The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.
Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.
Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.
A primary goal of the spiritual life is to learn to quiet the mind through prayer and meditation, through spiritual practice, so that we can hear what in both Judaism and Christianity, is called the small, still voice within.
Spiritual growth is like childbirth: you dilate, then you contract, you dilate, then you contract again. as painful as it all feels, it's the necessary rhythm for reaching the ultimate goal of total openness.
Making our goal anything other than peace is emotionally self-destructive.
The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.
The goal of the spiritual activist is to find inner peace even in externally chaotic circumstances.
Increasing meaning and joy on the planet is the ultimate goal because within that space all evil is cast out.
In asking for miracles, we are seeking a practical goal: a return to inner peace. We’re not asking for something outside us to change, but for something inside us to change. We’re looking for a softer orientation to life.
Personal growth can be painful, because it can make us feel ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. But our spiritual goal is the journey out of fear-based, painful mental habit patterns, to those of love and peace.
Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Every day we present the best quotes! Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends
or simply: