Spiritual Growth Quotes - Page 5

• The history of the creative progress of individual artists shows that, along with their spiritual growth and the increasing complexity of their inner life, their forms of expression become more complex.

  Mieczyslaw Jastrun

  Spiritual, Artist, Expression

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• The ability to handle stress increases with the practice of meditation. In a culture like ours in which inner, spiritual growth is totally neglected in favor of materialistic pursuits, we might have something to learn from the Hare Krishna devotees' meditational practices.

  Daniel Goleman

  Spiritual, Stress, Practice

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• To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Growth, Emptiness

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• Friends are enemies sometimes, and enemies friends.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Growth, Enemy

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• I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger and anger, and made me a poet who sings about joy.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Joy, Growth

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• I make no distinction between the mind and the spirit, and therefore no distinction between the process of achieving spiritual growth and achieving mental growth. They are one and the same.

  M. Scott Peck

  Spiritual, Growth, Mind

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Many people find spiritual growth possible only when times are hard; prosperity tends to promote complacency.

  Max Anders

  Spiritual, People, Growth

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• It is essential that you realize that you are nothing in yourself. If you are rich and satisfied, you cannot receive anything from God. It is frightful to meet that spirit in a person. It totally hinders all spiritual growth and development.

  Esther Smith

  Spiritual, Growth, Essentials

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• Every object, every being...is a jar full of delight.

  Rumi

  Being Happy, Delight, Jars

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.62, Lulu.com

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• I am aware there are books that instruct you on how to manipulate the market, stocks and people... they might even help you get money. But, let me caution you... when there is no spiritual growth... there is no spiritual strength... there is no lasting happiness... and, there is no real or lasting wealth.

  Bob Proctor

  Spiritual, Real, Book

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• You are living in a time when opportunities for self-empowerment, expanded awareness and spiritual growth appear to be unlimited.

  Barbara Marciniak

  Spiritual, Self Esteem, Self Confidence

  Barbara Marciniak (2010). “Path of Empowerment: New Pleiadian Wisdom for a World in Chaos”, p.4, New World Library

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• You must continue to go back to the beginning, to the foundation, and question the foundation. Even once you‘ve reached Samadhi you must go back so you can create it at will. Samadhi is the beginning of spiritual growth, not the end. You must always be questioning. Enlightenment comes as an accident at first, then you have to learn to recreate it.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Spiritual, Growth, Enlightenment

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• The agony of lovers burns with the fire of passion. Lovers leave traces of where they've been. The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God.

  Rumi

  Passion, Heart, Fire

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• I write and speak about personal and spiritual growth. One week I write about illness and another week I speak about relationships and another week I write about work and money and another week I speak to people with obesity issues. I write about whatever wounds seem to cry out for more enlightened solutions, and the love that heals them all.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Writing, Issues

  "Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 09, 2012.

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• Spiritual growth is like childbirth: you dilate, then you contract, you dilate, then you contract again. as painful as it all feels, it's the necessary rhythm for reaching the ultimate goal of total openness.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Goal, Growth

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.138, Ballantine Books

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• No longer a stranger, you listen all day to these crazy love-words. Like a bee you fill hundreds of homes with honey, though yours is a long flight from here.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Crazy, Home

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• Of all the definitions of love that abound in our universe, a special favorite of mine is... “the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.”

  Bell Hooks

  Spiritual, Self, Growth

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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• I experienced a lot of spiritual growth when I started traveling to Europe and playing basketball. I saw that just because I was away from home didn't mean Jesus wasn't with me. He is everywhere and you can see signs of Him in the most remote places in the world through people who don't even speak your language. Jesus is universal.

  DeLisha Milton-Jones

  Basketball, Spiritual, Jesus

  "A conversation with WNBA star and Olympic gold medalist DeLisha Milton-Jones". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Just as a human soul that faces great difficulties also faces great opportunities for spiritual growth, so a human society that faces destruction also faces the opportunity to enter a period of renaissance. I think that, barring an accident, the wish to survive will keep us from a nuclear war.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, War, Thinking

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.105, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Spiritual growth is marked by a growing realization of just how much grace you need.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Spiritual, Grace, Growth

  Twitter post from Jan 20, 2015

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• We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.

  Mary Antin

  Mom, Mother, Spiritual

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• With spiritual growth comes new creative potential, leading to the realization that you are pure potential, able to fill any creative impulse.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Creativity, Creative

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• Biblical convictions are essential for spiritual growth and maturity. What is ironic today is that people often have strong convictions about weak issues (football, fashion, etc.) while having weak convictions about major issues (what is right and what is wrong).

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Football, Spiritual

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• Spiritual development requires the freedom to connect with different parts of reality in order to understand them more fully. The more you're able to explore, the more connections you can form, and the greater your spiritual growth will be. When you feel a strong desire to connect with something in your reality, listen to your intuitive guidance, and make the connection.

  Steve Pavlina

  Spiritual, Strong, Reality

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• If education recognizes the intrinsic value of the child's personality and provides an environment suited to spiritual growth, we have the revelation of an entirely new child whose astonishing characteristics can eventually contribute to the betterment of the world.

  Maria Montessori

  Spiritual, Children, Personality

  Maria Montessori (1989). “Peaceful Children, Peaceful World: The Challenge of Maria Montessori”

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