Spiritual Path Quotes - Page 2

• The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Motivational, God

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.49, Broadway Books

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• Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Faith, Spiritual

  Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.405, Jaico Publishing House

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• Never waste time and energy wishing you were somewhere else, doing something else. Accept your situation and realize you are where you are, doing what you are doing, for a very specific reason. Realize that nothing is by chance, that you have certain lessons to learn and that the situation you are in has been given to you to enable you to learn those lessons as quickly as possible, so that you can move onward and upward along this spiritual path.

  Eileen Caddy

  Spiritual, Moving, Somewhere Else

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• I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown away by the beauty and miracle of nature. You just have to get rid of so much baggage to be light enough to dance, to sing, to play. You don't have time to carry grudges; you don't have time to cling to the need to be right.

  Anne Lamott

  Spiritual, Thinking, Light

  "Growing into grace". Interview, www.washingtontimes.com. March 5, 2008.

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• I sometimes like to think of God as a great symphony and the various spiritual paths as instruments in an orchestra.  The gift that you have is like music waiting to be played.  You need only to find the instrument that will best bring it out.  You alone can never play all the instruments, and your music might not find voice in all the instruments.  All you can do is find the instrument that suits you best, play it as well as you can, and add your music to the great symphony of divine creation.

  Kent Nerburn

  Spiritual, Thinking, Play

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• If we pursue a spiritual path in depth, then it changes who and what we are. There is no turning back. We can only move forward.

  Vivianne Crowley

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• My advice to you is not to undertake the spiritual path. It is too difficult, too long, and is too demanding. I suggest you ask for your money back, and go home. This is not a picnic. It is really going to ask everything of you. So, it is best not to begin. However, if you do begin, it is best to finish.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Spiritual, Home, Long

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• The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.

  Larry Dossey

  Life, Spiritual, Garden

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• The great virtue of those who seek the spiritual path is courage.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Spiritual, Inspiration

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• If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.

  Gautama Buddha

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Support You

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• One of the great dangers on the spiritual path is that the ego becomes spiritualized. The ego loves to think of itself as spiritually evolved. It is just another way that it manages to feel important and in control. It is very difficult to free yourself from an enlightened ego.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Spiritual, Thinking, Ego

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• Love is the real work of your life. It is your spiritual path. It is the key to your growth and evolution.

  Robert Holden

  Spiritual, Real, Love Is

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• Your spiritual developement is a divine path that leads to truth, goodness and beauty;
  it is a spiritual path reflecting the unlimited, absolute nature of the universe
  and the ultimate grand design of creation.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Spiritual, Design, Path

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• Many people look upon change with dread and foreboding. But for those on the spiritual path-for those who believe in God and the power of prayer-change is a fuller expression of life. When a problem or condition arises in your life that indicates a change, rely upon God, and realize that it is not so much that a door has closed on a chapter of your life, but rather that a door has opened on new and more interesting things.

  Emmet Fox

  Change, Spiritual, Prayer

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• For a seeker, Guru Purnima is a day of significance, is a day of New Year. It is the day to review one’s progress on the spiritual path and renew one’s determination and focus on the goal, and to resolve what one wants to do in the coming year

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Spiritual, New Year, Determination

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• The biggest surprise on the soulful journey to authenticity, whether as a philosophy or a spiritual path, is that the path is a spiral. We go up, but we go in circles. Eash time around, the view gets a little bit wider.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Journey

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• The use of drugs like mescaline may serve an appropriate purpose. Indeed, "Psychedelic" drugs have been widely used in the spiritual traditions of the world, including the Yoga of Patanjali, though they were never advertised as ultimate keys to enlightenment, merely as stepping-stones on the spiritual path.

  Georg Feuerstein

  Spiritual, Yoga, Keys

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• The message of love and compassion will travel far and wide if all who follow a spiritual path work together in harmony and mutual respect.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Compassion, Working Together

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• Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth.

  Joan Halifax

  Spiritual, Essence, Soul

  Joan Halifax (2009). “Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death”, p.199, Shambhala Publications

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• No matter what spiritual path you've walked or what teachings you've followed, they must lead you back to no path and no teaching. A true teaching is like a blazing fire that consumes itself. The teaching must not only consume you, but consume itself as well. All must be burned to ash, and then the ash must be burned. Then, and only then, is the Ultimate realized.

  Adyashanti

  Spiritual, Teaching, Fire

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• Tariqah [The Spiritual Path] without the Sharia [Islamic Law] is like having a pistachio tree without the shell. Or a walnut, a walnut cannot grow on a tree without having a shell, and the food that you eat is inside the shell.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Spiritual, Islamic, Law

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Somewhere in my early twenties I realized I was pretty constantly monitoring myself, judging how I was always falling short, whether it was about not being a good enough daughter or friend, or my appearance, or whatever. I ended up becoming involved with a spiritual path in the yogic tradition, living in an ashram, doing a very rigorous spiritual practice.

  Tara Brach

  Daughter, Spiritual, Fall

  Source: www.tarabrach.com

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• The world is full of incredible people who are embodiments of compassion. Some of them have a spiritual path; some of them don't.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Spiritual, Compassion, People

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• If someone comes in without having been on a spiritual path for long, he or she still will understand what is happening to them in their human lives, what is happening through the evolution, how their humanness is playing such an important role at this time, and where they are in their lives with their inner feelings. It actually gives them a support system, a base from which they can start to evolve naturally within themselves through the understanding of our humanness, of our imperfection.

  Christine McCormick Day

  Spiritual, Humanness Is, Support Systems

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Some other people think that awakened consciousness is really about fullness or presence, being completely present for every moment, but these experiences are only one of the dimensions of awakened consciousness. Understanding these different dimensions as facets of awakening can help with the confusion surrounding the different spiritual paths. They're not leading to different places, but rather reflect the luminous and liberated aspects of consciousness itself. These qualities are not far away; in fact, they are right here.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Thinking, Confusion

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