Quotes About Spirituality

I find this to be true of my spiritual life, and maybe it applies to yours as well: I think about things more than I do them; I ponder what seems their goodness more than I perform them. As if my thought alone were enough. But a thought alone isn't quite enough; it's an impulse and not a commitment, a passing thing that doesn't take root unless you plant it and make it grow.

Sökandet är den nya religionens lösen; finnandet är dess mål, dess krona, dess sälla lön.

Den nya tron är en etisk kamp från början till slut, dock icke en högljudd och förtviflad, utan en glad och segerrik kamp i det tysta.

One might say that Christianity's original answer to the question "What is the purpose of life?" was: the purpose of life is Sunday.

What stories these are, what lessons they teach us. That the redemption of mankind comes through woman, for she takes man's seed, nurtures it within her, and brings it forth into the world. That love is often a quest, to be earned and deserved before it is given. That love can be lusty and earthy, as well as emotional and spiritual... . But above all that love is forever.

I absolutely know that you can, under your own steam, dissolve the shell that separates you from a higher experience of Self and a much better life. You don't need gurus or to be catapulted into super-natural experiences by dramatic events — you are becoming such a high-frequency being right here in your physical body, that what used to be meta-physical, trans-personal, and para-normal is now almost ordinary." —from Frequency: The Power of Personal Vibration

The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, The Celestine Prophecy, The Intuitive Way, Your Life Purpose, The Field, What the Bleep Do We Know!?, The Hidden Messages in Water, The Da Vinci Code, The Law of Attraction, and The Secret.

In the instant that it took her to realize what the book was, she knew he was doing what she once had—preparing for the day by spending time with God. She wondered what the words he was singing meant. Were they in Gaelic or Cherokee? It really didn't matter. What mattered was that they were words of praise and probably thankfulness. What mattered was that he was the kind of man who spent time with his Creator.

By this he seems to have meant that acuity and spirituality were not bestowed on human beings by some higher being but were shaped by our life experiences. It was our obligations to others that gave meaning to everything, that created inner satisfaction, that gave life its purpose, and that ought to determine a person's actions.

Hij schijnt hiermee bedoeld te hebben dat scherpzinnigheid en spiritualiteit de mens niet door een hoger wezen geschonken waren, maar dat ze door onze levenservaringen worden gevormd. Het was de plicht jegens de naaste, die zin aan alles verleende en die een innerlijke tevredenheid teweegbracht, die het leven zin gaf en de handelingen van de mens diende te bepalen

The soul of Adonais, like a star,Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.

Peace is in the grave.The grave hides all things beautiful and good:I am a God and cannot find it there.

He lives, he wakes—'tis Death is dead, not he.

Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one spirit meet and mingle. Why not I with thine?

Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.

Nothing in the world is single All things by law divine In one another's being mingle Why not I with thine?

I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.

Paradise spread forth beyond the shadowy grave

We—are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar; Such difference without discord, as can make Those sweetest sounds, in which all spirits shake As trembling leaves in a continuous air?

Know what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of today. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of Baptism; it is to believe in belief; it is to be so little that elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child had its fairy godmother in its soul.

Equality is spiritual

Heaven has its own doors that open, bringing blessings from God to earth.

Guilt will paralyze your confidence in your own prayers

when the Holy Spirit points out our sins, that is conviction, not condemnation.