Spirituality Quotations | Page 4

As long as I am this or that, or have this or that, I am not all things and I have not all things. Become pure till you neither are nor have either this or that; then you are omnipresent and, being neither this nor that, are all things.

You will have peace to the extent that you have God, and the further you are away from God the less you will be at peace... Thus you may measure your progress with God by measuring your peace or the lack of it.

God is at his greatest when I am at my least.

The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.

The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give.

I love all religions, but I am in love with my own.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.

The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.

The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

In spirituality the Americans are very inferior to us. But their society is very superior to ours

On this basic - being right and doing right the whole world can unite.

Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is impractical, for everything else will perish.

Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality.

Spirituality is the science of the Soul.

Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality.

Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure.

Respond to every call that excites your spirit.

God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of him. A word will never be able to comprehend the voice that utters it. But if I am true to the concept that God utters in me, if I am true to the thought of Him that I was meant to embody, I shall be full of his actuality and find him everywhere in myself, and find myself nowhere.

Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to admire everyone else.

Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation.

The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.

To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.

I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives. For it is in our lives, and not from our works, that our religion must be read.

What is material and what is not? When the world is the end and God is the means to attain that end, that is material. When God is the end and the world is only the means to attain that end, spirituality has begun.

Two attempts have been made in the world to found social life: the one was upon religion, and the other was upon social necessity. The one was founded upon spirituality, the other upon materialism; the one upon transcendentalism, the other upon realism.

The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality.

I died from a mineral and plant became, Died from the plant, took a sentient frame; Died from the beast, donned a human dress - When by my dying did I ever grow less...

Poetry absolves spirituality from the dividedness of religions and provides us with a sanctuary that excludes no one.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures.

All of us have the capacity to attract to ourselves what seems to be missing in our lives.

All of us emanate from a source of well-being. If you do not have well-being in your life, physically or emotionally, then you have to look at what kind of energies, thoughts, and spirituality you have chosen that take you away from your source.

...the soul is timeless and nonlocal...

We are more than what we do... much more than what we accomplish... far more than what we possess.

He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

You create your own universe as you go along.

Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells.

He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.