Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Knowledge of the non-Self (paudgalik-gnan) is called agnan (ignorance). Knowledge of the Self is called atma-gnan (realization of the soul). To attain… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. What provides the motive, the energy for discipline? This force… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love, Where there is injury, pardon; Where… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Wherever one says, ‘I am, I am’, that is all mithyatva (delusion, wrong vision & wrong knowledge). There is no problem in… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The criers of the Mysteries speak again, bidding all men welcome to the House of Light. The great institution of materiality has… — Manly P. Hall Copy Share Image
A woman recently told me a story about her descent into chronic fatigue. She was sleeping sixteen, eighteen hours a day, and… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“What should one do to get rid of ignorance? Attain Gnan (Knowledge of the Self). Use tools such as books and scriptures… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
You might tell me that you have been engaging in some deep questioning and theological rethinking.1 You can no longer live with… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
Facing personal truths and purging yourself of addictions or manipulative habits require strength, courage, humility, faith, and other qualities of a soul… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
Mediocre people often have a tinge of religion about them, but it is only a tinge. They take their religion as it… — Thomas Dubay Copy Share Image
But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“We tend to have a limited concept of spiritual death as saying no only to things we want or covet -- our… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it. It does not constitute it ... There… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It is hard to think of conversion as a blinding light on the road to Damascus, or as a highly spiritual or… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
My whole love and respect is for the person who accepts himself totally, as he is. He has courage. He has courage… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“The nature of pudgal (non-Self body complex, complex of intake and output) is to go down and the nature of the Self… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Cultural speciation had been crippling to human moral and spiritual growth. It had hindered freedom of thought, limited our thinking, imprisoned us… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It… — Paris Hilton Copy Share Image
In the spiritual life we can do nothing worthy without repentance, but the Lord has much mercy on us because of our… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
“People and situations always show us what we need to see and learn about ourselves, and when we take responsibility for our… — Eliza Mada Dalian Copy Share Image
I feel most spiritual when I'm out in the woods. I feel part of nature. Or looking up at the stars. [I… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
...the goal of all spiritual life is to get your ego out of the way - outwit the sucker; dissolve it; shoot… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image
Indeed, some secularists are so worried about Christianity, they think Christians are about as dangerous as Muslim terrorists. They get really worried… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
Fasting, as some people speculate, is not a bodily torture, martyrdom, or a cross, but it is a way to elevate the… — Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria Copy Share Image
You are all human but what makes, what makes you really really spiritual? What you are here for. What you are really… — Roy Masters Copy Share Image
What Grandfather Burton did for me was to write a sacred family record, the small plates of Burton, or, if you will,… — Theodore M. Burton Copy Share Image
Don't let anyone tell you that you cannot know the truth for yourself or that you cannot achieve yourself spiritually without being… — Hua Ching Ni Copy Share Image
“The Self is kalpswaroop (becomes what it contemplates). If kalpswaroop remains nirvikalp (free from I-ness and my-ness), then it is a parmatma,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The Christian that is bound by his own horizon, the church that lives simply for itself, is bound to die a spiritual… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
“People on the worldly path, to them ‘we’ say, ‘Practice complete honesty. If you cannot do that, then practice honesty within principle… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
For the most part, of course, the presence of the great spiritual universe surrounding us is no more noticed by us than… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
As we get rich, the basics of life - food, clothing and shelter - become a very small part of total expenditure.… — Robert Fogel Copy Share Image
That is Buddha's meaning of nirvana: to be free from life and death, to be free from desire. The moment you are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Every event has a purpose and every setback its lesson. I have realized that failure, whether of personal, professional or even spiritual… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
“Don't make the mistake of depending on the presence of certain people for your training,' he advised me. 'Teachers come and go.… — Linda Holiday Copy Share Image
Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. When the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image