Spirituality Quotes - Page 10

• When our actions create discord in another person, we, ourselves, in this lifetime or another, will feel that discord. Likewise, if our actions create harmony and empowerment in another, we also come to feel that harmony and empowerment.

  Gary Zukav

  Spiritual, Empowerment, Our Actions

  Gary Zukav (1999). “The Seat of the Soul”, G K Hall & Company

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• You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Deep Thought, Know Yourself

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• Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment with using the cultivation of generosity as a vehicle for deep self-observation and inquiry as well as an exercise in giving. A good place to start is with yourself. See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance, or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation-to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Acceptance

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2016). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness meditation for everyday life”, p.54, Hachette UK

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• Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Change, Spiritual, Heart

  Carlos Castaneda (1972). “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge”, p.76, Univ of California Press

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• To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Art, Mistake

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• It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and highly improbable. G.K.Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don't. This feeling of universal oddity includes a basic and intense wondering about the sense of things.

  Alan Watts

  Spiritual, Oddities, Feelings

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.7, Souvenir Press

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• Divide in yourself the mechanical from the conscious, see how little there is of the conscious, how seldom it works, and how strong is the mechanical - mechanical attitudes, mechanical intentions, mechanical thoughts, mechanical desires.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Spiritual, Strong, Attitude

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• Every skill, every talent, every capacity, and every ability of the mind are really the Soul-action made visibly tangible.

  Joel S. Goldsmith

  Skills, Soul, Mind

  Joel S. Goldsmith (2013). “The Infinite Way”, p.60, BookBaby

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• One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Spiritual, Strong, Truth

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “Reverence for Life: The Ethics of Albert Schweitzer for the Twenty-First Century”, p.26, Open Road Media

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• Its all spirit and its all connected...Our choice is to live out of harmony with spiritual ways or in harmony with spiritual ways. Everything is spiritual.

  William Commanda

  Spiritual, Choices, Way

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• Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

  Francis of Assisi

  Love, God, Christian

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• Just like a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun, and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean, we can't separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Ocean, Sea

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.

  William Bennett

  Children, Character, Angel

  William J. Bennett (1993). “The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories”, Simon and Schuster

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• There comes a time when the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping. At that moment, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable. Slowly, the realization emerges that the choice to continue what you have been doing is the choice to live in discomfort, and the choice to stop what you have been doing is the choice to breathe deeply and freely again. Once that realization has emerged, you can either honor it or ignore it, but you cannot forget it. What has become known can not become unknown again.

  Gary Zukav

  Spiritual, Pain, Knowledge

  Gary Zukav (2012). “Soul to Soul: Communications From the Heart”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• In my mind, the purpose of education is to enable human beings to develop to their full potential, intellectually and spiritually. That means that students have to be empowered to pursue self-knowledge and the skills that will help them be of service to their fellow human beings. Education should encourage people to develop their curiosity about life; above all, it should not trivialize either the students or their lives.

  Michael N. Nagler

  God, Knowledge, Mean

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• Feminism catches fire when it draws upon its inherent spirituality. When it does not, it is just one more form of politics, and politics never fed our deepest hungers.

  Carol Lee Flinders

  Fire, Feminism, Doe

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• To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Memories, Past, Giving

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.31, New World Library

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• Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Murakami Haruki, (2012). “L'arte di correre”, p.8, Giulio Einaudi Editore

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• Nobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and discovers his own source, this is all that is required.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Spiritual, Doubt, May

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• There is nothing wrong with God's creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Spiritual, Mind, Suffering

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• Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Bible, Spiritual, Reading

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• 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

  Doctrine, Trustworthy, Old Soul

  Eric Clapton (2007). “Clapton: The Autobiography”, Broadway

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• An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

  Stanislav Grof

  Fear, Important, Type

  Stanislav Grof (2000). “Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research”, p.267, SUNY Press

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• Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Weekly Meditations for Healthy Sex (Jan. 25-31)" by Alexandra Katehakis, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2013.

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• We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

  H. L. Mencken

  Inspirational, Drinking, Knowledge

  "A Mencken chrestomathy". Book by Henry Louis Mencken, 1949.

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