Spirituality Quotes - Page 28

• And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

  Earl Mac Rauch

  Happiness, Being Yourself, Travel

  Earl Mac Rauch (2001). “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Pain, Philosophy

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.84, Lulu.com

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• God is subtle but he is not malicious.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Motivational, Math

  Remark made during a week at Princeton beginning 9 May 1921, later carved above the fireplace of the Common Room of Fine Hall (the Mathematical Institute), Princeton University - in R. W. Clark Einstein (1973) ch. 14

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  When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Single, Peace

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• You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spiritual, Witty, Truth

  Daily News, February 25, 1905.

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• The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

  Meister Eckhart

  God, Disappointment, Eye

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• Preaching the gospel without the Holy Spirit is to miss the entire point of the command of Jesus Christ for our era. In the area of "Christian activities" or "Christian service," how we are doing it is at least as important as what we are doing.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Christian, Jesus

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.64, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Eternity will be wonderful, but there is one thing heaven will not contain, and that is the call, the possibility, and the privilege of living a supernatural life here and now by faith, before we meet Jesus face to face.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Jesus, Heaven

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• Neither this body am I, nor soul, Nor these fleeting images passing by, Nor concepts and thoughts, mental images, Nor yet sentiments and the psyche's labyrinth. Who then am I? A consciousness without origin, Not born in time, nor begotten here below. I am that which was, is and ever shall be, A jewel in the crown of the Divine Self, A star in the firmament of the luminous One.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Stars, Self

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• No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Writing, Wind

  Thomas Merton (2015). “Charter, Customs, and Constitutions of the Cistercians: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 7”, p.10, Liturgical Press

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• True happiness cannot be found in things that change and pass away. Pleasure and pain alternate inexorably. Happiness comes from the Self and can be found in the Self only. Find your real Self and all else will come with it.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Pain, Real

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• To find perfect composure in the midst of change is to find nirvana.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Spiritual, Perfect, Midst

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• You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you're looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Spiritual, Silence, Mountain

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• ...when I accept Christ as my Savior... I am immediately in a new and living relationship with each of the three persons of the Trinity.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Three, Christ

  Francis Schaeffer (2016). “The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent”, p.117, NavPress

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• You're not living until it doesn't matter a tinker's damn to you whether you live or die. At that point you live. When you're ready to lose your life, you live it.

  Anthony de Mello

  Life, Spiritual, Matter

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.169, Image

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• Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Freedom, Political

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• If we could, and we must, establish a deep long abiding relationship with nature, with the actual trees, the bushes, the flowers, the grass and the fast moving clouds, then we would never slaughter another human being for any reason whatsoever.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Flower, Moving

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• And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Spiritual, Flower, Animal

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• In the empty heart, void of self can be heard the echoing cry, "I am the Truth." Thus is man one with the eternal. Travelling, travel and traveller have become one.

  Mahmud Shabistari

  Spiritual, Heart, Men

  Mahmud Shabistari (2002). “The Secret Rose Garden”, p.90, Red Wheel/Weiser

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• In God there is no duality. In that Presence "I" and "we" and "you" do not exist. "I" and "you" and "we" and "He" become one.... Since in the Unity there is no distinction, the Quest and the Way and the Seeker become one.

  Mahmud Shabistari

  Spiritual, Unity, Quests

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• The master never seemed to have his fill of gazing at his firstborn child. "What do you want him to be when he grows up?" someone asked. "Outrageously happy," said the master.

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Children, Growing Up

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• This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

  Aristotle

  Home, Two, Soul

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• The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Spiritual, Silence, Temples

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, John F. Addington (1859). “A complete dictionary of poetical quotations: comprising the most excellent and appropriate passages in the old British poets; with choice and copious selections from the best modern British and American poets”, p.477

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• God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.

  Giordano Bruno

  Spiritual, Substance, Fountain

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• Things flourish, then each returns to its root. Returning to the root is called stillness: Stillness is called return to life, return to life is called the constant; knowing the constant is called enlightenment.

  Laozi

  Spiritual, Roots, Knowing

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