Quotes on Spiritual

These days, in our materialistic culture, many people are led to believe that money is the ultimate source of happiness. Consequently, when they don’t have enough of it they feel let down. Therefore, it is important to let people know that they have the source of contentment and happiness within themselves, and that it is related to nurturing our natural inner values.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.

The middle path is the way to wisdom

Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.

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.

I believe that worrying about the problems plaguing our planet without taking steps to confront them is absolutely irrelevant. The only thing that changes this world is taking action.

God is well pleased when all our actions proceed from love, love to Himself, and love to immortal souls.

Have you ever gotten breathless before from a beautiful face, for i see you there, my dear.

We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency - clear disinterested thinking and fearless action

Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar?

The Spiritual Disciplines are things that we do. We must never lose sight of this fact. It is one thing to talk piously about 'the solitude of the heart,' but if that does not somehow work its way into our experience, then we have missed the point of the Disciplines. We are dealing with actions, not merely states of mind.

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

We talk a lot about the importance of physical exercise to wake us _x000D_ up out of the half sleep in which so many of us walk around. But we need, even more, some spiritual and mental exercises every morning to stir us into action. Give yourself a pep talk every day.

You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.

My goal is to live the truly religious life, and express it in my music. If you live it, when you play there's no problem because the music is part of the whole thing. To be a musician is really something. It goes very, very deep. My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.

Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.

Our goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy.

I think there's a difference between "I Can" and "I Am." And "I Am" is really the goal that I'm looking for, rather than "I Can".

To reach a goal you have never before attained, you must do things you have never before done.

The goal of fasting is inner unity.