Quotes About Spirituality

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

This universe is the wreckage of the infinite on the shores of the finite.

Of one hundred persons who take up the spiritual life, eighty turn out to be charlatans, fifteen insane, and only five, maybe, get a glimpse of the real truth. Therefore beware.

Ignorance is the mother of all the evil and all the misery we see. Let men have light, let them be pure and spiritually strong and educated, then alone will misery cease in the world, not before. We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery of man will still continue to exist until man's character changes.

A tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it; and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the Ocean of Life and Bliss.

We only know the universe from the point of view of beings with five senses. Suppose we obtain another sense, the whole universe must change for us.

Never forget the glory of human nature! We are the greatest god.. Christs and Buddhas are but waves in the boundless ocean which I AM.

The more we grow in Love, Virtue and Holiness, the more we see Love, Virtue and Holiness outside.

This attachment of Love to God is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.

God is present in every Jiva; there is no other God besides that. Who serves Jiva serves God indeed.

If you [can realise Brahman] by standing on your head, or on one foot, or by worshipping five thousand gods with three heads each — welcome to it! ... Do it any way you can! Nobody has any right to say anything. Therefore, Krishna says, if your method is better and higher, you have no business to say that another man's method is bad, however wicked you may think it.

Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.

The Gita is a commentary on the Upanishads. The Upanishads are the Bible of India.

There was never a time when we did not exist.

There will never be a time when we shall not exist.

Put the good before them, see how eagerly they take it, see how the divine that never dies, that is always living in the human...

One infinite - pure and holy - beyond thoughts and beyond qualities - bow down to thee

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.

When you step beyond thought and intellect and all reasoning, then you have made the first step towards God; and that is the beginning of life.

GOD is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They know that the soul of all religions is the same and so they have no quarrel with anybody just because he or she does not speak in the same tongue.

all religions alike, from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, are but so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realise the Infinite.

We are allowed to worship him. Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment

man may see a great deal of difference between grass and a little tree, but if you mount very high, the grass and the biggest tree will appear much the same. So, from the standpoint of the highest ideal, the lowest animal and the highest man are the same. If