Quotes on Spirituality

Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued elsewhere that this is a problem - because millions of people have had experiences for which 'spiritual' and 'mystical' seem the only terms available.

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

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.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

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.

It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.

There is no development of character without resistance, there is no growth of spirituality without overcoming.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

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.

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.