Spiritual Life Quotes - Page 4

• The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Meditation, Mindfulness

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Powers of The Mind”, p.21, editionNEXT.com

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• Love in fact is the spiritual life, and without it all the other exercises of the spirit, however lofty, are emptied of content and become mere illusions.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Spiritual, Exercise

  "The Wisdom of the Desert".

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• Often when religious leaders come together, they talk about a particular sexual ethic, or an abstruse doctrine, as though this, rather than compassion, was the test of spiritual life.

  Karen Armstrong

  Spiritual, Religious, Compassion

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• It used to be that Christian institutions and systems of dogma sustained the spiritual life of Christians. Increasingly, spirituality itself is what sustains everything else. Alan Jones is a pioneer in reimagining a Christian faith that emerges from authentic spirituality. His work stimulates and encourages me deeply

  Brian D. McLaren

  Christian, Spiritual, Pioneers

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• Physical life is characterized by defensiveness, whereas spiritual life is just the opposite.

  Eben Alexander

  Spiritual, Opposites, Life Is

  Eben Alexander (2012). “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• It is the basic principle of spiritual life that we learn the deepest things in unknown territory. Often it is when we feel most confused inwardly and are in the midst of our greatest difficulties that something new will open. We awaken most easily to the mystery of life through our weakest side. The areas of our greatest strength, where we are the most competent and clearest, tend to keep us away from the mystery.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Confused, Principles

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• Our memory of dreams is a glimpse of the full spiritual life that each of us leads beyond the physical.

  Harold Klemp

  Dream, Spiritual, Memories

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• I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness of something wider than materialism; in the capacity to live in a world that makes you unselfish because you are not overanxious about your own comic fallibilities; that gives you tranquility without complacency because you believe in something so much larger than yourself.

  Hugh Walpole

  Life, Happiness, Spiritual

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• The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.

  Abraham Maslow

  Spiritual, Self Esteem, Essence

  Hung-Min Chiang, Abraham Harold Maslow (1969). “The healthy personality: readings”

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• As long as you are a part of the physical process of the existence, there is nothing that does not change.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• Children, we must cultivate reverence towards all great masters, monks and gurus.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Children, Monk

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• Believing that what you do not know cannot exist is the crown of ignorance.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• We are eating, using up, and possessing more than we should. That is why a large portion of the human population is hungry.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• Transcending the cycle of death and rebirth is the real purpose of this life in human form.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Real, Purpose

  Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Amma (2014). “Awaken Children Vol. 6”, p.22, M A Center

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• Try to make others happy, and don't despair over all the evil in the world. Instead of cursing the dark, let us each light one small lamp.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Dark, Make Others Happy

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• Many of us may have watched the waves at sea. They rise, then fall, then rise again, then fall again... and this cycle continues endlessly. It is the same with our experience of the world and its objects and relationships. We may find happiness, but this happiness will soon turn to sorrow. The sorrow that we feel will subsequently turn back to happiness but this oscillation continues endlessly. In order to maintain inner balance, we need to find peace within instead of depending on the external world.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Fall, Order

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• In the mental calmness of a spiritual life, I have found that the answers to the whys in our lives are able to come to you. In my music I find the same thing.

  Clarence Clemons

  Spiritual, Answers, Able

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• Just beneath the surface of all experiences in life is God's, or the Guru's, compassionate face.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Faces, Life Is

  Twitter post from Feb 27, 2016

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• Pray: O Lord, make my eyes see only the good in everyone.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Eye, Praying

  Twitter post from Jan 05, 2014

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• When we say 'hallowed be Your name' to God what we are really saying is 'Father, make us such as deserve knowledge and understanding of how holy You are, or at least let Your holiness shine forth in the spiritual lives we lead.' And this surely happens as men see our good works and glorify our Father in heaven.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Spiritual, Father

  John Cassian, Colm Luibhéid (1985). “Conferences”, p.113, Paulist Press

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• The spiritual life is always about letting go. It is never about holding on.

  Jesse Lee Peterson

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Holding On

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• Only when man is willing to change himself, there can be a true revolution.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• Your personality is something that you created. Once you are aware of that, you could create it whichever way you want.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• On the spiritual path, the first thing is to experientially ascertain where your are right now. You can only start the journey from where you are.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• If you walk through life with ease and without any sense of entanglement, that is maturity.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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