Quotes About Spirituality

Meditation is not growth of the ego, it is death of the ego.

Passing through the fire of meditation, everything that is not your authentic reality, everything that is borrowed, will be burned away.

Those who miss meditation miss the whole dance of life.

By and by... there are more and more gaps of silence. Through those gaps, windows will open to the divine.

Your love will deepen as your meditation deepens, and vice-versa: as your meditation blossoms, your love will also blossom.

To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about.

Wisdom happens through meditation, and bliss also happens through meditation. Both the flowers bloom on the same branch.

Meditation, perhaps, is the only alchemy that can transform a beggar into an emperor.

Meditation is the way to individuality. It makes you a light unto yourself.

There are qualities which grow as meditation deepens. For example, you start feeling loving for no reason at all. Not the love that you know, in which you have to fall—not falling in love. But just a quality of lovingness, not only to human beings. As your meditation deepens, your lovingness will start spreading beyond humanity to animals, to trees, even to the rocks, to the mountains.

Meditation is the only cure for all sicknesses that man is prone to; a single medicine. And I should remind you that the word meditation and medicine come from the same root. Medicine for the body and meditation for the soul. They both bring health.

Love is the flowering of meditation. Meditation brings many treasures; perhaps love is the greatest roseflower that grows on the bush of meditation.

Arjuna, before understanding the Bhagavad-gita, was a fighter, and after understanding the Bhagavad-gita he remained a fighter.

when one is intelligent enough, one tries to find out the supreme cause of all causes - within and without.

the supreme lord and the individual soul are sitting in the body like 2 friendly birds in a tree

The Bodhi Tree Grows in L.A.

The effort of the genuine spiritual seeker should be to cultivate love until the mind becomes saturated by it.

If God can speak through a bee sting, why cannot He speak through the ghost of life-loving Rebecca?

Those who possess that treasure which no thief can take away, Which, though on suppliants freely spent, increaseth day by day, The source of inward happiness which shall outlast the earth-- To them e'en kings should yield the palm, and own their higher worth.

Suppose I shaved off my hair and beard, put on the yellow robe, and went forth from the house life into homelessness?

A spiritual tradition is not a shallow stream in which one can wet one's feet and then beat a quick retreat to the shore. It is a mighty, tumultuous river which would rush through the entire landscape of one's life, and if one truly wishes to travel on it, one must be courageous enough to launch one's boat and head out for the depths.

The choice of a spiritual path is closer to marriage: one wants a partner for life, one whose companionship will prove as trustworthy and durable as the pole star in the night sky.

The wise man carries his possessions within him.

He who has not repeatedly heard and studied the Gita, yet desires liberation, will be laughed at by children. But those who hear it and study it are not humans. They are certainly like the gods.