Motivational Quotes

Spirituality

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

- Upanishad, Brihadaranyaka

Best Quotes about Spirituality

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Dass, Ram

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

Machado, Antonio

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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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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Let the spirit of adventure set the tone.

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Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light.

Jacks, L. P.

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

Gogarty, Oliver St. John

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

Champman, George

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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He is not the same, nor is he another.

Buddha

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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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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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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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No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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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.

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

Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie

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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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Ghosts only exist for those who wish to see them.

Holtei

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Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Ruskin, John

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

Buddha

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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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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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