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Spiritual Quotes by M. Scott Peck
- The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our…
- If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution.
- Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction…
- The symptoms and the illness are not the same thing. The illness exists long before the symptoms. Rather than being the illness, the symptoms are…
- As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome…
- I have learned nothing in twenty years that would suggest that evil people can be rapidly influenced by any means other than raw power. They…
- Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. What provides the motive, the energy for discipline? This force I believe to…
- The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.
- Genuine love not only respects the individuality of the other but actually cultivates it, even at the risk of separation or loss. The ultimate goal…
- The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is…
- Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth,…
- The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only…
- Consciousness and Healing To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through. In order to…
- Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love…
- I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.
- Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
- Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.
- Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom. . . . love…
- Given the imperfections of our society and the apparent downward spiral of spiritual and moral values in recent years, thinking has become a grave issue.…
More Spiritual Quotes
- The soul never thinks without a picture. — Aristotle
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. — Francis of Assisi
- Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. — Saint Augustine
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine
- The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race. — Sri Aurobindo
- India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not… — Sri Aurobindo
- I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic. — Dan Aykroyd
- Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles,… — Sai Baba
- Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man… — Sai Baba
- The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. — Richard Bach