Spiritual Life Quotes - Page 14

• If you did not have any personality, you would have a tremendous presence. The more rigid your personality, the more constipated your whole being.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• Only when you stop identifying yourself with things that are not you, the possibility of knowing the nature of your existence arises.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• The phrase, 'You must die before you die,' is found in most of the world religions. If you don't learn how to die early, you spend the rest of your life avoiding failure. When you can free your True Self, the whole spiritual life opens up.

  Richard Rohr

  Spiritual, Self, World Religions

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• In intellectual honesty, we should be willing to study and explore the spiritual life with all the rigor and determination we would give to any field of research.

  Richard J. Foster

  Spiritual, Determination, Honesty

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Spiritual, Fool, Masters

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• I have a strong spiritual life. I can't say that I have faith that Jesus is my Savior, but I look at Jesus in the same way that I look at, you know, Mohammed. He was giving everyone the goods. So was Gandhi.

  Woody Harrelson

  Spiritual, Jesus, Strong

  "The Gospel Truths of Woody Harrelson". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. February 9, 2012.

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• Cooking is a holistic process of planning, preparing, dining and sharing food. I place food at the center of our humanity, as it nourishes not only our physical bodies but also our emotional and spiritual lives. Food is truly a cultural phenomenon that informs our traditions and our relationship with the earth. I genuinely believe that food connects us all.

  Eric Ripert

  Spiritual, Believe, Emotional

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• Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Spiritual, Enemy, Bureaucracy

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”

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• There is nothing more dangerous in the spiritual life, than to wish to rule ourselves after our own way of thinking.

  Philip Neri

  Spiritual, Thinking, Wish

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.57, St Athanasius Press

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• Amidst sorrows, the only thing that enlivens us is optimistic faith. Never lose that faith.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Optimistic, Sorrow

  Twitter post from Oct 15, 2011

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• If you want to have a spiritual life you must unify your life. A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Want, Life Is

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.64, Macmillan

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• The real mistake humans have committed lays in the inability to differentiate between requirements and luxuries.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Real, Mistake

  Twitter post from May 31, 2014

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• Happiness is within everyone, but we are not able to experience it because of our ego's likes and dislikes.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Likes And Dislikes, Ego

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• [Angels] guide us to become spiritual people for the pleasure of it... because the spiritual life itself has a great deal of beauty and real satisfaction, even pleasure. And this is what the soul needs.

  Thomas Moore

  Spiritual, Real, Angel

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• All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Spiritual, Law, Bears

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• Many priests and employees at temples work for pay. No one should judge religion on the basis of the shortcomings of such workers. We should frame suitable rules and regulations for preventing them from falling prey to material temptations. The true guiding spirits of religion are those who engage in selfless service while dedicating their entire lives to attaining the vision of God.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Fall, Judging

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• Renovating temples does not mean building great gate towers or receptacles for offerings. What we should focus on is the regular conduct of worship according to tradition, regular satsang, devotional singing, and so forth. Our devotion and faith give life to temples, not rituals and ceremonies. Children, we should remember this when we are involved in temple matters.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Children, Mean

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• You can lead a truly spiritual life while remaining a householder. You will be able to enjoy the bliss of the Self, but your mind has to be on God all the time. Then you can easily attain bliss. A mother bird will be thinking of the young ones in the nest, even when she is out looking for food. Similarly, you have to keep your mind on God, while engaged in all worldly actions. The important thing is to be completely dedicated to God or the Guru. Once you have that dedication, the goal will not be far away.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Relationship, Mother, Spiritual

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• All spiritual life begins with a sense of wonder, and nature is a window into that wonder.

  Richard Louv

  Spiritual, Nature, Wonder

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• Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.

  Albert J. Nock

  Spiritual, Heritage, Common

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• We must learn to cast off our anxieties because we have so many of them. The world destroys spiritual life by generating constant anxiety. Jesus said that the life of the gospel is choked out by the cares of this world. We know this to be true yet we are more chained and tethered to the world than ever before in the human race.

  John Ortberg

  Spiritual, Jesus, Race

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• As far as I'm concerned, the spiritual life is just like any other endeavor-you can succeed or fail. And when the goal is actual evolution beyond ego in an intersubjective context, success or failure is plain for all to see.

  Andrew Cohen

  Spiritual, Practice, Goal

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• When you have received Him, stir up your heart to do Him homage; speak to Him about your spiritual life, gazing upon Him in your soul where He is present for your happiness; welcome Him as warmly as possible, and behave outwardly in such a way that your actions may give proof to all of His Presence.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Spiritual, Heart, Holy Eucharist

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• Just as a man cannot live in the flesh unless he is born in the flesh, even so a man cannot have the spiritual life of grace unless he is born again spiritually. This regeneration is effected by Baptism: "Unless a man is born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" (Jn 3:5)

  Thomas Aquinas

  Spiritual, Men, Water

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