Spiritual Quotes - Page 222

The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.

As we are - the world is.

Let the mind be empty, and not filled with the things of the mind. Then there is only meditation, and not a meditor who is meditating . . . The mind must be clear, without movement, and in the light of that clarity the timeless will be revealed.

Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.

The spiritual life is always about letting go. It is never about holding on.

Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.

Intuition is a combination of insight and imagination that was once attributed to spiritual communication. Mathematicians call it 'fuzzy logic,' drawing conclusions from vague or subjective input. The mind becomes aware without the direct intervention of reasoning. Once you can imagine something you can begin the process of creating it. Executives use intuition to make many product, investment, and hiring decisions, even if they deny it. Success in business may depend on an accurate gut.

I think science and spirituality are one and the same, I don't think they're really different. The film makes pretty clear that quantum physics is validating all kinds of spiritual teachings.

I wouldn't even like to begin to define God - I have absolutely no idea. But what I feel, and what touches me, is a great spiritual power, which I don't even want to name. If I had to, I would say God, because I don't know any other.

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 imagination is a spiritual apparatus. Unable to invent the world, it does the next best thing, and that is to assemble it piecemeal, ugly and strange, bright and clear, and dumbly discovered.

I believe in the importance of unity among those who know Christ, who profess to be "Christians." . . . I believe there is an important spiritual awakening beginning in the hearts of those truly committed to Christ in the Protestant and Catholic communities. Is it possible that Pope Francis may prove to be an answer not only to the prayers of Catholics, but also those known as Protestants?

The truth in you remains as radiant as a star, as pure as light, as innocent as love itself.

Prayer is the Lord's great sterilizer against the germs of spiritual disease.

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

I hope I'm a spiritual person. I'm trying to be a spiritual person.

Devotion is a tool to dissolve yourself into nothingness and become the very hand of the Divine.

Bhakti yoga is a way of transforming your emotion from negativity to utmost pleasantness.

When you are no more identified with your physicality, you become available to Grace.

Only when man is willing to change himself, there can be a true revolution.

Spiritual sadhana is not about making you into something other than what you are, but to erase the false faces that you have created for yourself is not something that you do; it is something that you become.

Blissfulness does not compel you to behave in any particular way. Out of bliss, I can laugh or cry; I can sit quietly or be active in the world.

For the Divine to function through you, it is important to make every breath, every pulsation in the body, and your very existence an offering.

Meditation means to go beyond the limitations of body and mind.

If thinking minds, questioning minds, doubting minds, are talking about faith, their whole life will become fake.