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Quotes About Meaning

The second coming was an event in the spiritual, and not in the natural world.
~ John Humphrey Noyes
Just by the very nature of our birth, we are on the spiritual journey.
~ Thomas Keating
Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.
~ Geoffrey Fisher
Simply being with other people who are also seekers and who are involved in the same quest you are is very meaningful.
~ Dan Wakefield
In a strange way the spiritual life isn't "useful" or "successful." But it is meant to be fruitful. And fruitfulness comes out of brokenness.
~ Henri Nouwen
Synchronistic events offer us perceptions that may be useful in our psychological and spiritual growth and may reveal to us, through intuitive knowledge, that our lives have meaning.
~ Jean Shinoda Bolen
... people don't know what they are striving for. They waste themselves in senseless thrashing around for the sake of a handful of goods and die without realizing their spiritual wealth.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul...
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
~ Thomas Merton
The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
~ Andre Malraux
Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.
~ Emil Nolde
The ultimate purpose of our life is to rejoin God in conscious participation of divinity.
~ Edgar Cayce
A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.
~ William Sloane Coffin
Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a vast realm in which we function as human beings.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself. That's how I hold your voice.
~ Rumi
The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.
~ Abraham Maslow
The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we're all spiritual creatures.
~ Smokey Robinson
My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The purpose of a spiritual path or religion is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable.
~ Geneen Roth
Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.
~ Paul Tournier
Spiritual teaching must always be by symbols.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
The same spiritual fulfillment that people find in religion can be found in science by coming to know, if you will, the mind of God.
~ Carolyn Porco
Yoga teaches us both to let go and to have exquisite awareness in every moment. We remember our essential spiritual nature and life becomes more joyful, meaningful, and carefree.
~ Deepak Chopra
I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
~ Dag Hammarskjold