Spiritual Experience Quotes - Page 2

Matter is fun for a while; but ultimately, it is the spiritual experience where we leap beyond what we know- that is the happiness.

Frederick Lenz

Inspirational, Spiritual, Fun

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And now, advice for beginning mystics. Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can. Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something. Defend the value of the spiritual experience and if somebody tells you it's an old fashioned notion, laugh loudly and serenely.

Adam Zagajewski

Spiritual, Attitude, Writing

Interview with Anna Maria Hong, www.pw.org. August 13, 2004.

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If I may take the risk of defining what a spiritual experience is, it is one in which pure awareness reveals itself to you as the maker of reality - where you suddenly discover through insight or meditation or a freak accident that your essential nature is spiritual, non-material.

Deepak Chopra

Spiritual, Reality, Meditation

Source: accessnewage.com

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Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer's life with truth.

Watchman Nee

Spiritual, Lying, Unions

Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.134, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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Most spiritual experiences begin with suffering. They begin with groundlessness. They begin when the rug has been pulled out from under us.

Pema Chodron

Spiritual, Suffering, Has Beens

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Wilderness, to me, is a spiritual necessity. The mysterious spiritual experience of being close to natural restored my soul [after the death of his son]. My experience reinforced by dedication to use the art of photography as an inspiration for others to work together to save nature's places of spiritual sanctuary for future generations.

Clyde Butcher

Photography, Spiritual, Art

"Extreme Exposure: Everglades — Clyde Butcher’s Wilderness Intuition" by Steven Crandell, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 24, 2011.

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Traditional religions practices are important.They allow us to share with others the communal experience of adoration and prayer,but we must never forget spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love,and with love,there are no rules some may try to control their emotions and develop strategies for their behavior,others may turn to reading books of advice from "experts" on relationships but this is all folly.The heart decides and what it decides is all that really matters.

Paulo Coelho

Spiritual, Prayer, Book

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Far from making me feel different and special, my [spiritual] experiences made me feel the same, ordinary, and interconnected. If I felt more spiritual, everyone else felt more spiritual as well. (276)

Julia Cameron

Spiritual, Special, Ordinary

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There's a big difference between being able to explain religion intellectually and transforming that knowledge into spiritual experience.

Thubten Yeshe

Spiritual, Differences, Able

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People who’ve had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don’t know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a Love, which is incomprehensible to the mind.

Richard Rohr

Spiritual, People, Mind

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Spiritual experiences are like mist, they will evaporate.

Jigdral Yeshe Dorje

Spiritual, Freedom, Inspire

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In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience.

John Naisbitt

Spiritual, Two, People

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Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith.

Jane Goodall

Spiritual, Demand, Proof

Jane Goodall, Phillip Berman (1999). “Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey”, p.107, Hachette UK

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Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Spiritual, Atheist, Self

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When practiced to its fullest, mindful eating turns a simple meal into a spiritual experience, giving us a deep appreciation of all that went into the meal's creation as well a deep understanding of the relationship between the food on our table, our own health, and our planet's health.

Nhat Hanh

Motivational, Spiritual, Appreciation

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The waking dreams of life as most people know them are spiritual experiences, but there is another order of spiritual experience and that's to be in the garden of the heart, in the perfect stillness, where the white light of eternity meets the white light of eternity.

Frederick Lenz

Dream, Spiritual, Heart

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A bulging portfolio of spiritual experiences matters little if it does not have the power to sustain us through the inevitable moments of grief, loss, and change. Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched. Wisdom is alive only as long as it is lived, understanding is liberating only as long as it is applied.

Jack Kornfield

Spiritual, Grief, Heart

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Many think Jesus came to earth so you and I can have a special kind of spiritual experience and then go merrily along, as long as we pray and read our Bibles and develop intimacy with the unseen God but ignore the others-oriented life of justice and love and peace that Jesus embodied.

Scot McKnight

Spiritual, Jesus, Thinking

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When someone speaks we ought to get three things out of the message. First and least important (but still very important), we ought to get what is said. Second, and more important, we ought to have a spiritual experience. Third, and most important, we should keep the commitments we make to ourselves.

Henry D. Moyle

Spiritual, Commitment, Important

Paraphrased in "Food Storage" by Vaughn J. Featherstone, www.lds.org. April 1976.

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I got to a point where kind of a oneness with everything and a great compassion. It teaches you compassion. It was a great, enlightening experience, a spiritual experience. Not particularly religious, but spiritual. It was great. I can still go there.

Larry Hagman

Spiritual, Religious, Compassion

Source: www.pbs.org

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Sex is a spiritual experience.

Deepak Chopra

Spiritual, Sex

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The great purpose is to set aside a reasonable part of the vanishing wilderness, to make certain that generations of Americans yet unborn will know what it is to experience life on undeveloped, unoccupied land in the same form and character as the Creator fashioned it... It is a great spiritual experience. I never knew a man who took a bedroll into an Idaho mountainside and slept there under a star-studded summer sky who felt self-important that next morning. Unless we preserve some opportunity for future generations to have the same experience, we shall have dishonored our trust.

Frank Church

Summer, Spiritual, Morning

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Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Spiritual, Spring, Water

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Self dedication is a spiritual experience.

Cesar Chavez

Spiritual, Commitment, Dedication

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When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)

Joseph Campbell

Inspirational, Spiritual, Possibility

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