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Buddhism - Quotes

Spiritual Quotes

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Spiritual

Buddhism

Universe

Unknowingly, we plow the dust of stars, blown about us by the wind, and drink the universe in a glass of rain. - Ihab Hassan

Tao

Never stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop running away and you will be found. - Lao Tzu

Meditation

Meditation... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass. - Tom Robbins

Zen - Quotes

  An ounce of effort is worth more than a ton of excuses. - Zen Proverb

The Tao

Religion vs Spirituality

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

Spiritual - Quotes

Each time we exhale, the world ends; when we inhale, there can be, if we allow it, rebirth and spiritual renewal. It all transpires inside of us. In our consciousness, in our hearts. All the time. - Tom Robbins

Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain. - Tom Robbins

The true wonder of the world is available everywhere, in the minutest parts of our bodies, in the vast expanses of the cosmos, and in the intimate inter-connectedness of these and all things… We are part of a finely balanced ecosystem in which inter-dependency goes hand-in-hand with individuation. We are all individuals, but we are also parts of a greater whole, united in something vast and beautiful beyond description. - M. Scott Peck

Spiritual Growth - Quotes

Even when we truly understand these matters, the journey of spiritual growth is still so lonely and difficult that we often become discouraged. - M. Scott Peck

The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. - M. Scott Peck

To nourish the spirit the body must also be nourished. - M. Scott Peck

The impediments to spiritual growth. Ultimately there is only the one impediment, and that is laziness. If we overcome laziness, all the other impediments will be overcome. If we do not overcome laziness, none of the others will be hurdled. - M. Scott Peck

God - Quote

The Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the Divine was Creation divided by Destruction was as close as one could come to definition. But the puny of soul, the dull of wit, weren't content with that. They wanted to hang a face on the Divine. They went so far as to attribute petty human emotions – anger, jealousy, etc – to it, not stopping to realize that if God were a being, even a supreme being, our prayers would have bored him to death long ago. - Tom Robbins

Religion - Quotes

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide. - Tom Robbins

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism. - Albert Einstein

Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to institutionalization. The moment we attempt to organize mysticism, we destroy its essence. Religion, then, is mysticism in which the mystical has been killed. Or, at least diminished. - Tom Robbins

Spiritual Quote

Spiritually evolved people, by virtue of their discipline, mastery and love, are people of extraordinary competence, and in their competence they are called on to serve the world, and in their love they answer the call. They are inevitably, therefore, people of great power, although the world may generally behold them as quite ordinary people, since more often than not they will exercise their power in quiet or even hidden ways. - M. Scott Peck

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