Quotes About Spirituality

Look at your life as your main career and your divine classroom.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, "Who cares if you're enlightened forever?"

It's personal freedom, not hundred dollar bills that lights the soul's cigar.

Religion can be condensed in a single phrase: total freedom to be oneself.

But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc.

Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate.

The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be fought.

Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.

Create inner freedom through witnessing. Sannyas is only for the inner freedom. And live out of inner freedom.

To meditate with full effort, produces infinity, freedom.

Who wants to be stuck in being religious and being spiritual either? That's not freedom. You've just exchanged handcuffs for leg irons - which doesn't mean that you should avoid enlightenment.

We need a new imprinting. We need the imprinting of enlightenment, of freedom. That comes through our association with a higher being. So classically what occurs is that one meets a teacher.

With the pursuit of faith, I am a free soul.

Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged

The cause of freedom is the cause of God.

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared with Jesus Christ.

He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.

There is nothing more beautiful than to be surprised by the Gospel, by the encounter with Christ. There is nothing more beautiful than to know Him and to speak to others of our friendship with Him.

My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.

We live in a friendly universe. At the heart of all things is goodness. We receive this goodness in the measure to which we cultivate friendship with the universe.

Everyone needs a spiritual guide: a minister, rabbi, counselor, wise friend, or therapist. My own wise friend is my dog.

People need recreation, need to be achieving, need to contribute; but if these come at the cost of friendship with Christ, the price is much too high.