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The
spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is
on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.
~ Marianne Williamson Quotes
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Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
~ Buddha Quotes
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Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
~ Mohandas Gandhi Quotes
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A
nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military
defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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You
have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you
spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
~ Swami Vivekananda Quotes
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A
life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve
two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made
in the image of what you desire.
~ Thomas Merton Quotes
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Man
is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning.
Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the
spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.
~ Sai Baba Quotes
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The
happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of
spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly
moving here and there.
~ Chanakya Quotes
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The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
~ Marianne Williamson Quotes
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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 Quotes
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By
having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with
the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and
alive.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quotes
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Coincidences are spiritual puns.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Happiness
cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is
the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and
gratitude.
~ Denis Waitley Quotes
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Man
cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true
spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal
pleasures.
~ Thomas Aquinas Quotes
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Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
~ James Allen Quotes
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Keep
your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will.
Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual
environment.
~ Arthur Helps Quotes
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Make
friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you.
Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their
help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.
~ Saint Francis de Sales Quotes
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Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven Quotes
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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes
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The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
~ Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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For
those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The
highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and
study of death.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quotes
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The
new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual
understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people
claim to believe that, but very few people actually live as if that were
true.
~ Neale Donald Walsch Quotes
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I
was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to
utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no
nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better
way, ours is merely another way.
~ Neale Donald Walsch Quotes
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I'm
concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy,
remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending
time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the
spiritual meet.
~ Joan Jett Quotes
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The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.
~ Swami Sivananda Quotes
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Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes
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There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.
~ Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
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In
order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we
are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
~ Barbara de Angelis Quotes
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In
all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work,
the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of
stupendous happenings.
~ Edmund Husserl Quotes
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Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
~ Beverly Sills Quotes
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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
~ Van Morrison Quotes
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Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes
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The
great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual
growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power
is basically a joyful one.
~ M. Scott Peck Quotes
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
~ Matthew Arnold Quotes
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But
the first differentiation of its reflection in the manifested World is
purely Spiritual, and the Beings generated in it are not endowed with a
consciousness that has any relation to the one we conceive of.
~ H. P. Blavatsky Quotes
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Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
~ Joseph Joubert Quotes
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What
is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place?
It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has
no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.
~ Ken Wilber Quotes
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By
confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision
to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a
spiritual life.
~ Thomas More Quotes
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The
essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically
to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the
dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and
the empiricist world views?
~ E. O. Wilson Quotes
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Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
~ Shakti Gawain Quotes
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If
you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you
can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.
~ Doug Coupland Quotes
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The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.
~ Julius Erving Quotes
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Moreover,
no one is judged from the natural man, thus not so long as he lives in
the natural world, for man is then in a natural body; but everyone is
judged in the spiritual man, and therefore when he comes into the
spiritual world, for man is then in a spiritual body.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes
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For
the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual
world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in
the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes
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A
text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique
opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and
rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.
~ Stanislav Grof Quotes
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One
of the most commonly overlooked spiritual practices is daring to be
completely honest with everyone you encounter. Some may say others
cannot handle their honesty, but true honesty is not a strategy or a
weapon of any kind. It is the willingness to be open and absolutely
transparent in sharing how any moment feels in your heart. It has
nothing to do with confrontation, accusation, or any form of blame. True
honesty is the willingness to stand completely exposed, allowing the
world to do what it may, and say what it will, only so you may know who
you are – beyond all ideas.
~ Matt Kahn Quotes
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Do
you hold your beliefs lightly or tightly? When I hold them tightly, I
arrogantly believe everyone should believe as i do. When I hold them
lightly, I appreciate other's perspectives/points-of-view, even if they
may not be mine. The spiritual path is not about trying to get rid of or
not have beliefs. It is about holding them lightly because you know
that they are simply one perspective among billions. When we cling to a
belief, we are stuck. When we hold it lightly we are not stuck... we are
free.
~ Michael Jeffreys Quotes
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Be
still. it takes no effort to be still; it is utterly simple. When your
mind is still, you have no name, you have no past, you have no
relationships, you have no country, you have no spiritual attainment,
you have no lack of spiritual attainment. There is just the presence of
beingness with itself.
~ Gangaji Quotes
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Spiritual awakening is about waking up from your ego. It is not about awakening the ego.
~ Sampo Kaasila Quotes
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The
spiritual search is always rooted in a rejection of the present. The
search of a lifetime was always a movement away from what is.
~ Jeff Foster Quotes
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You
impose limits on your true nature of infinite being. Then you get
displeased to be only a limited creature. Then you begin spiritual
practices to transcend these non-existing limits. But if your practice
itself implies the existence of these limits, how could they allow you
to transcend them. -Ramana
~ Maharshi Quotes
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What
it means to live spiritually is to not participate in this struggle. It
means that the events that happen in the moment belong to the moment.
They don't belong to you.
~ Michael A. Singer Quotes
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The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.
~ Adyashanti Quotes
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Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.
~ Eckhart Tolle Quotes
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Authentic spirituality… does not render the self content, it renders it undone.
~ Ken Wilbur Quotes
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This
bundle of ideas that we have held as being who we are is not actually
the one who can make progress in the spiritual realm.
~ Alice Gardner Quotes
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To
me, spirituality is about two things: The liberation of consciousness
from all illusion, so that the true nature can shine and an embodiment
in life that is an alternative to the patterns of manipulation and greed
that dominate our current culture.
~ Christian Opitz Quotes
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Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
~ Shakti Gawain Quotes
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Syncronistic
meetings are like mirrors that reflect something of ourselves. If we
want to grow spiritually, all we have to do is take a good look.
Synchronicity holds the promise that if we want to change inside, the
patterns of our external life will change as well.
~ Jean Shinoda Bolen Quotes
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The
fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of
knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile
in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
~ Leo Buscaglia Quotes
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Expect
your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect
abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually.
~ Eileen Caddy Quotes
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Enthusiasm
is not an emotional state. It is a spiritual commitment, a loving
surrender to our creative process. Enthusiasm – from the Greek, filled
with God’ – is an ongoing energy supply tapped into the flow of life
itself.
~ Julia Cameron Quotes
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With
spiritual growth comes new creative potential, leading to the
realization that you are pure potential, able to fill any creative
impulse.
~ Deepak Chopra Quotes
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We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
~ Stephen Covey Quotes
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I
feel that the essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward
others. When you have a pure, sincere motivation, then you have right
attitude toward others based on kindness, compassion, love and respect.
~ Dalai Lama Quotes
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For
the spiritual being, intuition is far more than a hunch. It is viewed
as guidance or as God talking, and this inner insight is never taken
lightly or ignored.
~ Wayne Dyer Quotes
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The special genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
~ Margaret Fuller Quotes
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See
where your own energy wants to go, not where you think it should go. Do
something because it feels right, not because it makes sense. Follow
the spiritual impulse.
~ Mary Hayes-Grieco Quotes
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Play
is one of the highest spiritual forms of being. When we're in that
state, we get lost in ourselves, which allows the mind to receive the
message of the spirit.
~ Ellie Katz Quotes
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In
spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not
negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that please us while
relinquishing things that do not matter to us. A lukewarm yearning for
awakening is not enough to sustain us through the difficulties involved
in letting go. It is important to understand that anything that can be
lost was never truly ours, anything that we deeply cling to only
imprisons us.
~ Jack Kornfield Quotes
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Always remember, joy is not incidental to spiritual quest. It is vital.
~ Rebbe Nachman Quotes
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The
great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual
growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power
is basically a joyful one.
~ M. Scott Peck Quotes
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Two
people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego,
garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating – the other is the hidden
spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard
or attended to – you have uncovered in yourself your own wise guide.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche Quotes
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The
kind of spirituality I value is one in which you get great joy out of
contributing to life, not just sitting and meditating, although
meditation is certainly valuable. But from meditation, from the
resulting consciousness, I would like to see people in action creating
the world they want to live in.
~ Marshall Rosenberg Quotes
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Whether
you are aware of them or not, whether you recognize them as spiritual
or not, you probably have had the experiences of silence, or
transcendence, or the Divine—a few seconds, a few minutes that seem out
of time; a moment when the ordinary looks beautiful, glowing; a deep
sense of being at peace, feeling happy for no reason. When these
experiences come…believe in them. They reflect your true nature.
~ Ravi Shankar Quotes
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Disappointment
often focuses on the failure of our own agenda rather than on God's
long-term purposes for us, which may use stress and struggle as tools
for strengthening our spiritual muscles.
~ Luci Shaw Quotes
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Your
profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is
what you were put on earth to do with such passion and such intensity
that it becomes spiritual in calling.
~ Vincent van Gogh Quotes
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The
spiritual path – is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is
on a spiritual path; most people just don’t know it.
~ Marianne Williamson Quotes
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In
spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not
negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that please us while
relinquishing things that do not matter to us. A lukewarm yearning for
awakening is not enough to sustain us through the difficulties involved
in letting go. It is important to understand that anything that can be
lost was never truly ours, anything that we deeply cling to only
imprisons us.
~ Jack Kornfield Quotes
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Whether
you are aware of them or not, whether you recognize them as spiritual
or not, you probably have had the experiences of silence, or
transcendence, or the Divine—a few seconds, a few minutes that seem out
of time; a moment when the ordinary looks beautiful, glowing; a deep
sense of being at peace, feeling happy for no reason. When these
experiences come…believe in them. They reflect your true nature.
~ Ravi Shankar Quotes
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The
spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the
world of things. It is a part of every man’s life; and until he has
realized it, he is not a complete human being, has not entered into
possession of all his powers.
~ Evelyn Underhill Quotes
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The
great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual
growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power
is basically a joyful one.
~ M. Scott Peck Quotes
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Our
personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual
consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions
that underlie our lifestyles.
~ David Suzuki Quotes
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Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes
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There
are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some
announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and
pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness,
others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes
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In relation to others, gratitude is good manners; in relation to ourselves, it is a habit of the heart
and a spiritual discipline....
~ Daphne Rose Kingma Quotes
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A
total spiritual direction given to the whole life and the whole nature
can alone lift humanity beyond itself. . . It is only the full emergence
of the soul, the full descent of the native light and power of the
Spirit and the consequent replacement or transformation and uplifting of
our insufficient mental and vital nature by a spiritual and supramental
Supernature that can effect this evolutionary miracle.
~ Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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Spiritually
elevate yourself, at least once a day, at a predetermined time, to
contemplate and long for your own goal, in its broadest understanding
and reaches, and in its highest perfection.
~ Louis Caputo Quotes
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I always think that we live, spiritually, By what others have given us in the significant hours of our life.
These significant hours do not announce themselves as coming, but arrive unexpected.
~ Albert Schweitzer Quotes
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The intellectual quest, though fine as pearl or coral, is not the spiritual search.
That spiritual search is on another level. Spiritual wine is a different substance.
~ Rumi Quotes
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To
live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the
desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts
into a garden of solitude.
~ Henri J. M. Nouwen Quotes
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Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . .
For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered the same sorrow together,
when
through long days they have ploughed the stony ground buried beneath
the common yoke of a common grief. It is then that they know one
another and feel one another and feel with one another in their common
anguish, and so they pity one another and love one another.
~ Miguel de Unamuno Quotes
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The
plan of spiritual evolution is marked not only by God's will that we
move ever in the direction of love, nut also by another of God's
creative principles: that humanity has free will. What that
means is that in any given moment, it is our choice whether we move
toward love or retreat from it. What is not love is fear.
But in the larger scheme of things, there is a limit past which
lovelessness cannot remain. Fear is not life-giving enough to
sustain itself. We can move in the direction of fear only so long
before it brings us to our knees, or to our end....
~ Marianne Williamson Quotes
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The
spiritual path wrecks the body And afterwards restores it to health. It
destroys the house to unearth the treasure, And with that treasure
builds it better than before.
~ Jellaludin Rumi Quotes
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Escaping
from ourselves is not all bad and is even essential to the flowering of
some of our highest ideals. Spirituality and love are both based
on the urge to escape the self, to melt I into Thou, to experience
transcendence. The term “ecstasy,” so common to the literature of
love and religion, means to stand outside oneself. But
transcendence and ecstasy are not to be confused with avoidance and
feeling relief. The benefits of the former are substantially
different from those of the latter.
~ Gregg Levoy Quotes
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The
spiritual test inherent in all our lives is the challenge to discover
what motivates us to make the choices we do, and whether we have faith
in our fears or the Divine…
~ Caroline Myss Quotes
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If
you want to love, take the time to listen to your heart. In most
ancient and wise cultures it is a regular practice for people to talk to
their heart. There are rituals, stories, and meditative skills in
every spiritual tradition that awaken the voice of the heart. To
live wisely, this practice is essential, because our heart is the source
of our connection to and intimacy with all of life. And
life is love. This mysterious quality of love is all around us, as
real as gravity… Yet how often we forget about love….
~ Jack Kornfield Quotes
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Walking
the spiritual path means that we are trying to learn to love
consciously. We put a certain emphasis on the word “trying”
because that’s what we are doing – loving to the best of our
ability. I think that seekers sometime tend to beat themselves up
because they haven’t fully mastered unconditional love… [as if] “it’s
not really love until [we] love like God loves.” But who is able
to love like God loves?! We're human beings trying to understand and
cultivate what it means to feel divine love. We have to start with
small, realistic goals.
~ Lama Surya Das, Awakening to the Sacred Quotes
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Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience.
In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well.
~ St. Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
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If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels
of consciousness or spiritual evolution.
~ M. Scott Peck Quotes
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The greatest discoveries will be along spiritual lines. This is the field where miracles are going to happen.
Spiritual power is the greatest underdeveloped power and has the greatest future.
~ Thomas Alva Edison Quotes
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I
believe deeply that we must find a new spirituality... in such a way
that all people of good will could adhere to it... We ought to promote
this concept with the help of scientists... It could lead us to what we
are looking for.
~ HH The Dalai Lama Quotes
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This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure
that love can't conquer all, it seems to anyway."
~ Anne Lamott Quotes
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Spiritual teachers ultimately agree that true wisdom does not come from outside us, but from within.
And
it does not come from within simply because we want it. It comes when
we live in a way that invites wisdom. It comes through direct
experience.
~ Rabbi David A. Cooper Quotes
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The
first part of the spiritual journey should properly be called
psychological rather than spiritual because it involves peeling away the
myths and illusions that have misinformed us.
~ Sam Keen Quotes
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I
do not believe that an individual may gain spiritually and those who
surround him suffer. I believe in advaita, I believe in the essential
unity of man and, for that matter, of all that lives. Therefore, I
believe that if one man gains spiritually, the whole world gains with
him and, if one man falls, the whole world falls to that extent.
~ Mohandas K. Gandhi Quotes
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Life
is the most precious and wondrous thing that any of us have. Along the
way, one of the real miracles occurs when we realize that what really
matters is to deepen our relationship to ourselves and that to do this
we have to enter a spiritual journey. We have to discover anew, or for
the first time, our own relationship to the Infinite. We must begin to
risk trusting a whole new level of intimacy with ourselves, life and the
people whose lives we touch."
~ Richard Moss Quotes
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Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake.
If
material poverty is to be avoided, spiritual poverty is to be abhorred.
For it is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core
of all human suffering.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes
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We
are living in a very exciting and powerful time. On the deepest level
of consciousness, a radical spiritual transformation is taking place. I
believe that on a worldwide level, we are being challenged
to
let go of our present way of life and create an entirely new one. We
are, in fact, in the process of destroying our old world and building a
new one in its place.
~ Shakti Gawain Quotes
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Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy.
~ George Santayana Quotes
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Look within.
Within you is the hidden God.
Within you is the immortal soul.
Within you is the inexhaustible spiritual treasure.
Within you is the ocean of bliss.
Look within for the happiness which you have sought in vain.
~ Swami Sivananda Quotes
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No man who has lived through a temporary spiritual experience is ever likely to forget it.
His days will be haunted until he sets out to seek ways and means of repeating it.
~ Paul Brunton Quotes
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The
spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized
or regulated. It isn’t true that everybody should follow one path.
Listen to your own truth.
~ Baba Ram Dass Quotes
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Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
~ M. Scott Peck, M.D. Quotes
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The
spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing
yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then
taking the next step.
~ Sri Aurobindo Quotes
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On
the path to love, impossibilities are resolved by turning non-love into
love. With spiritual growth comes new creative potential, leading
to the realization that you are pure potential, able to fill any
creative impulse.
~ Deepak Chopra Quotes
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The
spiritual thirst that is latent in everybody can never come to a place
of fulfillment unless people begin to think of each other as potential
brothers and sisters.
~ Malidoma Some Quotes`
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And how, you ask, are we to walk the spiritual path?
We answer: Say little and love much; Give all; judge no man;
Aspire to all that is pure and good.
~ White Eagle Quotes
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Whether
or not enlightenment is a plausible goal for us is a vital question for
our lives. If it is possible for us to attain such perfect
enlightenment ourselves, our whole sense of meaning and our place
in the universe immediately changes. To be open to the possibility
is to be a spiritual seeker, no matter what our religion.
Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It
is an evolutionary goal…
~ Robert Thurman Quotes
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Human
conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine.
Everything in the future will improve if you are making a spiritual
effort now.
~ Swami Sri Yukteswar Quotes
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All
spiritual growth takes place as a gradual harmonious unfolding. It
happens automatically. As you live up to your highest light,
acting on your inspirations, more and more light comes to you.
There is no hurry or impatience to get anything; it comes as you are
ready.
~ Cheryl Canfield Quotes
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Be
patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean do not be
disheartened by your imperfections, But always rise up with fresh
courage. I am glad you make a fresh beginning daily. There is no better
means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning
again,
And
never thinking we have done enough. How are we to be patient in dealing
with our neighbors faults if we are impatient in dealing with our own?
He who is fretted with his own failings will not correct them.
All profitable correction comes from a calm, peaceful mind.
~ St. Francis de Sales Quotes
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Always remember, Joy is not incidental to spiritual quest. It is vital.
~ Rebbe Nachman Quotes
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Spiritual
Work is not easy. It means the willingness to surrender feelings that
seem, while we're in them, like our defense against a greater pain. It
means that we surrender to God our perceptions of all things.
~ Marrianne Williamson Quotes
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A life of reaction is a life of slavery, Intellectually and spiritually.
One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
~ Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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There is something in all of us that seeks the spiritual…
The
spiritual is inclusive. It is the deepest sense of belonging and
participation. We all participate in the spiritual at all times, whether
we know it or not. There’s no place to go to be separated from the
spiritual, so perhaps one might say that the spiritual is that realm of
human experience which religion attempts to connect is to through dogma
and practice. Sometimes it succeeds and sometimes it fails. Religion is a
bridge to the spiritual ~ but the spiritual lies beyond religion.
Unfortunately. In seeking the spiritual we may become attached to the
bridge rather than crossing over it.
~ Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D. Quotes
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There is a great need to bring spiritual values into the corporate setting.
Persuading
your organization to shift from a paradigm of competition, exploitation
and self interest, to cooperation, empowerment and the common good is
one of the greatest gifts you can give to society.
~ Richard Barrett, at the World Bank Quotes
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The
spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where
you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to
recognition…
~ Anthony DeMello Quotes
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To
undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to
learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the
transformative power of our heart.
~ Jack Kornfield Quotes
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Spirituality means waking up.
Most people, even though they don’t know it, are asleep.
They’re born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep,
they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up.
They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.
You know ~ all mystics… are unanimous on one thing: that all is well, all is well.
'Though everything is a mess, all is well.
Strange paradox, to be sure.
But, tragically, most people never get to see that all is well because they are asleep.
They are having a nightmare.
~ Anthony DeMello Quotes
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Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely as a vehicle for joy.
~ George Santayana Quotes
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I believe deeply that we must find a new spirituality...
in such a way that all people of good will could adhere to it...
We ought to promote this concept with the help of scientists...
It could lead us to what we are looking for.
~ HH The Dalai Lama Quotes
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And
that’s only the minimum level of spirituality. But when true
spiritual life is begun, one becomes concerned with much more than his
own growth. As growth takes place in the spiritual realm, in the
realm of consciousness, a person widens his concerns ~ not just to his
limited family, but to society and the entire sentient world. Even
if he is not in a position to do anything, at least he has a moment
when he has this sense that, oh, God, there are so many suffering
beings, and I have the potential to develop my spiritual strength and
vision and power so that one day I may become one of those great masters
who can help others. This vision has to do with the dharma.
Dharma is my source of spiritual growth. Eventually it opens out
into universal concern and compassion. That is the heart of
spirituality.
~ Lobsang Lhalungpa Quotes
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Spirituality
is not to be learned by flight from the world, by running away from
things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world.
Rather, we learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be.
We must learn to penetrate things and find God there….
~ Meister Eckhart Quotes
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It’s odd that after thousands of years of great spiritual examples and literature
we have to remind ourselves that spirituality is to be found in everyday life.
The world’s sacred poetry, ritual, prayer and art are filled with images
of incarnated divinity…that lies, admittedly sometimes hidden, in the temporal,
or the transpersonal that animates our personal lives. Hundreds of times
painters have taken up the theme of the “Annunciation” and have pictured
that moment, that eternal moment that is in all our lives,
when the angel says: “You, mortal person, have divinity in you.”
~ Thomas Moore Quotes
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Spirituality means waking up.
Most people, even though they don’t know it, are asleep.
They’re born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep,
they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up.
They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.
You know ~ all mystics…
are unanimous on one thing: that all is well, all is well.
'Though everything is a mess, all is well.
Strange paradox, to be sure.
But, tragically, most people never get to see that all is well because they are asleep.
They are having a nightmare.
~ Anthony DeMello Quotes
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To
me, spirituality is about two things: The liberation of consciousness
from all illusion, so that the true nature can shine and an embodiment
in life that is an alternative to the patterns of manipulation and greed
that dominate our current culture.
~ Christian Opitz Quotes
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Authentic spirituality… does not render the self content, it renders it undone.
~ Ken Wilbur Quotes
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The universe is a single atom: the convergence of science and spirituality.
~ Dalai Lama Quotes
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Spirituality for me is the sum total of all the acts of my day.
~ Ari Goldman Quotes
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But
to me the notion that spirituality is separate from the rest of life
does not allow for a practical approach to living a life that has
extraordinary quality.
~ Tony Robbins Quotes
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The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience.
~ Henryk Skolimowski Quotes
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"Even
before I could speak, I remember crawling through blueberry patches in
the wild meadows on our hillsides. I quickly discovered Nature was
filled with Spirit; I never saw any separation between Spirit and
Nature. Much later I discovered our culture taught there was
supposed to be some kind of separation - that God, Spirit and Nature
were supposed to be divided and different. However, at my early
age it seemed absolutely obvious that the church of the Earth was the
greatest church of all; that the temple of the forest was the supreme
temple. When I went to the sanctuary of the mountain, I found
Earth's natural altar - Great Spirit's real shrine. Years later I
discovered that this path of going into Nature, bonding deeply with it,
and seeing Spirit within Nature - God, Goddess, and Great Spirit - was
humanity's most ancient, most primordial path of spiritual cultivation
and realization."
~ John P. Milton Quotes
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"Spirituality is like a bird:
If you hold it too closely, it chokes,
And if you hold it too loosely, it escapes."
~ Israel Salanter Lipkin Quotes
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"Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction."
~ Edward O. Wilson Quotes
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"For
a person who cultivates wisdom or true knowledge, the results are inner
peace, satisfaction, patience, respect for others, freedom from
duplicity, compassion, joyfulness, and remembrance of his spiritual
identity..."
~ Chris Butler Quotes
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Attachment to spiritual things is ... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
~ Thomas Merton Quotes
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"In
our bodies, in this moment, there live the seed impulses of the change
and spiritual growth we seek, and to awaken them we must bring our
awareness into the body, into the here and now."
~ Pat Ogden Quotes
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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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"Image
consciousness and gardening don't mix. Image consciousness and
any enterprise where the soul is involved don't mix. But isn't
that the beginning of understanding spirituality. To be image
conscious keeps our guard up. It keeps our judgments - about
ourselves, others, and God - sharply defined, for we want to make sure
we play the right notes. Thus, we are unable to hear the music,
which is another way of saying we are unable to receive, to welcome, to
embrace."
~ Soul Gardening , p. 99 - Terry Hershey
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All
spiritual experiences are sensations in the body. They are simply
a graded series of sensations, beginning with the solidity of earth and
passing gradually, in full consciousness, through liquidness and the
emanation of heat to that of a total vibration before reaching the Void.
~ Sri Anirvan Quotes
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We are not human beings trying to be spiritual. We are spiritual beings trying to be human.
~ Jacquelyn Small Quotes
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When
you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever
walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all.
They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then
with their physical selves.
~ Albert Einstein Quotes
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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 Quotes
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Fortunately
art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a
spiritualized world endeavouring to interpret the wars and the solitudes
of the flesh.
~ Allen Ginsberg Quotes
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Great people are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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The
great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual
growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power
is basically a joyful one.
~ M. Scott Peck Quotes
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Zen
does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is
peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
~ Alan W. Watts Quotes
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Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
~ M. Scott Peck Quotes
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The
further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain
it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through
the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through
striving after rational knowledge.
~ Albert Einstein Quotes
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Simplify your life. You don’t grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual.
~ Steve Maraboli Quotes
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One of the most spiritual things you can do is embrace your humanity.
~ Steve Maraboli Quotes
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One
of the mot spiritual things you can do is acknowledge the human aspect
of your life. Once you acknowledge the human aspect of your life you'll
recognize the spiritual fuel that ignites that human engine.
~ Steve Maraboli Quotes
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“Each
of us is here to discover our true self...that essentially we are
spiritual beings who have taken manifestation in physical form...that
we‘re not human beings that have occasional spiritual experiences...that
we’re spiritual beings that have occasional human experiences.”
~ Deepak Chopra Quotes
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“The
spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized
or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path.
Listen to your own truth.”
~ Ram Dass Quotes
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“Happiness
cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is
the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and
gratitude.”
~ Denis Waitley Quotes
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