Spiritual Quotes - Page 249

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.

Instead of old spiritual distinctions you have new spiritual distinctions, instead of old worships you have new worships. You are all depending for your spirituality on someone else, for your happiness on someone else, for your enlightenment on someone else.

Only when the mind is tranquil-through self-knowledge and not through imposed self-discipline-only then, in that tranquillity, in that silence, can reality come into being. It is only then that there can be bliss, that there can be creative action.

To bring about a fundamental, radical revolution, we must begin with ourselves.

There are laws in some countries, I believe, which prohibit anyone from following you in the street, and if someone does, he can be arrested and put into prison. So, spiritually, I wish there were a police system which would put people into a spiritual prison for following others. In fact, it does happen automatically.

It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.

We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.

The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear.

Truth is something which you must see immediately — and to see something clearly you must give your heart and your mind and your whole being to it immediately.

Love is the most practical thing in the world. To love, to be kind, not to be greedy, not to be ambitious, not to be influenced by people but to think for yourself-these are all very practical things, and they will bring about a practical, happy society.

It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.

I've always been very spiritual, since I was a very, very young child. The older I get, I'm reading more, I'm experiencing more, and so that's all reflected in all of my music. All of my fans are pretty familiar with me and my beliefs. It's all about connecting to yourself and sticking to your own spirituality.

We take what we think are the tools of spiritual transformation into our own hands and try to sculpt ourselves into robust Christlike specimens. But spiritual transformation is primarily the work of the Holy Spirit. He is the Master Sculptor

I love to see people win. You can literally see a person change through achievement on this emotional and spiritual level.

Perhaps some have created their own difficulties but don't the rest of us do exactly the same things? Are we not all beggars?

Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.

As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual.

Creativity is a religion. When you get into it, you will find your life becomes more spiritual.

When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence.

Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.

I just have this absolute belief that humans are moving away from cruelty and destruction towards a time when we can truly live in harmony with nature. When we understand that there is a spiritual power around us from which we can draw strength. That is where I believe human destiny ultimately is taking us. I just hope we have time.

A Hank Cochran song in the studio is spiritual. It's like singing a hymn in a church.

Thinking well is integral to acting righteously. Truth and spirituality are of a piece: to know the truth is to do it. There is no dichotomy between the two. To be spiritual is to know/do the truth.

The Jews emerge into history, not a nation of keen spiritual aspirations and altruistic ethics, but that pagan people, worshipping rocks, sheep and cattle, and spirits of caves and wells, of whom the Old Testament, tending towards its higher ideal, gives fragmentary but convincing evidence.

He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than crushing His African children with slavery, Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion, Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows, Approaches the heart through the door of the toes.