Spirituality Quotes

Within what is allotted to us, we can have spiritual contentment.

~ Neal A. Maxwell

The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism I was supposed to transcend. Now I was beginning to understand that a silence that is not clamorous with vexation and worried self-regard can become part of the texture of your mind, can seep into you, moment by moment, and gradually change you.

~ Karen Armstrong

And once you've been to this Center, this Truth, you'll know your way everywhere. You are never lost again.

~ David Housholder

Because materialists cannot understand Krsna spiritually, they are advised to concentrate the mind on physical things and try to see how Krsna is manifested by physical representations.

~ A.c. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.

~ Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

~ Richard Rohr

We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don´t know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should identify with or believe in. So many contradictory voices, dictates, and feelings fight for control over our inner lives that we find ourselves scattered everywhere, in all directions, leaving nobody at home.Meditation, then, is bringing the mind home.

~ Sogyal Rinpoche

Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.

~ Aberjhani

Joy is thankfulness, and when we are joyful, that is the best expression of thanks we can offer the Lord, Who delivers us from sorrow and sin.

~ Thaddeus Of Vitovnica

Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

~ Anthony De Mello

Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.

~ Ann Voskamp

The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of the eyes. We don't have to change what we see. Only the way we see.

~ Ann Voskamp

How my eyes see, perspective, is my key to enter into His gates. I can only do so with thanksgiving. If my inner eye has God seeping up through all things, then can't I give thanks for anything? And if I can give thanks for the good things, the hard things, the absolute everything, I can enter the gates to glory. Living in His presence is fullness of joy- and seeing shows the way in.

~ Ann Voskamp

As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams.

~ W.b. Yeats

Frequently we do not leave the past behind. We clasp on to it. We dissect it, and let fears for the future, tempered by the past, unconsciously prevent us from taking up the task eternal.

~ Ray Simpson

I'd rather be single, happy, and lonely sometimes than married, lonely, and happy sometimes.

~ Mark Fiore

When you are standing at a crossroads in your life, realizethat the greatest block that you can put in front of your Self is the ideathat there is a ‘right’ choice.

~ Story Waters

When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.

~ Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

It may actually be more healthy to be disturbed, confused, or searching than confident, certain, and secure.

~ Mark Scandrette

I've never heard anyone say I wish I hadn't forgiven.

~ Katerina Stoykova Klemer

AS YOU GIVE OUT SO SHALL YOU RECEIVE.

~ Michelangelo Buonarroti

To put it simply, the lizard brain is purely concerned with survival.

~ Stephen Richards

Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A child, for whom every object is new, experiences the world in this way: it sees light, is attracted by it, wants to grasp it, burns its finger in the process, and thus learns fear and respect for the flame.

~ Wassily Kandinsky

Becoming wealthy is about accumulating wealth.

~ Stephen Richards

I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance.

~ Guru Nanak

There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star something happened, and everything began. The Word did not come into being, but it was. It did not break upon the silence, but it was older than the silence and the silence was made of it.

~ N. Scott Momaday

Perfectionists are not all negative, miserable, unhappy and over controlling individuals

~ Asa Don Brown

Love transforms pleasure into pain.

~ Al-Busiri

She was startled. But you're human, aren't you?In some ways yes. But in other ways I'm a stranger to your kind. I have a friend who calls you plucked angels, and he claims you're a total waste of spirit. Do you ever think like that?Of course, in honest moments. But I can be just as honest and think that we aren't a spiritual waste but a spiritual potential waiting to grow.

~ Deepak Chopra

As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings, and fits of emotions begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior. We see clearly that choices are possible: we can say yes, or we can say no.... All we are is the result of what we have thought. By changing our mode of thinking, we can remake ourselves completely.

~ Eknath Easwaran

I believe that God gives you hopes and dreams in a size that's too large, so you have something to grow into.

~ Lynn A. Robinson

There is a place for what my heart tells me about you, and there is no shame or guilt in it. God Himself is free to look in my heart right this instant and I know He would not shame or admonish me about what He would see there because the pure, ego-less truth of how I hold you in my heart deserves to be kept alive.

~ Mark Fiore

Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want.

~ Rob Bell

Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?

~ Ann Voskamp

Introverted seekers need introverted evangelists. It's not that extroverts can't communicate the gospel, either verbally or nonverbally, in ways that introverts find appealing, it's that introverted seekers need to know and see that it's possible to lead the Christian life as themselves. It's imperative for them to understand that becoming a Christian is not tantamount with becoming an extrovert.

~ Adam S. Mchugh

Perhaps the day will come where the validity of one's spirituality will be judged not by the correctness of one's theology but by the authenticity of one's spiritual life. When that day comes, an authentically spiritual Buddhist and an authentically spiritual Christian may find that they have more in common with each other than they do with those in their respective religions who have failed to develop their spirituality. (Beyond Religion, p. 98)

~ David N. Elkins

When flowing water...meets with obstacles on its path, a blockage in its journey, it pauses. It increases in volume and strength, filling up in front of the obstacle and eventually spilling past it...Do not turn and run, for there is nowhere worthwhile for you to go. Do not attempt to push ahead into the danger... emulate the example of the water: Pause and build up your strength until the obstacle no longer represents a blockage.

~ Thomas Cleary

The freshness of my eyes is given to me in prayer.

~ Anonymous

To reach back and help, and expect neither reward nor even thanks.To reach back and help, because that is what spiritual beings do.

~ Brian L. Weiss

Don't seek love externally, it's fleeting. Go beyond the ego and awaken thelove that already exists within; it will encompass everyone andeverything in your life; it will permeate your very being.

~ Danielle Pierre