Spiritual Life Quotes

Every shed tears is a prayer.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Heavenly Father, your ears are ever open to our prayers.Save us now!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Prayer is an act of worship to God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Prayerful life, blessed life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

By the time we were knit in our mothers' wombs, our lives were like open books before Him--every sentence read, every paragraph indented, every chapter titled, every page numbered. He knew it all in advance--all the sin, all the selfishness, every weakness. Yet He chose to love us--lavishly.

~ Beth Moore

When we infuse our actions with a focus on God and on the many blessings we receive in even the most mundane moments of our lives, we create sacred rituals that bring a sense of holiness, a sense of wholeness, to what we do and who we are. Like the Eucharistic feast that nourishes our heart and soul, every meal we eat with mindfulness[,] each bite we take with gratitude, has the power to transform us inside and out, for all time.

~ Mary Deturris Poust

Seeing Oneam undone!Enemy norlo! friend-sans One-is none.That! is amOne-o-One!

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Even if things do not work out as you thought they should for you, they do - in their own way, as they were meant to.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

My only journey is one within my self...My only path is one through my soul.

~ Pushpendra Pundhir

Blessed are you who forgive.You will forever be happy.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

True freedom is when all the stories, all the insights, all the realizations, concepts, beliefs and positions dissolve. What remains is what you are; a vast, conscious, luminous space simply resting in itself, not knowing a thing, at the point where all things are possible.

~ Enza Vita

When you are truly awakened, you have completely stopped trying to become awakened. You simply are. You know that you did not locate awakening; awakening located you.

~ Enza Vita

All paths are valid, but in the end you will find that the realization of the ultimate truth is a pathless path.

~ Enza Vita

Being enlightened ironically means realizing that there is no separate entity that can be enlightened or unenlightened.

~ Enza Vita

It’s only the ego that wants to surrender the ego, the real meaning of surrender does not involve anything external. It means to surrender to your true nature.

~ Enza Vita

Realization includes everything, the mundane and the transcendental. In true awakening, nothing stands apart and nothing is excluded. If we find ourselves in a state where something is excluded, that state, however amazing it is, is still a dualistic state.

~ Enza Vita

You aren’t actually a someone, a person, who is conscious. You are the awake space of awareness itself, within which all the “thought up” entities in your world appear. Out of all these imagined entities, you have simply made the mistake of thinking that one of them is you.

~ Enza Vita

Realization is not about you, the wave, realizing it is ocean. The ocean realizes itself in you and reveals itself to have never been just a wave. Nothing changes except the falling away of a false belief.

~ Enza Vita

Looking forward” to what you think enlightenment might be at some grand point in the future keeps you from seeing the truth of its presence right now.

~ Enza Vita

Awareness is that which is reading these words right now, whatever “that” is. You know without a doubt that there is something reading these words right now and awareness is precisely what that is.

~ Enza Vita

Not knowing anything, not searching for anything, understanding that we can’t hold on to anything, leaves us with nothing — nothing except our original nature, pure awareness.

~ Enza Vita

The one who believes himself to be a person needs to try to find that person. This is a solution, an antidote, offered to a ghost that thinks it actually exists.

~ Enza Vita

The One that experiences itself as your body-mind is the same One that experiences itself in every other body-mind, form, or appearance that exists.

~ Enza Vita

Just knowing that there is no gate to pass through doesn’t mean that we are at the end of the search, not if we are still standing outside that gateless gate.

~ Enza Vita

At the moment of enlightenment, everything is dropped—body, mind, all states, all things—everything. At that moment, there is no separate entity that can become enlightened, because there is no I that can experience it.

~ Enza Vita

Nothing can be the total truth in the worlds of manifestation and the more solid your concepts, the more likely they are going to sink you, sooner or later.

~ Enza Vita

Anything that appears and disappears cannot actually be you because it is being observed by you. By removing the attention from these things and noticing what remains, you are left only with what is permanent — the truth of who you are.

~ Enza Vita

Even amazing states of bliss, peace, clarity and spaciousness have nothing to do with awakening as these are just experiences coming and going in the impersonal awareness that you are.

~ Enza Vita

In enlightenment, the seer and the seen disappear. Or, more accurately, are seen through as illusions. In reality, they were never there, apart from being concept and misunderstanding.

~ Enza Vita

In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.

~ Brennan Manning

The divinity of the soul; life, light and love.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The light within us gives power for good actions.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is light within your soul. Let it shine.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Trust in the Lord brings much hope, joy and peace.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Following a spiritual path doesn't mean we won't feel emotional pain. But faith gives us the grace and the courage to get through it and the knowing that we will heal and be a better person for it.

~ Eileen Anglin

Truth will screw with you every which way, before it lets you to be anywhere near itself.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

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

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

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

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

How did I get 'IT'? - By crying, begging, yelping! - Any of this helping?

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

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

~ Matshona Dhliwayo