Spirituality Quotations | Page 2

Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

What would we have to hold in compassion to be at peace right now? What would we have to let go of to be at peace right now?

To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.

For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.

I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more abstract and not aligned with any recognized religion. For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music. It cannot be manipulated, or politicized, and when it is, that becomes immediately obvious.

Spirituality is natural goodness. God is not a person; God is a presence personified in us. Spirituality is not a thing; it is the atmosphere of God's Presence, goodness, truth, and beauty.

The supreme harmony of the cosmos is selected in the harmony of the spirit.

You would consider me an atheist or agnostic. I find religion and spirituality fascinating. I would like to believe this isn’t the end and there’s something more, but I can’t convince the rational part of me that that makes any sense whatsoever.

The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something.

Judaism reognized the home as being a co-partner with the synagogue in the nurturing of spirituality, and accorded the woman, as primary home-maker, the greatest consideration.

Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.

The tendrils of a new, deeper form of spirituality are growing. It's the greening under the surface crust of consciousness and social paradigm.

I see the potential for a new world being born in front of me and all around me, and I feel the only way to bring that potential into being is to know myself.

When our actions create discord in another person, we, ourselves, in this lifetime or another, will feel that discord. Likewise, if our actions create harmony and empowerment in another, we also come to feel that harmony and empowerment.

Spiritual life is contractual.

We cannot grow spiritually if we ignore our humanness, just as we cannot become fully human if we ignore our spirituality.

Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.

As the lesser is always found within the greater, so this principle holds true with regards to time and the eternal.

I'm interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.

True spirituality consists in living moment to moment by the grace of Jesus Christ.

... you are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily!

...when I accept Christ as my Savior... I am immediately in a new and living relationship with each of the three persons of the Trinity.

When my conscience under the Holy Spirit makes me aware of a specific sin I should at once call that sin sin and bring it consciously under the blood of Christ.

In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt.

Life simply is. It follows its course. Give yourself to the moment. Let life reveal itself to you.

Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.

Over time I just realised the world is a very complicated place, and there is not a single structured belief system that adequately and comprehensively describes every aspect of our existence. So that is my new approach to life and spirituality - I don't know anything, except on a very naive and subjective level.

If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity.

My family inspires me, because they push me to be the best version of myself that I can be, and spirituality, because it brings more love into your life.

Dance involves physicality, it involves spirituality and even brains.

Happy are those who find fault with themselves instead of finding fault with others.

Allah(God) is the greatest friend.

Religion is just coded spirituality.

The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

Talking about spirituality is like talking about new love - it always sounds kooky to those who aren't experiencing it.

What we think is less than what we know; What we know is less than what we love; What we love is so much less than what there is. And to that precise extent we are so much less than what we are.

As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.

Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others will be possible.

Whenever we feel lost, or insane, or afraid, all we have to do is ask for His help. The help might not come in the form we expected, or even thought we desired, but it will come, and we will recognize it by how we feel. In spite of everything, we will feel at peace.

The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.

The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing. When the being is intense enough, when the words are spoken enough, when the thoughts are thought enough, the doing will automatically follow.

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification.

My notion of spirituality was different than it is now, but even if I'd been the most fundamentalist of believers, I would have assumed that God had better things to do than arbitrarily smite me with shaking palsy.

in my opinion, the Divine is revealed to all men once at least in their lives.

Jesus and spirituality can easily become therapies that merely help us cope with life. They can serve us if we chose Him over other service providers. We even talk about "making Jesus my personal Lord and Savior," as if we could make Him anything!

I always feel there is a link between music and spirituality.

Spirituality is your original face; it is the discovery of your intrinsic nature.

To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity.

Bring everything up to the surface. Accept your humanity, your animality. Whatsoever is there, accept it without any condemnation. Acceptance is transformation, because through acceptance awareness becomes possible.

Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance.

Spirituality is not about being fixed; it is about God's being present in the mess of our unfixedness. (Messy Spirituality)

Spirituality isn't about being finished and perfect; spirituality is about trusting God in our unfinishedness.

They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations, however, God gets hardly a mention.

Spirituality is a kind of virgin wisdom, a knowing that comes prior to experience.

You cannot separate art from life or spirituality. They are bound together in a single unit.

None live so easily, so pleasantly, as those that live by faith.

I started to see that my concept of spirituality was totally wrong.

I dabble in all kinds of spirituality. I studied Kabbalah for over ten years, and you know it's all basically the same.

Ever since I was young, I was always interested in exploring spirituality. I know that there are many paths to God, there is not just one path.

If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.

Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep.

Spirituality becomes a commodity to be bought and sold. So spirituality has to be disciplined by social justice.

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.

The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears.

Your thoughts are like the seeds you plant in your garden. Your beliefs are like the soil in which you plant these seeds.

Whatever you choose for yourself, give to another. If you choose to be happy, cause another to be happy. If you choose to be prosperous, cause another to prosper. If you choose more love in your life, cause another to have more love in theirs.

You must stop seeing God as separate from you, and you as separate from each other. Nothing exists in the universe that is separate from anything else. Everything is intrinsically connected, irrevocably interdependent, interactive, interwoven into the fabric of all of life.

Only humans are judgmental, and because you are, you assume that I must be. Yet I am not, and that is the great truth you cannot accept.

The act of resisting something is the act of granting it life... the more you resist, the more you make it real - whatever it is you are resisting.

Religion asks you to learn from the experience of others. Spirituality urges you to seek your own.

Everything is "acceptable" in the sight of God, for how can God not accept that which is? To reject a thing is to deny that it exists.

I tell you this: The purpose of life is not to please God. The purpose of life is to know, and to recreate, Who You Are.

There is only one reason to do anything: as a statement to the universe of Who You Are.

Your happy destiny is unavoidable. You cannot be "saved." There is no hell except not knowing this.

That which you condemn will condemn you, and that which you judge, you will one day become.

All attack is a call for help.

If you have not linked yourself to true emptiness, you will never understand the art of peace.

The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.

Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught.

Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie.

A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality.

The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.

Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they suppose they do.

What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.

The truth in you remains as radiant as a star, as pure as light, as innocent as love itself.

Spirituality is worthless if it's not practical. Music is my work. I am a musician.

Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.

The greatest tragedy in the history of Christianity was neither the Crusades nor the Reformation nor the Inquisition, but rather the split that opened up between theology and spirituality at the end of the Middle Ages.

The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.

I feel like spirituality definitely comes through in my music, but I don't make any specific efforts to make it that way.

It is the spirit of a person that hangs above him like a star in the sky.

Spirituality is not for sale. It must be developed.

Our spirituality is the ground of our being.

Bring into play the almighty power within you, so that on the stage of life you can fulfill your high destined role.

Know that this universe is nothing but a dream bluff of nature to test your consciousness of immortality.

One of the most difficult things to learn is to render service without bossing, without making a fuss about it, and without any consciousness of high and low. In the world of spirituality, humility counts at least as much as utility.