Spiritual Progress Quotes

• Spiritual progress is like a detoxification.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Progress, Spirituality

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.

  Sivananda

  Spiritual, Peace, Real

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• I have learned that much of my spiritual progress does not come directly from God, but through my ability to humble myself and hear Him speak through imperfect people.

  Francis Frangipane

  Spiritual, Humble, Humility

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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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• Giving others the freedom to be stupid is one of the most important and hardest steps to take in spiritual progress. Conveniently the opportunity to take that step is all around us every day.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Spiritual, Stupid, Opportunity

  Thaddeus Golas (2002). “The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment”, p.106, Gibbs Smith

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• Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.

  Haile Selassie

  Perseverance, Imagination, Grace

  Haile Selassie's Address on the 18th anniversary of his coronation, November 2, 1948.

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• He who has not yet attained divine knowledge energized by love is proud of his spiritual progress. But he who has been granted such knowledge repeats with deep conviction the words uttered by the patriarch Abraham when he was granted the manifestation of God: 'I am dust and ashes' (Gen. 18:27).

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Love Is

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• Spiritual progress is when on becomes free not only of the knowledge which is inevitably from the past, but also from the need to know... and a desire to predict and control.

  Ravi Ravindra

  Spiritual, Past, Desire

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• Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. Learn to become wise. Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy. The real spiritual progress of the meditator is measured by the extent to which they achieve inner tranquility and freedom from desire.

  Sivananda

  Wise, Spiritual, Giving Up

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• Without humility, all spiritual progress stops.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Humility

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• If I had in me something that inspires people towards the good and raises them one step on the ladder of mental and spiritual progress, I want to show it by example, indication, and deduction, not by preaching, threatening, and conspiring.

  Ameen Rihani

  Spiritual, People, Inspire

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• Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Spiritual, Heart, Mind

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• The cause of so much suffering and pain and one of the impediments to our spiritual progress, is the conditioning of expecting things to go our way, even in our spiritual life.

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Pain, Suffering

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• Do not cherish suffering. Don't act like a fool. Don't think that your suffering is going to accelerate your spiritual progress.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Spiritual, Thinking, Suffering

  "Everest Aspiration". Book by Sri Chinmoy, 1977.

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• The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.

  John Calvin

  Spiritual, Humble, Progress

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.23, Baker Books

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• A sadhak (one who does spiritual practice) will not have time to indulge in gossip. They will not feel like talking to anyone in a harsh manner. Those who always indulge in faultfinding will never achieve spiritual progress. Do not harm anyone by thoughts, words or deeds. Be compassionate towards all beings. Ahimsa (nonviolence) is the highest dharma (duty).

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Talking, Practice

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• There should be a balance between material and spiritual progress, a balance achieved through the principles based on love and compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Spiritual, Compassion

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• To wage war on misery and to struggle against injustice is to promote, along with improved conditions, the human and spiritual progress of all men, and therefore the common good of humanity. Peace cannot be limited to a mere absence of war, the result of an ever precarious balance of forces. No, peace is something that is built up day after day, in the pursuit of an order intended by God, which implies a more perfect form of justice among men.

  Pope Paul VI

  Spiritual, Peace, War

  Catholic Church. Pope (1963-1978 : Paul VI), Pope Paul VI (1980*). “On the development of peoples”

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• I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Believe, Mountain Peaks

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement. When this comes to be realized man's journey toward higher and more lasting values will show more marked progress while the evil in him recedes into the background. Knowing that material and spiritual progress are essential to man, we must ceaselessly work for the equal attainment of both. Only then shall we be able to acquire that absolute inner calm so necessary to our well-being.

  Haile Selassie

  Spiritual, Journey, Men

  The Voice of Ethiopia, April 5, 1948.

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• It is with a rush of home-sickness that the thought of death presents itself.... Such sentiment is the eternal stock of all religions, modified indeed by changes of time and place, but indestructible, because its root is so deep in the earth of man's nature. The breath of religious initiators passes over them; a few "rise up with wings as eagles" [Isaiah 40:31], but the broad level of religious life is not permanently changed. Religious progress, like all purely spiritual progress, is confined to a few.

  Walter Pater

  Death, Spiritual, Religious

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• I have learned that much of my spiritual progress does not come directly from God, but through my ability to humble myself and hear Him speak through imperfect people. In fact, I have discovered that it pleases Him to hide His manifold wisdom in a variety of people and denominational perspectives. I know that the more I humble myself to others, the broader my understanding of God has actually become.

  Francis Frangipane

  Spiritual, Humble, People

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• The study of mathematics is the indispensable basis for all intellectual and spiritual progress.

  Francis Cornford

  Spiritual, Intellectual, Progress

  "The Sacred in Music". Book by Albert L. Blackwell, 1999.

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• Nothing of that which is conducive to help man, collectively or individually, to live not "happily" but less unhappily in this world, ought to be indifferent to the Theosophist-Occultist. It is no concern of his whether his help benefits a man in his worldly or spiritual progress; his first duty is to be ever ready to help if he can, without stopping to philosophize.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Spiritual, Men, Progress

  Collected Writings, Volume XI, p. 465, www.katinkahesselink.net. October 1889.

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• Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Grieving, Order

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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