Motivational Quotes

Spirituality

Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality.

- Jung, Carl

Best Quotes about Spirituality

O Krishna, the stillness of divine union which you describe is beyond my comprehension. How can the mind, which is so restless, attain lasting peace? Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, powerful, violent; trying to control it is like trying to tame the wind.

Bhagavad Gita

When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.

Saadi

Your treasure house is within; it contains all you'll ever need.

Hui-Hai

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

FeNelon, Francois

Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.

Machado, Antonio

Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear.

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.

Wolfe, Thomas

He that loseth wealth, loseth much; he that loseth friends, loseth more; but he that loseth his spirit loseth all.

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This latter day work is spiritual. It takes spirituality to comprehend it, to love it, to discern it. Therefore, seek the spirit in all you do. Keep it with you continually. That is our challenge.

Benson, Ezra Taft

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The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Carlyle, Thomas

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What I am trying to do is to unmuddle the metaphysical.

Dyer, Wayne

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The one who count are those persons who-though they may be of little renown-respond to and are responsible for the continuation of the living spirit.

Buber, Martin

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Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side.

Pilgrim, Peace

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You cannot travel on the path until you become the path itself.

Buddha

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People see his pleasure-ground; him no one sees at all.

Upanishad, Brihadaranyaka

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The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.

Champman, George

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But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.

Orwell, George

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But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo; the splendor of fame fades into nothing; but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.

Thurber, James

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His spiritual life has been exaggerated by a chronic attack of mental gallstones.

Gogarty, Oliver St. John

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Not by might, or power, but by my spirit, says the Lord.

Bible

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He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.

John of the Cross, St.

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Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

Augustine, St.

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When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.

Einstein, Albert

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Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof -- that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.

Huxley, Aldous

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Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects in the phenomenal world.

James, William

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The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.

Chopra, Deepak

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The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Our lives as we lead them as passed on to others, whether in physical or mental forms, tingeing all future lives together. This should be enough for one who lives for truth and service to his fellow passengers on the way.

Burbank, Luther

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There is no easy formula for determining right and wrong livelihood, but it is essential to keep the question alive. To return the sense of dignity and honor to manhood, we have to stop pretending that we can make a living at something that is trivial or destructive and still have sense of legitimate self-worth. A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.

Keen, Sam

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The man is free to rule his world, not his world rule him.

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What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed?

Michelangelo

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Whether we name divine presence synchronicity, serendipity, or graced moment matters little. What matters is the reality that our hearts have been understood. Nothing is as real as a healthy dose of magic which restores our spirits.

Long, Nancy

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Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

Joubert, Joseph

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They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained.

Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie

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As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.

Lee, Bruce

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Walking uplifts the spirit. Breathe out the poisons of tension, stress, and worry; breathe in the power of God. Send forth little silent prayers of goodwill toward those you meet. Walk with a sense of being a part of a vast universe. Consider the thousands of miles of earth beneath your feet; think of the limitless expanse of space above your head. Walk in awe, wonder, and humility. Walk at all times of day. In the early morning when the world is just waking up. Late at night under the stars. Along a busy city street at noontime.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.

Renan, Ernest

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One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

Schweitzer, Albert

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When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.

Dass, Ram

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All spiritual disciplined are done with a view to still the mind. The perfectly still mind is universal spirit.

Ramdas, Swami

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Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.

Bergson, Henri L.