Spiritual Quotes - Page 22

• "I seek the meaning of existence," said the stranger. "You are of course assuming," said the Master, "that existence has a meaning." "Doesn't it?" "When you experience existence as it is - not as you think it is you will discover that your question has no meaning," said the Master.

  Anthony de Mello

  Thinking, Assuming, Stranger

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• You have to be in the world to understand what the spiritual is about, and you have to be spiritual in order to truly be able to accept what the world is about.

  Mary Oliver

  Order, World, Able

  Source: balisha-neverenoughtime.blogspot.com

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• Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Joy, Ego

  Source: www.lotusguide.com

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• We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them. So, without the hunger for spiritual things, we weary of them. Hunger after righteousness--the eighth beatitude.

  Blaise Pascal

  Faith, Sleep, Religion

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.110, Open Road Media

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• The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilliser.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Men, Imagination, Atoms

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1966). “Tread softly, for you tread on my jokes”

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• In the spiritual life, you must take one step forward each day in a vertical line, from the bottom up.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Lines, Steps, Each Day

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• Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest
  has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people.

  Richard Rohr

  Disappointment, Thinking, People

  Interview with Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. November 11, 2011.

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• If we can bring spiritual energy, which is love, kindness, forgiveness and so on, to the problem, we can dissolve it. It's really just a matter of changing our mind about how we're going to process the events in our lives.

  Wayne Dyer

  Kindness, Mind, Energy

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• The deepest spiritual truths are always unutterable.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Spiritual Truth

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.223, Tara Publishing

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• You can find people who have discovered the fact that it's really helping people, it's really being compassionate toward other human beings that makes you happy, that gives you a spiritual fulfillment - a kind of fulfillment that goes way beyond anything you can buy.

  George Lucas

  People, Giving, Way

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• The Bible is ... as necessary to spiritual life as breath is to natural life. There is nothing more essential to our lives than the Word of God.

  Jack W. Hayford

  Bible Reading, Essentials, Natural

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• American nation was not founded on political principles. This nation was founded on spiritual principles.

  Marco Rubio

  Political, Principles, Nations

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and everything shall be added unto you. This is the one great duty, this is renunciation. Live for an ideal, and leave no place in the mind for anything else. Let us put forth all our energies to acquire that which never fails-our spiritual perfection. If we have true yearning for realization, we must struggle, and through struggle growth will come. We shall make mistakes, but they may be angels unawares.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mistake, Struggle, Angel

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Powers of The Mind”, p.21, editionNEXT.com

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• In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.

  Dallas Willard

  Character, Deeds, Christ

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• Our "job," our intention as spiritual beings in a body, is to express our true nature - to fully know ourselves as expressions and individuations of the Divine.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Jobs, Expression, Body

  "A Revolution Is What's Called For Here" by Neale Donald Walsch, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• Of course, we are to pray for spiritual awakening, and in various ways we can do something toward it. But we must remember that neither Paul nor Apollos gives the increase.

  C. S. Lewis

  Giving, Awakening, Way

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• What will solve our problems is a specific set of ideas built on bedrock principles that made America the greatest nation to begin with and applying those principles to the unique challenges of this new century. And those principles are not complicated. It begins with a notion that this nation was founded on a powerful spiritual principle, that our rights do not come from government. Our rights do not come from our laws. Our rights do not come from our leaders. Our rights come from God.

  Marco Rubio

  Powerful, Unique, Leader

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Because they are human beings, addicts long for wholeness, for fulfillment, and for the final good that believers call God. Like all idolatries, addiction taps this vital spiritual force and draws off its energies to objects and processes that drain the addict instead of fulfilling him.

  Cornelius Plantinga

  Long, Addiction, Energy

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• If you think of harming someone, this is the same as actually doing it, in terms of the spiritual world, since the spiritual world is vibrational, which includes thinking.

  Michio Kushi

  Thinking, World, Term

  "Spiritual Journey: Michio Kushi's Guide to Endless Self-Realization and Freedom". Book by Michio Kushi and Edward Esko (p. 54), December 1994.

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• When something makes no sense, sometimes you make something of it. A joke. A spiritual practice. A life.

  Heather Sellers

  Life, Practice, Sometimes

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• What is man? ... What a strange union of matter and mind! A machine for converting material into spiritual force.

  Benjamin Peirce

  Men, Mind, Machines

  "The Early Years of the Saturday Club, 1855-1870". Book by Edward Waldo Emerson, 1918.

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• Curiously, ghosts are rarely if ever seen in the nude. They appear fully clothed, and may even change clothing on subsequent appearances. They may change their form, to appear as they looked at different stages of their lives. Unless someone out there knows of an extoplasmic department store on the spiritual plane, we have to wonder, "Where do the clothes and accessories come from?

  Loyd Auerbach

  Clothes, Accessories, May

  Loyd Auerbach (2005). “Hauntings and Poltergeists: A Ghost Hunter's Guide”, p.77, Ronin Publishing

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• The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness.

  Anne Lamott

  Laughter, Holiness, Problem

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• Meditation may require a lifetime to master, but it will have been a lifetime well spent. ... If you want to judge your progress, ask yourself these questions: Am I more loving? Is my judgment sounder? Do I have more energy? Can my mind remain calm under provocation? Am I free from the conditioning of anger, fear, and greed? Spiritual awareness reveals itself as eloquently in character development and selfless action as in mystical states.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Character, Judging, Meditation

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• One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word.

  Dorothy Day

  Facts, Life Is, Spiritual Life

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