Spirituality Quotes

Gratitude is the heart's first language.

~ Joey Garcia

As I read the Qur’an and prayed the Islamic prayers, a door to my heart was unsealed and I was immersed in an overwhelming tenderness.

~ Jeffrey Lang

When I was in Auschwitz, I kept asking, why am I here, what did I do wrong? What did my grandfather do wrong? And a young American man, he put me in the right knowledge. You didn’t do anything wrong, he said, the world did something wrong, terribly wrong. This young man, he went to Budapest in the beginning of it all, and he saved Jews, he gave out passports of Sweden, and because the Hungarians didn’t know how to read Swedish, this was how my father was saved. And thousands of others too, with these pieces of paper. I am here to tell you that one man can make a difference, and that man can be you, any of you…

~ Alice Lok Cahana

How would your life be different if your religion was love, and your spirituality was governed by kindness? How would the world be different if everyone did this?

~ Steve Maraboli

Don't play with others, or at one day, you will be played by others.

~ Usama Ejaz

Kindness in your dealings with yourself and others will work wonders in your life. Much more so than rightness in your thinking.

~ Kim R. Shaffer

Walk on your sacred path.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I dare walk alone on my sacred path.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It does not matter when you begin and end the journey. What matters is your willpower to begin and ability to complete the sacred journey.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

May you walk on the path of light.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Meeting new people is just remembering faces of God we've forgotten.

~ Harry Whitewolf

Walk your own path and be yourself

~ Joanne Nussbaum

You are too timid for me. You care too much about what other people think. But you know what? Because you are so desperate to win the approval of others, you'll never get rid of their criticisms, no matter how hard you try. You say you want to travel the path, but you don't want to sacrifice anything to that end. Money, fame, power, lavishness, or carnal pleasure - whatever it is that one holds most dear in life, one should dispose of that first.

~ Elif Shafak

I believe the experiences reported in this book are reproducible by anyone who wishes to try. I went to Africa. You can go to Africa. You may have trouble arranging the time or the money, but everybody has trouble arranging something. I believe you can travel anywhere if you want to badly enough.And I believe the same is true of inner travel. You don't have to take my word about chakras or healing energy or auras. You can find about them for yourself if you want to. Don't take my word for it. Be as skeptical as you like.Find out for yourself.

~ Michael Crichton

After weeks on the road, listening to a language you don’t understand, using a currency whose value you don’t comprehend, walking down streets you’ve never walked down before, you discover that your old “I,” along with everything you ever learned, is absolutely no use at all in the face of those new challenges, and you begin to realize that buried deep in your unconscious mind there is someone much more interesting and adventurous and more open to the world and to new experiences.

~ Paulo Coelho

India will reveal to you the places in your heart that must be purified.

~ Erin Reese

You do not have to be religious to be spiritual and moral.

~ Toni Sorenson

The Biblical stories are sacred inspiration.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The mind complex is that portion of the individual being which reflects (like a mirror) the in-pourings of the spirit and the up-pourings of the light body complex. It is where we experience the thoughts, instincts, feelings, emotions, awareness, etc.

~ Thomas Vazhakunnathu

But there's a sacredness which is not of thought, nor of a feeling resuscitated by thought. It is not recognizable by thought nor can it be utilized by thought. Thought cannot formulate it. But there's a sacredness, untouched by any symbol or word. It is not communicable. It is a fact.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Why are we occupied with material wealth than spiritual nourishment?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We have the resources to allow everybody to live with dignity; we have the technology to do it; what we don't have is yet another excuse!

~ Adriano Bulla

It is not your beauty, success or money that should define you; neither should your church calling, your charitable contributions or talents. Humility is the cornerstone of character, by which God judges our truth worth, and wisdom is the door he opens when we use it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We drown in the thick sweetness of our sensual excess, and our shameless opulence, while our discontent souls suffocate in the arid wasteland of spiritual deprivation.

~ Anthon St. Maarten

I wish to spend a lifetime near a lighthouse where loneliness will be the glimmer of luminous prancing upon ocean waves… rising and falling only for my breathing.

~ Munia Khan

The animals feel that this urgency is mutual. Their own suffering has made them aware of human suffering. More frequent contact with us has sensitized them to what troubles us. They feel our anxiety and our confusion and, most of all, our loneliness. The pain of being disconnected from the Earth, from each other, from our fellow creatures, and from the Source of all life is the worst pain they can imagine, and they are concerned about us. They understand even better than we do that the suffering we inflict on them is an expression of our own suffering, and that their physical situation cannot get better unless the human spiritual condition gets better. They want to help.

~ Linda Bender

In any ten step instruction manual and every book of doctrines, there is complex advice that serves the very simple function of helping the lonely person find some similarity with the world around him.He connects and, suddenly, there is a burst of joy, a ray of hope. He believes that it was those steps or that book, specifically, that brought him happiness, when really he has simply been triggered into his natural state.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

We are strangers to our own lives, setting out in the dark to look for the adobe of Love which we were meant to know, guided by the Music that wants us to see.

~ David Paul Kirkpatrick

We cam leave the rat race to rodents... but I suspect that even they wouldn't like it.

~ Adriano Bulla

The world suddenly opened up, and she was coming to new realizations and a greater awareness, concerning the nature of reality, and the world, which her mortal mind had previously been unable to conceive. She smiled her radiant goddess smile and began to laugh. Her omnipresent peals of mirth resonated through the forest, seeming to echo to the edges of the universe and back. She was getting her first glimpses of the world, seen through the eyes of a goddess; the first sweet tastes of a consciousness empowered beyond all human levels of comprehension, and her spirit was in exultant bliss.

~ Alexei Maxim Russell

Ancient philosophers and spiritual teachers were explorers. They wanted us to be as well. They thought we should understand this physical world, but not get stuck here. For thousands of years we have shared their insights, over-analyzed and repeated their words; quoting and re-translating until all meaning has been lost. These great minds, great souls, great beings sought to be jumping off points, not merely the originators of emptied out and desiccated clichés. They wanted to be doorways, not doorstops.

~ Edward Fahey

Religions differ only in the form, religions differ only in their methodology.

~ Osho

I'm not here to win the rat race of materialism. I am here to experience the depths of my soul in form.

~ Erin Fall Haskell

To love life is to love all of it.

~ Erin Fall Haskell

Never once, did Christ ever utter, I came here to start a religionEarly Christians did not worship items, relics, wars, or governments.

~ Justin Kyle Mcfarlane Beau

The best beauty treatment of all is time spent quietly before the Lord.

~ Elizabeth George

I have come to differentiate not at all between what is spiritual and the rest of life. There is only Life, all of it is good and the more I am aware of this in every moment, the more my spirit comes alive.

~ Jacob Nordby

For aeons past, there were many gods who descended to be humans, yet there were not many humans who ascended back to their divinity.

~ Raphael Zernoff

Be specific in your prayers. Carefully craft what you speak. What you say should be in accordance with the word of God and the guidance of the Holy Spirit. You will find that this will resolve attacks or issues that arise.

~ Dr. Glen A. Staples

It is as if I have entered what the Tibetans call the Bardo-literally, between-two-existences- a dreamlike hallucination that precedes reincarnation, not necessarily in human form…In case I should need them, instructions for passage through the Bardo are contained in the Tibetan book of the dead- a guide for the living since it teaches that a man’s last thoughts will determine the quality of his reincarnation.

~ Peter Matthiessen