Spirituality Quotes - Page 38

• To get at the core of God at his greatest, one must first get to the core of himself at his least, for no one can know God who has not first known himself. This core is a simple stillness, which is unmoved itself but by whose immobility all things are moved and all receive life.

  Meister Eckhart

  Spiritual, Simple, Firsts

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• I, God, am in your midst. Whoever knows me can never fall. Not in the heights, nor in the depths, nor in the breadths. For I am love, which the vast expanses of evil can never still.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Spiritual, Fall, Evil

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• You are not your body; you are the eye. When you see the spirit, you are free of the body. A human being is an eye – the rest is just flesh and bones. Whatever your eye sees, you are that.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Eye, Body

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• As long as I continue to take myself seriously, how can I consider myself a saint? How can I consider myself a contemplative? For the self I bother about does not really exist, never will, never did except in my own imagination.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Self, Long

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• You will have peace to the extent that you have God, and the further you are away from God the less you will be at peace... Thus you may measure your progress with God by measuring your peace or the lack of it.

  Meister Eckhart

  God, Christian, Spiritual

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• If you're afraid of being grabbed by God, don't look at a wall. Definitely don't sit still.

  Houn Jiyu-Kennett

  Spiritual, Wall, Looks

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• Among the great things which are found among us the existence of Nothing is the greatest.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Spiritual, Mindfulness, Found

  "The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci".

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• Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Spiritual, Behinds

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2007). “Nausea”, p.96, New Directions Publishing

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• The seeker says, "I do not know." That takes honesty. The master says, "I do not know." That takes a mystic's mind that knows things through non-knowing. The disciple says, "I know." That takes ignorance, in the form of borrowed knowledge.

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Honesty, Ignorance

  Anthony De Mello (2016). “The Song of the Bird”, p.44, Image

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• We can walk through the darkest night with the radiant conviction that all things work together for the good.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Spiritual, Night, Working Together

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• Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy.

  Zhuangzi

  Spiritual, Way, Forget

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• A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, World, May

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.

  Zhuangzi

  Spiritual, Men, Ordinary

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• How to get rid of the mind? Is it the mind that wants to kill itself? The mind cannot kill itself. So your business is to find the real nature of the mind. Then you will know that there is no mind. When the Self is sought, the mind is nowhere. Abiding in the Self, one need not worry about the mind.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Spiritual, Real, Self

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• There is nothing wrong with duality as long as it does not create conflict. Multiplicity and variety without strife is joy. In pure consciousness there is light. For warmth, contact is needed. Above the unity of being is the union of love. Love is the purpose of duality.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Love Is, Light

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• Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.

  William Osler

  Spiritual, Thinking, Overcoming

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.37, ACP Press

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• Love is difficult, because loving is not enough: We must, like God, ourselves be Love.

  Angelus Silesius

  Spiritual, Love Is, Enough

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• Said the monk: "All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from?" Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"

  Anthony de Mello

  Stars, Rivers, Mountain

  Anthony De Mello (2016). “The Song of the Bird”, p.28, Image

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• There is only one world; the world pressing against you at this minute. There is only one minute in which you are alive; this minute here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

  Storm Jameson

  Spiritual, Miracle, Way To Live

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• As long as I am this or that, or have this or that, I am not all things and I have not all things. Become pure till you neither are nor have either this or that; then you are omnipresent and, being neither this nor that, are all things.

  Meister Eckhart

  Spiritual, Long, All Things

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• "My former master taught me to accept birth and death." "Then what have you come to me for?" asked the master. "To learn to accept what lies in between."

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Lying, Taught

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• Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to admire everyone else.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Saint, Sanctity

  Thomas Merton (2002). “Seeds”

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• I am as vast as God; there is nothing in the world
  O Miracle: that can shut me up in myself.

  Angelus Silesius

  Spiritual, Miracle, World

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• The truly good is he who is one with all those who are deemed bad.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual

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• If you have not linked yourself to true emptiness, you will never understand the art of peace.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Spiritual, Art, Emptiness

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

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