Quotes About Spirituality

enlightenment is the real nature of our minds.

The spiritual journey is one of continuous learning and purification.

we have to understand, the buddhas took one path and we took another. The buddhas recognize their original nature and become enlightened; we do not recognize that nature and so become confused.

Tibetan master has advised: Always recognize the dreamlike qualities of life and reduce attachment and aversion. Practice good-heartedness toward all beings. Be loving and compassionate, no matter what others do to you. What they will do will not matter so much when you see it as a dream. The trick is to have positive intention during the dream. This is the essential point. This is true spirituality.

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

Let others say what they will of the efficacy of prayer, I believe in it, and I shall pray. Thank God! Yes, I shall always pray,

All who eat swine's flesh are of the devil; and just as certain as he eats it, he will tell a lie in less than half an hour. If you eat a piece of pork, it will go crooked through you, and the Holy Ghost will not stay in you, but one or the other must leave the house pretty soon. The pork will be as crooked in you as ram's horns, and as great a nuisance as the hogs in the street.

Birth and death is the pulse of Buddha life.

I believe from the bottom of my heart that what we call religion is the very most important matter for human beings. I cannot stress enough that the ultimate goal of religion, whether we call it satori or peace of mind, is for each individual to live in peace and tranquility, to live a full and satisfying life.

The figure of Shakyamuni Buddha lying on his side to die is known as the "nirvana figure.

Amazing things happen when you get enough sleep, eat properly, and take it easy. Your nerve endings relax, and your spirit, or the six-sensory part of you, rejuvenates and begins to shine light on your path.

Once you choose to love yourself and align with your Spirit, life aligns with you.

We psychically influence each other at all times, and those of us who live in a higher way know this as fact and don't question it.

I began to understand that we have everything to do with what happens to us, and as spiritual beings we actually co-create with the Universe all the events we experience. Every one. Even the two people who were murdered.

We humans are all manifestations of one Divine spirit vibrating at different levels of consciousness and frequencies at one time. Like cells in a body, we're all on this planet together, and when one cell attacks another in the body, we call that cancer. Similarly, when we attack one another (or ourselves) through condemnation and judgment, it's no less cancerous and toxic to our entire being—body, mind, and soul.

i saw you vincent van gogh perched on those pennsylvania cornfields communing amid secret black bird societies. yes.

I never believed in dharma. karma, reincarnation, or any of that spiritual crap, which caused sort of a problem growing up because my parents are devout Hindus.

He is dirt under fingernails and the stick of sap on skin... I am saintly, poetic; I am demise, otherworld.

Life becomes religious whenever we make it so when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done.

He didn't subscribe to the view...that spirituality was a fast track to happiness. He believed the opposite was true: spiritual people suffered more than most.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

We are unable to envision death without the life within us which is full aware of it.

Who can be close to you without the Divine Light of his heart?

How would this world be if there was not God? The answer is simple: it would become itself God.