Character Quote by Ayya Khema Download Open image ““He first advocates practicing moral conduct as a foundation for spiritual development.”” — Ayya Khema ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Religion Spiritual development
“Our moral decisions about ourselves can be spiritual. Our moral decisions about other people can only be practical.” — Andrew Klavan Copy Share Image
“...the standard for moral behaviour must be part of God's nature. He did not create morality, he is morality.” — Lewis N. Roe Copy Share Image
For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development. — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
“Spiritual practice lives at the corner of self-respect and self-discipline.” — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“The development from a religion of fear to moral religion is a great step in peoples' lives.” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“One doesn't have to be religious to lead a moral life or attain wisdom.” — Allan Lokos Copy Share Image
“Eventually, I realized that social justice, kindness, and honesty didn’t have to come from the theology in which I’d been raised. In fact, not… — Aaron Hartzler Copy Share Image
“An active moral life cannot be evolved except where people are free to express their feelings and act upon the insights of conscience.” — George Dennison Copy Share Image
“Morality came before religion, and religion was our ancestors' way of responding to that built-in need. And if that was so, then it was… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The Religious person follows the teachings of their Church, The Spiritual person follows the Guidance of their Soul.” — Non Nomen Copy Share Image
“Good, capable individuals unconsciously and consciously guard and nurture themselves and their spirits every day in all sorts of choices, large and small. Just… — Donald Van de Mark Copy Share Image
It is often thought that the Buddha's doctrine teaches us that suffering will disappear if one has meditated long enough, or if one sees… — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
Half the spiritual life consists of remembering what we are up against and where we are going. — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
“In meditation, we have to give ourselves totally, with no holding back. Whatever meditation subject we have chosen, we must become immersed in it;” — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
“The teaching of the Buddha is called the Dhamma. He did not teach Buddhism, any more than Jesus taught Christianity.” — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
“when the words we speak or write come from inner experience and are heartfelt, they are always imbued with “trembling for the welfare of… — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
“Wisdom comes only from the understood experience and from nothing else.” — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
We could become quite satisfied with ourselves because we are sitting in meditation and are endeavoring to practice the spiritual path. Such satisfaction with… — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
Unless we practice loving feelings toward everyone we meet, day in, day out, we're missing out on the most joyous part of life. If… — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
the more we abandon ill-will and hatred, the easier it will be to meditate. — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
Eventually we will find (mostly in retrospect, of course) that we can be very grateful to those people who have made life most difficult… — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image