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Spirituality Quotes - Page 12

In spirituality the Americans are very inferior to us. But their society is very superior to ours.

"The Life of Vivekananda and the Universal Gospel". Book by Romain Rolland, 5th edition, p. 74, 1960.

On this basic - being right and doing right the whole world can unite.

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2257, Manonmani Publishers

Spirituality is man's conscious longing for God. Spirituality tells us that God, who is unknowable today, will tomorrow become knowable and, the day after, will become totally known.

Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.1095, Aum Publications

True spirituality is the acceptance of earth-life. A true seeker is he who accepts life, transforms life and perfects life so that the earth-life can become a conscious instrument of God.

Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.146, Aum Publications

Spirituality tells the seeker not to live in the hoary past, not to live in the remote future, but to live in the immediacy of today, in the eternal Now.

Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.1096, Aum Publications

Science has the capacity to show mankind the full development of the mental life. Spirituality has the capacity to show mankind the possibility and inevitability of the life beyond the mind, the supramental life.

Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.564, Aum Publications

...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures.

Reinhold Niebuhr (1996). “The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation : Human Nature”, p.25, Westminster John Knox Press

It's important though to distinguish between religion and spirituality.

"Paulo Coelho speaks to THT". The Himalayan Times Interview, thehimalayantimes.com. April 26, 2009.