Motivational Quotes

Spirituality

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

Best Quotes about Spirituality

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Buddha

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

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

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

James, William

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

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

Gogarty, Oliver St. John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Dass, Ram

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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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It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Let the spirit of adventure set the tone.

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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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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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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 spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie

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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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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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I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know. There we go beyond those limited and limiting patterns of body, emotions, volition, and understanding that have been keeping us in dry-dock. Instead we become available to our capacity for a larger life in body, mind, and spirit. In this state we know great torrents of delight.

Houston, Jean

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

Upanishad, Brihadaranyaka

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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

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

Bible

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Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light.

Jacks, L. P.

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Machado, Antonio

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

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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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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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He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

Voltaire

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Ghosts only exist for those who wish to see them.

Holtei

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

Ruskin, John