Motivational Quotes

Spirituality

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

Best Quotes about Spirituality

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

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

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

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our lives, which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will.

Merton, Thomas

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

Gogarty, Oliver St. John

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.

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

Machado, Antonio

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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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You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

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Wherever you go, you will always bear yourself about with you, and so you will always find yourself.

Kempis, Thomas

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Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends.

Ruskin, John

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

Saadi

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Ghosts only exist for those who wish to see them.

Holtei

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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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The adept may reach one of those rare moments that spell illumination -- aware of the light of the consciousness that illumines our consciousness as the sun dawns on the sleeping earth and bathes it in effulgence.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

FeNelon, Francois

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

Buddha

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Sages speak of the immutable Tree of Life, with its tape root above and its branches below.

Bhagavad Gita

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The man or woman who concentrated on Things can hardly be trusted to use those things for the essential good of mankind. Only those who have guided the development of their spirit as well as their mind are really; qualified to use wisely the things that man's reason has enabled him to fashion out of nature's raw materials.

Fields, E. S.

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

James, William

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Upanishad, Brihadaranyaka

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Keep yourself clean and bright. You are the windows through which you must view the world.

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

Champman, George

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I'm aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the spirit world look after me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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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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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.

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In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment of the present where life quivers in its true sense. The past and the future are both rolled up in this present moment of illumination, and this present moment is not something standing still with all its contents, for it ceaselessly moves on.

Suzuki, Daisetz T.

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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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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

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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

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Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light.

Jacks, L. P.

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

Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie

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Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Seattle, Chief

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Let the spirit of adventure set the tone.

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He is not the same, nor is he another.

Buddha

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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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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