Motivational Quotes

Spirituality

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

Best Quotes about Spirituality

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

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

Gogarty, Oliver St. John

Burbank, Luther

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie

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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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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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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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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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No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

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

Machado, Antonio

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light.

Jacks, L. P.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Jung, Carl

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Ghosts only exist for those who wish to see them.

Holtei

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

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Bible

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