Quotes May 23, 2019

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.
Walt Whitman
 
 
 
 
Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face.
Dolores del Rio
 
 
 
 
Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.
Samuel Ullman
 
 
 
 
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
 
 
 
 
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.
Eckhart Tolle
 
 
 
 
You can’t have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.
Cory Booker
 
 
 
 
Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.
Henri Nouwen
 
 
 
 
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
 
 
 
 
I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose.
R.J. Anderson
 
 
 
 
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
 
 
 
 
Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline.
Mahavira
 
 
 
 
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.
Elbert Hubbard
 
 
 
 
When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.
Stephen Richards
 
 
 
 
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
Ray Bradbury
 
 
 
 
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
 
 
 
 
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
Daniel Defoe
 
 
 
 
Big-heartedness is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey.
Matthew Fox
 
 
 
 
When a man is willing and eager, the Gods join in.
Aeschylus
 
 
 
 
Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. Herman Hesse
 
 
 
 
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
 
 
 
 
Be guided by Spirit and not driven by ego.
All1son 
 
 
 
If peace is our single aim in all we do, we will always know what to do because we will do whatever will protect and deepen our peace.
Gerald Jampolsky
 
 
 
 
Looking deeply at life as it is in this very moment, the meditator dwells in stability and freedom.
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, man cannot live without a spiritual life.
Buddha
 
 
 
 
We are not human beings trying to be spiritual. We are spiritual beings trying to be human.
Jacquelyn Small
 
 
 
 
You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars, guides you too.
Shrii Shirr Anandamurti
 
 
 
 
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
St Teresa of Avila
 
 
 
 
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you really are.”
Carl Jung
 
 
 
 
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.”
Albert Einstein
 
 
 
 
You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.
ANTHONY DE MELLO
 
 
 
 
“You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.”
Amit Ray
 
 
 
 
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware; joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
Henry Miller
 
 
 
 
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
 
 
 
 
“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
 
 
 
 
“If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
It is in our wild nature that we best recover from our un-nature, our spirituality.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
 
 
 
 
No individual can ultimately fail. The Divinity which descends into humanity is bound to re-gain its original state.
N. Sri Ram
 
 
 
 
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Kahlil Gibran
 
 
 
 
Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.
Dennis Banks
 
 
 
 
It is the inner life that is to spark the change in consciousness that will permit us to advance. Brother Wayne Teasdale