Understand the place of love in a spiritual life. A powerful and blissful type of love has no conditions, no ownership and… — Ajahn Brahm Copy Share Image
Judaism turned me into who I am today, and I definitely feel I live a very spiritual life. I got that from… — Alicia Silverstone Copy Share Image
In a strange way the spiritual life isn't "useful" or "successful." But it is meant to be fruitful. And fruitfulness comes out… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Make use of all free time at the office and elsewhere for chanting your mantra or reading spiritual books. Avoid indulging in… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“Just knowing that there is no gate to pass through doesn’t mean that we are at the end of the search, not… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
“Realization is not about you, the wave, realizing it is ocean. The ocean realizes itself in you and reveals itself to have… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, wishes. Who looks inside, finds infinite wisdom.” — Sereda Aleta Dailey Copy Share Image
Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“There seems to be a thin, resilient, and self-healing shell between one's spiritual awareness and that dense web of confusion and often… — Edward Fahey Copy Share Image
We must desire to be separated unto the Lord from the world and its evil system. We must reckon ourselves dead to… — Theodore Epp Copy Share Image
“Not that food which entereth into the moth defileth a man, but the appetite with which it is eaten. It is neither… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To be a light to others you will need a good dose of the spiritual life. Because as my mother used to… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
It used to be that Christian institutions and systems of dogma sustained the spiritual life of Christians. Increasingly, spirituality itself is what… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
There is need of a great revival of spiritual life, of truly fervent devotion to our Lord Jesus, of entire consecration to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What you feel spiritually. I think a lot of that has to do with it. If you have no spiritual life, chances… — Mike Ditka Copy Share Image
“Memory is the basis of individual personality,” Miguel de Unamuno writes, “just as tradition is the basis of the collective personality of… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Every negative complex of emotion conceals a conflict, a problem or dilemma made up of contradictory or opposing motives or desires. Self-observation… — Adi Da Samraj Copy Share Image
“God knows no good resides in man; no flesh can please Him. It is corrupted beyond repair. Since it is so absolutely… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
“Question 2: How Do You Want to Grow? When you watch how young children soak up information, you realize how deeply wired… — Vishen Lakhiani Copy Share Image
genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man,… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
“This church with which we should be thinking is the home of all, not a small chapel that can hold only a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“The flesh,' as Saint Paul used the term, refers, ironically, not to our bodies but to fallen human nature. The 'carnal' spirit… — Thomas Howard Copy Share Image
“To make bread or love, to dig in the earth, to feed an animal or cook for a stranger—these activities require no… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Prayer is the pulse of the renewed soul; and the constancy of its beat is the test and measure of the spiritual… — Octavius Winslow Copy Share Image
The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“Hurry is the great enemy of spiritual life in our day. You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.” — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“What happens to the spiritual life of a young girl who is made to understand, consciously or subconsciously, that she has no… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
We are stronger than we think. We have emotional, spiritual and even physical resources at our disposal. We may get knocked down,… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
“The nature of life is mess, chaotic, exquisitely beautiful, excruciatingly painful, immensely joy-filled, and unpredictable.” — Debra Moffitt Copy Share Image
Think of your work life therefore, not as separate from your spiritual life but as central to your spiritual life. Whatever your… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Love in fact is the spiritual life, and without it all the other exercises of the spirit, however lofty, are emptied of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Self-transformation is not just about changing yourself. It means shifting yourself to a completely new dimension of experience and perception. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
“All religions are true insofar as they give spiritual life to the people who profess them, insofar as they console them for… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
If the spiritual life be healthy, under the full power of the Holy Spirit, praying without ceasing will be natural. — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
Any teaching will not transform you as long as you are deeply attached to your body. Yoga is towards reducing this attachment. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
God is a wider consciousness than we are, a pure intelligence, spiritual life and actuality. He is neither one nor many, neither… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
