Spirituality Quotes

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Gautama Buddha
“The Way is not in the sky; the Way is in the heart.”
Gautama Buddha

Aaron Lauritsen
“The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.”
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

Aberjhani
“Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.”
Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

A.C. Prabhupāda
“Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation.”
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, The Bhagavad-gita

Thaddeus of Vitovnica
“Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.”
Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica, Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

Sam Harris
“What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.”
Sam Harris

Zain Hashmi
“And when your soul, the flame, the spark, meets with the divine fuel that is so pure and so strong, it results in immense enlightenment: the enlightenment of God. Light upon light, Noorun Alaa Noor.”
Zain Hashmi, A Blessed Olive Tree: A Spiritual Journey in Twenty Short Stories

Gregory Dickow
“The condition of your soul will determine the condition of your life. Because it determines how you think, what you feel, and what you choose to do.”
Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose

Anaïs Nin
“And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
Anaïs Nin

Mary Oliver
“There are things you can’t reach. But
You can reach out to them, and all day long.

The wind, the bird flying away. The idea of god.

And it can keep you busy as anything else, and happier.

I look; morning to night I am never done with looking.

Looking I mean not just standing around, but standing around
As though with your arms open.”
Mary Oliver

Thomas Aquinas
“The soul is like an uninhabited world
that comes to life only when
God lays His head
against us.”
St. Thomas Aquinas

Stephen Richards
“It sometimes takes a state of solitude to bring to mind the real power of companionship.”
Stephen Richards

Rashi
“Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.”
Rashi

Aldous Huxley
“It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's.”
Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy

Amit Ray
“Your thoughts are your message to the world. Just as the rays are the messages of the Sun.”
Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

Amit Ray
“God is whispering in your heart, in the whole existence, just tune your ears.”
Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

Ann Voskamp
“...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.”
Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Sandy Nathan
“Your life is your spiritual path.

It's what's right in front of you. You can't live anyone else's life. The task is to live yours and stop trying to copy one you think looks better.”
Sandy Nathan, Stepping Off the Edge: Learning & Living Spiritual Practice

Joseph Campbell
“You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.”
Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

Hamka
“Kalau hidup sekadar hidup, babi di hutan juga hidup.
Kalau bekerja sekadar bekerja, kera juga bekerja.”
Hamka

C.G. Jung
“With a truly tragic delusion,” Carl Jung noted, “these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the light, but of blind people who do not know that their eyes could see. It is high time we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to teach people the art of seeing.”
Carl Jung

“If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don't, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way.”
Matt D. Miller

Swami Vivekananda
“Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.”
Vivekananda

Peter Kreeft
“The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.”
Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock

Criss Jami
“Self-righteousness is much like a spiritual egocentricity. It constitutes a secular type of love that thrives under conditionality, one in which is only existent after an individual meets the adopted standards of the condemner; oppositely, unconditional love is a holy love.”
Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

Paulo Coelho
“I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.”
Paulo Coelho, Like the Flowing River

Zain Hashmi
“Love is and should always be unconditional.”
Zain Hashmi, A Blessed Olive Tree: A Spiritual Journey in Twenty Short Stories

Aberjhani
“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”
Author-Poet Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Zain Hashmi
“Successful people enjoy the journeys they embark on, irrespective of whether they reach their destination or not.”
Zain Hashmi