Spiritual Quotes

If spiritual science is to do the same for spirit that natural science has done for nature, it must investigate quite differently from the latter. It must find ways and means of penetrating into the sphere of the spiritual, a domain which cannot be perceived with outer physical senses nor apprehended with the intellect which is bound to the brain.

~ Rudolf Steiner

They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.

~ Louis Farrakhan

I think that 'Floor Sample' is a story of resiliency, a lifelong spiritual search, and a lifelong sense of spiritual companionship that is most often expressed as creativity. My desire in writing the book was to step from behind the icon of 'Julia the teacher' and introduce 'Julia the artist.'

~ Julia Cameron

You know, if you're a human and living on the planet, it doesn't matter what you do; you are not immune to the challenges, the trials, the difficulty. And that fact that I happen to be a coach and a minister and a spiritual teacher doesn't mean anything. I'm still human.

~ Iyanla Vanzant

I call myself a meditation teacher rather than a spiritual teacher.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Every moral teacher or spiritual adviser gives injunctions about how to live wisely and well. But life is so complicated and full of uncertainty that rules seldom tell us quite what to do.

~ Ian Hacking

One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.

~ Andrew Cohen

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

~ Marianne Williamson

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

The strength people need to proceed along the path of human development can come only from the spiritual worlds.

~ Rudolf Steiner

Living according to the basic gospel principles will bring power, strength, and spiritual self-reliance into the lives of all Latter-day Saints.

~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is labor that keeps the strong man strong. And spiritual labor, toil and burden-bearing, is what will give strength to the church of Christ.

~ Ellen G. White

Self-acknowledgment boosts your emotional and spiritual immunity, giving you the strength you need to release the past and rise above fear, doubt or resignation.

~ Debbie Ford

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

~ Stanislav Grof

Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!

~ Ram Dass

I am more interested in how people interpret the phrase 'Elect The Dead' than what I may or may not have intended. I named the album after the track, which is a spiritual song about love, life and death and is the heaviest song on the album without having any heavy instruments.

~ Serj Tankian

Our socialism does not include extreme materialistic concepts, since Indonesia is primarily a God-fearing, God-loving nation. Our socialism is a mixture. We draw political equality from the American Declaration of Independence. We draw spiritual equality from Islam and Christianity. We draw scientific equality from Marx.

~ Sukarno

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.

~ John Coltrane

Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!

~ Lauryn Hill

Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche.

~ George Crumb

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

~ Ben Harper

Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.

~ Edgar Winter

Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness.

~ Terry Riley

A lot of the girls my age were impressed by silly stuff like money and fame. I wanted to be able to have intellectual and spiritual conversations with someone who was on the same page as me.

~ Nick Cannon

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.

~ Robertson Davies

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

~ Chanakya

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

~ Jimmy Carter

First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes.

~ Dolly Parton

Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may be able to master and to rule them, and in later ages take his place in the creative and directing hierarchies of the universe.

~ Annie Besant

Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.

~ Tariq Ramadan

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

~ Christian Lous Lange

I grew up around a lot of various religions, so it's a part of my consciousness in a way. Everything from heavy Catholicism to followers of Indian spiritual masters to Unitarian universalists - all in one family. Though the family aspect was stronger than any particular dogma.

~ St. Vincent

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

~ Clare Boothe Luce

That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love.

~ Eugene H. Peterson

This much I have learned: human beings come with very different sets of wiring, different interests, different temperaments, different learning styles, different gifts, different temptations. These differences are tremendously important in the spiritual formation of human beings.

~ John Ortberg

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.

~ Alice Foote Macdougall

Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian.

~ Kirk Cameron

The people who misuse the Sabbath lose the blessings of spiritual food and growth promised to those who keep this commandment.

~ Joseph B. Wirthlin