T Quotes
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“The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence; but an invitation to enter fully into that difficult existence, and there apply the Charity of God and bear the cost.”
Source: The School of Charity: Meditations on the Christian Creed
“The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin.”
“The spiritual life is always about letting go. It is never about holding on.”
“The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.”
Source: Thoughts In Solitude
“The spiritual life is indeed a life of struggle; but it is also a life of well grounded hope. Hope is grounded in freedom, and freedom is grounded in all the high purposes and powers of spirit, human and divine. The last word of spirit is Victory.”
“The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's life; and until he has realized it, he is not a complete human being, has not entered into possession of all his powers.”
Source: Practical Mysticism: A Little Book for Normal People
“The spiritual life... is not achieved by denying one part of life for the sake of another. The spiritual life is achieved only by listening to all of life and learning to respond to each of its dimensions wholly and with integrity.”
“The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.”
Source: The healthy personality: readings
“The spiritual life is the real life; all else is illusion and deception. Only those who are attached to God alone are truly free. Only those who live up to the highest light live in harmony. All who act upon their highest motivations become a power for good. It is not important that others be noticeably affected: results should never be sought or desired. Know that every right
thing you do - every good word you say - every positive thought you think - has good effect.”
“The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God and horizontally to other souls; and the more it grows in both directions, the less merely individual and therefore more truly personal it will become.”
Source: Mixed Pasture: Twelve Essays and Addresses
“The spiritual man finds contentment in God alone, and thus is never disappointed with life's circumstances. He humbles himself under God's mighty hand, joyfully submitting to His will. Free from the need for laws and rules, he is guided by a simple and pure devotion to Christ, becoming more like Him with each passing year.”
“The spiritual man habitually makes eternity-judgments instead of time-judgments. By faith he rises above the tug of earth and the flow of time and learns to think and feel as one who has already left the world and gone to join the innumerable company of angels and the general assembly and Church of the First-born which are written in heaven. Such a man would rather be useful than famous and would rather serve than be served. And all this must be by the operation of the Holy Spirit within him. No man can become spiritual by himself. Only the free Spirit can make a man spiritual.”
“The spiritual master and Krishna are two parallel lines. The train, on two tracks, moves forward. The spiritual Master and Krishna are like these two tracks. They must be served simultaneously. Krishna helps one to find bona fide Spiritual Master and bona fide Spiritual Master helps one to understand Krishna. If one does not get bona fide Spiritual Master, then how he can ever understand Krishna ? You cannot serve Krishna without Spiritual Master, or serve just Spiritual Master without serving Krishna. They must be served simultaneously.”
“The spiritual master can instruct the disciple though many different formats.”
“the spiritual meaning of every situation [is] not what happens to us, but what we do with what happens to us and who we decide to become because of what happens to us. The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through.”
Source: The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life
“The spiritual meaning of intuition rests in the recognition of truth beyond what our physical senses can perceive. It acts as an inherent guide. A compass that directs us towards the most authentic versions of ourselves. Oftentimes, intuition manifests as an unexplainable hunch. An intuitive GPS.”
Source: Intuitive Guide: How to Trust Your Gut, Embrace Divine Signs, & Connect with Heavenly Messengers
“The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God.”
“The spiritual mind is always metaphorical. Spiritual thinking is poetic thinking. It's always trying to put a very diaphanous experience into words, realizing all the while that words are inadequate.”
“The spiritual muscles I hadn't used for decades began to acquire some tone, and since they were Catholic muscles too, it was natural to look for a church to work out in.
It was hard. Appalling though the predations exacted on the monastic liturgy were, they were nothing compared to the desecration exacted on the secular. Latin was gone entirely, replaced by dull, oppressive, anchorman English, slavishly translated from its sonorous source to be as plain and "direct" as possible. It didn't seem to have occurred to the well-meaning vandals who'd thrown out baby, bath, and bathwater that all ritual is a reaching out to the unknowable and can be accomplished only by the noncognitive: evocation, allusion, metaphor, incantation—the tools of the poet.”
Source: Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
“The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.”
Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of
“The spiritual path can only be traveled through the daily experience of love.”
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness
“The spiritual path is easy. It's the only path that is.”
“The spiritual path is kind and tender and rewards its trekkers with obvious and valuable gains for every step.”
Source: Geboor: Spiritual Fiction
“The spiritual path is not a solo endeavor. In fact, the very notion of a self who is trying to free her/ himself is a delusion. We are in it together and the company of spiritual friends helps us realize our interconnectedness.”
“The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but of return.”
“The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.”
“The spiritual path wrecks the body And afterwards restores it to health. It destroys the house to unearth the treasure, And with that treasure builds it better than before.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“The spiritual power in the gospel is denied when we augment or adjusting gospel into no gospel at all. When we doubt the message alone is the power of God for salvation we start adding or subtracting, trusting our own powers of persuasion or presentation.”
“The spiritual process has always been referred to as a journey - constant change.”
“The spiritual process is always individual. You may sit in a group, but only the individual can evolve, only the individual can liberate himself.”
“The spiritual process is not about imposing your will on external reality; it is about remaking yourself in such a way that the creator and creation become one and the same.”
“The spiritual quality of earth: eternally pregnant and containing in its fertility the unwritten cipher of cosmic lore.”
“The spiritual quest begins, for most people, as a search for meaning.”
Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s
“The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.”
Source: Heart of the Enlightened: A Book of Story Meditations
“The spiritual quest is not some added benefit to our life, something you embark on if you have the time and inclination. We are spiritual beings on an earthly journey. Our spirituality makes up our beingness.”
Source: Bradshaw On: The Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem
“The spiritual quest was always the predominant aspect of my life. It's always been there. But there's also an incredible passion connected to it; it's not just a dry investigative process. I have been extremely emotional about it, and that comes out in the songs.”
“The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.”
“The spiritual rest, which God particularly intends in this Commandment, is this: that we not only cease from our labor and trade, but much more, that we let God alone work in us and that we do nothing of our own with all our powers.”
Source: A Treatise on Good Works
“The spiritual sense of our place in nature... can be traced to the origins of human civilization... The last vestige of organized goddess worship was eliminated by Christianity.”
Source: Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose
“The spiritual substance from which comes all
visible wealth is never depleted. It is right with you all the time and responds to your faith in it and your demands on it.”
Source: Prosperity: Spiritual Secrets to an Abundant Life
“The Spiritual Sun already blazes within.”
“The spiritual task of life is to feed hope. Hope is not something to be found outside of us. It lies in the spiritual life we cultivate within. The whole purpose of wrestling with life is to be transformed into the self we are meant to become, to step out of the confines of our false securities and allow our creating God to go on creating. In us.”
“The spiritual test inherent in all our lives is the challenge to discover what motivates us to make the choices we do, and whether we have faith in our fears or the Divine.”
Source: Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing
“The spiritual things that you may not be able to see and feel are just as real as the things you can. God puts faith in place so you can believe in Him and all things spiritual without have it set before you in physical form.”
Source: The Book of Simple Human Truths
“The spiritual thirst that is latent in everybody can never come to a place of fulfillment unless people begin to think of each other as potential brothers and sisters.”
“The spiritual traditions of all the religions have certain similarities that are unmistakable. They share many of the same basic practices like sacred reading, spiritual guidance, moderation in eating, drinking and sexual expression, and above all, trying to be aware of the presence of God in other people and in everyday life.”
“The spiritual uplift, the goodwill, cheerfulness and optimism that accompanies every expedition to the outdoors is the peculiar spirit that our people need in times of suspicion and doubt...No other organized joy has values comparable to the outdoor experience.”
“The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.”
“The spiritual warrior hides from nothing. We jump into the fire, we dive into the ocean. We become the sea.”
“The spiritual world exists as a cosmos in itself. A cosmos containing worlds. And there is synergy and harmony amongst these worlds. What humam beings have done to their interpretation of this cosmos, is merely only that-- a human interpretation. The way things are here, you'd have me believing that there is some kind of great big race to win people over to this God or to that God; to that religion or to this religion. People see separation when in fact there is no separation that exists in the spiritual world. The unseen (heaven, God, angels, etc.) do not exist the way that we exist. We are the ones turning God against God and angel against angel. With our writings and our churches and our teachers and our pews.”