Spirituality famous quotes
04-27-2025
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I define spirituality as a search for love, beauty, happiness and wisdom. Spirituality is a journey that we never finish.
-- Akiane Kramarik -
The more you recognize the immense good within you, the more you magnetize immense good around you.
-- Alan Cohen -
Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown.
-- Alan Watts -
A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.
-- Alan Watts -
Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.
-- Alfred Agache -
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
-- Alfred Nobel -
Somehow, we have gotten off track from the basics of health and spirituality, and we get in our own way.
-- Alice McCall -
I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality
-- Amber Tamblyn -
The ghost is the outward and visible signs of an inward fear.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Courage is the hallmark of spirituality. Courage comes when you love yourself for who you are.
-- Amit Ray -
There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man.
-- Ana Castillo -
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
-- Anatole France -
There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature or from the arts - a sense of wonder.
-- Andrew Schneider -
There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex.
-- Andrew Schneider -
Insight occurs when, and to the degree that, one knows oneself.
-- Andrew Schneider -
God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.
-- Angelus Silesius -
I am as vast as God; there is nothing in the world O Miracle: that can shut me up in myself.
-- Angelus Silesius -
Love is difficult, because loving is not enough: We must, like God, ourselves be Love.
-- Angelus Silesius -
Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
Ascetic spirituality is a symptom of the very disease which it intends to cure.
-- Anodea Judith -
Spirituality is not a religion... It is a way of life.
-- Anthony D. Williams -
Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
-- Anthony de Mello -
"Why is everyone here so happy except me?" "Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere," said the Master. "Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?" "Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside."
-- Anthony de Mello -
What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.
-- Anthony de Mello -
Spirituality for me is the sum total of all the acts of my day.
-- Ari L. Goldman -
Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
If a pickpocket meets a Holy Man, he will see only His pockets.
-- Baba Hari Dass -
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
-- Barbara De Angelis -
God will become visible as God's image is reborn in you.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux -
Surrender is the most difficult thing in the world while you are doing it and the easiest when it is done.
-- Bhai Sahib Singh -
To struggle is difficult but to surrender is easy. Surrender is the beginning of devotion.
-- Bhakti Charu Swami -
Meditation takes place when you bring all your awareness to this moment.
-- Brandon Bays -
Emptiness is that which frees us from religiosity and leads us to true spirituality.
-- Brother Lawrence -
The new physics provides a modern version of ancient spirituality. In a universe made out of energy, everything is entangled; everything is one.
-- Bruce H. Lipton -
This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
-- Byron Katie -
Who cares if you're enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now?
-- Byron Katie -
Don't think of God in terms of forms, because forms are limited and God is unlimited.
-- C. S. Lewis -
We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.
-- C. West Churchman -
The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
-- Carl Sagan -
Things don't change, only the way you look at them.
-- Carlos Castaneda -
Spirituality has played an amazing part. Its been paramount in my life.
-- Chaka Khan -
When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.
-- Charles de Lint -
Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.
-- Chinmayananda Saraswati -
The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.
-- Chogyam Trungpa -
Any spirituality can be enhanced with the practice or study of yoga.
-- Christy Turlington -
There is a universal urge to rethink our spirituality in order to give us a new sense of security.
-- Claudia Llosa -
There is one river of Truth which receives tributaries from every side.
-- Clement of Alexandria -
Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments
-- Confucius -
If you reflect within yourself and find nothing to be ashamed of, how could you have anxiety or fear.
-- Confucius -
I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it.
-- Craig Johnson -
Among the most remarkable features characterizing Zen we find these: spirituality, directness of expression, disregard of form or conventionalism, and frequently an almost wanton delight in going astray from respectability.
-- D.T. Suzuki -
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life.
-- Dalai Lama -
What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.
-- Dalai Lama -
The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.
-- Dan Brown -
Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.
-- Dan Brown -
Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.
-- Daniel Berrigan -
I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.
-- Dave Davies -
Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.
-- David Bowie -
The spirituality of the earth is an invitation to initiation, to the death of what we have been and the birth of something new
-- David Spangler -
Whatever you attempt, go at it with spirit.
-- David Starr Jordan -
Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.
-- David Steindl-Rast -
Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us.
-- David Wolpe -
The only thing Native Americans ever did better than the rest of us is spirituality. Of course, that's everything, isn't it?
-- Deacon Jones -
Spirituality is intensely personal; religion is institutional.
-- Dean Hamer -
When I use the word spirituality, I don't necessarily mean religion; I mean whatever it is that helps you feel connected to something that is larger than yourself.
-- Dean Ornish -
I think the time has come for us to embrace spirituality as a domain of awareness where we all experience our universal nature, where we all experience our inseparability, where we all know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Every experience that we have is unique to us because at some deep level we make an interpretation of it.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Religion is believing someone else's experience, spirituality is having your own experience.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.
-- Dennis Banks -
Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and become a spirituality of transformation when we find meaning in it.
-- Desmond Tutu -
Whatever you imagine, God is the opposite of that.
-- Dhul-Nun al-Misri -
We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.
-- Diogenes -
You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
-- Dogen -
How much harder it is to bear one's splendor than one's miseries!
-- Douglas Harding -
All there really is to do now, is to be in the present Moment.
-- Drunvalo Melchizedek -
Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.
-- E. O. Wilson -
True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
the deeper one is drawn into God, the more one must 'go out of oneself'; that is, one must go to the world in order to carry the divine life into it.
-- Edith Stein -
Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me' and other such simple courtesies...Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in its enjoyment of life.
-- Edward M Hays -
There is a definite link between gratitude and spirituality.
-- Elaine L. Jack -
Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt -
Spirituality is a brave search for the truth about existence, fearlessly peering into the mysterious nature of life.
-- Elizabeth Lesser -
If spirituality is not religion or cynicism or sentimentality or narcissism, then what is it?... we can confidently say... that spirituality is fearlessness. It is a way of looking boldly at this life we have been given, here, now, on earth, as this human being.
-- Elizabeth Lesser -
Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie.
-- Ellen Glasgow -
A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality.
-- Emil Nolde -
Beauty is not caused, it is; Chase it and it ceases, Chase it not and it abides...
-- Emily Dickinson -
To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn't convenient, comfortable, or easy.
-- Epictetus -
We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.
-- Epictetus -
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.
-- Eric Clapton -
Maybe It's not the biggest blockbuster film, but there will be some people that will see it, that will be debating it, that will be questioning their own sense of spirituality. If the film resonates, then I have succeeded in what I set out to do.
-- Eriq La Salle -
I have an interest in spirituality, and it opens up so many different areas of Indian life.
-- Francois Gautier
