Quotes on Spirituality

Learning how to love is the goal and the purpose of spiritual life – not learning how to develop psychic powers, not learning how to bow, chant, do yoga, or even meditate, but learning to love. 

Love is the truth. Love is the light. 

~Lama Surya Das 

 The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science.

He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe,

is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. 

~Albert Einstein 

 Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. 

~Frederick Buechner

 Spirituality is allowing compassion and love to flourish. When belongness begins, corruption ends. 

~Sri Ravi Shankar 

Other people can’t cause us to be impatient,

unless we let them do so. 

In other words, others don’t make us impatient. 

We make ourselves impatient,
through our expectations and demands, fixated attachments and stuckness. 

~Surya Das 

There is an endless net of threads throughout the universe.  

At every crossing of the threads there is an individual. 

And every individual is a crystal bead.
And every crystal bead reflects not only the light from every other crystal in the net, 
but also every other reflection throughout the entire universe. 

~Anne Adams

Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. 

Instead it's about becoming more fully human.
It is the end of ignorance.

~Surya Das 

 God made so many different kinds of people. 

 Why would he allow only one way to serve him? 

 ~Martin Buber 

 All religions must be tolerated ... 

for... every man must get to heaven his own way. 

 ~Frederick the Great 

 This is my simple religion. 

There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy.
Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

  ~Dalai Lama

 Keep your thoughts positive because  your thoughts become your words. 

Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviors.
Keep your behaviors positive because your behaviors become your habits.
Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values.
Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.

~Gandhi 

When you judge another, you do not define them,

you define yourself. 

~Wayne Dyer 

 There is no way to happiness; 

happiness is the way. 

~Buddha 

Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.

You will want to change them when realize each thought creates according to its own nature.

Remember that the law works at all times and that you are always demonstrating

according to the kind of thoughts you habitually entertain.

Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness. 

~Paramahansa Yogananda

When you live in surrender, 

something comes through into the world of duality 
that is not of this world. 
                                                                                                        ~Eckhart Tolle  

Dreaming is not enough. 
You have to go one step further and use your imagination to visualize with intent!
Forget everything you've ever been taught and believe it will happen, just as you imagined it.
That is the secret. That is the mystery of life.

~Christine Anderson