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Spirituality - Quotes

Life is a series of lessons. The quicker you learn, the more progress you can make upon your spiritual path. We are all spiritual beings and everything we experience presents us with an opportunity to learn. To be free, happy and fulfilled requires that we let go of the past, having learnt all we can from it, look forward to the future by holding on to our dreams, and live in the present. We can neither change the past nor predict the future; we can only have influence in the present. - Andy Baggott

It's a matter of seeing the original meaning of all things.  The world is full of all kinds of meanings. But our minds are so fettered by the lies and falsehoods they make for themselves, that they cannot see the beauty, goodness, or truth of those meanings.  Only a mind that has become free can see such things, and that seeing is also a making.  Because what exists, if no one can see it, might just as well not exist at all, but if seeing comes, non-being is turned into utter being. - Yi Mun-yol

Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds, so each moment brings with it germs of spiritual vitality that come to rest imperceptibly in the minds and wills of men. Most of these unnumbered seeds perish and are lost, because men are not prepared to receive them: for such seeds as these cannot spring up anywhere except in the good soil of freedom, spontaneity and love. - Thomas Merton

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Spirituality Journey / Path

Attachment to view is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path. - Thich Nhat Hanh

On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel or insight. - Anne Lamott

Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life and yet, less attached to it. - Ram Dass

Patience is an essential element of spiritual path. - Unknown

If your path is difficult, it is because of your high calling. - Unknown

On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination. - A. R. Rahman

The Path isn’t a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things that you thought you understood and see deeper and deeper truths. - Unknown

There are two rules on the spiritual path. Begin and continue. - Sufi Saying

Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone. - The Dhammapada

Your spiritual journey is the kindness and assistance that you extend to whomever you meet. It is whatever light and grace you bring to whatever you do. - Elizabeth Gilbert

Christmas - Quotes

Christmas is a baby shower that went totally overboard. - Andy Borowitz

Christmas is a season of such infinite labour, as well as expense in the shopping and present-making line, that almost every woman I know is good for nothing in purse and person for a month afterwards, done up physically, and broken down financially. - Fanny Kemble

Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home. - G. K. Chesterton

Spirituality Journey / Path - Quotes

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. - Unknown

Learn to trust the journey even if you do not understand it. Sometimes what you never wanted or expected turns out to be what you need. - Unknown

As far as I’m concerned, the spiritual life is just like any other endeavour – you can succeed or fail. And when the goal is actual evolution beyond ego in an intersubjective context, success or failure is plain for all to see. - Andrew Cohen

Learning how to love is the goal and the purpose of spiritual life – not learning how to develop psychic powers, not learning how to bow, chant, do yoga, or even meditate, but learning to love. Love is the truth. Love is the light. - Lama Surya Das

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth. - Ram Dass

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter. - Paulo Coelho

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one. - M. Scott Peck

When on life's journey it becomes our lot to travel with criticism of skeptics, the hate of some, the rejection of others, the impatience of many, or a friend's betrayal. - Angel Abrea

Spirituality - Quotes

Science says we are the body. Psychology – the mind. Religion – the soul. What are we? WE ARE CONSCIOUSNESS ITSELF. - Adi Da

Reaching the zenith of one mystic mountain of attainment, we find the base of another still nobler and higher to climb. - Unknown

Reason itself is a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all. - G. K. Chesterton

When the energy is open, smooth and unbound, it will go towards the creative and positive. - Unknown

When the Light of Purpose illuminates our lives, we will see clearly the Path on which we are to walk. - George Petavine

When we are in tune or in sync with the flow of life, whatever we focus on with passion, the Universe will conspire to bring into our lives. - Allison Sara

When you awaken… It’s not about seeing different things in life. It’s about seeing the things in your life differently. - Rhonda Hendricks

When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you. - Stephen Richards

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. - Carl Gustav Jung

Whoever does not detach himself from the ego never attains the Absolute and never deciphers life. - Constantin Brancusi

God's Love

Spirituality - Quotes

If your spiritual practice and the demands of your everyday life are not in harmony, it means there's something wrong with the way you are practicing. Your practice should satisfy your dissatisfied mind while providing solutions to the problems of everyday life. If it doesn't, check carefully to see what you really understand about your religious practice. - Unknown

To let go of judging yourself and others is a huge key to realization. Being judgmental is one of the most powerful ways to stay trapped within the dream state. What would you be if you were not the judge? Don’t answer this question yet, just let it stop you in silence. - Adyashanti

Spirituality is not constant meditation and an indifference to surrounding conditions and responsibilities; rather, it is doing those things which are in accordance with the mind and will of God. It concerns itself with temporal life as well as with things of the spirit. - David McKay

Religion

Spirituality - Quotes

Spirituality is a brave search for the truth about existence, fearlessly peering into the mysterious nature of life. - Elizabeth Lesser

Spirituality is a personal relationship with the Divine. Religion is crowd control. - Unknown

Spirituality is fearlessness. It is a way of looking boldly at this life we have been given, here, now, on earth, as this human being. - Elizabeth Lesser

Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal. - Deepak Chopra

Spirituality is not religion. Religion divides people. Belief in something unites them. - Rady

Spirituality is not something connected with holy books, not connected with religions. It is something that grows within you if you can manage a little sense of humour, a little sense of playfulness. - Osho

Spirituality must be lived, not just studied. All the books in the world will not help us if we do not live what we learn. - Unknown

Thus, when I have to summarize naturalized spirituality in a single phrase, it is this: the thoughtful love of life. - Robert C. Solomon

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Meditaiton

Truth

The ultimate Truth are beyond words. Doctrine are words. They are not the Way. - Bodhidharma

Zen

Spiritual - Quotes

There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. - Joseph Addison

To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad. - Eckhart Tolle

Strange – is it not? – that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too. - Horatius

Root out the violence in your life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully. Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others is possible. - Thich Nhat Hanh

The emphasis in spiritual training is on learning how to listen deeply and not miss that small voice in the midst of the many louder voices and stimulations in human society. - Unknown

The lord of unlimited power dwells in the heart of all beings, and by his magic power of illusion, causes them to move about like wooden dolls fixed on a machine. - Bhagavad Gita

The noble swerve not from the right path let happen what may, and crave no longer after worldly joys. The wise remain calm and constant in mind alike in joy and sorrow. - Unknown

Spirituality is a broad concept, transcending religious boundaries. By virtue of being human, all people are spiritual, regardless of whether or how they participate in religious observance. - Margaret A. Burkhardt

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Christianity

Spiritual - Quotes

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods. - Leon Battista Alberti

Until we realise the unity of life, we live in fear. When one realizes the Self, in whom all life is One, Changeless, Nameless, Formless, then one fears no more. - Taittiriya Upanishad

True benevolence, or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation. - Joseph Addison

Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion. - Thich Nhat Hanh

We are visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love … and then we return home. - Australian Aboriginal Proverb

When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us. - Marcus Aurelius

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves. - Confucius

When you are evolving to your higher self, the road seems lonely. But you’re simple shedding energies that no longer match the frequency of your destiny. - Unknown

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Science

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Spiritual - Quotes

We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars. - Alan Chadwick

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when adults are afraid of the light. - Plato

We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans.  They are part of our own body. - Thich Nhat Hanh

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. - Joseph Campbell 

We're all at different levels of our own development and evolution. What works for one person, certainly doesn't have to work for everyone else. - Unknown

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. - Marcus Aurelius

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. - Marcus Aurelius

When emotional thoughts such as pride, hatred, jealousy arise, there is no place for us to practice patience. - Unknown

When one looks into a mirror, it seems as if one is looking at a different object, and yet one is looking at oneself. - Tukaram

When people go within and connect with themselves, they realize they are connected to the universe and they are connected to all living things. - Armand Dimele

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Karma

You must understand that good actions cannot change your karma. Good actions may make some kind of happiness, but this happiness is also karma. People sometimes call this good karma. But good karma is still karma, and karma is created by thinking. Everything that is created by thinking always changes. So good karma eventually runs out and becomes bad karma. If you truly want to change your karma, do not make good or bad. That is correct practicing. How do you use your karma to help all beings? If you only want to change your karma, that is already a big mistake. If you have karma, you must find the correct function of your particular karma: this is how you take away your karma. But don't become attached to these words. "Function karma," "change karma," and "take away karma" are the same point: only the speech is different. - (from The Compass of Zen, by Zen Master Seung Sahn)

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Christianity

Bible

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results." Harper Lee

Spiritual - Quotes

Without the Way, there is no going; without the Truth, there is no knowing; without the Life, there is no living. - Thomas A Kempis

Worldly pleasures and bad experiences are so transitory – knowing their transitory nature, their relative nature, their conventional nature, makes you free. - Unknown

Yield not to idleness, neither give way to lust nor cravings. He who is full of earnest, diligent in devotion to others attains great happiness. - Unknown

You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple. - Anthony de Mello

You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body. - C.S. Lewis

You wander from room to room hunting for the diamond necklace that is already around your neck! - Rumi

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. - Gibran Khalil 

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again. - Joseph Campbell

Your soul always knows what to do to heal your body and your mind. You must listen to your intuition and follow instructions. - Caroline Myss

Your Soul and My Soul are part of the great Soul known as the universe. We are universe within the Universe. Although many, We are One. - Julie Parker

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