Spiritual Quotes - Page 169

Thirty years of spiritual practice has given me the realization that emotions are based on our perceptions, whether or not they are based on reality.

Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence.

He who has not yet attained divine knowledge energized by love is proud of his spiritual progress. But he who has been granted such knowledge repeats with deep conviction the words uttered by the patriarch Abraham when he was granted the manifestation of God: 'I am dust and ashes' (Gen. 18:27).

Children, when we go to the temple, do not hurry to have darshan, then make some offering and return home in a hurry. We should stand there patiently in silence for some time and try to visualize the beloved deity in our hearts. If possible, we should sit down and meditate. At each step, remember to do japa. Amma doesn't say that the offerings and worship are not necessary, but of all the offerings we make, what the Lord wants most is our hearts!

Try to make others happy, and don't despair over all the evil in the world. Instead of cursing the dark, let us each light one small lamp.

Don't get angry. Try not to speak roughly or use harsh words.

Parents need to nourish spiritual values in their children from a very young age.

Pray: O Lord, make my eyes see only the good in everyone.

The more intellectual you are, the more egoistic you are, and surrendering becomes more difficult.

Spiritual love is without limits or boundaries. Worldly love is superficial and fluctuating.

The divorce of our so-called spiritual life from our daily activities is a fatal dualism.

There should be painless progression, attended by life and peace....Mortals will some day assert their freedom in the name of Almighty God....Dropping their present beliefs, they will recognize harmony and as the spiritual reality and discord as the material unreality. Chapter VII pp. 224 and 228 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.

One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous.

Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey of the beloved one who to-morrow will be the intelligent, divine creation, man.

Now, after the material resources of the colonies have been looted, their spiritual and cultural resources are being transformed into commodities for the world market.

[On spiritualism:] I always knew the living talked rot, but it's nothing to the rot the dead talk.

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

The spirit is the true self.

Some people find the experience and practice of compassion as a spiritual discipline to be a more direct route to the transformation of the heart than prayer. It is not that prayer does not or should not play a role in their lives, but their way to the opening of the heart lies through deeds of compassion. "Just do it" summarizes this path of transformation.

Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries. We are dazzled by the material progress that Western science has made. Ancient India has survived because Hinduism was not developed along material but spiritual lines.

The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive feeling that something in us prompts us to do a certain thing. The time when I learnt to recognise this voice was, I may say, the time when I started praying regularly.

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.