Spiritual Quotes - Page 16

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

There are many beautiful things in the world around us, but pearls can only be discovered in the depths of the sea; if we wish to posses spiritual pearls we must plunge into the depths, that is, we must pray, we must sink down into the secret depths of contemplation and prayer. Then we shall perceive precious pearls.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

You have inside you the capacity to invest your mental, emotional, and spiritual gifts in a way that glorifies God, impacts the world, and satisfies your own soul. I believe that-and I want you to believe it, too.

Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.

When one realizes God, He grants knowledge and illumination from within; one knows it oneself. In the fullness of one's spiritual realization one will find that He who resides in one's heart, resides in the hearts of others as well - the oppressed, the persecuted, the untouchable, and the outcast.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't see the stars at night.

I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.

All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.

If at times my productions do not express the conventionally beautiful, there is always an effort to express the universal beauty of man's continuous struggle to lift his social position and to add dimension to his spiritual being.

Matter is spirit at its lowest level. Spirit is matter at its highest level.

The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is praying.

In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamens call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.

It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone... but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

When we become hollow bones there is no limit to what the Higher Powers can do in and through us in spiritual things.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it.

There is no complete spiritual life without music, for the human soul has regions which can be illuminated only by music.

Make a firm decision: 'Whatever happens, I will be happy. I will be strong. God is always with me.'

A nation that does not support and encourage its theater is - if not dead - dying; just as a theater that does not capture with laughter and tears the social and historical pulse, the drama of its people, the genuine color of the spiritual and natural landscape, has no right to call itself theater; but only a place for amusement.

A house is not a machine to live in. It is the shell of man, his extension, his release, his spiritual emanation.

We do not need more material development, we need more spiritual development. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more moral power. We do not need more knowledge, we need more character. We do not need more government, we need more culture. We do not need more law, we need more religion. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. It is on that side of life that it is desirable to put the emphasis at the present time. If that side be strengthened, the other side will take care of itself.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.