Spiritual Quotes - Page 223

There is no need to make spirituality a part of education. If you make education non-imposing and non-suppressive, people are naturally spiritual.

When you are truly meditative, there is no time and space for you. Time and space is just a creation of the mind.

Intelligence essentially means that your intellect is sharp enough to see life the way it is.

On the spiritual path, the first thing is to experientially ascertain where your are right now. You can only start the journey from where you are.

Spiritual process is not for the dead or the dying; it is for the living who want to become fully alive in all dimensions of life.

We neither need a political revolution nor a religious revolution. What we need is an inner transformation in human beings.

Once you have access to the source of creation within you, your health and wellbeing will naturally be taken care of.

Consciousness is not a bunch of thoughts or a certain level of understanding. Consciousness is a dimension that is beyond our physicality.

Your ability to love, to reach out, and to experience life is limitless. The limitation is only of the body and mind.

The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritual experience does not, or must not, enter into the intelligible texture of philosophy. The pulp of the fruit must consist of nothing but the truth.

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak if you try to.

If you have political reform in the Islamic world, the spiritual reform would follow.

Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.

While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.

No friendship has done its work until it reaches the supremest satisfaction of spiritual communion.

Angels is a tough word, because it is so involved with organized religion and everything else. I do know, absolutely, from my experience, there are some kind of spiritual entities - force, power, intelligence - that guide me through each and every day, as long as I'm willing to accept, recognize, and surrender to their guidance. It's always there, but there are times when I insist upon having my way.

To discipline ourselves through fasting brings us in tune with God, and fast day provides an occasion to set aside the temporal so that we might enjoy the higher qualities of the spiritual. As we fast on that day we learn and better understand the needs of those who are less fortunate.

I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success.

If you're afraid of being grabbed by God, don't look at a wall. Definitely don't sit still.

So long as the great majority of the poor in any country are inert and are laboring without any hope in this world, the whole associated life of that community rests on an equivocal foundation. Its moral and social order is tied to an economic system which starves and mutilates the great majority of the population, and under such conditions its religion necessarily becomes a spiritual drug, administered for the purpose of subduing the popular discontent and relieving the popular misery.

There is no question that Francis was in advance of his age, as he anticipated all that is liberal and sympathetic in modern times: the love of nature, the love of animals, the sense of social compassion, the sense of the spiritual dangers of affluence.

The resurrection asserts a truth which is by no means always written legibly for all men on the face of nature. It tells us that the spiritual is higher than the material; that in this universe spirit counts for more than matter.

As we read spiritually about spiritual things, we open our hearts to God's voice. Sometimes we must be willing to put down the book we are reading and just listen to what God is saying to us through our words.

Music should be healing, music should uplift the soul, music should inspire; then there is no better way of getting closer to God, of rising higher towards the spirit, of attaining spiritual perfection, only if it is rightly understood.