Spiritual Life Quotes - Page 14

• Your body and your mind can be receptacles to perceive the whole cosmos - if only you do not identify yourself with them.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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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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• Think of your work life therefore, not as separate from your spiritual life but as central to your spiritual life. Whatever your business, it is your ministry.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Thinking, Ministry

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• We are all born as animals and live the life that animals live: we sleep, eat, reproduce, and fight. There is, however, another order of living, which the animals do not know, that of awe before the mystery of being ... that can be the root and branch of the spiritual sense of one’s days. That is the birth - the Virgin Birth - in the heart of a properly human, spiritual life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Spiritual, Live Life, Heart

  Joseph Campbell (2010). “Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.45, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel comedy even; that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundest tragic depths of the essential dearth in which its subject's roots are plunged. The natural inheritance of everyone who is capable of spiritual life is an unsubdued forest where the wolf howls and the obscene bird of night chatters.

  Henry James, Sr.

  Spiritual, Flower, Night

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• There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• You do not have to pursue something intensely; you as a being should become very intense.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• Until you allow yourself to blossom into a state of boundlessness, you should not be content, you must burn with discontent.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• Your ability to love, to reach out, and to experience life is limitless. The limitation is only of the body and mind.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• 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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• 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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• The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Spiritual, Home, Skins

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• The spiritual life is a reaching out to our innermost self, to our fellow human and to our God.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Self, Life Is

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Reaching Out”, p.15, Image

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• It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Spiritual, Appreciation

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Yours, Jack: The Inspirational Letters of C. S. Lewis”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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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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• 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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• 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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• The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is a ritualistic justification of their possessions.

  Saul

  Spiritual, Decay, Materialism

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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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• Detachment does not mean non-involvement. You can be deeply involved but not entangled.

  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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• Transformation means nothing of the old should remain; something absolutely new should happen.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• When you are no more identified with your physicality, you become available to Grace.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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