Spirituality Quotes

To study the self is to forget the self. Maybe if you sat enough zazen, your sense of being a solid, singular self would dissolve and you could forget about it. What a relief. You could just hang out happily as part of an open-ended quantum array.

~ Ruth Ozeki

Meditation is defined by not just the mode of thinking, but also the object of thought

~ Chaitanya Charan Das

A good man cares about others. A good man has not only selfish desires. He is not only centered in himself. A bad man has no concern for others. He has only selfish concerns. He is centered in his own world.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

Ironically, we may discover that death meditation is not a morbid exercise at all. Only when we lose the use of something taken for granted (whether the telephone or an eye) are we jolted into a recognition of its value. When the phone is fixed, the bandage removed from the eye, we briefly rejoice in their restoration but swiftly forget them again. In taking them for granted, we cease to be conscious of them. In taking life for granted, we likewise fail to notice it. (To the extent that we get bored and long for something exciting to happen.) By meditat- ing on death, we paradoxically become conscious of life.

~ Stephen Batchelor

Love makes you feel at home in existence.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

When we invoke stillness within our consciousness, we have the power to recover the child we forgot that we once were.

~ Daniel St. Clair

Every time I gaze at stars above, I feel small, big, infinite and connected all at the same time, and tonight on the Amazon is no different.

~ Michael Sanders

I sit up and stare with eyes closed, perceiving the infinity of this dimension, so grateful to experience this, comfortable with the idea of this journey either ending shortly or continuing forever.

~ Michael Sanders

Dan explains the trip’s itinerary, which includes trekking through the jungle, boating down the Amazon River, and to my surprise, three Ayahuasca ceremonies.

~ Michael Sanders

If you're searching for something out in the world to bring you happiness, wealth or love, then you are in for a tough journey. The key to success is never out there, but rather within. It is merely a side effect of awakening the divine within!

~ Erin Fall Haskell

Channelling is your higher self streaming through in a version your limited mind can accept. There is no such thing as a separate entity, only the perception of it. You are all of it!

~ Erin Fall Haskell

Only a meditator is able to die consciously as life is an opportunity to prepare for death. Meditation is a death, a death of the ego.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

Only if we live consciously, we can die consciously.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

To be able to die consciously, we need to prepare for death while we are still living.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

No church or synagogue pew can produce a higher awareness of God than sitting at the base of a tree and observing His creation.

~ Donald L. Hicks

Daily mediation is a healthy spiritual exercise.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come and clean away dirty energy. Even smile in your liver.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

This is what it means to be mindful. To watch the thoughts as they come and go without judgment while completely accepting what arises in the present moment.

~ Chris Matakas

Make your life a prayer. Live your mediation.

~ Reba Riley

The universe is something like a powerful radar system that is set up from all sides to record every action and every event that may take place anywhere, even of the least intensity or momentum. Meditation, when it is properly done, is not a silent and non-interfering process of thinking by some individual in some undisturbed corner, but a positive interference with the very structure of the universe and, sometimes, a directly employed system starts working at once and the forces around receive a warning, as it were, that someone is in a state of meditation. Immediately, counter-forces are gathered by what is generally known as the lower nature and the meditation receives a setback.

~ Swami Krishnananda

You are the space in which these thoughts arise, but not the thoughts themselves.

~ Chris Matakas

For many of us, especially being so fortunate to live in a first-world country, the vast majority of pain we experience is due to the seriousness with which we identify with our thoughts.

~ Chris Matakas

Sometimes I just need to be alone with what I believe in.

~ Serina Hernandez

Spirituality is a way of life. it is not just doing meditation.

~ Choa Kok Sui

The Light is always there. How much light comes to you depends on you.

~ Choa Kok Sui

Deep within ourselves, we find the inner being, the inner source of love, which is our true nature. Love is the only reality, because only love works.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

Again and again, counteract the agitation and turbulence of the mind by relaxing more deeply, not by contracting the body or mind.

~ B. Alan Wallace

Observing is not just seeing. It is watching with attention.

~ Ilchi Lee

True freedom is when all the stories, all the insights, all the realizations, concepts, beliefs and positions dissolve. What remains is what you are; a vast, conscious, luminous space simply resting in itself, not knowing a thing, at the point where all things are possible.

~ Enza Vita

When you are truly awakened, you have completely stopped trying to become awakened. You simply are. You know that you did not locate awakening; awakening located you.

~ Enza Vita

All paths are valid, but in the end you will find that the realization of the ultimate truth is a pathless path.

~ Enza Vita

Being enlightened ironically means realizing that there is no separate entity that can be enlightened or unenlightened.

~ Enza Vita

It’s only the ego that wants to surrender the ego, the real meaning of surrender does not involve anything external. It means to surrender to your true nature.

~ Enza Vita

Realization includes everything, the mundane and the transcendental. In true awakening, nothing stands apart and nothing is excluded. If we find ourselves in a state where something is excluded, that state, however amazing it is, is still a dualistic state.

~ Enza Vita

You aren’t actually a someone, a person, who is conscious. You are the awake space of awareness itself, within which all the “thought up” entities in your world appear. Out of all these imagined entities, you have simply made the mistake of thinking that one of them is you.

~ Enza Vita

Realization is not about you, the wave, realizing it is ocean. The ocean realizes itself in you and reveals itself to have never been just a wave. Nothing changes except the falling away of a false belief.

~ Enza Vita

Looking forward” to what you think enlightenment might be at some grand point in the future keeps you from seeing the truth of its presence right now.

~ Enza Vita

Awareness is that which is reading these words right now, whatever “that” is. You know without a doubt that there is something reading these words right now and awareness is precisely what that is.

~ Enza Vita

Not knowing anything, not searching for anything, understanding that we can’t hold on to anything, leaves us with nothing — nothing except our original nature, pure awareness.

~ Enza Vita

The one who believes himself to be a person needs to try to find that person. This is a solution, an antidote, offered to a ghost that thinks it actually exists.

~ Enza Vita