Quotes About Spirituality

And my number-one spiritual practice is trying to live in the present moment … to resist projecting into the future, or lamenting past mistakes … to feel the real power of now. That, my friends, is the secret to a joyful life.

So creating a religion of your own, some people call this a smorgasbord religion. Taking a little bit from this and a little bit from that.

As a spirit dwelling in the ever-evolving human experience, I know that I am no better or worse than any other being. I simply am. You simply are. We are connected.

Yet when I'd let some man use me, she'd often say, "He's just chipping away at your spirit. One day I hope he chips deep enough for you to see who you really are—someone who deserves to be happy.

The truth is that as much as you plan and dream and move forward in your life, you must remember you are always acting in conjunction with the flow and energy of the universe.

The great American mythologist, author, and philosopher Joseph Campbell once said, "The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are." I believe your true purpose here on Earth is to align yourself with the great spiritual force, your divine inner compass, already at work in your life. I hope that The Wisdom of Sundays will illuminate your path to becoming all that you were meant to be. Embrace and enjoy the journey! —Oprah

A New Earth, by Eckhart Tolle

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear and then recognize them.

Jiwa adalah rayuan untuk menjadi diri sendiri. Kita sudah diprogram di dalam sel-sel kita. Kita sudah diprogram di dalam hati kita. Kita sudah diprogram untuk menjadi diri kita sendiri. Dan kita adalah benihnya Tuhan, untuk tumbuh menjadi diri-pribadinya Tuhan.

Snow reminds Ka of God! But I'm not sure it would be accurate. What brings me close to God is the silence of snow.

Love is a sacred silence.

Contrary to what the West seems to think, it is not poverty that brings people like us so close to God. It's the fact that no one is more curious than we are to learn why we are here on earth and what will happen to us in the next world.

Love points the way, empties you of the stuff of life, carries you at last to the mystery of creation.

Evet, bana göre buras?, yani doÄŸu, karanl???n ve köleliÄŸin ülkesidir. Bundan ne demek istediÄŸimi anlatm??t?m. Bundan burada insanlar?n özgür olmad???n?, biraz metafizik bir dille söylersek, burada ruhlar?n tutsak olduÄŸunu söylemek istiyorum.

why humanity has a spiritual need for a mirror (a custom-built mirror!) such as the novel.

God takes note of His creatures' true intentions. The Lord favors a man who intends to fast during Ramadan over a man who fasts because he can't find food to eat anyway. Because one of them means it, while the other one doesn't.

The Holy Guide reminded him that in Islam labor was a form of prayer.

Çok doÄŸru," dedi Süleyman. Bana kal?rsa bana hak verdiÄŸi için deÄŸil, Hazreti Peygamber'li, Kuran-? Kerim'li bir lafa asla kar?? ç?kamad??? için

As Ka knew from the beginning, in this part of the world faith in God was not something achieved by thinking sublime thoughts and stretching one's creative powers to their outer limits; nor was it something one could do alone; above all it meant joining a mosque, becoming part of a community.

Para mí, la esencia de la religión es el sentimiento de culpabilidad

painting is the act of seeking out Allah's memories and seeing the world as He sees the world.

He sensed, now, that the streets on which he sold boza in the night and the universe in his mind were one and the same .... the world within his soul reflected in the shadows of the city.

Yes, God must've wanted the art of illumination to be ecstasy so He could demonstrate how the world itself is ecstasy to those who truly see.

the desolation and remoteness of the place hit him with such force that he felt God inside him.