live.”“At some time in our lives, we receive a signal to arouse from a deep sleep. If we answer the cue, we set out on a journey toward authenticity that takes us into the unknown. We begin to separate from the selves we thought we were and search for who we are.”“Set your intent and let it go. Your intent is your beginning. Worrying about the details detracts from the intent. In your strong intent, the attraction will take care of the details.”“The conscious realization I offer now is that when we learn to trust, we will be led to all we ever need. Our only job is to be awake and follow the lead.”“We can gauge the measure of truth in our lives by the lightness of our body, emotions and energy. We need only be aware in any given moment of the state of our being, and be guided. This is what we are asked to do on the spiritual path. We aren’t headed for a continuing chaotic free fall, but an order of divine nature.”“After all, if we’re on the spiritual path, we can trust that there is much we don’t know. These mysteries are hidden from us until we are ripe. The paradox is that we frantically attempt to know in order to surrender to the place of not knowing! The other paradox is that there are no mysteries because the cues are surrounding us all the time. We’re just too tied up to recognize them.”“There comes a time when we are knowingly left with the ramifications of the choices we make. While it would be comforting to think that the progressions we undertake will be painless and smooth, any change involves conflict between what was and what will be. Therein lies the opportunity for learning and alignment to an authentic life.”“Words are the shell. They feed intellectual knowledge. What lies in the middle of words is the seed that, if presented and embraced in a certain way, will take us to the place we seek.

~ Carla Woody