Quotes About Spirituality

Physically, spiritually, emotionally, and mentally, I am making decisions and choices that manifest sobriety every day in my life, and doing so allows me to live the life that I have always dreamed of—one of excitement, purpose, and giving back.

If you abide in me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. -John 15:7

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. -John Taylor

Angels are speaking to all of us…some of us are only listening better. -Author Unknown

We are all like the clay Buddha covered with a shell of hardness created out of fear, and yet underneath each of us is a 'golden Buddha' a 'golden Christ' or a 'golden essence,' which is our real self....Much like the monk with the hammer and the chisel, our task now is to discover our true essence once again.

was God's grace in these dark circumstances that drew me closer to Him.

FIVE PRINCIPLES for SCRIPTURAL PRAYER 1. What does God want me to learn from this passage? What truths is He teaching me? 2. What does God want me to become in light of these truths? 3. What does God want me to do in response to the lesson or the commandment found in this passage? 4. What promise does God want me to trust in? 5. What kind of prayer does this passage prompt?

I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

There is nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure.

I am That, Thou art That, all this is nothing but That.

You will treat yourself and others according to the way you think God feels about you.

So often, well-meaning Christians pray for a visitation from God, but what He really wants is a habitation with us. He doesn't want to come into our lives as a guest while we are on our best behavior around Him until He leaves.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved...the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing.

The soul under the burden of sin cannot flee." —Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn

Being on a spiritual path does not prevent you from facing times of darkness. But it teaches you how to use the darkness as a tool to grow.

To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.

There are many ways up the mountain and each of us must choose a practice that feels true to our heart.

And as to me, I know of nothing else but miracles. WALT WHITMAN

One famous Zen master actually described spiritual practice as "one mistake after another," which is to say, one opportunity after another to learn. It is from "difficulties, mistakes, and errors" that we actually learn. To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others—we are at ease with the difficulties of life.

The poet Hafiz writes, Don't surrender your loneliness So quickly. Let it cut more deep. Let it ferment and season you As few human Or even divine ingredients can.

Spiritual practice is not a mindless repetition of ritual or prayer. It works through consciously realizing the law of cause and effect. Perhaps we can sense the potential of awakening in ourselves, but we must also see that it doesn't happen by itself. How we act, how we relate to ourselves, to our bodies, to the people around us, to our work, creates the kind of world we live in, creates our very freedom.

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love. With

No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.