Spiritual Quotes · Page 101

The only reason why you are unhappy is because you are trying to be happy.

— Jaggi Vasudev

“Your success in worldly life (sansar) is in proportion to your faith and truthfulness!”

— Dada Bhagwan

We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts.

— Ruth St. Denis

Whether we laugh or cry, the days are going to pass by. So why not choose to laugh?

— Mata Amritanandamayi

All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all.

— Mooji

Instead of wondering WHY this is happening to you, consider why this is happening to YOU.

— Dalai Lama

I could never stop drugs, I could never stop drinking, until I received my spiritual awakening.

— Mike Tyson

Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!

— Ram Dass

“So many couples act like five-year-old soccer players when it comes to the spiritual war that we find ourselves in. God calls…

— Francis Chan

Robert Gass and 'On Wings of Song' bring about magical transformation and inspire people with extraordinary, uplifting, and spiritual music.

— Deepak Chopra

Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy,…

— Anonymous

“The one who gives an immediate decision, gives a solution, it is the intellect (buddhi). If one becomes confused, he is of…

— Dada Bhagwan

All your scholarship would be in vain if at the same time you do not build your character and attain mastery over…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Answer only when asked, otherwise do not say anything. Don't say a thing in this world. To tell [give advice] is the…

— Dada Bhagwan

“As Foster writes, “If our spiritual vitality seems low, if Bible study produces only dusty words, if prayer seems hollow and empty,…

— Richard J. Foster

“There are only two things: Circumstances and the Soul. If you become ‘one’ with the circumstances, the worldly life will come into…

— Dada Bhagwan

“In nature, there is no pain or suffering neither in the spiritual life nor in the worldly life. The worldly life has…

— Dada Bhagwan

We think we have to be a certain way because we have been taught to be a certain way. Actually the only…

— H. W. L. Poonja

Worship at its best is a social experience with people of all levels of life coming together to realize their oneness and…

— Anonymous

There is no religion in the world where there is a possibility of spiritual development outside of the context of that religion.…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

It seems to me, and I am personally convinced, that the Church must never speak from a position of strength. [These are…

— Anthony of Sourozh

We have in us a divine spark that you can see. It's a Light that shines in the human being. It's our…

— Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

He would be guilty of mortal sin, because he exposes himself to the danger of grievously offending God. Hence, before he acts…

— Alphonsus Liguori

My opinion is that we have, in the person of Da Free John, a Spiritual Master and religious genius of the ultimate…

— Ken Wilber

Giving energy to the mind, is like giving your neighbour a gun to shoot you with.

— Mooji

I am probably spiritual in the sense that I do believe there is more to life than what we see.

— Kalki Koechlin

If you become obsessive in spiritual practice, if you just try and try, you are not going to be happy. You are…

— Frederick Lenz

Love is my gift to the world. I fill myself with love, and I send that love out into the world.

— Anonymous

“As long as one’s vision does not move towards the soul (Self is not realized), everything is just worldly life.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Once you touch a dimension which is boundless, the idea of time and space disappears. What is here is there; what is…

— Jaggi Vasudev

I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.

— Benjamin Spock

In the end it all comes down to enthusiasm. Your creativity is basically your expression of God-force.

— Stuart Wilde

“What is the worldly vision (lok-drashti)? It is to believe north as being south.”

— Dada Bhagwan

The Guru is an alive presence that can actually challenge you (which mind can never do).

— Swami Premodaya

“To see from all the “view points”; is called ‘Gnan’ [True Knowledge].”

— Dada Bhagwan

By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.

— John Henry Newman

Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“We work very hard to have what Buddha gave up to become enlightened. Does that mean we are benighted?”

— Rohan and Mohan Perera (World of Ro and Mo

For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms.

— Kurt Vonnegut

HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.

— Ambrose Bierce