Spiritual Path Quotes - Page 3

• So many of us start along the spiritual path because we are suffering. But you must realize that for real healing to occur, there must first be deep compassion for yourself, especially the parts of yourself you dislike or consider ugly.

  Pema Chodron

  Spiritual, Real, Healing

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• People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are the last people who should be sitting out the social and political issues of our day. And there’s an important reason for this: People on such journeys are adepts at change. They know that the mechanics of the heart and mind are the fundamental drivers of transformation.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Yoga, Heart

  "SISTER GIANT: Consciousness and Politics" by Marianne Williamson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• I realize that the curriculum is my life on any given day. At this point, more than anything, my spiritual path means looking at every circumstance and trying to see my part in where it's good and where it's not so good.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Mean, Trying

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I think there is a tendency for people to become more isolated as they move along a spiritual path. With more development, people get more isolated. Also, as they have more wealth, they get more isolated.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Spiritual, Moving, Thinking

  "Earth Protector: An Interview with Sakyong Mipham (complete interview)". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. July 30, 2015.

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• Sex, creativity, music, art, family, love, beauty, and creative imagination are all part of the spiritual path in the tantric traditions. So I think that for today that has a lot to say to us about not dividing ourselves from ourselves.

  Surya Das

  Spiritual, Art, Sex

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Writing is a spiritual practice in that people that have no spiritual path can undertake it and, as they write, they begin to wake up to a larger connection. After a while, people tend to find that there is some muse that they are connecting to.

  Julia Cameron

  Spiritual, Writing, Practice

  "The Artist's Way". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. January 23, 2014.

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• People on the Spiritual Path are not anemic. They must be sharp, strong, and courageous. Being Spiritual means being Powerful, Dynamic, and Intelligent.

  Choa Kok Sui

  Spiritual, Strong, Powerful

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• We think we have to prove our allegiance to God by being poor. Many years ago, my own psychic development teacher taught me that to be on a spiritual path meant that you needed to be poor, because that was proving your allegiance to God. So growing up with that kind of teaching from her was a real struggle for me, also.

  Echo Bodine

  Spiritual, Teacher, Growing Up

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• There are five billion human beings and in a certain way I think we need five billion different religions, because there is such a large variety of dispositions. I believe that each individual should embark upon a spiritual path that is best suited to his or her mental disposition, natural inclination, temperament, belief, family and cultural background.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Believe, Thinking

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• You could then use the dream to learn more about yourself, others, the world, and the nature of life. You can come awake in the matrix and realize you're the one in your own dream. People on the spiritual path can do that, thus they can avoid wasting the whole night, and use it in a developmental, nice way.

  Robert Thurman

  Dream, Spiritual, Nice

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• The Shariah has many other functions but also protects the tarqiah; it protects the spiritual path.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Spiritual, Path, Function

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We have a lot of controlling people who are trying to tell us how to live our lives, and a lot of co-dependent people around us. We bump up against these people, too, when we're trying to get on the spiritual path.

  Echo Bodine

  Spiritual, People, Trying

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• The most important aspect of being on a spiritual path may be to just keep moving.

  Pema Chodron

  Spiritual, Moving, Important

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

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• Again and again we need to appreciate the subtle workings of the teachings and the practice, and even when there is no extraordinary, dramatic change, to persevere with calm and patience. How important it is to be skillful and gentle with ourselves, without becoming disheartened or giving up, but trusting the spiritual path and knowing that it has its own laws and its own dynamics.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Giving Up, Teaching

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Jul 03, 2015

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• I was doing great plays. It wasn't changing the world. I was getting good agents and doing film and TV and I wasn't happier. I was like "Wow, there is an unease inside of me." And that led me back on my kind of more spiritual path to the Baha'i faith in a new and fresher way and I came to also understand at that point that there was no difference between being devout and being an artist. There is no difference between creativity and spirituality and philosophy and that is what Soul Pancake, the book, and SoulPancake.com are about is: it's all about human expression and it's about seeking to transcend.

  Rainn Wilson

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Book

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.

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• When we learn to deal directly with our complaints and difficulties, romanticized ideas about the spiritual path are no longer meaningful. We see that what is important is to take responsibility for ourselves, and to always be aware of our thoughts, feelings, and actions.

  Tarthang Tulku

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Responsibility

  Tarthang Tulku (1977). “Gesture of Balance: A Guide to Awareness, Self-healing, and Meditation”, Dharma Pub

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• Tantra and adventure are very, very connected. Perhaps the greatest enemy for one who's journeying along the spiritual path is complacency.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Adventure

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• Its subtlest, most appealing accomplishment may be in how other characters respond to Gregorius' precipitous swerve onto the spiritual path. (...) That said, Night Train to Lisbon is a very long, ambitious book that's feverishly overwritten. (...) Think of W.G. Sebald recast for the mass market: stripped of nuance, cooked at high temperature and pounded home, clause after clause. Some of the clumsiness derives from Barbara Harshav's inelegant translation -- we're often aware of her struggle -- but she can't be blamed for the pervasive bloat.

  Michelle Huneven

  Spiritual, Struggle, Book

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• It's a paradox of the true spiritual path, but the more conscious we become of what limits us, the more limitless becomes our life.

  Guy Finley

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Limits

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Aug 12, 2011

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• Not all spiritual paths lead to the harmonious Oneness. Indeed, most are detours and distractions, nothing more.

  Laozi

  Spiritual, Oneness, Detours

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel or insight.

  Anne Lamott

  Spiritual, Fuel, Path

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• Drugs took me to places; they were like portals. It's kind of a cliché, but they were like portals to altered states of consciousness into ways of imagining the world, or seeing a world beyond this world, or seeing a world beyond this world that I might not have gotten to unless I discovered meditation and a very deep, intense spiritual path based on contemplation and meditation.

  Anne Lamott

  Spiritual, Meditation, Drug

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 6, 2010.

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• I stepped onto the spiritual path moved by an inner sense that I might find greatness of heart, that I might find profound belonging, that I might find a hidden source of love and compassion. Like a homing instinct for freedom, my intuitive sense that this was possible was the faint, flickering, yet undeniable expression of faith.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Spiritual, Heart, Greatness

  Sharon Salzberg (2003). “Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience”, p.18, Penguin

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• Being on the spiritual path means you want to be a success in an existential sphere, not just on a social level.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Mean, Perception

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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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