Spiritual Quotes · Page 123

“Spiritual growth is more than a procedure; it’s a wild search for God in the tangled jungle of our souls.”

— Michael Yaconelli

The spiritual journey has to do with learning to think more deeply and take as long a time as we need. That's…

— Marianne Williamson

The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet.

— Joseph Campbell

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

— Franz Kafka

Ecstatic Love is an ocean, and the Milky Way is a flake of foam floating on it.

— Rumi

“The talk that does not touch the world is called alaukik [that, which is beyond the world].”

— Dada Bhagwan

Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

People seek for the spiritual champagne, but they mistake what it is.

— Fredrika Bremer

“The amount of abhorrence that departs, that much of ‘Pure Love’ arises. When abhorrence goes away completely, then Pure Love arises in…

— Dada Bhagwan

At this moment, you are seamlessly flowing with the cosmos. There is no difference between your breathing and the breathing of the…

— Deepak Chopra

In uniting yourself to God's will, you take on new life and gather great courage, willingly embracing the cross and kissing His…

— Paul of the Cross

My writing practice taught me the important thing is steadfastness. It's not necessarily discipline. Discipline can become a prison. When your spiritual…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“If there is an essence to this wordly life, then it is the basis of honesty [morality]. If you have little wealth…

— Dada Bhagwan

Our sacred contract is not a literal document. That's the first thing to understand. We could think of our sacred contract as…

— Caroline Myss

“I used to think that if I could talk to the spirit world, I'd get some answers. Ha bloody ha. I wish…

— Eden Robinson

All around the world, people believe that there is a great conflict between good and evil. Well, it's true that there's a…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

There is a lot of difference between offering a garland of flowers bought from a shop and one that we make out…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in…

— A. C. Dixon

The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose.…

— John Hersey

Sex was like a world so mysterious to me, I really couldn't believe there was this fantastic texture to life that I…

— David Lynch

“Courage is the starting point of everything good. To love another is to automatically feed the fire of courage. We cannot be…

— Donna Goddard

The Church's stand on birth control is the most absolutely spiritual of all her stands and with all of us being materialists…

— Flannery O'Connor

Belief, humble belief, is the foundation of all righteousness and the beginning of spiritual progression. It goes before good works, opens the…

— Bruce R. McConkie

For me, one of the most disturbing elements of the right wing's political agenda is that it believes that there is one…

— Barbra Streisand

Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge & power & God's unlimited wisdom & omnipotence.

— L. Tom Perry

Second, the only proven technique for treatment for chemically dependent people involves use of a spiritual program of self-change.

— Virgil Miller Newton

When "I" and "You" are absent, I've no idea if this is a mosque, synagogue, church or temple

— Mahmud Shabistari

“When does samadhi (blissful peace) arise? When one lets loose the things that he loves.”

— Dada Bhagwan

We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause…

— Albert Einstein

As you become present and thereby total in what you do, your actions become charged with spiritual power.

— Eckhart Tolle

Just as food and sleep are necessary for the body, spiritual understanding is needed for a healthy mind.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

I love people who are fearless, and I'm a spiritual guy, so I connect with people spiritually.

— Haywood Nelson

Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new…

— Rumi

One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God

— Frederick Buechner

Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful.

— Anonymous

If you dissolve your personality, your presence becomes very powerful - this is the essence of spiritual sadhana.

— Jaggi Vasudev

“A religion that does not give inner peace, it cannot be called a religion, can it?”

— Dada Bhagwan

The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.

— Ludwig von Mises

“It is more spiritual the one that faces darkness with his light than the one that hides his light from the world.”

— Robin Sacredfire