Quotes on Spiritual

The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

The sensations of colors on the palette can be spiritual experiences.

Colors produce a spiritual vibration, the impression they create is important only as a step towards this vibration.

A newborn child has to cry, for only in this way will his lungs expand. A doctor once told me of a child who could not breathe when it was born. In order to make it breathe the doctor gave it a slight blow. The mother must have thought the doctor cruel. But he was really doing the kindest thing possible. As with newborn children the lungs are contracted, so are our spiritual lungs. But through suffering God strikes us in love. Then our lungs expand and we can breathe and pray.

God is always joking. Look at your own life - it is a joke! Look at other people's lives, and you will find jokes and jokes and jokes. Seriousness is illness; seriousness has nothing spiritual about it. Spirituality is laughter, spirituality is joy, spirituality is fun.

The conclusion forced upon me in the course of a life devoted to natural science is that the universe as it is assumed to be in physical science is only an idealized world, while the real universe is the spiritual universe in which spiritual values count for everything.

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.

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.

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.

To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't see the stars at night.

Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.

God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery.

One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

I have learned that much of my spiritual progress does not come directly from God, but through my ability to humble myself and hear Him speak through imperfect people.

There should be a balance between material and spiritual progress, a balance achieved through the principles based on love and compassion.

I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.

If the spiritual universe and the way to it were shown, No one would remain in this world for a single moment.

Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.

Just by being ourselves we are borne toward a destiny far beyond anything we could imagine. It is enough to know that the being I nourish inside me is the same as the Being that suffuses every atom of the cosmos.