Spirit Quotes - Page 73

As you identify less and less with the “me”, you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything. Do you know why? Because you are no longer afraid of being hurt or not liked. You no longer desire to impress anyone. Can you imagine the relief when you don't have to impress anybody anymore? Oh, what a relief. Happiness at last!

It isn't bread that feeds you; it is life and the spirit that feed you through bread.

It is good to laugh. Laughter is spiritual relaxation.

Each of us has some change within us, we cannot change the political or the social system of the world unless we change inside of us as individuals and that’s the direction I am in now which I call spiritual.

Modern materialists and religious extremists alike lack the spiritual animistic reverence for non-human beings that every culture once understood as a given.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Consider that spiritual safety comes through spiritual unity. Christians united together are difficult to separate, difficult to break, difficult to pick off and destroy. It is when you isolate yourself by disrupting or denying unity that you are most at risk.

We live under the power of Modern Consciousness, which means that we are obsessed with progress. Wherever you are is not good enough. We always want to achieve something, rather than experience something. The opposite of this is Spiritual Consciousness. By that I mean you find enchantment in every action you do, rather in just the results of your action. Spiritual Consciousness is not a particular religion but a way of being.

Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Isn't is amazing that almost everyone has an opinion to offer about the Bible, and yet so few have studied it?

The world is no more than the Beloved's face. And the desire of the One to know its own beauty, we exist.

In the civil society, the individual is recognized and accepted as more than an abstract statistic or faceless member of some group; rather, he is a unique, spiritual being with a soul and a conscience.

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

That's what Hanukkah is about: trying to survive the darkness on the far-fetched hope there's still some life and light left in the universe. It's more than just a religious story. The days have been growing shorter, imperceptibly but inescapably darker.... Heading into the night of the winter solstice, every spiritual tradition has some kind of festival of light. We're all just whistling in the dark, hoping against hope that someone up there will see these little Hanukkah candles and get the hint.

Live simply and virtuously, true to your nature, drawing no line between what is spiritual and what is not.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

This is the secret of being content: To learn and accept that we live daily by God's unmerited favor given through Christ, and that we can respond to any and every situation by His divine enablement through the Holy Spirit.

Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from your desires until you are satisfied only with Christ brings contentment.

The aim of education is to guide young persons in the process through which they shape themselves as human persons-armed with knowledge, strength of judgment, and moral virtues-while at the same time conveying to them the spiritual heritage of the nation and the civilization in which they are involved.

No great spiritual awakening has begun anywhere in the world apart from united prayer.