Quotes About Spiritual

ultimate freedom is a possibility for ordinary people leading ordinary lives. Liberation is not the sole province of spiritual leaders, of ascetics and saints. One needn't live in a cave in Nepal. There are growing accounts of the transformation of Westerners living regular lives.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard ; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common—this is my symphony. William Henry Channing, clergyman, reformer, 1810-1884

The sin life in us must be transformed into the spiritual life." "How?" "Through sacrifice and obedience.

The ultimate resolution to the search for happiness is spiritual.

It is part of the great spiritual riches of the Russian that, because he sees or rather feels things living from the inside (imperfective) he sees or rather feels things whole (asyndeta). It is a corollary from his living into things, for life is durée unanalysed, undistributed. These asyndeta , these bits of life so closely bound together that they refuse conjunctions, are countless in Russian, specially in epic and peasant Russian.

Cultural speciation had been crippling to human moral and spiritual growth. It had hindered freedom of thought, limited our thinking, imprisoned us in the cultures into which we had been born. . . . These cultural mind prisons. . . . Cultural speciation was clearly a barrier to world peace. So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the 'global village' we would propagate prejudice and ignorance.

The soul's bliss and suffering are bound together.

but to refire into new life. (5) We choose to interpret all the physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and spiritual changes as new territory to traverse in our advancement. (6) We choose to see this aging process as our final pilgrimage—the one that will ultimately lead us to our Beloved, our Source. (7) We willingly and eagerly invite others to come with us and to help them along, just as we allow them to help us reach our sacred destination of heaven.

Leaving your ears open to the suggestions of others only closes the mind's eye, thereby creating a type of spiritual glaucoma.

We cannot escape most of the crises in our lives, nor should we. In fact, these events frequently provide the energy for movement on our spiritual journey, even when we are stuck along the way... we ask questions about our own life. We wonder about meaning. Our present view may become inadequate. We ask deeper questions. Even joyful experiences can propel us forward.

If we are to move towards our collective bliss, it's time we shed our focus on the physical.

The gravity of any location pulls citizens to its heart, organizing people by abstractly spiritual geography.

You could even say it was the trauma that was the call for help, and of course if there are any spiritual beings who respond to such need, it is angels.

Connecting to our own pain and the unique reality of our lives is a large part of the journey to spiritual maturity.

The Chanukah story and symbolism of 'kindling lights within darkness' is spiritually rooted within the context of the season in which it occurs.

Mistakes can bring us to spiritual heights, or depths, which we would have otherwise not visited.

Dr. David Jeremiah

When you start the breathing, and the prana flow begins again after 13,000 years of not functioning, higher self may begin to take control of your life and purify it. By this, I mean that persons, places and things in your life that were blocking spiritual development will often leave you.

Pushing a volunteer into a position for which he or she is not spiritually, emotionally, or temperamentally equipped is like trying to build a tree house in a small tree. It's bad for the tree house, yes, but it also crushes the tree—a tree that in time, with proper nurture and care, might have provided a sturdy and capable support.

Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil" (emphasis added).

The first responsibility of watchmen is to keep the serpent out of their God-given gardens.

Eph. 6:12 . For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. This is to emphasize the fact that our conflict is spiritual , and that Satans sphere of operations is not immorality or crime, but religion. See all the references to him in Scripture, and note how opposed they are to popular Satan-myth of the world and of Christendom.

The more you make your thoughts (beliefs) into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.

In the service of the Truth, religious teachings represent signposts or maps left behind by awakened humans to assist you in spiritual awakening, that is to say, in becoming free of identification with form.