Spirituality Quotes

My dear Arjuna, only by undivided devotional service can I be understood as I am, standing before you, and can thus be seen directly. Only in this way can you enter into the mysteries of My understanding.

~ A.c. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

For sense gratification, a man in the mode of passion wants some honor in society, or in the nation, and he wants to have a happy family, with nice children, wife and house. These are the products of the mode of passion. As long as one is hankering after these things, he has to work very hard. Therefore it is clearly stated here that he becomes associated with the fruits of his activities and thus becomes bound by such activities. In order to please his wife, children and society and to keep up his prestige, one has to work. Therefore the whole material world is more or less in the mode of passion.

~ A.c. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

O son of Kunti, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.

~ A.c. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.

~ Bruce Lee

The sacred soul writes the sacred words.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Everything is within the limit of possibility by the grace of God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In order to fulfill our wants we get busy to make our living comfortable and we forget about our needs, and we make our life uncomfortable. So, add life in our living.

~ Dev Samudre

Time's up! Tomorrow just arrived.

~ Lm Fields

The Truth Is That I Was Recognized For Stubbornness And Not Goodness. Even, Though I Was Very Intelligent And Sent To School By A Little Few Supports From Sponsors And My Mother. My Brain Was Never Ever Cool. Due To All The Mistakes I Saw From A Very Tender Age From All Those Whom I Looked Upon As Elders And Shinning Examples. Although They Where Some Good Examples Which Still Live On. Still The Early Damaged As Already Been Done. So It Led Me Dropping Out Of School In To Working And Using The Great Ancient Vedic Philosophies I Have Been Hearing From The Very Beginning Of My Conception In My Mother Womb Till The Day I Was Born And Forever. I Used Them All To Materialize Many Of My Dreams And Practice Mysticism Coupled With Spiritualism To Keep My Self Secured And Keep Cool Depending On God.

~ Baba Tunde Ojo-Olubiyo

If I can give you all of these real answers to the questions you assumed were big unanswerable ones, imagine the depth of the new set of questions awaiting on the other side of resolution.

~ Jeremy Vaeni

Perfection, my dear being,is what you are.Let not your mindobscure your view.Be still and be aware,right where you are,you cannot miss it.

~ Santosh Lamichhane

I am just like you,Destined to play my part.And leave,In the nature of my departure at least,Some kind of sweet message behindIn the fathomless pattern I make.

~ Scott Hastie

Paradise is a state of being, more than just the name of a suburb or a home.

~ Raquel Cepeda

The purpose of both, awareness and consciousness, is to lead us towards this path of Oneness.

~ Gian Kumar

I have found awareness to be one of the most rewarding, and yet one of the most painful journeys one can embark on.

~ Kierra C.t. Banks

For spiritual vision of our soul, we need to balance between quantitative illusions & qualitative reality of our life.

~ Aditya Ajmera

Deep down I believe each of us is a well-spring of understanding and wisdom, but we simply never allow the space or time for this understanding to rise to the level of conscious thought.

~ Chris Matakas

The more we have outside ourselves the harder it is to get inside ourselves.

~ Chris Matakas

Perhaps our dreams are there to be broken, and our plans are there to crumble, and our tomorrows are there to dissolve into todays, and perhaps all of this is all a giant invitation to wake up from the dream of separation, to awaken from the mirage of control, and embrace whole-heartedly what is present. Perhaps it is all a call to compassion, to a deep embrace of this universe in all its bliss and pain and bitter-sweet glory. Perhaps we were never really in control of our lives, and perhaps we are constantly invited to remember this, since we constantly forget it. Perhaps suffering is not the enemy at all, and at its core, there is a first-hand, real-time lesson we must all learn, if we are to be truly human, and truly divine. Perhaps breakdown always contains breakthrough. Perhaps suffering is simply a right of passage, not a test or a punishment, nor a signpost to something in the future or past, but a direct pointer to the mystery of existence itself, here and now. Perhaps life cannot go 'wrong' at all.

~ Jeff Foster

Becoming conscious and aware is a journey itself, and we all struggle in that journey we call life. Instead of judging one another, help each other, not by convincing them of your truth but through letting them think for themselves by spreading knowledge. Once you become aware of knowledge and you are conscious of knowledge, there is no going back to the previous conscious state of mind.

~ Nynke Visser

The more spiritually aware you become the more you will focus on your own self and less on others.

~ Bryant Mcgill

As one man said, I got a pretty good education. It took me years to get over it. That's what spirituality is all about, you know: unlearning. Unlearning all the rubbish they taught you.

~ Anthony De Mello

God is all that exists. Every stone, flower, tree, animal and human being are on a spiritual journey to recognize their true self, their divine essence.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

The great gift of a spiritual path is coming to trust that you can find a way to true refuge. You realize that you can start right where you are, in the midst of your life, and find peace in any circumstance. Even at those moments when the ground shakes terribly beneath you—when there’s a loss that will alter your life forever—you can still trust that you will find your way home. This is possible because you’ve touched the timeless love and awareness that are intrinsic to who you are.

~ Tara Brach

Intuition is a capacity of our heart. Our heart is the door to allowing Existence to guide us, instead of being directed by our ideas, desires and expectations. Since the days of Aristotle’s, we have been taught that logic is the only way to reach a solution. But while logic works in a step-by-step-process to reach a solution, intuition simply takes a quantum leap to a solution without any intermediate steps.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

Love is what creates the freedom and relaxation to be who we really are.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

I lack nothing, I tell you!”“Nothing?” I asked. “Not even heaven?”He lowered his head and was silent. But after a moment:“Heaven is too high for me. The earth is good, exceptionally good–and near me!”“Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet and we tread upon it, but heaven is within us.

~ Nikos Kazantzakis

It all begins with faith. If we believed animal went to heaven, we wouldn't send them there prematurely

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You can’t find God through astronomy, you can’t find immortality through biology. The Kingdom of Heaven can’t be attained through philosophy. There is only one way that leads to these things and that way is through the spirit.

~ Michelle Carbotte

The stars, he said, were actually souls, all the souls that were too restless to be locked up in heaven. They were so restless that God let them stay outside at night to play.

~ R.j. Keller

We are not perfect. We are here to learn. Earth is one big classroom and God is our heavenly guidance counselor and teacher.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

Gazing around, looking up at the lofty pinnacles above, which seemed to pierce the sky, looking down upon the world,--it seemed the whole world, so limitless it stretched away at her feet,--feeling that infinite unspeakable sense of nearness to Heaven, remoteness from earth which comes only on mountain heights, she drew in a long breath of delight, and cried: At last! at last, Alessandro! Here we are safe! This is freedom! This is joy!

~ Helen Hunt Jackson

I have found heaven on earth, since heaven is God, and God is in my soul.

~ Elizabeth Of The Trinity

We are all blessed ones. Heaven is no longer in the clouds. It is right here, all around us, everywhere; we must only open our eyes to see it.

~ Kim Chestney

Intelligence is a necessity, but when one is without a supernatural sense, intelligence becomes senseless.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Church is not about learning how to be a moral person (though that is what the dominant narrative they hear tells them), it is a place where immoral individuals go in order to receive the grace of God.

~ Jonathan P. Hill

When you cannot do what you have always done, then you only do what matters most.

~ Robert D. Hales

What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love.

~ Terryl L. Givens

The most spiritual people I’ve ever met were not “givers” they were communicators. You don’t give people crumbs. You give them the whole piece of bread when that is what they are asking for, in order to be healed. Christ was never about hiding behind a Facebook page, an email, a prayer circle, a bible, or a church. He was about talking, listening and healing-- face to face. He walked among sinners and ate with them. He devoted his time to people that were brokenhearted, difficult to like and fake as the religious beliefs they clung to. So, why is it that so many people profess to believe in Christ, yet they have forgotten what real love is----communicating?

~ Shannon L. Alder

Don't fret, boy. I'm not so foolish as to ridicule the myths and legends of other people. For countless generations, people, no matter where they're from, have been trying to understand this world of ours.

~ Nahoko Uehashi