The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Until you allow yourself to blossom into a state of boundlessness, you should not be content, you must burn with discontent. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. ...We do not take the spiritual life seriously if we do… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“Culture has very much to do with the human spirit. What we find beautiful or entertaining or moving is rooted in our… — Kenneth A. Myers Copy Share Image
I know there's a principle of spirit. It works without space-time. I am subject to that principle, in spirit and in belief… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Yes, fasting is not merely a commandment from God but a godly gift, a grace and a blessing. God the creator of… — Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria Copy Share Image
The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Some of your children's rebellion against your spiritual lifestyle might be a necessary step in their finding an authentic relationship with God.… — Tim Kimmel Copy Share Image
Prasadam's a good little hook in this age of commercialism. When people want something extra, or they need to have something special,… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
In my creature impatience I am often caused to wish that there were some way to bring modern Christians into a deeper… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
In my personal and spiritual life, I reject that. I don't believe in that. I'm always trying to get my mind into… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
It would be of course a low voltage spiritual life in which prayer was chiefly undertaken as a discipline, rather than as… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“The cloud weeps, and then the garden sprouts. The baby cries, and the mother's milk flows. The nurse of creation has said,… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“The spiritual life (adhyatma-jivana), the religious life (dharma-jivana) and the ordinary human life of which morality is a part are three quite… — Śrī Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Everybody has similar values. You travel around the world and everybody is different, but everybody is also the same in those ways.… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel… — Henry James Sr Copy Share Image
“Jeremy Taylor recommends: "If though meanest to enlarge they religion, do it rather by enlarging thine ordinary devotions than thy extraordinary." This… — Andrew Bonar Copy Share Image
“Teresa says that false peace in the spiritual life is a state of complacency, which is the result of two factors working… — Marc Foley Copy Share Image
“Torah is not just a book, not just a bunch of laws, and not just a history, but so much more. The… — Laura Weakley Copy Share Image
“Simply in focusing our attention on the “enemy” Ignatius is rendering us a great service. To be unaware that we can expect… — Timothy M. Gallagher Copy Share Image
“In enlightenment, the seer and the seen disappear. Or, more accurately, are seen through as illusions. In reality, they were never there,… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
“Awareness is that which is reading these words right now, whatever “that” is. You know without a doubt that there is something… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
The indicator of true knowledge is the ability to differentiate what uplifts us from what pulls us down. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results. — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us… — Edmund Husserl Copy Share Image
A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak if you try… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we let go of our likes and dislikes, we will become fit vessels to receive the God's ever flowing grace. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
[Angels] guide us to become spiritual people for the pleasure of it... because the spiritual life itself has a great deal of… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
Love of Allah gives us spiritual life; hope in His Reward is the greatest incentive to do good; and fear of His… — Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi Copy Share Image
“Joy, humor, and laughter should be part of everyone's spiritual life. They are gifts from God and help us enjoy creation.” — James Martin Copy Share Image
The moment you ascribe who you are right now to what happened yesterday, you have written off your life. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Your personality is something that you created. Once you are aware of that, you could create it whichever way you want. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
It doesn't work to have loads of money if your inner spiritual life is a desert, if you have no freedom beyond… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
Prayer is the natural and joyous breathing of the spiritual life by which the heavenly atmosphere is inhaled and then exhaled in… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image