Motivational Quotes

Spirituality

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

- Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Ghosts only exist for those who wish to see them.

Holtei

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.

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

FeNelon, Francois

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

Bible

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

Buddha

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

Gogarty, Oliver St. John

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

Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

James, William

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

Upanishad, Brihadaranyaka

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Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

Dyer, Wayne

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He is not the same, nor is he another.

Buddha

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Hui-Hai

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

Voltaire

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

Champman, George

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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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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.