Motivational Quotes

Spirituality

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

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

Gogarty, Oliver St. John

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

Hui-Hai

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

Buddha

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

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

Saadi

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though hidden from our eyes. To this double nature of the visible and invisible world -- to the profound longing for the latter, coupled with the feeling of the sweet necessity for the former, we owe all sound and logical systems of philosophy, truly based on the immutable principles of our nature, just as from the same source arise the most senseless enthusiasms.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Joubert, Joseph

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He is not the same, nor is he another.

Buddha

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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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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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The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bible

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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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Ghosts only exist for those who wish to see them.

Holtei

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

Jung, Carl

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

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light.

Jacks, L. P.

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie

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No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Voltaire

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

James, William

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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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Let the spirit of adventure set the tone.

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

Ruskin, John

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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