Spirituality Quotes

Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is found in the life of God itself. They do not do this because it sounds edifying, but because this is the way that human nature seems to work. We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.

~ Karen Armstrong

Truth is not a path you follow, but one created by your footsteps.

~ Frederick Dodson

The whole banquet is in the first spoonful.

~ Deepak Chopra

On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: either it is good for you, or it is bringing up what you need to look at in order to create good for you. Evolution is win-win…life is self-correcting.

~ Deepak Chopra

Situations seem to happen to people, but in reality, they unfold from deeper karmic causes. The universe unfolds to itself, bringing to bear any cause that needs to be included. Don’t take this process personally. The working out of cause and effect is eternal. You are part of this rising and falling that never ends, and only by riding the wave can you ensure that the waves don’t drown you. The ego takes everything personally, leaving no room for higher guidance or purpose. If you can, realize that a cosmic plan is unfolding and appreciate the incredibly woven tapestry for what it is, a design of unparalleled marvel.

~ Deepak Chopra

Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.

~ Ann Voskamp

Remember that self-doubt is as self-centered as self-inflation. Your obligation is to reach as deeply as you can and offer your unique and authentic gifts as bravely and beautifully as you're able.

~ Bill Plotkin

Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me understand it more completely. Perhaps the best way to phrase it is to say that meditation showed me that the other side of anxiety is desire. They exist in relationship to each other, not independently.

~ Mark Epstein

when the need is in the mind, you cannot satisfy the need

~ Miguel Ruiz

In the light of trust, as it develops slowly over time, you will find that you are a privileged child of the universe, entirely safe, entirely supported, entirely loved.

~ Deepak Chopra

People don’t realize, he said, how important it is to wake up every morning with a song in your heart.” J. Krishnamurti. “The song stands for a sense of joy in existence, a joy that is free of any good or bad choices.

~ Deepak Chopra

Without silence, there cannot be any real appreciation in life, which is as delicate in its inner fabric as a closed rosebud.

~ Deepak Chopra

If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

~ C.s. Lewis

The true Love Dare. To move into His presence and listen to His love unending and know the grace uncontainable. This is the vault of the miracles. The only thing that can change us, the world, is this- all His love.

~ Ann Voskamp

It would seem that unless we see through and beyond the physical, we shall not even see the physical as we ought to see it: as the very vehicle for the glory of God

~ Elisabeth Elliot

You have no choice. You must leave your ego on the doorstep before you enter love.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Listen to the air. You can hear it, feel it, smell it, taste it. Woniya wakan—the holy air—which renews all by its breath. Woniya, woniya wakan—spirit, life, breath, renewal—it means all that. Woniya—we sit together, don’t touch,but something is there; we feel it between us, as a presence. A good way to start thinking about nature, talk about it. Rather talk to it, talk to the rivers, to the lakes, to the winds as to our relatives.

~ John (Fire) Lame Deer

You is.Within Me!We are ONE.

~ Arnaud Saint-Paul

There’s no value in digging shallow wells in a hundred places. Decide on one place and dig deep. Even if you encounter a rock, use dynamite and keep going down. If you leave that to dig another well, all the first effort is wasted and there is no proof you won’t hit rock again. (52)

~ Swami Satchidananda

Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries. Devote it in meditation to the task of freeing itself from illusion, and we will find that, with time, patience, discipline, and the right training, our mind will begin to unknot itself and know its essential bliss and clarity.

~ Sogyal Rinpoche

Love is sacrifice. Love sacrifices itself for its neighbor.

~ Thaddeus Of Vitovnica

Wake up, live your life and sing the melody of your soul.

~ Amit Ray

If I told you about a land of love...would you swallow it as a remedy?

~ Yunus Emre

Look at your life as your main career and your divine classroom.

~ Judith Orloff

Our kingdom is our life, and our life is our kingdom. We are all meant to rule from a glorious place. When God is on the throne, then so are we. When God is in exile, our lands are at war and our kingdoms are in chaos.

~ Marianne Williamson

[C]oncepts of dying in to a heaven or hell seem a good deal more political than spiritual. (124)

~ Stephen Levine

There may be hostility and ambivalence, there may even be no responses and those are the worst because it means people do not care. Yet all of these are part of the parcel of land that we call human experience and spirituality. The deep lows and pinnacled heights as well as the wonderful things in what one priest called the lowlands of mundania. This book is not for you if you are looking for hatred on atheists, religionists or just looking for reasons to justify yourself.

~ Leviak B. Kelly

We think we've seen it all before, we think we know it all by heart.

~ Luanne Rice

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

~ Thomas Merton

How often do we talk just to fill up the quiet space? How often do we waste our breath talking about nonsense?

~ Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

There is no life without death.

~ Kyle Idleman

If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.

~ Rod Serling

There is not a moment in which God does not present Himself under the cover of some pain to be endured, of some consolation to be enjoyed, or of some duty to be performed. All that takes place within us, around us, or through us, contains and conceals His divine action.

~ Jean-Pierre De Caussade

Today I want to belong. I want to feel safe and at home. I want to be aware of what it is like simply to be, without defenses or desires. I will appreciate the flow of life for what it is-my own true self. I will notice those moments of intimacy with myself, when I feel that “I am” is enough to sustain me forever. I will lie on the grass at one with nature, expanding until my being fades into the infinite.

~ Deepak Chopra

Meditation is an essential travel partner on your journey of personal transformation. Meditation connects you with your soul,and this connection gives you access to your intuition, your heartfelt desires, your integrity, and the inspiration to create a life you love.

~ Sarah Mclean

Love manifests its reality in deeds, not only in words-these alone are without effect.

~ Abdu'l-Bahá

At the last, this is what will determine a fulfilling, meaningful life, a life that, behind all the facades, every one of us longs to live: gratitude for the blessings that expresses itself by becoming the blessing.

~ Ann Voskamp

The views of others reflect not at all upon you unless you allow them to. Their views are colored by their own life experiences: their fears, their loves, their hatreds, their needs, their insecurities. Nothing you can say will ever change their minds. Only they can do that. What better way to show them the error of their ways than to demonstrate to them that the Light that they revere is in every path to spirituality? To lead and instruct by being the best that we can be, always? And that darkness can be found in anyone, in any faith, and that it is not so much to be feared so long as it is in balance with the Light within. Balance is the key. Tolerance is the way.

~ Madelyn Alt

Honor your desire for a new life. Say yes to the small inklings of interest and curiosity that present themselves each day.

~ Lynn A. Robinson

In a culture of hyper-consumption the advertising industry has brainwashed many people into believing they can raise their status just by driving a particular brand of whatever it is they are pushing at you.

~ Stephen Richards