Spirituality Quotes

There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things.

YuanWu

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

Albert Schweitzer

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Albert Schweitzer

All spiritual disciplined are done with a view to still the mind. The perfectly still mind is universal spirit.

Swami Ramdas

The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!

Sholem Asch

As the sun went down, I saw a solitary boatman disporting on the smooth lake. The falling dews seemed to strain and purify the air, and I was soothed with an infinite stillness. I got the world, as it were, by the nape of the neck, and held it under in the tide of its own events, till it was drowned, and then I let it go down stream like a dead dog. Vast hollow chambers of silence stretched away on every side, and my being expanded in proportion, and filled them. Then first could I appreciate sound, and find it musical.

Henry David Thoreau

It is in the balancing of your spirituality with your humanity that you will find immeasurable happiness, success, good health, and love.

Steve Maraboli

Understanding the beauty of our humanity unlocks the power of our spirituality.

Steve Maraboli

It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.

General Douglas MacArthur

When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.

Sa'di

Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof -- that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.

Aldous Huxley

Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure.

Rumi

Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.

Rumi

Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.

Antonio Machado

In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment of the present where life quivers in its true sense. The past and the future are both rolled up in this present moment of illumination, and this present moment is not something standing still with all its contents, for it ceaselessly moves on.

Daisetz T. Suzuki

O Krishna, the stillness of divine union which you describe is beyond my comprehension. How can the mind, which is so restless, attain lasting peace? Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, powerful, violent; trying to control it is like trying to tame the wind.

Bhagavad Gita

Sages speak of the immutable Tree of Life, with its tape root above and its branches below.

Bhagavad Gita

No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself.

Tilopa

The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

Friedrich Nietzsche