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Spirituality Quotes by Alan Watts
- To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious life will be…
- Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown.
- Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
- Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or mastery—in morals, in art or in spirituality—the more you see that you are…
- It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and highly improbable. G.K.Chesterton…
- A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.
- The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of the self, or…
More Spirituality Quotes
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. — Saint Augustine
- Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it. — Sri Aurobindo
- To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. — Sri Aurobindo
- Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. — Teresa of Avila
- Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man… — Sai Baba
- Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
- Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with… — Richard Bach
- The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent… — Honore de Balzac
- Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. — Francis Bacon
- Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales,… — Francis Bacon