Spirit Quotes - Page 39

Tell me what time you spend alone with God... and I'll tell you how spiritual you are.

In an asana, the mind has to reach inside the body to find a quiet space until a point comes where perfect balance is felt.

Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth. They are looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love, while they have a treasure within that not only includes all those things but is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Sleep is the best meditation.

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.

The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?

Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.

When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.

If you knew who walked beside you at all times, on the path that you have chosen, you could never experience fear or doubt again.

Don't try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.

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.

I am convinced that the devil has caused the subject of giving to stir up resistance and resentment among God's people because he knows there are few ways of spiritual enrichment like the exercise of faithful stewardship.

There are scientists who will tell you that spirit, because it can’t be measured, doesn’t exist. Bollocks. It does exist.

He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.

The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified.

Now I begin to feel that that all that is important comes in quietness and waiting; activity should be only the working out, the digesting and putting forth of what one learned, so that one may become empty again to receive more.

The human heart by nature seeks after God. There is a spiritual vacuum in every man until it is filled by Christ.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

Manifesting takes place from Spirit. It doesn't take place from form, from the physical world. You've got to know that what you want to manifest will occur.

Health is an announcement of agreement between your body, mind and spirit. Honor your body, keep it in good shape. When you are not healthy, look to see which parts of you disagree. Your body will demonstrate the truth to you. Notice what it is showing you, listen to what it is saying.

The plundering of the human spirit by the market place is paralleled by the plundering of the earth by capital.

Any woman on this planet who values herself as a woman is great. She is a giver of life. And when you are a giver of life, what more is there?