Spiritual Work Quotes:

Part of my spiritual work is learning to live with the knowledge that we can't protect our loved ones from pain and heartache.

- Dani Shapiro

topic: Spiritual, Pain, Heartache, Spiritual Work

Spiritual Work is not easy. It means the willingness to surrender feelings that seem, while we're in them, like our defense against a greater pain. It means that we surrender to God our perceptions of all things.

- Marianne Williamson

source: Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.59, Random House

topic: Spiritual, Pain, Mean, Spiritual Work, Surrender To God

We go astray when we think that we can do spiritual work without spiritual power.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: God, Spiritual, Religious, Spiritual Work

If you desire to know where your spiritual work lies, look to your emotional pain.

- Alan Cohen

topic: Spiritual, Pain, Lying, Spiritual Work, Emotional Pain

Everything a baptized person does each day should be directly or indirectly related to the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.

- Dorothy Day

topic: Spiritual, Doe, Each Day, Spiritual Work, Baptized

The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it.

- Barbara Brown Taylor

source: Barbara Brown Taylor (2009). “An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith”, p.93, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

topic: Spiritual, Spring, Self, Spiritual Work

Every successful cancer treatment includes the following three ingredients: thorough detoxification, a change of diet and mental or spiritual work.

- Lothar Hirneise

topic: Spiritual, Cancer, Successful, Spiritual Work, Cancer Treatment

When you look at obesity in the United States, clearly it is not a bunch of stupid people. It has nothing to do with intelligence. Sometimes people who are dealing with issues of obesity and compulsive eating know more than I will ever know about nutrition, metabolism, and exercise, because they have studied it. But clearly the real problem, and therefore the real solution, is on another level of consciousness, and that is where the spiritual work comes in.

- Marianne Williamson

source: Interview with John Robbins, foodrevolution.org. January 1, 2013.

topic: Spiritual, Real, Stupid, Spiritual Work

Prayer is the key discipline whereby all spiritual work is done.

- Chuck Pierce

topic: Spiritual, Prayer, Keys, Spiritual Work

Taking the one seat describes two related aspects of spiritual work. Outwardly, it means selecting one practice and teacher among all the possibilities, and inwardly, it means having the determination to stick with that practice through whatever difficulties and doubts arise until you have come to true clarity and understanding.

- Jack Kornfield

topic: Spiritual, Teacher, Determination, Spiritual Work

First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes.

- Dolly Parton

source: "Dolly Parton: 'I may look fake but I'm real where it counts'". Interview With Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2011.

topic: Spiritual, Morning, Makeup, Spiritual Work

And perhaps you thought, "Because I'm doing so much spiritual work, I'm only going to attract angels." No! The more spiritual work you do, the more darkness you attract. Because the light don't need more light. The darkness needs light! The light doesn't need more light.

- Iyanla Vanzant

topic: Spiritual, Angel, Light, Spiritual Work

Yet spiritual realizations often remain compartmentalized, apart from everyday life, or become used as a rationale for living in an impersonal or soulless way. That is why, if we are to live our realizations and bring them into this world, we also need to work on the vessel of spirit - our embodied humanity. Soulwork is the forging of this vessel... If spiritual work brings freedom, soulwork brings integration. Both are necessary for a complete human life.

- John Welwood

topic: Spiritual, Soul, Humanity, Spiritual Work, Soulless

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

- Carl Jung

topic: Inspirational, Spiritual, Political, Spiritual Work, Projection

If by doing some work which the undiscerning consider 'not spiritual work' I can best help others, and I inwardly rebel, thinking it is the spiritual for which I crave, when in truth it is the interesting and exciting, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

- Amy Carmichael

topic: Spiritual, Inspiration, Helping Others, Spiritual Work, Crave

It is the eternal, inescapable law that growth comes only from work and preparation, whether the growth be material, mental, or spiritual. Work has no substitute.

- J. Reuben Clark

topic: Spiritual, Law, Preparation, Spiritual Work

After all the years of [spiritual] work, ... I've realized this: that everything and everyone is precious beyond words. Everything and everyone is holy. And the point of our being on this sweet planet is to be of service to all of it. And when we understand this truth in our bones, joy fills our hearts.

- Geri Larkin

topic: Spiritual, Sweet, Heart, Spiritual Work

The belief that a personal life exists apart from God creates experience disconnected from God. This is painful and frustrating. Our spiritual work is to break down the illusion that we have a life here and that a life of God is somewhere else.

- Michael Beckwith

topic: God, Spiritual, Belief, Spiritual Work

We are in China in obedience to the command of our Lord; and the purpose of our Mission is to disciple and make Christians of this great nation.. . This is a great spiritual work, and to secure success in it we need the abiding presence of the Spirit, and through the Spirit such a full baptism of power as will perfectly fit each one of us for the special work which God has given him to do.

- Griffith John

topic: Christian, Spiritual, Baptism, Spiritual Work

As I get older, I feel better about myself because I've done a lot of spiritual work on myself and balanced myself out, and so I feel more confident about myself as a person and as a woman.

- Marisa Berenson

source: Interview with Tom Ford, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2011.

topic: Spiritual, Feel Better, Done, Spiritual Work

Gratefulness is the great task, the how of our spiritual work, because, rightly understood, it re-roots us.

- David Steindl-Rast

topic: Spiritual, Gratitude, Roots, Spiritual Work, Gratefulness

The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.

- Sri Aurobindo

topic: Spiritual, Race, Sri Lanka, Spiritual Work