Spiritual Quotes

The true servant makes no difference between a small piece of work and a so-called big piece of work, for all works is the Lord's. It is the egoist who makes such difference for his own glorification.

~ Swami Sharnanand Ji

It is better for you to read the Holy Bible, for your own enlightenment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

For true liberation, the only war we need to win is the war between presence and ego.

~ John Maiorana (Oohgiovanni)

Spread the light of love in the spirit of purity of the soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When your spiritual capacity becomes stagnant, the oil stops flowing

~ Ikechukwu Izuakor

The more we try to control the things outside of us the more we lose control of our mind.

~ Jennifer White

Self-knowledge, a spiritual metamorphosis, precedes understanding other people and comprehending the beauty of being part of the spontaneous interplay of the natural world.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

I used to think that if I could talk to the spirit world, I'd get some answers. Ha bloody ha. I wish the dead would just come out and say what they mean instead of being so passive-aggressive about the whole thing.

~ Eden Robinson

I can't talk, or I will throw up!

~ William Shakespeare

The more we accept the holy gospel of Christ Jesus , the more we know God's grace.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The spirit of life, the spirit of peace.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every situation is a spiritual journey.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every endured a hardship is a discipline in the spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Daily reading of scriptures is essential for your spiritual growth.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The only journey is within your spiritual self.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I will use my special sight! I will quiet myself right here and now and I will get the answer on what to do to and create my own way out of here!” Arthur, See the Little People…An Enchanting Adventure

~ Chris Disano Davenport

Throw everything away, forget about it all! You are learning too much, remembering too much, trying too hard . . . relax a little bit, give life a chance to flow its own way, unassisted by your mind and effort. Stop directing the river’s flow.

~ Mooji

Prayer is a powerful force.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Real men are advocates for women's rights.

~ Basia Christ

Three deep cravings of the self, three great expressions of man's restlessness, which only mystic truth can fully satisfy. The first is the craving which makes him a pilgrim and a wanderer. It is the longing to go out from his normal world in search of a lost home, a 'better country'; an Eldorado, a Sarras, a Heavenly Syon. The next is the craving of heart for heart, of the Soul for its perfect mate, which makes him a lover. The third is the craving for inward purity and perfection, which makes him an ascetic, and in the last resort a saint.

~ Evelyn Underhill

The best self is a beautiful spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In order to gain gender equality, women and men must work together, equally, to teach our daughters and sons to embrace our differences, respect each others' opinions, and remove stereotypes to what a girl or boy should aspire.

~ Basia Christ

True love is deep spiritual affection.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Deep spiritual affection is divinity of two souls but oneness in spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The Holy Scriptures are spiritual truths.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is spiritual voyage.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The talk that does not touch the world is called alaukik [that, which is beyond the world].

~ Dada Bhagwan

Where there is no ‘superior’, no underhand; such is the moksha [ultimate liberation] of the Vitaraag Lords [the enlightened ones] that I would like to have.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Worldly life means [state of continuous] agitation and uneasiness. What makes one like it, it is a wonder in itself!

~ Dada Bhagwan

As long as there is worldly life, one is going to attain physical body, and as long as there is a body, there will be worldly miseries and troubles.

~ Dada Bhagwan

For seventy years we have been brushing our teeth and yet they have not become clean, so is that thing for real or is it a falsity?

~ Dada Bhagwan

What is the nature of the worldly life (sansar)? God lives in every living being of the world, that means if you oppress any living being or cause misery to them, then adharma (unrighteousness, irreligion) will occur. The result (effect) of adharma will be against your desires and the result of dharma (righteousness, religion) will be favorable to your desires.

~ Dada Bhagwan

When you ‘oblige’ someone, things will happen according to your wishes, and if you harm someone, things will happen against your wishes.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The world is like a mirror; it reflects (shows) everything exactly the way it is. If there is a defect, it will reflect (show) that defect.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If you are lost while travelling on the road, then if you ask a guide of the road, you will find the right way. Similarly, people have become lost on their way to moksha. They will find a solution when they meet the One (Gnani, the Enlightened One) who is familiar with the way to moksha. ‘We’ are that guide to moksha [the ultimate liberation]!

~ Dada Bhagwan

The religions of the world believe abandh (discharge part) as bandh (bondage; charging of new karma) and they have no idea about what causes bandh (bondage, charging of new karma).

~ Dada Bhagwan

The whole world believes that performing good deeds is dharma (religion). Performing good deeds is known as laukik dharma (worldly religion, that religion which does not lead us to self-realization but binds merit karmas).

~ Dada Bhagwan

When can it be said that one has entered into spirituality? Spirituality begins from the moment one gets the slight impression ‘I am somewhat different from this [the body?]’ And when dehadhyas, the belief of ‘I am the body, the relative self’, goes away; that is when spirituality is complete.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Worries and sufferings are helpful for (one’s) spiritual development.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If one wants to go to Mumbai from Baroda, he will ‘like’ all the signs towards the south. And if he wants to go to Delhi, he will like all the signs towards the north. One can tell what path he is on from what he ‘likes’. There are many paths, not just one. As many minds as there are, there are that many ways and they are all intellect-based opinions. Where one is guided by the intellectual opinions, there is nothing but aimless wandering there. Only the opinions of the Vitaraag Lords (the enlightened ones) is a “safe side”!

~ Dada Bhagwan