Spiritual Life Quotes

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.

Denis Waitley

Love, Inspirational, Life

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Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

Richard Bach

Inspirational, Funny, Life

"Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Swami Vivekananda

Spiritual, Teacher, Soul

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2375, Manonmani Publishers

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Learning how to love is the goal and the purpose of spiritual life - not learning how to develop psychic powers, not learning how to bow, chant, do yoga, or even meditate, but learning to love. Love is the truth. Love is the light.

Surya Das

Spiritual, Yoga, Love Is

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Benjamin Disraeli

Love, Inspirational, Life

Benjamin Disraeli (1974). “Sybil”, p.308, Prabhat Prakashan

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To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude.

Henri Nouwen

Life, Spiritual, Loneliness

Henri Nouwen (2013). “Reaching Out”, p.34, Image

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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Life, Spiritual, Positive Thinking

"The Phenomenon of Man". Book by Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, 1955.

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You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Swami Vivekananda

Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2375, Manonmani Publishers

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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

William Blake

Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "A Memorable Fancy" plate 14 (1790 - 1793). Inspired the title of Aldous Huxley's 1954 book about drug experimentation, The Doors of Perception, which in turn inspired the name of the 1960s rock group The Doors.

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Life, Friendship

Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.331, Princeton University Press

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...Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.

Jack Kornfield

Spiritual, Kindness, Heart

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The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.

Albert Schweitzer

Mystery, Knows, Highest

Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on.

Henri Nouwen

Spiritual, Mean, Space

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Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Gautama Buddha

Life, Wisdom, Spiritual

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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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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn.

Denis Waitley

Happy, Gratitude, Grateful

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To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

William Blake

Nature, Flower, Eternity Of Life

"Auguries of Innocence" l. 1 (ca. 1803)

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Surrender and living in the present are one and the same.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Spiritual, Surrender, Live In The Present

Twitter post from Sep 06, 2015

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To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.

William Blake

Inspirational, Happiness, Peace

'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 1

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To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.

Jack Kornfield

Spiritual, Warrior, Needs

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God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

William Ellery Channing

God, Spiritual, Reading

William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.22

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By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.

Thomas More

Spiritual, Soul, Vision

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In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make, sustain and are friends.

James Ishmael Ford

Friendship, Spiritual, Relate

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Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.

William Hazlitt

Spiritual, Alive, Speak

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Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

Woodrow Wilson

Spiritual, Wisdom, Prayer

Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence”, Best Books

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