Spirit Quotes - Page 67

True Sufism is resistance: spiritual, intellectual, social, cultural, political and economic resistance. It cannot be, for sure, supporting dictators.

God is Spirit - without the Holy Spirit you cannot relate to Him.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Wherever the Holy Ghost has right of way, the gifts of the Spirit will be in manifestation; and where these gifts are never in manifestation, I question whether He is present.

The secret to peace-of-mind is to not identify with anything other than your true self.

Anyone who is not on your same evolutionary and spiritual frequency will distance himself from you, while all those who are on the same evolutionary and spiritual frequency as you will come closer to you; you will see how amazing it is to discover that everyone who needs to be by your side will ultimately appear in your life in the most spontaneous and divine manner. That's how powerful the mind is

There is great difference between trust and belief. Trust is personal, Belief is social.

Immersion in the scriptures is essential for spiritual nourishment

There's nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.

When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.

Forget the past. The vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames. Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.

Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.

And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.

You will have peace to the extent that you have God, and the further you are away from God the less you will be at peace... Thus you may measure your progress with God by measuring your peace or the lack of it.

There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes.

I am not a therapist. I am not a spiritual leader. These elements are in the art: it is therapeutic, spiritual, social and political - everything. It has many layers. But art has to have many layers. If it doesn't, then forget it.

Faith was the raw material substance that the Spirit of God used to form the universe.

When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We're not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.

To get joy, we must give it and to keep joy, we must scatter it.

The Doctor of our souls has placed the remedy in the hidden regions of the soul.

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.

The spiritual life is a life beyond moods. It is a life in which we choose joy and do not allow ourselves to become victims of passing feelings of happiness or depression.

The love and protection of the Holy Spirit are with you in all spiritual concerns.