In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds. — John of the Cross
Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well. — Bernard of Clairvaux
There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine. — Kahlil Gibran
real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it. — Barry Lopez
The spiritual journey is not about acquiring something outside yourself, rather, you are penetrating deep layers and veils to return to the deepest truth of your own being. — Ram Dass
As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe. — Judith Wright
Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness. — Fritjof Capra
Our heart knows what our mind has forgotten - it knows the sacred that is within all that exists, and through a depth of feeling we can once again experience this connection, this belonging. — Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Meditation is listening to the divine within — Edgar Cayce
If you haven't wept deeply, you haven't begun to meditate. — Ajahn Chah
It is the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
Spiritual Journey Quotes
There is only one royal road for the spiritual journey...Love — Sathya Sai Baba
The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth. — Ram Dass
When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense. — Kahlil Gibran
How deep is the mud? Depends on who you ask. We all go through the same stuff differently.
Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations. — Samuel Ullman
Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be. Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you’ll live as you’ve never lived before. — Erich Fromm
In the spiritual journey, you cannot be a wine taster, you have to become a drunk. — Mooji
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
The experiences are so innumerable and varied, that the journey appears to be interminable and the Destination is ever out of sight. But the wonder of it is, when at last you reach your Destination you find that you had never travelled at all! It was a journey from here to Here. — Meher Baba
And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home. — Wendell Berry
We are all hypocrites in transition. I am not who I want to be, but I am on the journey there, and thankfully I am not whom I used to be. — Erwin McManus
There comes a time in the spiritual journey when you start making choices from a very different place. And if a choice lines up so that it supports truth, health, happiness, wisdom and love, it's the right choice. — Angeles Arrien
Spiritual Life Quotes
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds — Paul the Apostle
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. — Mother Teresa
Religion is belief in someone else's experience. Spirituality is having your own experience.
Spiritual power is the eternal guide, in this life and the life after, for man ranks supreme among all creatures. Led forward by spiritual power, man can reach the summit destined for him by the Great Creator. — Haile Selassie
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. — Dalai Lama
If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys. — Chief Dan George
Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.
If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it. — Mooji
Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. — Pema Chodron
the deeper one is drawn into God, the more one must 'go out of oneself'; that is, one must go to the world in order to carry the divine life into it. — Edith Stein
The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it. — Thomas S. Monson
Deep Meditation Quotes
I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom.
It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes,
deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
All meditation must begin with arousing deep compassion. Whatever one does must emerge from an attitude of love and benefitting others. — Milarepa
I started Transcendental Meditation in 1973 and have not missed a single meditation ever since. Twice a day, every day. It has given me effortless access to unlimited reserves of energy, creativity and happiness deep within. — David Lynch
When a deep injury is done to us, we never heal until we forgive.
When in bed, meditate. Either you will have a deep meditation or fall asleep. Victory either way. — Naval Ravikant
Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer. — Dean Koontz
Stillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion, and drive which we eventually honor with the name of action. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great. — Leonard Bernstein
The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain.
Eat plants, sleep well, train hard, work harder, meditate hardest, believe in yourself, give in service, and most of all love deep & wide. — Rich Roll
Everything that is meant for you will feel like a deep exhale, as though you are returning home to a place you forgot existed. — Brianna Wiest
True love, in the evolutionary sense, means peace of mind. ‘Still waters run deep’ is a good way of characterizing it. — Amir Levine
The good life is one that is characterized by a deep and abiding sense of love and connection to others. — Martha C. Nussbaum
Spiritual Love Quotes
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation. — Rumi
There is only one caste... the caste of humanity. There is only one religion... the religion of love. There is only one language... the language of the heart. — Sathya Sai Baba
I am in love with no other than myself, and my very separation is my union... I am my beloved and my lover; I am my knight and my maiden. — Ibn Arabi
They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.
There is no difficulty that enough LOVE will not conquer, no disease that enough LOVE will not heal, no door that enough LOVE will not open, no gulf that enough LOVE will not bridge, no wall that enough LOVE will not throw down, no sin that enough LOVE will not redeem. — Emmet Fox
My heart has become capable of every form: It is a pasture for gazelles And a monastery for Christian monks, And the pilgrim's Ka'ba, And the tablets of the Torah, And the book of the Koran. I follow the religion of Love: Whatever way love's camel takes, That is my religion, my faith. — Ibn Arabi
When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy. — Hafez
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance. — Viktor E. Frankl
The more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love... and, mirror-like... each soul reflects the other. — Dante Alighieri
The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there? — Jack Kornfield
Understand the place of love in a spiritual life. A powerful and blissful type of love has no conditions, no ownership and no people involved. Be free from fear. Be who you are. That is love. — Ajahn Brahm
Spiritual Growth Quotes
You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks. — Deepak Chopra
We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near. — Teresa of Avila
Today I close the door the door to my past, open the door to my future, take a deep breath and step through to a new life.
Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education. — Charlotte Mason
Physical strength (hard work), mental strength (perseverance) and spiritual strength (love & acceptance) are the keys to continuous growth. — Rickson Gracie
I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be. — Albert Einstein
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a vision, a dream.
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 is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love. — M. Scott Peck
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart — Rumi
Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution. — Deepak Chopra
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 spiritual growth. — M. Scott Peck
Spiritual Relationship Quotes
Prayer is spiritual communication between man and God, a two-way relationship in which man should not only talk to God but also listen to Him. Prayer to God is like a child's conversation with his father. It is natural for a child to ask his father for the things he needs. — Billy Graham
Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God. — Dallas Willard
The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter. — Paulo Coelho
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives. — Tony Robbins
Every relationship has a spiritual purpose that helps us grow and become stronger. Sometimes, our most challenging relationships bring the greatest personal blessings. From them we learn about forgiveness, patience, and other virtues. — Doreen Virtue
Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others. — Wayne Dyer
If you are willing to look at another person's behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person. then you will, over a period of time, cease to react at all. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
A power struggle collapses when you withdraw your energy from it. Power struggles become uninteresting to you when you change your intention from winning to learning about yourself. — Gary Zukav
God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord. — N. T. Wright
Experience life in all possible ways -- good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don't be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become. — Osho
Spiritual Experience Quotes
It must never be forgotten that the purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous is to sober up alcoholics. There is no religious or spiritual requirement for membership. No demands are made on anyone. An experience is offered which members may accept or reject. That is up to them. — Bill W.
Being a seeker means no matter what the Vedas said, what Krishna or Shiva said, you have to know the truth in your own experience. — Jaggi Vasudev
We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light! — Hafez
Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process. — Sai Baba
Individuals do not meet by chance. They are necessary in the experiences of others, though they may not always use their opportunities in a spiritual way or manner. — Edgar Cayce
Each soul in entering the material experience does so for those purposes of advancement towards that awareness of being fully conscious of the oneness with the Creative Forces. — Edgar Cayce
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life. — Dalai Lama
Dance is active meditation. When we dance, we go beyond thought, beyond mind and beyond our individuality to become one in the divine ecstasy of the union with the cosmic spirit. This is the essence of the trance dance experience. — Goa Gil
Never limit your view of life by any past experience. — Ernest Holmes
Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them. — Elisabeth Elliot
Spiritual Transformation Quotes
All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us. — Richard Rohr
The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation. — Dwight L. Moody
If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation. — Lao Tzu
Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be fine. — Jaggi Vasudev
Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. ... Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. Nothing disappears without a trace. — Wernher Von Braun
The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from...Circumcision of the heart. — Dallas Willard
The key is to be in a state of permanent connectedness with your inner body - to feel it at all times. This will rapidly deepen and transform your life. The more consciousness you direct into the inner body, the higher its vibrational frequency becomes. — Eckhart Tolle
In terms of changes, the spiritual mentors teach me that I must not forget those relating primarily to improve myself. — Chico Xavier
You've got to admit you're broken before you can be made whole. — LeCrae
Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us. — John Flavel
Spiritual Peace Quotes
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. — Albert Einstein
Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling. — Vincent Van Gogh
If you really want peace of mind and inner calm, you will get it. Regardless of how unjustly you have been treated, or how unfair the boss has been, or what a mean scoundrel someone has proved to be, all this makes no difference to you when you awaken to your mental and spiritual powers. — Joseph Murphy
The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors. — Joseph Pilates
Contemplation is nothing else but a secret, peaceful, and loving infusion of God, which, if admitted, will set the soul on fire with the Spirit of love. — John of the Cross
It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love — John Lennon
We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know - we have forgotten how to be - to be still - to be ourselves - to be where life is here and now — Eckhart Tolle
Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace. — Ajahn Chah
However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them? — Buddha
The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside. — Tenzin Palmo
Spiritual Practice Quotes
Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual. — Grace Lee Boggs
The most holy and necessary practice in our spiritual life is the presence of God. That means finding constant pleasure in His divine company, speaking humbly and lovingly with him in all seasons, at every moment, without limiting the conversation in any way. — Brother Lawrence
If we practice the science of yoga, which is useful to the entire human community and which yields happiness both here and hereafter - if we practice it without fail, we will then attain physical, mental, and spiritual happiness, and our minds will flood towards the Self. — K. Pattabhi Jois
You impose limits on your true nature of infinite being. Then you get displeased to be only a limited creature. Then you begin spiritual practices to transcend these non-existing limits. But if your practice itself implies the existence of these limits, how could they allow you to transcend them. — Ramana Maharshi
The realization of New Africa can only be possible by the African cultivating spiritual balance, which leads to the practicalization of social regeneration, to realizing economic determination, becoming mentally emancipated, and ushering in a political resurgence. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
You can think of spiritual practice as a kind of spiritual re-parenting ... You're offering yourself the two qualities that make up good parenting: understanding - seeing yourself for who you truly are - and relating to what you see with unconditional love. — Tara Brach
The Bhagavad Gita, a Hindu spiritual text written around 2,000 years ago, translated the breathing practice of pranayama to mean 'trance induced by stopping all breathing.' — James Nestor
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self. — Marianne Williamson
. . . in the spiritual life you must practice. And the only way to practice is by trying to solve your problems with prayer. This develops your spiritual power and it also trains you to use that spiritual power in the most effective way. — Emmet Fox
True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I'm the biggest sinner of them all. — Johnny Cash
By getting the Word deep into your spirit and speaking it boldly out your mouth, you release spiritual power to change things in the natural circumstances. — Kenneth Copeland
Now you are deep in what seems to me a peculiarly selfless service. The spiritual training of children must be that. You work for the years you will not see. You work for the Invisible all the time, but you work for the Eternal. So it is all worthwhile. — Amy Carmichael
My goal is to live the truly religious life, and express it in my music. If you live it, when you play there's no problem because the music is part of the whole thing. To be a musician is really something. It goes very, very deep. My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being. — John Coltrane
Right now, and in every now-moment, you are either closing or opening. You are either stressfully waiting for something - more money, security, affection - or you are living from your deep heart, opening as the entire moment, and giving what you most deeply desire to give, without waiting. — David Deida
You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick. — Brene Brown
Now and again, it is necessary to seclude yourself among deep mountain and hidden valleys to restore your link to the source of life. — Morihei Ueshiba
Food to a large extent is what holds a society together, and eating is closely linked to deep spiritual experiences. — Peter Farb
When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings. — Sogyal Rinpoche
That we may merge into the deep and dazzling darkness, vanish into it, dissolve in it forever in an unbelievable bliss beyond imagination, for absolute nothingness represents absolute bliss. — Gregory of Nyssa
So many of us start along the spiritual path because we are suffering. But you must realize that for real healing to occur, there must first be deep compassion for yourself, especially the parts of yourself you dislike or consider ugly. — Pema Chodron
In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers . . . we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive. — Albert Schweitzer
Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and tranquility... Without this inner peace, no matter how comfortable your life is materially, you may still be worried, disturbed or unhappy because of circumstances. — Dalai Lama
There is one thing that, when cultivated and regularly practiced, leads to deep spiritual intention, to peace, to mindfulness and clear comprehension, to vision and knowledge, to a happy life here and now, and to the culmination of wisdom and awakening. And what is that one thing? It is mindfulness centred on the body — Buddha
I find that when you strip all the layers away, as people, and especially as women, we can find deep connection with each other, and a shared understanding. — Meghan Markle
You will have peace to the extent that you have God, and the further you are away from God the less you will be at peace... Thus you may measure your progress with God by measuring your peace or the lack of it. — Meister Eckhart
Deep within the self is the Light of God. It radiates throughout
the expanse of His creation. Through the Guru's teachings, the
darkness of spiritual ignorance is dispelled. The heart lotus flower
blooms forth and eternal peace is obtained, as one's light merges
into the Supreme Light. — Guru Amar Das
The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr
We each have moments of spiritual power, moments of inspiration and revelation. We must sink them deep into the chambers of our souls. As we do, we prepare our spiritual home storage for moments of personal difficulty. — Neil L. Andersen
Beauty is not in the face; Beauty is a light in the something you do daily. — Mike Murdock
Attempting to satisfy the passions that rage inside us and the longings that motivate us, we invent spirituality, lean on political solutions, create new villains, turn our backs on Jesus, and blame a thousand tyrannies- but we never come to terms with the source of the problem deep within the heart and inclination of every human being. — Ravi Zacharias
There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open- hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand. — Sue Thoele
We are born to soar. We are children of God. ... The Fatherhood of God offers a deep spiritual cure for the inferiority complex and lays the firm foundation for a solid spiritual self-esteem. — Robert H. Schuller
Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based. — Christian Lous Lange
A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself. That's how I hold your voice. — Rumi
No pit is so deep that He is not deeper still; with Jesus even in our darkest moments, the best remains and the very best is yet to be. — Corrie Ten Boom
Modern art did not just happen. It came as a result of a deep reversal of spiritual values in the Age of Reason, a movement that in the course of a little more than two centuries changed the world. — Hans Rookmaaker
We need to approach the Bible each day with a spirit of deep humility, recognizing that our understanding of spiritual truth is at best incomplete and to some extent inaccurate ... we should approach the Scriptures in humility and expect the Spirit to humble us even further as we continue being taught by Him from His Word. — Jerry Bridges
Spiritual intelligence is the capacity to conduct our life in such a way that it reflects deep philosophical and metaphysical understanding of reality and of ourselves discovered through personal experience during systematic spiritual pursuit. — Stanislav Grof
In a special sense... the three great natural states of waking, dreaming, and deep sleep contain an entire spectrum of spiritual enlightenment. — Ken Wilber
Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth. — Eckhart Tolle
I think we need to do some deep soul searching about what's important in our lives and renew our spirit and our spiritual thinking, whether it's through faith-based religion or just through loving nature, or helping your fellow man. — Louis Schwartzberg
There is a deep need in the world just now for guidance - almost any sort of spiritual guidance. — Carl Jung
Deep within, you know that the only thing that is truly important is being in alignment with spirit. — Wayne Dyer
Although natural farming - since it can teach people to cultivate a deep understanding of nature - may lead to spiritual insight, it's not strictly a spiritual practice. — Masanobu Fukuoka
A spiritual organization with a hierarchical structure can convey only the consciousness of estrangement, regardless of what teachings or deep inspirations are at its root.The structure itself reinforces the idea that some people are inherently more worthy than others. — Starhawk
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