Quotes About Spirituality

both spiritual teachers and preachers fall into the trap of using imprecise, emotional mumbo jumbo—if you can't define it or explain it, then it's mumbo jumbo—to connect with an audience. The audience reads into it what they want, and it makes for good theater.

The spiritual-but-nonreligious movement is largely driven by charismatic authors and speakers who attract like-minded people to their workshops and intensives.

If you stick with the definition of spirituality as a peaceful internal state (a.k.a. deep, dreamless sleep while awake), then you will ignore some of the hallucinatory experiences that are bound to happen when you sit in silence (studies have shown that, in such circumstances, the mind often creates elaborate experiences and stories that are reminiscent of dreams) and refrain from interpreting them as something otherworldly.

A trans-rational definition of spirituality therefore encompasses these two elements. First, uncovering our peaceful internal center, and then, allowing that peace to guide our actions in the world.

Walk into any mosque, temple, church, or synagogue and you will find differing examples, different ways of interpreting God. The One True God is hard to find when a mishmash of human traits is constantly being projected.

The trans-rational spiritual approach is a simple concept with wide-ranging practical implications. There are three major components involved: (1) not denying rationality, (2) pursuing the experience of a peaceful internal state, and (3) allowing that inner peace to guide behavior.

Se con Dio non si lotta, Dio è morto.

Within each of us there is a silence, a silence as vast as the universe. And when we experience that silence, we remember who we are.

Yoga is not about self-improvement, it's about self-acceptance.

I am not the born how can there be either birth or death for me?

Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.

God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.

Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit.

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truely die.

those who have loved are those that have found God

I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance.

Even kings and emperors, with mountains of property and oceans of wealth - these are not even equal to an ant, who does not forget God.

Your Mercy is my social status.

What should the yogi have to fear? Trees, plants, and all that is inside and outside, is He Himself

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

Nanak, the whole world is in distress. He, who believes in the Name, becomes victorious.

Dwell in peace in the home of your own being, and the Messenger of Death will not be able to touch you