If you did not have any personality, you would have a tremendous presence. The more rigid your personality, the more constipated your… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
The inner attitude of the heart is far more crucial than the mechanics for coming into the reality of the spiritual life. — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if… — Dainin Katagiri Copy Share Image
The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion. Donald Gray expresses this: "Jesus reveals in an… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“Being enlightened ironically means realizing that there is no separate entity that can be enlightened or unenlightened.” — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
Music is still part of my spiritual life. Sometimes I sing my prayers. When I get audiences singing, I hope I'm helping… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
“The only way you're going to reach places you've never gone is if you trust God's direction to do things you've never… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
“Our physical body knows it cannot function without physical water. So, too, our spiritual life should realize that it can't function without… — Jim George Copy Share Image
“There is one thing that destroys anyone's ability to advance spiritually: the inability to control the mind and emotions. In order to… — Rudrananda Copy Share Image
“The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual life is. All these people thinking… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
People gravitate to religion to feel a connection to the underlying meaning of everything. Well, as a scientist, you're always looking for… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure,… — Abraham Cahan Copy Share Image
“The common mistake of the religious celibate has been to suppose that the highest spiritual life absolutely demands the renunciation of sexuality,… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
I have finally decided to write my book on the spiritual life. I mean to put down as simply as possible the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Prayer has been hedged about with too many man-made rules. I am convinced that God has intended prayer to be as simple… — Rosalind Goforth Copy Share Image
If we’re going to strive for spiritual growth, we have to be willing to put concepts into practice in our everyday lives,… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
“One of the major problems in the spiritual life is our attachment to our own self-image—either positively or negatively created. We have… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“When the Creator banished from his sight Frail man to dark mortality's abode, And granted him a late return to light, Only… — Friedrich von Schiller Copy Share Image
“Take whatever is thrown at you and build upon it. “Yes . . . and” rather than “No . . . but.”… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
No one longs for what he or she already has, and yet the accumulated insight of those wise about the spiritual life… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
“The abundant life is a spiritual life. Too many sit at the banquet table of the gospel of Jesus Christ and merely… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“There are two things to be aware of if the fight against evil inclinations is to have any chance of success. First,… — Jacques Philippe Copy Share Image
“In “The Cost of Discipleship” Dietrich Bonhoeffer makes it clear that grace is free, but it is not cheap. The grace of… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“Will we turn our backs on science because it is perceived as a threat to God, abandoning all the promise of advancing… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
Spiritual life doesn't make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born.… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
There is no greater disaster in the spiritual life than to be immersed in unreality, for life is maintained and nourished in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Zen teachers expound with strong conviction. Enlightened Consciousness is, according to Zen, the centre of spiritual life. It is the mind of… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“To be creative, first we must be generous. Then we must have a quiet, indomitable belief in our own worth.” — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
Happiness is within everyone, but we are not able to experience it because of our ego's likes and dislikes. — Mata Amritanandamayi 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
