Quotes About Spirituality

There is a world-wide yearning for spiritual peace and righteousness on the part of the common man. He is finding it occasionally in established religion, but often, perhaps more often, independently of it.

Treat everyone you meet as if they are God in drag.

I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.

The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

I'm not interested in being a "lover." I'm interested in only being love.

Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.

The Kingsford–Maitland view of Christianity appealed to Gandhi because it asked not for exaltation of a personal Saviour, but fidelity to one's conscience.

India incorporates a greater variety of religions (whether born in its soil or imported) than any other nation in human history.

God is in all men, but all men are not in God that is why we suffer.

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.

One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.

When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.

A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.

Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.

If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

Bondage is of the mind freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.

The world is not outside you.

Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.

Become conscious of being conscious. Say or think "I am", and add nothing to it. Be aware of the stillness that follows the "I am". Sense your presence, the naked unveiled, unclothed beingness. It is untouched by young or old, rich or poor, good or bad, or any other attributes. It is the spacious womb of all creation, all form.