Quotes about spirituality

"He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again."

John of the Cross, St. on spirituality   

"Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma."

Joubert, Joseph on spirituality
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"Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality."

Jung, Carl on spirituality   

"There is no easy formula for determining right and wrong livelihood, but it is essential to keep the question alive. To return the sense of dignity and honor to manhood, we have to stop pretending that we can make a living at something that is trivial or destructive and still have sense of legitimate self-worth. A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls."

Keen, Sam on spirituality   

"Wherever you go, you will always bear yourself about with you, and so you will always find yourself."

Kempis, Thomas on spirituality   

"The adept may reach one of those rare moments that spell illumination -- aware of the light of the consciousness that illumines our consciousness as the sun dawns on the sleeping earth and bathes it in effulgence."

Khan, Pir Vilayat on spirituality   

"As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand."

Lee, Bruce on spirituality
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"Whether we name divine presence synchronicity, serendipity, or graced moment matters little. What matters is the reality that our hearts have been understood. Nothing is as real as a healthy dose of magic which restores our spirits."

Long, Nancy on spirituality   

"It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh."

Macarthur, Douglas on spirituality
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"Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits."

Machado, Antonio on spirituality   

"At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our lives, which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will."

Merton, Thomas on spirituality
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"What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed?"

Michelangelo on spirituality
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"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on spirituality   

"The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on spirituality
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"But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit."

Orwell, George on spirituality
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"Walking uplifts the spirit. Breathe out the poisons of tension, stress, and worry; breathe in the power of God. Send forth little silent prayers of goodwill toward those you meet. Walk with a sense of being a part of a vast universe. Consider the thousands of miles of earth beneath your feet; think of the limitless expanse of space above your head. Walk in awe, wonder, and humility. Walk at all times of day. In the early morning when the world is just waking up. Late at night under the stars. Along a busy city street at noontime."

Peterson, Wilferd A. on spirituality
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"As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me."

Pilgrim, Peace on spirituality   

"The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side."

Pilgrim, Peace on spirituality   

"The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord."

Proverb on spirituality   

"All spiritual disciplined are done with a view to still the mind. The perfectly still mind is universal spirit."

Ramdas, Swami on spirituality   

"He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign."

Renan, Ernest on spirituality
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"Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness."

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on spirituality
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"Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure."

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on spirituality   

"Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends."

Ruskin, John on spirituality
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"When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body."

Saadi on spirituality   

"The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication."

Santayana, George on spirituality   

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"Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them."

Schweitzer, Albert on spirituality
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"One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history."

Schweitzer, Albert on spirituality
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"Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."

Seattle, Chief on spirituality   

"In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment of the present where life quivers in its true sense. The past and the future are both rolled up in this present moment of illumination, and this present moment is not something standing still with all its contents, for it ceaselessly moves on."

Suzuki, Daisetz T. on spirituality   

"But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo; the splendor of fame fades into nothing; but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette."

Thurber, James on spirituality   

"He that loseth wealth, loseth much; he that loseth friends, loseth more; but he that loseth his spirit loseth all."

Unknown, Source on spirituality   

"Let the spirit of adventure set the tone."

Unknown, Source on spirituality   

"The man is free to rule his world, not his world rule him."

Unknown, Source on spirituality   

"Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear."

Unknown, Source on spirituality   

"Keep yourself clean and bright. You are the windows through which you must view the world."

Unknown, Source on spirituality   

"People see his pleasure-ground; him no one sees at all."

Upanishad, Brihadaranyaka on spirituality   

"He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery."

Voltaire on spirituality
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"There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit."

Wolfe, Thomas on spirituality