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Quotes About Spirituality

Transcend the terrestrial, surpass the celestial, from nature's hands when you receive the sublime pleasures of dance
~ Shah Asad Rizvi
The true saint goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moment.
~ Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir
Love came and emptied me of self, every vein and every pore, made into a container to be filled by the Beloved. Of me, only a name is left, the rest is You my Friend, my Beloved.
~ Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir
The sum total of our life is a breath spent in the company of the Beloved.
~ Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir
Inside this robe there is only God.
~ Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir
Under this cloak is nothing but God. Introduce me as "Nobody, Son of Nobody".
~ Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir
As long as we focus on the outside, there will always be that empty, hungry, lost place inside that needs to be filled.
~ Shakti Gawain
Being a channel means living fully and passionately in the world, having deep relationships, playing, working, creating, enjoying money and material possessions, being yourself, yet maintaining your profound connection with the power of the universe within you, learning and growing from every experience that you have.
~ Shakti Gawain
Thought is a quick, light, mobile form of energy. It manifests instantaneously, unlike the denser forms such as matter.
~ Shakti Gawain
God is working through me now. I am filled with creative energy. The light within me is creating miracles in my life here and now.
~ Shakti Gawain
The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.
~ Shakti Gawain
What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.
~ Shakti Gawain
I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience
~ Shakti Gawain
In order to heal themselves, people must recognize, first, that they have an inner guidance deep within and, second, that they can trust it.
~ Shakti Gawain
The people who raised me will say that I am not religious. They are mistaken. What I am not is observant. But I am painfully, cripplingly, incurably, miserably religious, and I have watched lately, dumbfounded and distraught, as around the world, more and more people seem to be finding Gods, each one more hateful and bloodthirsty than the next, as I'm doing my best to lose Him. I'm failing miserably.
~ Shalom Auslander
A life without love is a waste. "Should I look for spiritual love, or material, or physical love?", don't ask yourself this question. Discrimination leads to discrimination. Love doesn't need any name, category or definition. Love is a world itself. Either you are in, at the center…either you are out, yearning.
~ Shams-i Tabrizi
When I was a child, I saw God, I saw angels; I watched the mysteries of the higher and lower worlds. I thought all men saw the same. At last I realized that they did not see.…
~ Shams-i Tabrizi
When a sincere woman begins to dance, the seven heavens, the earth, and all creatures begin to dance.
~ Shams-i Tabrizi
While most activists could use a good dose of gentleness, I think most believers could use a good dose of holy anger.
~ Shane Claiborne
If the devil can't steal your soul, he'll just keep you busy doing meaningless church work.
~ Shane Claiborne
People always want to define you by what you do. I started saying: 'i am not too concerned with what i'm going to do. I am more interested in who i am becoming. I want to be a lover of God and people.
~ Shane Claiborne
Looking into the eyes of people who love us may be the clearest glimpse of God many of us get in this world.
~ Shane Claiborne
In an age of million-dollar mansions for God, it's hard to imagine that our God prefers tents.
~ Shane Claiborne
Augustine of Hippo said, "Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.
~ Shane Claiborne