Quotes about spirit
spiritual teacher spiritual-teachers
I call myself a meditation teacher rather than a spiritual teacher. Sharon Salzberg
spiritual quality commodity
Faith is not a commodity we either have or don't have-it is an inner quality that unfolds as we learn to trust our own deepest experience. Sharon Salzberg
spiritual baby art
I can worship Nature, and that fulfills my need for miracles and beauty. Art gives a spiritual depth to existence -- I can find worlds bigger and deeper than my own in music, paintings, and books. And from my friends and family I receive the highest benediction, emotional contact, and personal affirmation. I can bow before the works of Man, from buildings to babies, and that fulfills my need for wonder. I can believe in the sanctity of Life, and that becomes the Revealed Word, to live my life as I believe it should be, not as I'm told to by self-appointed guides. Neil Peart
spiritual compassion self
Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path. Tara Brach
spiritual self trying
The spiritual path is not a solo endeavor. In fact, the very notion of a self who is trying to free her/ himself is a delusion. We are in it together and the company of spiritual friends helps us realize our interconnectedness. Tara Brach
spiritual home loss
The great gift of a spiritual path is coming to trust that you can find a way to true refuge. You realize that you can start right where you are, in the midst of your life, and find peace in any circumstance. Even at those moments when the ground shakes terribly beneath you—when there’s a loss that will alter your life forever—you can still trust that you will find your way home. This is possible because you’ve touched the timeless love and awareness that are intrinsic to who you are. Tara Brach
spiritual unconditional-love thinking
You can think of spiritual practice as a kind of spiritual re-parenting ... You're offering yourself the two qualities that make up good parenting: understanding - seeing yourself for who you truly are - and relating to what you see with unconditional love. Tara Brach
spiritual moon hands
I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand. Talib Kweli
spiritual father russia
For twenty-seven years I was witness to the spiritual deterioration of my own father, watching day after day how everything human in him left him and how gradually he turned into a grim monument to his own self ... Svetlana Alliluyeva
spirit greater
The greater the spirit, the more one is alone. Suzy Kassem
spiritual men brotherhood-of-man
This is the principle of Universal Brotherhood of man with one another, with all life down to the little ants. Swami Vivekananda
spiritual father discovery
Just as the law of gravitation existed before its discovery and would exist if all humanity forgets it, so it is with the laws that govern the spiritual world. The moral, ethical and spiritual relations between soul and soul and between individual spirits and the Father of all spirits were there before their discovery and would remain even if we forget them. Swami Vivekananda
spirituality inferiors superiors
In spirituality the Americans are very inferior to us. But their society is very superior to ours Swami Vivekananda
spiritual meditation mindfulness
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 color meditation
The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material conditions and feel our divine nature. We do not depend upon any external help in meditation. The touch of the soul can paint the brightest color even in the dingiest places; it can cast a fragrance over the vilest thing; it can make the wicked divine-and all enmity, all selfishness is effaced. Swami Vivekananda
spiritual feet toes
Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet. Swami Vivekananda
spiritual teacher soul
There is no other teacher but your own soul. Swami Vivekananda
spiritual struggle heart
God is very merciful to those whom He sees struggling heart and soul for spiritual realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that His grace will never come. Swami Vivekananda
spiritual wisdom thinking
Never turn back to see the result of what you have done. Give all to the Lord and go on, and think not of it. Swami Vivekananda
spiritual thinking evil
This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but as a series of paintings...scenes on a canvas...of which I am the witness. Swami Vivekananda
spiritual strong taken
Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual life, fight as long as there is any life in you. Even though you know you are going to be killed, fight till you “are killed.” Don’t die of fright. Die fighting. Don’t go down till you are knocked down. Swami Vivekananda
spiritual successful thinking
Often we are caught in a mental trap of seeing enormously successful people and thinking they are where they are because they have some special gift. Yet a closer look shows that the greatest gift that extraordinarily successful people have over the average person is their ability to get themselves to take action. Tony Robbins
spiritual lessons-to-be-learned lessons
Problems are spiritual lessons from God-spiritual lessons to be learned. Tony Robbins
spiritual resistance problem
Problems are God's resistance to create spiritual muscles. Tony Robbins
spiritual giving secret
The most important thing is contribution because the secret to living is giving. If you catch on to that you start realizing that there's nothing you can get that comes close to what you can give. Life is calling all of us to be more than just about ourselves and that is when we get that spiritual hit. Tony Robbins
spiritual thinking needs
I think spirituality is a part of everything. It doesn't need to be separated out from everything else. Tony Robbins
spirit natural human-spirit
It's natural to sit down but the human spirit within us can make us get up. Tony Robbins
spiritual pursuit grows
Business is a spiritual pursuit. Your business will not grow unless you grow as a person Tony Robbins
spiritual school mean
I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then. Tony Blair
spiritual believe rocks
I don't believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual words ever uttered in rock and roll are wop babaloo balop bam boom. Sinead O'Connor
spiritual lying greatness
There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world conquest. Conquest is an ersatz greatness. Simone Weil
spiritual men order
It is only by entering the transcendental, the supernatural, the authentically spiritual order that man rises above the social. Until then, whatever he may do, the social is transcendent in relation to him. Simone Weil
spiritual real block
The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth. Simone Weil