If we pray only because we want answers, we will become irritated and angry with God. We receive an answer every time… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Why do people think the spiritual life demands withdrawal from the ordinary? Because they've been taught, at least by implication, that the… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
The law known as Marchetta, or Marquette, compelled newly married women to a most dishonorable servitude. They were regarded as the rightful… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
“A thousand lips, a thousand eyes, a thousand hearts will read these words, as you read them, graze them, this moment. Thousands… — V.S. Atbay Copy Share Image
A spiritual partnership is between people who promise themselves to use all of their experiences to grow spiritually. They use their emotions… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a… — August Bournonville Copy Share Image
This is something I consider Enlightenment to be - and that is to give intellectual or spiritual understanding and to be free… — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
The Alliance and NATO is two different things. France is a member of the Alliance. NATO is an organization not mentioned in… — Helmut Schmidt Copy Share Image
A man who took great pride in his lawn found himself with a large crop of dandelions. He tried every method he… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
When we start out on a spiritual path we often have ideals we think we're supposed to live up to. We feel… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
If someone comes in without having been on a spiritual path for long, he or she still will understand what is happening… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
When all mental activity around who you think you are is stopped, there is a crack in the authority of perception, in… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
“Even if just once, the inner intent spoils towards someone, as in ‘I will put him in his place’, it is a… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all at the… — Quentin Bryce Copy Share Image
“The paramanus [indivisible atoms] of mind-speech and body are effective. That is why things appear as good or bad. It shows good… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Generations of women have sacrificed their lives to become their mothers. But we do not have that luxury any more. The world… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
It reveals us to ourselves, it represents those modulations and temperamental changes which escape all verbal analysis, it utters what must else… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
Men, to exist, to become complete and mature, need to feel the joy of fatherhood. When a man does not have this… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Man doth seek a triple perfection: first a sensual, consisting in those things which very life itself requireth either as necessary supplements,… — Richard Hooker Copy Share Image
Some spiritual traditions view the moment of birth as a passage from a state of wholeness and knowledge to a state of… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Without love even the most radical devotion to God is of no value to Him. Let me make sure that sinks in…… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel it is my Christian duty to be at least as careful in my personal grooming, if not more so, than… — Eugenia Price Copy Share Image
There are stories, like maps that agree... too consistent among too many languages and histories to be only wishful thinking… It is… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
What I'm talking about is both political and then also extra-political. Because what Donald Trump is doing is not simply to be… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write.… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon.… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
“Who doesn’t allow one to attain the ultimate liberation? The pudgal (non-Self complex made up of mind-speech-body). Similarly, what doesn’t let a… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If you are a person this world will seem full of persons. When you are the being you will not feel bound.… — Mooji Copy Share Image
Inherent in the impulse to be free, is insecurity. The impulse to be free comes from outside of the mind, and because… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Deep within the self is the Light of God. It radiates throughout the expanse of His creation. Through the Guru's teachings, the… — Guru Amar Das Copy Share Image
Compassion- which means, literally, "to suffer with"- is the way to the truth that we are most ourselves, not when we differ… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Every being experiences themselves as the center of their experience. Consciousness is what lies at our very core, and connects us all… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“All these people get married for happiness, but the poor people become miserable within. That is because it is not under one’s… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Just as an earthly garden needs constant attention, so, too, does our spiritual garden. When we first begin our journey of spirituality… — Silver RavenWolf Copy Share Image
“When you accept Islam, you don’t cease to be the person you were before in your identity and culture,’ he told me.… — Kristiane Backer Copy Share Image
I have no problem with religion, and I grew up with a strong curiosity about spiritual matters, but my searching took me… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
“Political movements for justice are part of the fuller development of the cosmos, and nature is the matrix in which humans come… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
“This is the law of nature that every person who is born has to go through certain kind of painful experiences. The… — Subodh Gupta Copy Share Image