Quotes About Spirituality

Some stand on tiptoe trying to talk to God — but you try too hard, friend — drop to your knees and listen; he'll hear you better that way.

Why should I wish to see God better than this day? I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then, In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street — and every one is signed by God's name And I leave them where they are, for I know that others will punctually come forever and ever.

I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all that... It was on a Sunday, I remember. My sister was a very tiny child then, and she was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean.

Here is God's purpose — for God, to me it seems, is a verb — not a noun, proper or improper...

When we lose God, it is not God who is lost.

If you are not as close to God as you used to be, who moved?

I wear a coat of angels' breath and warm myself with His love.

We strive to be God's worthy audience.

Our souls are dying — our flesh needs to feel the world on our knees with our naked feet face first in the dirt — wade and splash and submerge ourselves in water that is alive not sterilized, not sanitized not dead of being nothing...

I believe that yoga has provided me with energy and focus that I would not have possessed otherwise.

Mountain pose teaches us, literally, how to stand on our own two feet... teaching us to root ourselves into the earth... Our bodies become a connection between heaven and earth.

Downward-facing dog helps us to paws and reflect.

Yoga-ish, adj. liking the idea of yoga but only showing up for Savasana

Yoga accepts. Yoga gives.

When asked what gift he wanted for his birthday, the yogi replied: "I wish no gifts, only presence."

My yoga instructor pissed me off, so I offered him my special "moon salutation." Then I slammed my chakra shut right in his face.

When our soul has been cast down, has never an invisible voice whispered, "There is lifting up"? Have not gales and breezes of sweet and healing thought been wafted over us, as if an angel had shaken from his wings the odors of paradise?

...for healing comes only from what leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglement in the ego.

nourish the nighttime healing fairies with gratitude and faith and sleep

Spiritual and metaphysical health is inextricably linked to physical health.

Seek the wise and loving counsel of your Higher Self in the secret chamber of your heart.

Love the earth and sun and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people... re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem...

All it takes is one bloom of hope to make a spiritual garden.

...and God forbid that I should go to any Heaven in which there are no horses...