Quotes About Spirituality

but I am prepared to go any distance to see the face of that man who can really make a distinction between the sin and the sinner. It is easy to say so.

India is at one with the most puritan faiths of the world in her declaration that progress is from seen to unseen, from the many to the One, from the low to the high, from the form to the formless, and never in the reverse direction.

The Yogi believes in psychic control and the conquest of internal nature. "How

One moment of company with the holy makes a ship to cross this ocean of life." Such is the power of association.

This animal called man has some religious influence, but he is guided by economy.

In search of wealth in this world, Thou art the only wealth I have found; I sacrifice myself unto Thee. In search of some one to be loved, Thou art the only one beloved I have found; I sacrifice myself unto Thee.

Raja-Yoga is the science of religion, the rationale of all worship, all prayers, forms, ceremonies, and miracles.

It teaches that there is the soul, and inside this soul is all power. It is already there, and if we can master this body, all the power will be unfolded. All knowledge is in the soul. Why

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

He who does so, says the Gita, cannot be a Yogi: He who fasts, he who keeps awake, he who sleeps much, he who works too much, he who does no work, none of these can be a Yogi (Gita, VI, 16).

The Yogi says, religion is practical if you know first why misery exists. All the misery in the world is in the senses. Is

There he realized the oneness of the universe and man, that man is a universe in miniature.

The concentrated mind is a lamp that shows us every corner of the soul.

Krishna is the higher Self, or God. He sees through the argument at once. In this case [the motive] is weakness.

The uncontrolled mind Does not guess that the Atman is present: How can it meditate? Without meditation, where is peace? Without peace, where is happiness? (Bhagavad Gita, II. 62, 63, 65)

The Hindus have discovered that the absolute can only be realised, or thought of, or stated, through the relative, and the images, crosses, and crescents are simply so many symbols — so many pegs to hang the spiritual ideas on. It is not that this help is necessary for every one, but those that do not need it have no right to say that it is wrong. Nor is it compulsory in Hinduism.

Swami Vivekananda

Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.

Religion can be realised. Are you ready? Do you want it? You will get the realisation if you do, and then you will be truly religious. Until you have attained realisation there is no difference between you and atheists. The atheists are sincere, but the man who says that he believes in religion and never attempts to realise it is not sincere.

Life is itself religion.

When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret

Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this Divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal.

Oh, if only you knew yourselves! You are souls; you are Gods. If ever I feel like blaspheming, it; is when I call you man.

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