Spirituality Quotes

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

~ Anais Nin

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

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

~ Anais Nin

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.

~ Felix Adler

Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.

~ Thomas Moore

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something completely great.

~ Willa Cather

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

~ Carl Jung

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenetrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself among profoundly religious men.

~ Albert Einstein

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

~ Thomas Carlyle

Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends.

~ John Ruskin

In the faces of men and women I see God.

~ Walt Whitman

God doesn't look at how much we do, but with how much love we do it.

~ Mother Teresa

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

~ Scott Peck

~ Victor Hugo

~ Maya Angelou

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

~ Teilhard de Chardin

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

~ Thomas Merton

The candles are many, but the light is one.

~ Rumi

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

All things are bound together, all things connect. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls also the children of the earth.

~ Chief Oren Lyons

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

~ Marianne Williamson