Spirituality Quotes

When our institutions lack movement to propel them forward, the Spirit, I believe, simply moves around them, like a current flowing around a rock in a stream...without that soul work that teaches us to open our deepest selves to God and ground our souls in love, no movement will succeed and no institution will stand...it is the linking of action and contemplation, great work and deep spirituality, that keeps goodness, rightness, beauty, and aliveness flowing...as Pope Francis has said, this moment calls for social poets: sincere and creative people who will rise on the wings of faith to catch the wind of the Spirit, the wind of justice, joy, and peace. (p. 180)

~ Brian D. Mclaren

...churches would aim to take people at every age and ability level and help them become the most loving version of themselves possible. They would help people face the challenges of life--challenges that could make them bitter, self-absorbed, callous, or hateful--with openness, courage, and generosity. (p. 54)

~ Brian D. Mclaren

There is no wisdom for a man without harmony, and without harmony there is no contemplation. Without contemplation there cannot be peace, and without peace can there be joy?

~ Juan Mascaró

You are the author of your life. If you don't like how it goes, write it differently.

~ Iva Kenaz

The only power God recognizes in His church is the power of His Spirit whereas the only power actually recognized today by the majority of evangelicals is the power of man.

~ A.w. Tozer

Play is a sacred act. When we are playing, the essence of all creation flows freely through us. We are expressing our true nature and connecting with the very core of our existence. Nothing is more spiritual than that.

~ Victor Shamas

Southerners had a long tradition of looking for religious significance in even the most humble forms of nature, and I always preferred the explanations of folklore to the icy interpretations of science.

~ Pat Conroy

Your disbelief in God does not determine His existence. God is. Period. Whether you believe it or not.

~ J.e.b. Spredemann

When we 'lose ourselves' in play, we find something greater--the nameless, formless, and mysterious essence of all creation.

~ Victor Shamas

Going through fear is one thing, being beyond it is another.

~ Dyrr Keusseyan

I start every morning with a Rosicrucian ritual, meditation and exercise. I can't separate myself from this habit of connecting myself to the other realm every day, not anymore, because I'm actually more there than here. I always was, but now I know how to maintain this balance, even in solitude.

~ Robin Sacredfire

Play is my Way. Fun is my destiny. Love and joy are my religion.

~ Victor Shamas

I don’t see doctrines, when I talk about religions. All I see are different experiential realities of the one and the same neuronal Kingdom of God.

~ Abhijit Naskar

My name or yours doesn't matter, we all are mere drops in the ocean of divine consciousness, an extension of Supreme Power'.

~ Vishal Chipkar

Spirituality gives strength of spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Attachment is conditional, offers love only to certain people in certain ways; it is exclusive. Love, in the sense of metta, used by Buddha, is a universal, nondiscriminating feeling of caring and connectedness.

~ Jack Kornfield

In an era of globalization, people recognize that they are part of a global society, but they have no idea how to make such a society work. So far, no unified vision or leadership has emerged to guide us in this endeavor. We have not yet found a way to expand the spiritual ideals of democracy so that they pertain to every human being, every animal, and every plant. Until we do, human civilization and the Earth's ecosystem will continue to be in peril.

~ Victor Shamas

In an era of globalization, we recognize that we are part of a global society, but we have no idea how to make such a society work. So far, no unified vision or leadership has emerged to guide us in this endeavor. We have not yet found a way to expand the spiritual ideals of democracy so that they pertain to every human being, every animal, and every plant. Until we do, human civilization and the Earth's ecosystem will continue to be in peril.

~ Victor Shamas

If we could treat every natural resource as a gift rather than a commodity, we would be on the path to sustainability. The difference is that a gift does not belong to us but to the universe. It comes into our lives from a source that is unknown and ultimately unknowable; eventually , it returns to its source.

~ Victor Shamas

We are all equally capable of spiritual awakening. It may not seem that way, at times. Some of us are so caught up in the drama of our day-to-day existence that we have lost track of who we really are. But eventually, all of us will make the discovery of our true nature.

~ Victor Shamas

Self- Perception blossoms only in pure hearts! We have to first win our internal enemies. These are the enemies who damage the strong layer of conscience.

~ Rajasaraswathii

We’re all given gifts in life, it’s what we do with them that shows us what we’ve learned.

~ Lise-Lotte Loomer

Like dust brushed from an old painting, as we journey beneath the surface layers of life, another landscape is revealed.

~ Atalina Wright

Why are we so desperate to escape the material world? Is it really so bleak? Or could it be, rather, that we have made it bleak: obscured its vibrant mystery with our ideological blinders, severed its infinite connectedness with our categories, suppressed its spontaneous order with our pavement, reduced its infinite variety with our commodities, shattered its eternity with our time-keeping, and denied its abundance with our money system?

~ Charles Eisenstein

I closed my eyes and turned my face into the cold wind. When I felt it swept along my skin there was no past. No future. Just now.

~ Nina Hrusa

Do business with honesty irrespective of what happens, whatever happens thereafter is correct. But do not start any accounts (karma).

~ Dada Bhagwan

Spiritual practices performed in the middle of our mundane days bring us into the presence of an astonishing God.

~ Sharla Fritz

It is a mistake to believe other person to be estranged. They all are our own Self’s-forms. However, that has to be realized, right? To believe the other person to be an alien means giving him a beating and that hurts our own-Self.

~ Dada Bhagwan

A strong soul reaches anyplace, anytime; body fails to restrain it. And thus, perhaps soulmates are formed

~ Munia Khan

The ultimate foundation of spirituality is the recognition that there can't be such a thing as a purposeful life in a purposeless universe.

~ Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

A sant is a person who apprehends that truth and reality converge.

~ Unknown

This is a day of celebration!Today, we are divorcing the pastand marrying the present.Dance,and you will find Godin every room.Today, we are divorcing resentmentand marrying forgiveness.Sing,and God will find you in every tune.Today, we are divorcing indifferenceand marrying love.Drink, and play that tambourine against your thighs.We have so much celebrating to do!

~ Kamand Kojouri

You know how it goes:at some point in your life, you fell in love with someone and had a glimpse of God.Then you abandoned life and loverand started celebratingyour love for God.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Of course, I am religious.I worship love.

~ Kamand Kojouri

There’s a huge difference between reading about out-of-body experiences or watching videos about them and lifting out of your body and traveling through space in a different dimension. Why not experience a greater multidimensional reality rather than just reading about it? Discover what science doesn’t know and cannot ever know – it’s your life and you have a choice to break free of the known and live in a different way.

~ Belsebuub

The people who encouraged you to change will oftentimes, after you change, accuse you of having changed.

~ Weam Namou

Chopra concludes his work with, Your goal and mine isn't to imitate Jesus. It is to become part of him----or, as he said, to abide in him.

~ Deepak Chopra

Being grounded is not a punishment. Stay rooted.

~ Dawn Culp

An idea of awakening is not awakening. It’s simply an idea. It’s not the real thing. The real thing happens in our lives.

~ Belsebuub

True spirituality is the place where desperation meets Jesus.

~ Mark Batterson