Spirituality Quotes - Page 15

The universe is a masterpiece painted by love's masterstrokes.

Your knowledge can stir the world, your intellect can move it, your wisdom can shake it, but only your love can truly change it.

Beliefs are a powerful thing. I often travel the world and sometimes the local waitresses attending me are nervous if they can’t speak English. Now, when this happens, I point at the pictures in the menu. However, I’ve noticed that the ones with the strongest beliefs, the most nervous ones, still do a mistake in my order. Another interesting things to notice in these situations is that, when I correct them, by pointing again at what I ordered before, they recognize their mistake, but get angry, as if their mistake was my fault, and that’s called irresponsibility. Now, when you combine irresponsibility with the wrong beliefs, you have a a very dumb person. That’s what stupidity is, it’s a human being doing the wrong things with the wrong beliefs and never ever accepting any responsibility for it. That’s how those with the lowest spiritual conscience behave in general with themselves and others.

Those who are actively seeking enlightenment will not find it because the act of looking for it is the distraction from it.

Never give up the freeness of your soul. Live your duty to mankind, nurture creatures of this world as a true mother of the earth, but never shut your imagination off from those desires that distinguish you from the ordinary. Never allow yourself to be sapped of that extraordinary energy that is the necessary ingredient for creating something new and progressive.

The light is shining on our path.

What would you say to yourself if you could actually meet a younger you?

The strength of my heart is the music in my spirit.

The two seasons; deepest winter from above and nascent spring from below, created a juxtaposition that drew the scene into the land of legend sitting only a heartbeat away behind a translucent river of time.

When you go against the flow of nature and betray the spiritual laws existing within, there will always be a negative reaction.

In today’s world, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of that disparity.

Do not believe in a god who is as silly, and meaner than you. For, that would surely be your higher-self, and your stupid alter-ego.

I am fully persuaded, what God’s promises, He faithfully performs.

You can think of your body in two ways: 1. As mechanical, like an automobile worth only so many miles or 2. As a living breathing energetic vessel manifested from spirit. Either way will greatly effect the length and quality of your life. Choose wisely.

Concentration is like a leash for our mind, keeping it under control and obedient and not giving it too much room to move as it wishes.

If you're stressing over happiness, you're doing it wrong!

Stop wasting any more time looking outside of 'you' for what is not there. Look within and you will find the treasure you seek.

Go thy way, weigh me the weight of the fire, or measure me the blast of the wind, or call me again the day that is past.

If you saturate your mind with positive thoughts, it will sustain you in any situation.

My love for her was close to piety. You may think it strange that I should use this word, with its religious connotation, to describe my feeling towards a woman. But even now I believe—and I believe it very strongly—that true love is not so far removed from religious faith.

Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there.

You cannot be aware of yourself, for you are awareness itself. How can a witness witness itself? That is like trying to see your own eyes without a reflection, or cut a knife with the tip of its own blade—it is impossible. The subject can only observe the object; it cannot make an object out of itself. But by the very act of observing, you indirectly know yourself as the observer, as the subject. No witnessing of the witness is needed to prove its existence.

Everything is in the root. If you pick the weed without getting the root out of the soil, be assured, it is going to grow back.

Love as much as you can from wherever you are.

Life is not meant to be lived on the sidelines or the edge of the pool. It is meant to be embraced, inhaled, and devoured. It is meant to be tasted, chewed and swallowed, savoring each and every experience as if it were the most delicious delicacy ever eaten.

We can read a good spiritual book in search of information or in search of God. We will find only what we're looking for.

Equanimity is the hallmark of spirituality. It is neither chasing nor avoiding but just being in the middle.

Reach out to the fullness of God’s grace strength for any accomplishment.

Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less.Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.

A person may hold his own beliefs and creeds to be dearest, and nourish them with all his might, but the moment he starts preaching the exclusive greatness and dominance over all other systems of beliefs and creeds, the world begins to plunge into a death trap.

Each person is a vast territory of undiscovered mystery as nebulous and uncharted as the deepest oceans and expanses of space.

Be like stars; when darkness tries to stop you from shining, shine all the more.

Faith in God will elevate you to next level blessings.

The fragrance of meditation is enlightenment.

In the wilderness, we experience the faithfulness of God.

My interpretation can only be as inerrant as I am, and that's good to keep in mind.

Grace is giving yourself a free pass and realizing that it isn't free at all.

Discover your sacred soul.

Some people pray for miracles ... with Cosmic Ordering YOU manifest them!

Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember your spirit. When you're able to transcend an aversion to silence, you'll also transcend many other miseries. And it is in this silence that the remembrance of God will be activated.

The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.

The living has a great hope, we have life to bounce back from any difficulty. The dead had no hope.

And many years later, as an adult student of history, Knecht was to perceive more distinctly that history cannot come into being without the substance and the dynamism of this sinful world of egoism and instinctuality, and that even such sublime creations as the Order were born in this cloudy torrent and sooner or later will be swallowed up by it again...Nor was this ever merely an intellectual problem for him. Rather, it engaged his innermost self more than any other problem, and he felt it as partly his responsibility. His was one of those natures which can sicken, languish, and die when they see an ideal they have believed in, or the country and community they love, afflicted with ills.

The biggest liar you will ever meet is yourself. It is amazing the lies we tell ourselves because of fear.

T-4.II.4. Think of the love of animals for their offspring, and the need they feel to protect them. That is because they regard them as part of themselves. No one dismisses something he considers part of himself. You react to your ego much as God does to His creations,–with love, protection and charity. Your reactions to the self you made are not surprising. In fact, they resemble in many ways how you will one day react to your real creations, which are as timeless as you are. The question is not how you respond to the ego, but what you believe you are. Belief is an ego function, and as long as your origin is open to belief you are regarding it from an ego viewpoint. When teaching is no longer necessary you will merely know God. Belief that there is another way of perceiving is the loftiest idea of which ego thinking is capable. That is because it contains a hint of recognition that the ego is not the Self.

Spirituality cannot be an excuse for not making money!!! Just a justification for failure!

I am fighting to stay alive not because I fear death, but because I love life.

You are a gift. You are the only one of you on this planet and God made you specifically to deliver that gift to mankind. I request that you stop waiting to remember what you are here for and start sharing you gift with the world.

The goal is not to answer these questions. The goal is to be present to them with all that we are. In a way we are following the poet Rilke's advice when he counseled the young artist, "be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along into the answer.

Embrace all. Help some. Trust few. Harm none.

Hollywood shines by virtue of light within.

May you find grace to be great.

Foretold by ancient seers and now by scientists, we are at the unprecedented historic and evolutionary crossroad. We have the capacity to transform ourselves spiritually and our civilisation materially or de-evolve into an Orwellian nightmare

Yet, Step 2 and AA spirituality is about nothing if it isn’t about faith in God. Many good reasons exist why AA makes a distinction between religion and spirituality, but a denial of God is not one of them. – p. 127

There is nothing behind the curtains of religions, people put there whatever their imaginations can fathom

Religion is the record of spiritual events. Through the repetition of past occurrences religion can give us a close approximation of the event itself, but it is not the same thing as a spiritual experience.

How can I not believe that there is a God who exists and loves, when the people before me are infused with that love and pour it out daily?

Man is the head of the family, just as Christ is the Head of the Church.

I have a body, an emotional body and a mental body, but I am none of these. I am nothing and everything. I am an indivisible particle of oneness that can no longer be categorised

World needs positive energy. Put your happy energy into the universe.