Spirituality Quotes

Like an empty bucket, my soul rings hollow when empty vibrates with emptiness … hollow sound of loneliness. Every cell in my body does not want to be alone.My loneliness is frightening …an all consuming thought.

~ David W. Earle

Only then can I fly.Only then can I be free -when Ilet go of me.

~ David W. Earle

Twirling round ‘n round -faster and faster …she dreams this circular motionwill take her home, high in the heavens where hurt is onlyan earthly world.

~ David W. Earle

We are game-playing, fun-having creatures, we are the otters of the universe.

~ Richard Bach

I do not understand when a person is more concerned with the appearance of their house than the state of their home.

~ Gillian Duce

It is not enough for the Jew to rest content with his own spiritual ascent, the elevation of his soul in closeness to G-d, he must strive to draw spirituality down into the world and into every part of it – the world of his work and his social life – until not only do they not distract him from his pursuit of G-d, but they become a full part of it.

~ (R. Menachem M. Schneerson)

I am intrigued with scriptural mythology that tells us that God created a divine feminine presence to dwell amongst humanity. This concept has had a constant influence on the work. I have imagined her as ubiquitous, watchful, and often in motion. This work is, in effect, the photographic image of the invisible.

~ Leonard Nimoy

Spirituality is, ultimately, about what we do with that desire. What we do with our longings, both in terms of handling the pain and the hope they bring us, that is our spirituality.

~ Ronald Rolheiser

Being in a hurry is the father of stress and worry.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Worrying doesn't make any difference, but working does and spirituality gives one the strength to work

~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

May you find new strength to accomplish your daily work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

By the time the Truth comes, you'd have been a sure-shot rascal, a long-gone bastard, a life-long sinner, but an ever-humble winner.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Scientism and godism are superstitions, one blindly believes in what's visible, the other blindly believes in what's invisible.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Want is small and will make you small. Want is needy and will make you needy.

~ Bryant Mcgill

You know you have received the invitation when your heart is ready to risk everything to hold the hand of God.

~ Holly Lynn Payne

Japanese people today think of money, just money: Where is our national spirit today? The Jieitai must be the soul of Japan. … The nation has no spiritual foundation. That is why you don’t agree with me. You will just be American mercenaries. There you are in your tiny world. You do nothing for Japan. … I salute the Emperor. Long live the emperor!

~ Yukio Mishima

What is it like to feel Tao? It is an effortless flowing, a sweeping momentum. It is like bird song soaring and gliding over a vast landscape. You can feel this in your life: Events will take on a perfect momentum, a glorious cadence. You can feel it in your body: The energy will rise up in you in a thrilling crescendo, setting your very nerves aglow. You can feel it in your spirit: You will enter a state of such perfect grace that you will resound over the landscape of reality like ephemeral bird song.When Tao comes to you in this way, ride it for all that you are worth. Don't interfere. Don't stop - that brings failure, alienation, and regret. Don't try to direct it. Let it flow and follow it. When the Tao is with you, put aside all other concerns. As long as the song lasts, follow. Just follow.

~ Ming-Dao Deng

Everybody comes with prejudices, colored glasses on their eyes. Then they see everything colored according to their glasses. Yes, a few people come just like you, unprejudiced, without any idea gathered from yellow journalism.

~ Osho

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God, but he who really thinks has to believe in God.

~ Isaac Newton

No non-poetic account of reality can be complete.

~ John Myhill

With the harmonious balance between materialist nature and spiritual attitude, it is possible to be affluent yet with the soul of a saint. Such a state is a synthesis of matter and soul; the Rich Monk is a way to be rich in two ways.

~ Vishwas Chavan

Do not starve your soul while you indulge your body. That is dressing the shadow.

~ Hemat Malak

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.

~ Joseph Campbell

Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.

~ Joseph Campbell

One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.

~ Joseph Campbell

Awe is what moves us forward.

~ Joseph Campbell

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.Awe is what moves us forward.

~ Joseph Campbell

Organised religion generally gets in the way of spiritual experience.

~ Alan Mccluskey

The life you want is a manifestation of self-realization.

~ Bryant Mcgill

When speaking of the mighty Andes and the so-called eyebrows country at the range's eastern base- the Tropical Wet Forest region-I am first obliged to give homage to the Apu, the Mountain Lords, the ice-capped everlasting sovereigns of these great lands, on whose forested slopes manifests the most marvelous biological diversity.

~ Jonathon Miller Weisberger

The mechanism by which spirituality becomes passionate is metaphor. An ineffable God requires metaphor not only to be imagined but to be approached, exhorted, evaded, confronted, struggled with, and loved. Through metaphor, the vividness, intensity, and meaningfulness of ordinary experiences becomes the basis of a passionate spirituality. An ineffable God becomes vital through metaphor: The Supreme Being. The Prime Mover. The Creator. The Almighty. The Father. The King of Kings. Shepherd. Potter. Lawgiver. Judge. Mother. Lover. Breath. The vehicle by which we are moved in passionate spirituality is metaphor. The mechanism of such metaphor is bodily. It is a neural mechanism that recruits our abilities to perceive, to move, to feel, and to envision in the service not only of theoretical and philosophical thought, but of spiritual experience.

~ George Lakoff

People don't just live one life. They keep coming back until they get it right.

~ C.r. Strahan

The Illusion - The source of suffering can be linked back to a condition of the mind that creates the illusion of separation--the state in which we see ourselves as disconnected and separate from the world and our experiences.

~ L.m.blanchard

The Invisible World reveals to us this Truth within its silence.

~ Jacqueline Ripstein

The same numbness and disappointment every day sends some people looking for something tragic for proof of life.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I believe we can see the future because some part of us responds to the fact that past, present, and the future are one, occurring in a simultaneous time... Quite literally the future is now, and even on this planet we can shape our 'nows' by our actions. That is why it is so important to prepare not only for the rest of our lives but for all our lives to come--for immortality.

~ Brian L. Weiss

True spiritual love is not a feeble imitation and anticipation of death, but a triumph over death, not a separation of the immortal form from the mortal, of the eternal from the temporal, but a transfiguration of the mortal into the immortal, the acceptance of the temporal into the eternal. False spirituality is a denial of the flesh; true spirituality is the regeneration of the flesh, its salvation, its resurrection from the dead.

~ Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov

Part of the apparently conventional nature of our relationships is the threat of separation and death. This body dies. That body dies. We can rejuvenate, feel better, live longer, but, even so, in this world everybody dies. That is why we do spiritual practice, because we are conscious of the destiny of our separation. We are willing to fulfill the law of love, but on the other hand what we love dies. That is why this is one of the realms of suffering. This world is not a heaven. This is not a place of fulfillment. Thus, we must yield to the true Condition. We must not become dependent upon the conventional aspect of our relations. We must recognize our relations. We must identify with the Condition of the loved one.You must become established in the real Condition, or you will never be satisfied. You will be driven to all kinds of preoccupations and great schemes, trying to become victorious or immortal, for immortality's own sake, simply because you cannot deal with the fact of death. But death is an absolute message in this realm. It obligates us to recognize or identify one another in Truth, and we are not relieved of that obligation in this place.

~ Adi Da Samraj

People on the spiritual path are people of unquenchable discontent. It is being propagated that spirituality means contentment. Contentment means you have contented yourself with what you have. A spiritual person means he is unwilling to settle for anything less than the Ultimate.

~ Sadhguru

You are meant to be, despite how you got here; you’ll see someday.

~ Raquel Cepeda