Spirituality Quotes

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.

the deeper one is drawn into God, the more one must 'go out of oneself'; that is, one must go to the world in order to carry the divine life into it.

It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history.

Whoever knows himself knows God.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.

Maybe It's not the biggest blockbuster film, but there will be some people that will see it, that will be debating it, that will be questioning their own sense of spirituality. If the film resonates, then I have succeeded in what I set out to do.

My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.

What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.

The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.

The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.

Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.

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

True refinement seeks simplicity.

Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.

I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more abstract and not aligned with any recognized religion. For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music. It cannot be manipulated, or politicized, and when it is, that becomes immediately obvious.

The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.

What is material and what is not? When the world is the end and God is the means to attain that end, that is material. When God is the end and the world is only the means to attain that end, spirituality has begun.

Nature does not proceed by leaps.

Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us.

It is the inner life that is to spark the change in consciousness that will permit us to advance

A theology without spirituality would be a sterile academic exercise.

Whatever you imagine, God is the opposite of that.