S Quotes
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“Spiritual growth is like climbing the cold and shadowed side of a mountain, our energy is most exhausted at the very point when we have climbed the highest and have the furthest to fall, however, the weariness and the chance of falling are required if we are to ever truly know the embrace of the warm and perfected Light that awaits us at the peak.”
“Spiritual growth is like learning to walk.
We stand up, fall, stand up, fall, take a step, fall, take a couple of steps, fall, walk a little better, wobble a bit, fall, run, and finally, eventually fly.”
Source: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment
“Spiritual growth is marked by a growing realization of just how much grace you need.”
“Spiritual growth is more than procedure, it’s a wild search for God in the midst of the tangled jungle of our souls, a search for which involves a volatile mix of messy reality, wild freedom, frustrating stuckness, increasing slowness and a healthy dose of gratitude”
“Spiritual growth is the gradual, I would say, transition from a God of tradition to a God of experience.”
“Spiritual growth is the only real growth”
“Spiritual growth requires the development of inner knowing and inner authority. It requires the heart, not the intellect.”
“Spiritual growth takes daily dying to yourself.”
“Spiritual growth thrives in the midst of our problems, not in their absence. Spiritual growth occurs in the trenches of life, not in the classroom.”
Source: Messy Spirituality
“Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience.”
Source: Heart Of The Soul: Emotional Awareness
“Spiritual guidance needs guidance. It's like comparing walking on the ground and mountain climbing. Once you learn how to walk, you can walk on the ground by yourself, but if you want to climb Mount Everest, you need a guide.”
“Spiritual healing is KNOWING that the body is perfect. Mental healing is effecting a perfect body by visualizing the body as perfect.”
“Spiritual healing occurs as we begin to consciously reconnect with our essential being - the wise, loving, powerful, creative entity that we are at our core.”
Source: The Path of Transformation: How Healing Ourselves Can Change the World
“Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health.”
“Spiritual humility is not about getting small, not about debasing oneself, but about approaching everything and everyone else with a readiness to see goodness and to be surprised. This is the humility of a child, which Jesus lauded. It is the humility of the scientist and the mystic. It has a lightness of step, not a heaviness of heart. That lightness is the surest litmus test I know for recognizing wisdom when you see it in the world or feel its stirrings in yourself. The questions that can lead us are already alive in our midst, waiting to be summoned and made real. It is a joy to name them. It is a gift to plant them in our senses, our bodies, the places we inhabit, the part of the world we can see and touch and help to heal. It is a relief to claim our love of each other and take that on as an adventure, a calling. It is a pleasure to wonder at the mystery we are and find delight in the vastness of reality that is embedded in our beings. It is a privilege to hold something robust and resilient called hope, which has the power to shift the world on its axis.”
Source: Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
“Spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst But you got to change it On the inside first To be satisfied”
“Spiritual illumination and perspective are poured out through the windows of heaven and into our lives as we honor the law of tithing.”
“Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.”
“Spiritual influence never coincided with material affluence.”
“Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.”
“Spiritual intelligence is like a vaccination against greed, arrogance and tyranny.”
Source: Know What Matters
“Spiritual intelligence is the capacity to conduct our life in such a way that it reflects deep philosophical and metaphysical understanding of reality and of ourselves discovered through personal experience during systematic spiritual pursuit.”
“Spiritual Intelligence is the Intuitive knowledge of the Self, others, situations and techniques to achieve the desired objectives of the world.”
“Spiritual Intelligence represents our drive for meaning and connection with the infinite.”
Source: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness
“Spiritual intimacy is the most rewarding form of intimacy and the hardest to achieve. Once you have tasted spiritual intimacy you will discover that physical, emotional, and intellectual intimacy, while breathtaking in their own right, do not belong in the same realm as spiritual intimacy. You will also discover that as you and your partner grow in spiritual intimacy, your experience of physical, emotional, and intellectual intimacy will also be heightened. At the core of the human person is the soul, and it yearns to be fed and nurtured.”
Source: The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved
“Spiritual is divine.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Spiritual is hooked up to the invisible umbilical cord of my Lord, Kumbiya.”
“Spiritual is the word people use when they mean they want to be covered whey they die but they're not getting up early on a Sunday.”
“Spiritual joy arises from purity of the heart and perseverance in prayer.”
“Spiritual joy is devotion, it's like a virus you know? It's a benevolent virus, but it spreads. It's infectious. Ram Dass was like a mentor in those days.”
“Spiritual joy is what you experience when you choose to give thanks to God no matter what happens-even when things go wrong.”
“Spiritual knowledge improves intuitive ability, innovative ability and communication.”
“Spiritual knowledge is fruitful only when it is applied”
“Spiritual knowledge is like a house built in the midst of secular and pagan knowledge, in which there is laid up, like a solid and well-secured chest, the knowledge of the inspired Scriptures and the inestimable riches they contain. Those who enter into the house will never at all be able to see those treasures unless this chest is opened for them. But it does not belong to human wisdom (cf. I Cor. 2:13) ever to be able to open it, so that the riches of the Spirit deposited in it remain unknown to all who are worldly.”
“Spiritual knowledge is not in learning something; it is in discovering something, so to speak, in breaking the fetters of the false consciousness and allowing the soul to unfold itself with light and power. What does the word spiritual really mean? Spiritual is spirit-conscious. When a person is conscious of his body, he cannot be spiritual. He is like a king who does not know his kingdom. The moment he is conscious of being a king, he is a king. Every soul is born a king—afterwards he becomes a slave. Every soul is born with kingly possibility—by this wicked world it is taken away. This is told in symbolic stories, as in the story of Rama, from whom his beloved Sita was taken away. Every soul has to conquer this, has to fight for this kingdom. In that fight the spiritual kingdom is attained. No one will fight for you, neither your teacher nor anybody else. Yes, those who are more evolved than you can help you, but you have to fight your battle, your way to that spiritual goal.”
Source: The Heart of Sufism: Essential Writings of Hazrat Inayat Khan
“Spiritual knowledge is the experience of enlightenment, and requires an understanding of the inner-most workings of the enlightenment cycle.”
Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“Spiritual leaders are not made by man, nor any combination of men. Neither conferences, nor synods, nor councils can make them, but only God.”
“Spiritual leaders are the last refuge of failure political scoundrels
And Politics is the last refuge of successful Spiritual scoundrels”
Source: "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
“Spiritual leaders do so much to keep the faith of their followers strong.
Some lie because the truth is linear. What you call a lie might be truth progressing into another realm of reality”
“Spiritual leaders say that as a matter of course prosperity will come when you are pursuing the right things with your life. To feel truly prosperous, you may have to leave the corporate world for good simply because prosperity and freedom go hand in hand. For some people this means having to give up a substantial amount of their income, at least for a certain period of time.”
“Spiritual leaders teach that waking up is a process, that it doesn't just happen once and for all, but must occur again and again when we realize we have forgotten the miracle of being alive, and in recognizing our forgetfulness, we wake to the miracle once again. In the moments we are awake to the wonder of simply being alive, gratitude flows, no matter our circumstances.”
Source: Attitudes of Gratitude, 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Give and Receive Joy Every Day of Your Life
“Spiritual leaders who require obedience as a prerequisite to granting any religious reward reveal that they fundamentally misunderstand the true source of happiness.”
“Spiritual leadership is knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to get them there by God's means in reliance on God's power.”
Source: Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry, Updated and Expanded Edition
“Spiritual leadership is the power to change the atmosphere by one's presence, the unconscious influence that makes Christ and spiritual things real to others.”
“Spiritual leadership ought to be given to those who have proven themselves under stress.”
“Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church.”
Source: Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt
“Spiritual life and secure life do not go together; to save oneself on must struggle and take risks.”
“Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.”
Source: The Sabbath
“Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.”
“Spiritual life doesn't make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.”