Spirituality means seeking experience. Not just belief.
Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea.
It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.
Spirituality has nothing to do with church, and everything to do with hair.
Your treasure house is within; it contains all you'll ever need.
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality.
The Catholic church had a huge profound influence on me in that as you get older you realize that you can't blame everything; that there is good and bad, and things get misdirected. So I would call myself a black Catholic. I still have this attraction to it because all religions I'm not a fan of. I'm a fan of sort of belief in spirituality. So I would be into Christ rather than the Catholics.
Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.
The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.
Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance.
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.
Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed-- borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.
Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or mastery—in morals, in art or in spirituality—the more you see that you are playing a rarified and lofty form of the old ego-game, and that your attainment of any height is apparent to yourself and to others only by contrast with someone else's depth or failure.
What is matter? Never mind.
How much harder it is to bear one's splendor than one's miseries!
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.
Free spirited free riders they're on their way but don't know where they're going.
A Ten-Point Plan for Increased Spirituality: 1. Read Scriptures Daily. 2. Pray Fervently and Sincerely. 3. Fast Meaningfully. 4. Retire Early and Get Up Early. 5. Be of Good Cheer. 6. Work Hard. 7. Overcome Pride. 8. Love Everyone, and Express Your Love. 9. Become One. (As in John 17) 10. Share Your Testimony.
Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.
We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.
Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself.
There is no language of the holy. The sacred lies in the ordinary.
Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.
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