Spirituality Quotes - Page 14

• The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it

  Henri Nouwen

  Life, Spiritual, Doe

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, HarperCollins

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• The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Spiritual, Loss

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.12, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Spiritual, Cute Friendship, Being Sad

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Smile, Spiritual

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• Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

  Mother Teresa

  Happiness, Happy, Faith

  Mother Teresa (1987). “My Life for the Poor”

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• Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Travel, Character

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• As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we'll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we're all one but continue to try to win.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  God, Philosophy, Winning

  "Interview with Neale Donald Walsch, Educator, Lecturer and Bestselling Author of Conversations with God". Interview with Janice Hughes and Dennis Hughes, www.shareguide.com.

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• I think the new spirituality will be a spirituality that's not based on a particular dogma. And that steps away from the old spiritual paradigm that we have created on this planet, which comes from a thought that there is such a thing as being better.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Spiritual, Thinking, Steps

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• Zen... does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

  Alan Watts

  Spiritual, Humor, Godly

  "The Way of Zen". Book by Alan Watts, 1957.

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  A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual

  Letter of 1950, as quoted in "The New York Times", March 29, 1972.

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• It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Truth, Pain

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• In the faces of men and women, I see God.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Men, Leaves Of Grass

  'Song of Myself' (1855) st. 48

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• When a garden is used as a place to pause for thought, that is when a Zen garden comes to life. When you contemplate a garden like this it will form as lasting impression on your heart.

  Muso Soseki

  Heart, Garden, Religion

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• There's no greatest moment in the arts. It's a life; it's a continuity thing. You can't have a great moment because it's spiritual. It's a belief; it's a calling. If you're an artist, doing your own thing on your own, it's while you're doing it that counts. It's a process. If you get too elated, you can get too depressed.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Spiritual, Art, Calling

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• Bring into play the almighty power within you, so that on the stage of life you can fulfill your high destined role.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Play, Roles

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• What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?

  Thomas Merton

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Moon

  Thomas Merton (2015). “Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation”, p.35, Sounds True

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• Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love, God, Spiritual

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.445, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  God, Moving, Opportunity

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• In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Inspiring, Truth

  Autobiography ch. 78 (1959)

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• Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Faith, Christian, Spiritual

  Ambrose Bierce (1906). “The Cynic's Word Book”, p.49, Lulu.com

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• The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.

  Dan Brown

  Spiritual, Numbers, Mind

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• There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Motivation, Inspirational Life

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• A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is time to let the leaves rain from the skies, Let the rich life run to the roots again.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Wise, Running, Rain

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (2001). “The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers”, p.499, Stanford University Press

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• In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Spiritual, Teacher, Lying

  Peter Matthiessen (1998). “Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982”, p.88, Shambhala Publications

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