"Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well." -Jack Kornfield
"Nothing kills the ego like playfulness, like laughter. When you start taking life as fun, the ego has to die, it cannot exist anymore." -Osho
"Accept–then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. This will miraculously transform your whole life." -Eckhart Tolle
"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from." -Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
"AS LONG AS A SENSE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE RULES YOUR BEING, YOU WILL NEVER KNOW LASTING PEACE." -MATTHIEU RICARD
"To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, but to live gratitude is to touch heaven." -Johannes A. Gaertner
"When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love." -Marcus Aurelius
"Religion is for people who’re afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who’ve already been there." -Vine Deloria, Jr.
"You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars, guides you too." -Shrii Shrii Anandamurti
"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper." -W.B. Yeats
"RATHER THAN BEING YOUR THOUGHTS AND EMOTIONS, BE THE AWARENESS BEHIND THEM." -ECKHART TOLLE
"You’ll be calm the day you learn to sit alone and do nothing." -Maxime Lagacé
"When a man is willing and eager, the Gods join in." -Aeschylus
"Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul." -Wayne Dyer
"The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves." -Alan Watts
"To walk the spiritual path is to continually step out into the unknown." Wallace Huey
"THERE IS NO OTHER SPIRITUAL TEACHER THAN YOU OWN SOUL." -SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
"All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do anything and everything, without even the guidance of anyone. Stand up and express the divinity within you." -Swami Vivekananda
"You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible." -Deepak Chopra
"Your darkness is one of the most powerful tools you have for your spiritual evolution."
"I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am." -Eckhart Tolle
"The next message you need is always right where you are." -Ram Dass
"IF YOU WANT TO CONQUER THE ANXIETY OF LIFE, LIVE IN THE MOMENT, LIVE IN THE BREATH." AMIT RAY
"Living in the present moment creates the experience of eternity." -Deepak Chopra
"A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"You have power over your mind–not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." -Marcus Aurelius
"The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are." -Adyashanti
"Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love." -Marianne Williamson
"All of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there’s an initial gasp, soon followed by a rush of exhilaration." -Deepak Chopra
"Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there’s a big disappointment, we don’t know if that’s the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don’t know anything." -Pema Chödrön
"Quiet the mind and the soul will speak." -Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
"When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you." -Stephen Richards
"Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world." -Hans Margolius
"Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment." -Swami Vivekananda
"God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars." -Elbert Hubbard
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience." -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"The greatest illusion of this world is the illusion of separation."
"Fools laugh at others. Wisdom laughs at itself." -Osho
"Everything in the world was my Guru." -Ramana Maharshi
"All creatures are merely veils under which God hides Himself." -Martin Luther
"If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation." -Osho
"Nothing is, unless our thinking makes it so." -William Shakespeare
"Once you stop learning, you start dying." -Albert Einstein
"The further down my spiritual path I go, the less I am able to define. When I turn inward, I find no words. Only light, only love." -Laura Jaworski
"Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself." -Hermann Hesse
"You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple." -Anthony de Mello
"Each one of them is Jesus in disguise." -Mother Teresa
"With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose." -Wayne Dyer
"There are hundreds of paths up the mountain, all leading to the same place, so it doesn’t matter which path you take. The only person wasting time is the one who runs around the mountain, telling everyone that his or her path is wrong." -Hindu proverb
"A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction." Rita Mae Brown
"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again." Joseph Campbell
"Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you." Eckhart Tolle
"Anything that makes you weak–physically, intellectually and spiritually–reject it as poison." Swami Vivekananda
"If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete." Jack Kornfield
"I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong." John Lennon
"Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life." William Blake
"Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not." Deepak Chopra
"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs." Marianne Williamson
“Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.” – Philippians 4:8
“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you seek peace, be still. If you seek wisdom, be silent. If you seek love, be yourself.” – Becca Lee
“We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.” – Princess Diana
“Good humor and laughter are far too wonderful not to come straight from the heart of God.” – Beth Moore
“To make life a little better for people less fortunate than you. That’s what I think a meaningful life is, living not for oneself but for one’s community.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one’s own sake, let us say rather, loved in spite of one’s self.” – Victor Hugo
“Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore, it cannot exist alone but requires all mankind to share it.” – Mary Baker Eddy
“Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved.” – Jane Goodall
“There’s a lot that is good in your life—don’t take it for granted. Don’t get so focused on the struggles that you miss the gift of today.” – Joel Osteen
“You’re lovely even with your scars, lovely the way you are. So open up your lovely heart and don’t try so hard.” – Amy Grant
“Know what sparks the light in you so that you, in your own way, can illuminate the world.” – Oprah Winfrey
“And above all, remember that the meaning of life is to build a life as if it were a work of art.” – Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
“God will test you because he wants you to grow up. He wants you to mature. He wants you to develop a walk with him that is not based on your fluctuating emotions but on your commitment to him as you learn to walk by faith.” – Greg Laurie
“Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.” – Hermann Hesse
“I have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and he is a God of love and mercy and compassion in the midst of suffering.” – Billy Graham
“Anybody can thank God for good things. But when you can thank God even in the bad things, your faith grows and your spiritual roots go deeper.” – Rick Warren
“You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” – Maya Angelou
“God's ultimate goal for your life on Earth is not comfort but character development. He wants you to grow up spiritually and become like Christ. Christlikeness is all about transforming your character, not your personality.” – Rick Warren
“When you accept that there are certain truths in your life that you can’t change, it allows you to embrace your new reality and move forward.” – Amy Purdy
“No matter your religious or spiritual beliefs … for every person who inhales and exhales… you are alive, you can dream.” – Georgia Dawkins
“Practice the pause. When in doubt, pause. When angry, pause. When tired, pause. When stressed, pause. And when you pause, pray.” – Toby Mac
“Spiritual growth is not like fast food. It takes time for its roots to grow, and that requires us to be receptive and patient.” – Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalom
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller
“When we are spiritually healthy, we realize that we exist beyond the physical and our life has a sense of meaning and purpose.” – Robyn L. Gobin
“Yes, you must live life beautifully and not allow the spirit of the world that makes gods out of power, riches, and pleasure make you forget that you have been created for greater things: to love and to be loved.” – Mother Teresa
“Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won’t rain forever.” – Amy Poehler
“It isn’t until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are – not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within – that you can begin to take control.” – Oprah Winfrey
“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.” – 14th Dalai Lama
“Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Relax into the moment and let the universe do the driving. If there was a secret to happiness in life, I’d say that was it.” – Jed McKenna
“Realisation is not the acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.” – Ramana Maharshi
“The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.” – Swami Sivananda
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.” – Alan Watts
“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.” – Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
“A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.” – Rita Mae Brown
I choose gentleness… Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself.” – Max Lucado
“You are one thing only. You are a Divine Being. An all-powerful Creator. You are a Deity in jeans and a t-shirt, and within you dwells the infinite wisdom of the ages and the sacred creative force of All that is, will be and ever was.” – Anthon St. Maarten
“Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.” – Jack Kornfield
“When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.” – Stephen Richards
“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.” – Walt Whitman
“The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.” – Henri Nouwen
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life.” – Eckhart Tolle
“The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.” – Marianne Williamson
“Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” – Helen Keller
“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition. By the year 2050, when the conflict began, the world had fallen upon fearful, superstitious times.” – Bernard Beckett
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn, or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” – Denis Waitley
“But no matter how much evil I see, I think it’s important for everyone to understand that there is much more light than darkness.” – Robert Uttaro
“At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
“You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you.” – Julia Cameron
“Spirituality is not about being fixed; it is about God being present in the mess of our unfixedness.” – Michael Yaconelli
“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.” – Marcus Aurelius
“Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.” – Imran Khan
“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.” – Joseph Campbell
“Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it.” – Wilfred Peterson
“What each of us believes in is up to us, but life is impossible without believing in something.” – Kentetsu Takamori
“There are hundreds of paths up the mountain, all leading to the same place, so it doesn’t matter which path you take. The only person wasting time is the one who runs around the mountain, telling everyone that his or her path is wrong.” – Hindu Proverb
“Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.” – Richard Rohr
“Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives.” – Brené Brown
“Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.” – Oriah Mountain Dreamer
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare
“The reality of loving God is loving him like he's a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely gave you some stuff.” – Criss Jami
“Let what comes come. Let what goes go. Find out what remains.” – Ramana Maharshi
“Religion is for people who're afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who've already been there.” – Vine Deloria Jr.
“One of the most spiritual things you can do is embrace your humanity. Connect with those around you today. Say, “I love you”, “I’m sorry”, “I appreciate you”, “I’m proud of you”…whatever you’re feeling. Send random texts, write a cute note, embrace your truth and share it…cause a smile today for someone else…and give plenty of hugs.” – Steve Maraboli
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” – Michel de Montaigne
“A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your weakness.” – Mother Teresa
“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.” – Hans Urs von Balthasar
“Within each of us is a light, awake, encoded in the fibers of our existence. Divine ecstasy is the totality of this marvelous creation experienced in the hearts of humanity.” – Tony Samara
“We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.” – Neil DeGrasse Tyson
“It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters.” – Amit Ray
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.” – Amit Ray
“Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself.” – Gabriel García Márquez
“The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God’s love for us does not.” – C.S. Lewis
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you really are.” – Carl Jung
“Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.” – Brian Weiss
“Be tolerant of those who are lost on their path. Ignorance, conceit, anger, jealousy, and greed stem from a lost soul. Pray that they will find guidance.” – Elder Wisdom
Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.” – Roy T. Bennett
“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.” – John Lennon
“I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.” – Paulo Coelho
“Don’t ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak.” – William Paul Young
“Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not.” – Deepak Chopra
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” – Kahlil Gibran
“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.” – Black Elk
“More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Everyone needs a spiritual guide: a minister, rabbi, counselor, wise friend, or therapist. My own wise friend is my dog.” ― Gary A. Kowalski
“The presence of the Holy Spirit isthe keystone of all our hopes.” ― John Nelson Darby
“When you have a spirit of excellence, you do the right thing not because somebody is watching or making you do it; you do it because it’s the right thing to do.” ― Joel Osteen
“The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.” ― Margaret Fuller
“The spiritual is the parent of the practical.” ― Thomas Carlyle
“The spiritual is inclusive. It is the deepest sense of belonging and participation. We all participate in the spiritual at all times, whether we know it or not.” ― Rachel Naomi Remen
“The goal of fasting is inner unity.” ― Thomas Merton
“The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching ‘We are all one.'” ― Neale Donald Walsch
“Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.” ― Joseph Joubert
“We have always been involved in spiritual evolution. We are spiritual beings, we have always been spiritual beings and we will always be spiritual beings.” ― Gary Zukav
“Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives.” ― Brené Brown
“The reality of loving God is loving him like he’s a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely gave you some stuff.” ― Criss Jami
“Religion is for people who’re afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who’ve already been there.” ― Vine Deloria Jr.
“A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your weakness.” ― Mother Teresa
“The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.” ― G.I. Gurdjieff
“He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.” -Isaac Newton
“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.” ― John Lennon
“More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.” ― Roy T. Bennett
“It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.” ― Fulton J. Sheen
“The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us.” ― St. Thomas Aquinas
“The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.” — Chanakya
“Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.” — E. O. Wilson
“Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.” — Thomas Merton
“Come to God for your healing. Don’t hesitate. God, who is so full of goodness and supply, is always willing to bless, preserve, heal and restore you.” — Joseph Prince
“Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.” — Marsha Norman
”The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower
“You translate everything-whether physical, mental, or spiritual into muscular tension.” — F. Matthias Alexander
“Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.” — Billy Graham
“Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.” — James Brown
“Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.” — Paul Brunton
“The path of spirituality passes through struggles and sufferings.” — Invajy
“Spirituality is the light that dispels the darkness of material sense enjoyment.” — Invajy
“The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.” — Marianne Williamson
“It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.” — Eckhart Tolle
”Spiritual growth is not like fast food. It takes time for its roots to grow, and that requires us to be receptive and patient.” — Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalom
“Courage is the hallmark of spirituality. Courage comes when you love yourself for who you are.” — Amit Ray
“Spirituality does not lie in meditating the body of an ex-master. Spirituality exists in mediating on your own inner body.” ― Amit Ray
“The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.” — Marianne Williamson
”Spirituality: the art of keeping your internal fire alive.” — Maxime Lagacé
“Your children are spiritual beings who come through you, not for you.” — Wayne Dyer
“Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“You must enshrine in your hearts the spiritual urge towards light and love, Wisdom and Bliss!” — Sathya Sai Baba
“The more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love… and, mirror-like… each soul reflects the other.” — Dante Alighieri
“Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.” — Pema Chodron
“Spiritual knowledge improves intuitive ability, innovative ability and communication.” — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
“A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.” — Rita Mae Brown
“Spirituality is like a bird: If you hold it too closely, it chokes, And if you hold it too loosely, it escapes.” — Yisroel Salanter
“It takes energy, mental toughness and spiritual reinforcement to successfully deal with life’s opportunities, and to reach your objectives.” — Zig Ziglar
“Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.” — M. Scott Peck
“By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.” ― Albert Schweitzer
“Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds.” ― Pema Chodron
“The power of imagination makes us infinite.” ― John Muir
“Life is not accomplishing some special work but attaining to a degree of consciousness and inner freedom which is beyond all works and attainments.” ― Thomas Merton
“People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.” ― Robert Ringer
“Recognize that you have the courage within you to fulfill the purpose of your birth. Summon forth the power of your inner courage and live the life of your dreams.” ― Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
“On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.” ― Eckhart Tolle
“We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.” ― Novalis
“If you keep in mind that love and love alone is the reason for living, it will calm your heart and free you from your worries.” ― Harold Klemp
“Send out love and harmony, put your mind and body in a peaceful place, and then allow the universe to work in the perfect way that it knows how.” ― Wayne Dyer
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” –Martin Luther King, Jr
“Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity. Love like there’s no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.” –Max Lucado
“Intense love does not measure, it just gives.” –Mother Teresa
“Stop determining your worth and value by what other people say. Be determined by what the Word of God says.” –Joyce Meyer
“Faith makes all things possible… love makes all things easy.” –Dwight L. Moody
“The chains of love are stronger than the chains of fear.” –William Gurnall
“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.” –Augustine
“If we have got the true love of God shed abroad in our hearts, we will show it in our lives. We will not have to go up and down the earth proclaiming it. We will show it in everything we say or do.” –Dwight L. Moody
“Love is the doorway through which the human soul passes from selfishness to service.” –Jack Hyles
“Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature.” –Rick Warren
“To be of a peaceable spirit brings peace along with it.” -Thomas Watson
“Because of the favor of God, we can have peace in the midst of chaos.” -Crystal McDowell
“We should have much more peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others.” -Thomas a Kempis
“A great many people are trying to make peace, but that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all we have to do is to enter into it.” -Dwight L. Moody
“Peace is more than just the absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom. And true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.” -Ronald Reagan
“No one can have the peace of God until they are at peace with God.” -Jack Wellman
“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” -C.S. Lewis
“An unpeaceful mind cannot operate normally. Hence the Apostle teaches us to “have no anxiety about anything” (Phil. 4:6). Deliver all anxious thoughts to God as soon as they arise. Let the peace of God maintain your heart and mind.” -Watchman Nee
“Peace begins with a smile.” -Mother Theresa
“As we pour out our bitterness, God pours in his peace.” -F.B. Meyer
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious—the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” — Albert Einstein
“At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.” — Marcus Aurelius
“The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.” — Carl Jung
“Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not.” — Deepak Chopra
“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.” — Anais Nin
“You’ll be calm the day you learn to sit alone and do nothing.” — Maxime Lagacé
“The next message you need is always right where you are.” — Ram Dass
“I close my eyes in order to see.” — Paul Gauguin
“Don’t try to steer the river.” — Deepak Chopra
“We have to choose joy and keep choosing it.” – Henri Nouwen
“Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength – carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.” – Corrie ten Boom
“Peace is not the absence of trouble but the presence of Christ.” – Sheila Walsh
“I thank God for protecting me from what I thought I wanted and blessing me with what I didn’t know I needed.”
“God has a race for you to run and He wants you to finish.” – Christine Caine
“I have learned to kiss the wave that slams me into The Rock of ages.” – Charles Spurgeon
“Occasionally, weep deeply over the life you hoped would be. Grieve the losses. Then wash your face. Trust God. And embrace the life you have.” – John Piper
“Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.” – C.S. Lewis
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” – C.S. Lewis
“On Sabbath: The work is never done. But we are invited to set it aside for the moment to dwell in the presence of God, to experience the sacred right in the middle of the secular.” – Terri Lynne Underwood
“I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It’s a journey of recovery. It’s a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It’s already there.” – Billy Corgan
“When a person responds to the joys and sorrows of others as if they were his own, he has attained the highest state of spiritual union.” – Lord Krishna
“I will breathe. I will think of solutions. I will not let my worry control me. I will not let my stress level break me. I will simply breathe and it will be okay because I don’t quit.” – Shayne McClendon
“The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.” – Ram Dass
“Seek spiritual riches within. What you are is much greater than anyone or anything else you have ever yearned for.” – Paramahansa Yogananda
“With stillness comes the benediction of Peace.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.” – Bono
“That lesson suggests that in the end, we can only find peace in our human lives by accepting the will of the universe.” – Stephen King
“Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.” – Eckhart Tolle
“There is a reason they call God a presence – because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
“You will never follow your own inner voice until you clear up the doubts in your mind.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” – Mother Teresa
“Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.” – Albert Schweitzer
“Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.” – Wayne Dyer
“The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God’s love for us does not.” – C. S. Lewis
“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.” – José Saramago
“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.” – Joseph Campbell
“Within each of us is a light, awake, encoded in the fibers of our existence. Divine ecstasy is the totality of this marvelous creation experienced in the hearts of humanity.”― Tony Samara
“Bring into play the almighty power within you, so that on the stage of life you can fulfill your high destined role.” – Paramahansa Yogananda
“Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.”― Aberjhani
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” – Michel de Montaigne
“Let what comes come. Let what goes go. Find out what remains.” –Ramana Maharshi
“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“What you are is God’s gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.” – Hans Urs von Balthasar
“You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks.” – Amit Ray
“I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.”― Paulo Coelho
“The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.” – Swami Sivananda
“Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.”― Oriah Mountain Dreamer
“You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.” – Deepak Chopra
“Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.”― Richard Rohr
“The Way is not in the sky; the Way is in the heart.” – Buddha
“We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.” – Eric Micha’el Leventhal
“Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved.” – Jane Goodall
“Don’t let a day go by without asking who you are…each time you let a new ingredient to enter your awareness.”― Deepak Chopra
“Spirituality is not about being fixed; it is about God being present in the mess of our unfixedness.”― Michael Yaconelli
“What each of us believes in is up to us, but life is impossible without believing in something.”― Kentetsu Takamori
“You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you.”― Julia Cameron
“Peaceful is the one who’s not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.”― Rumi
“But no matter how much evil I see, I think it’s important for everyone to understand that there is much more light than darkness.”― Robert Uttaro
“They will become Godly when they will have God in their hearts.”― Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
“What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.”― Carolyn Myss
“Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light.”― Francine Rivers
“God is peace, bliss, beauty and truth. Focus your energy on that, life will be like that.”― Amit Ray
“This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.”― Aberjhani
“He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.”― Albert Schweitzer
“People who have had little self-reflection live life in a huge reality blind-spot.”― Bryant McGill
“There is a light within our soul that burns brighter than the sun. And we ignore it.”― Basith
“If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don’t, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way.”― Matt D. Miller
It is the inner life that is to spark the change in consciousness that will permit us to advance. – Brother Wayne Teasdale