Quotes About Spirituality

Lord God, I long to hear Your voice but not just secondhand through teachers, as wonderful and godly as they can be. I long to hear Your voice firsthand.

You are the mirror of divine beauty.

Jesus has given you the power to live as He lived, which is something no earthly teacher can do.

Most people who have been enlightened in previous incarnations normally begin to regain their past-life enlightenment around the age of twenty-nine, when their astrological Saturn return takes place.

Emptiness is that which frees us from religiosity and leads us to true spirituality.

Like Gandhi, like the Buddha, like all great spiritual teachers, Easwaran had no use for beliefs unless they generated actions. Doing, not saying, is what counts.

When there's a teacher who embodies presence, then it seems to come for a while through that opening. The teacher is an opening to presence.

If you have this extraordinary thing going in your life, then it is everything; then you become the teacher, the disciple, the neighbour, the beauty of the cloud - you are all that, and that is love.

Becoming enlightened is not special, but it's unusual.

Getting to play a yogic healer was awesome. I love yoga, so I've had a lot of teachers.

My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature.

Swami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West.

Teachers and nurses get the best seats in Heaven.

The highest teaching is never written down. It's only communicated from teacher to student because it's a "transmission of the lamp." It's a transmission of mind.

An enlightened person doesn't know it all. Enlightenment simply means walking beyond this and all worlds into nirvana, which is beyond knowledge and ignorance.

In the yoga of love, one has a teacher. It is the teacher whom one loves.

Remind yourself that you are supported, that you are not going it alone upon this Earth. Dwell in the company of your Non-Physical Teachers and Guides.

What attracted me to Zen was my first teacher, Tim McCarthy. He was extremely genuine. It wasn't even really a Zen thing, that sort of came along later.

Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.

The inner cry is a very good way to meditate. As you're sitting there in meditation, just cry inwardly to God, to that source, to your spiritual teacher or to a particular god or goddess.

Remember you have lots of help. God is meditating in you and through you. The beneficent forces of existence are glad to help you. You can focus on any spiritual teacher. We are glad to help you.

I've often called mothers the greatest spiritual teachers in the world.

Buddha called himself 'The Enlightened One' and Jesus called himself 'The Son of God'. To me the term 'World-Teacher' is of as little importance as 'The Son of God' or 'The Enlightened One'.

Thank God I have the things that my mother and father taught me, the things that I've learned from pastors and spiritual teachers and the books that I read.