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Quotes About Understanding

Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.
~ Oswald Chambers
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind.
~ Eckhart Tolle
All attack is a call for help.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat.
~ Barbara Deming
Learn spiritual sciences, to recognize God and gain access to Him, no matter what religion or sect you belong to!
~ Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play, but in the spiritual arena there are people who are even closer to me than that.
~ Meher Baba
Let your heart speak to others hearts.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
I think in many ways narrow minded-attitudes lead to extreme thinking.
~ Dalai Lama
Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.
~ William Jennings Bryan
Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.
~ Jalaluddin Rumi
Spiritual connection does not mean romance
~ Caroline Myss
HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn't very much.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird.
~ Rumi
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be
~ Niels Bohr
Faith is seeing the invisible, but not the nonexistent.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
In order to meditate correctly, you must have knowledge.
~ Dalai Lama
It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.
~ Dalai Lama
Friendship means only one thing: you don't create fences around you, but try to remove fences from the life of another person.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Learning comes from education, while knowing comes from revelation. Learning is cognitive, while knowing is spiritual.
~ Myles Munroe
Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.
~ Saint Augustine