Quotes About Spirituality

As fruit ripens in the course of nature, so it is in the course of nature that the soul should mature; and it is no use being disappointed or disheartened.

If one wants to torture oneself for the sake of torture one may do so, but not for spiritual perfection.

If the soul does not hear the call and sleeps, it is not the fault of nature, which is continually calling. Therefore, if I were to say in a few words, how to find one's purpose, I would say: by waking from sleep.

Ist die Seele auf Gott gestimmt, so wird jedes Tun zu Musik.

The soul's true happiness lies in experiencing the inner joy, and it will never be fully satisfied with outer, seeming pleasures. Its connection is with God, and nothing short of perfection will ever satisfy it.

When the healer thinks he is healing, his power is as small as a drop; when he thinks God is healing, and when owing to this thought his own self is forgotten and he is only conscious of the Self of God, then his power becomes as large as the ocean. (Inayat Khan's advice to healers)

evolved. This evolution only means that the soul has adopted a more finished instrument in order to experience life more fully.

The heart is itself its own medicine, The heart all its own wounds heals.

He who is of lower evolution cannot love a higher object. But a person of higher evolution can love the lower as well as the higher. He who once loves cannot hate. The one who hates is he who cannot appreciate.

Es gibt nichts auf der Welt, was für kontemplative Menschen nicht erreichbar wäre, wenn sie nur wissen, wie man kontempliert. (S 162)

Meiner Ansicht nach bedeutet Spiritualität, lebendig-sein. Ein geistiger Mensch, der zur Schönheit der Poesie erwacht ist, der für die Schönheit von Melodie und Harmonie empfänglich ist, der sich an Kunst erfreut und sich von der Schönheit der Natur begeistern lässt, der als lebendiges Wesen lebt, und nicht als ein totes, diesen Menschen kann man spirituell nennen. (S. 280)

The human heart must first be melted, like metal, before it can be molded into a desirable character. The mystic does not wait until the hereafter, but

Wenn wir es schaffen unsere Unruhe zu bändigen und friedlich zu werden, unseren Willen dem Willen Gottes zu ergeben, dann beginnen wir die Liebe Gottes in allen Dingen zu erleben, und denken nie wieder, dass Gott etwas anders als Liebe sein könnte. Deshalb denken die Sufis an Gott nicht immer als Schöpfer, König oder Richter; sondern sie sehen in Gott den Geliebten, die Geliebte, den Liebenden, die Liebende, und die Liebe selbst. (S. 183)

Mostly, every soul seems to be busily occupied with the lives of others. And what do they know in the end? Nothing. If there is a kingdom of God to be found anywhere, it is within oneself.

There must be something besides you to cause the sensation. But peace is independently felt within oneself. It is not dependent upon the outer sensation. It is something that belongs to one, something that is one's own self.

Paramatma, die hohe Seele, ist mit Gott vereint, sie ist gottesbewusst, universal bewusst. Ihr eigenes Selbst umfasst alle. Ob es nun gute oder verschlagene Menschen sind, ob sie recht oder falsch gehen, sie sind deren eigenes Selbst; sie betrachtet all diese Personen als ihr Selbst. (S. 182)

Life is a continual series of experiences, one leading to the other, until the soul arrives at its destination.

There is a perfect wisdom working continually day and night. The mystic sees it in everything with open eyes; and that is the great miracle.

Die Arbeit, welche ein/e Sufi als seine oder ihre heilige Pflicht ansieht, hat nichts mit einem bestimmten Glaubensbekenntnis zu tun und auch nichts mit einer bestimmten Religion. Es ist nur diese einfache Sache: im Rhythmus mit den Umständen des Lebens zu schwingen, und auf das Unendliche eingestimmt zu sein.

The soul's happiness is in itself; nothing can make the soul fully happy but self-realization.

It is the soul which is happiness itself, not all outer things which man seeks after, and which he thinks will give him happiness. The very fact that man is continually craving for happiness shows that the real element, which may be called man's real being, is not what has formed his body and what has composed his mind, but what he is in himself.

If anybody asks what Sufism is, what kind of religion is it, the answer is that Sufism is the religion of the heart, the religion in which the thing of primary importance is to seek God in the heart of mankind.

Through the whole spiritual process, what we learn is to disillusion this false ego. The annihilation of this false ego is its disillusionment. When once it is disillusioned, then the true ego realizes its own merit. It is in this realization that the soul enters the kingdom of God. It is in this realization that the soul is born again, a birth which opens the doors of heaven.

Für die erleuchtete Seele wird das Leben selbst zur Heiligen Schrift.