Best spiritual & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The one aim of [my] yoga is an inner self-development by which each one who follows it can in time discover the One Self in all and evolve a higher consciousness than the mental, a spiritual and supramental consciousness which will transform and divinize human nature.”

Humans Self Spiritual Spirituality Consciousness Human Nature Development Higher Yoga Aim Evolve Self Development Inner Self Higher Consciousness

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“Don't become a spiritual bigot. Don't feel that just because you meditate and you are striving for enlightenment that you are in any way superior to any other person. Be even. Be easy. You will last longer on the pathway to self-discovery.”

Way Feels Persons Self Lasts Spiritual Easy Buddhism Balance Enlightenment Discovery Strive Self Discovery Superiors Pathways Bigots

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-righteousness is much like a spiritual egocentricity. It constitutes a secular type of love that thrives under conditionality, one in which is only existent after an individual meets the adopted standards of the condemner; oppositely, unconditional love is a holy love.”

Self Spiritual Individual Love Is Type Holy Standards True Love Thrive Unconditional Love Righteousness Secular Adopted Unconditional Self Righteousness Types Of Love

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Our success in America will involve two circles: Black Nationalism and Islam–it will take BN [Black Nationalism] to make our people conscious of doing for self & then Islam will provide the spiritual guidance. BN [Black Nationalism] will link us to Africa and Islam will link us spiritually to Africa, Arabia & Asia.”

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Author:Malcolm X

“place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his nature, the base as well as the noble. Here also he buries his sorrows and difficulties and cherishes his ideals and hopes. It is in the garden that men discover themselves. Indeed one discovers not only his real self but also his ideal self?he returns to his youth. Inevitably the garden is made the scene of man's merriment, escapades, romantic abandonment, spiritual awakening or the perfection of his finer self.”

“Know that what appears to be Love for an 'other' is really Love of Self because 'other' doesn't exist. So this innermost Love can be given to no 'other'. Love of friends is for the sake of Self, not for body to body. True love has no Lover or Beloved because all Love is Love of Self.”

Knows Self Body Spiritual Spirituality Given Love Is Self Love Lovers Sake Beloved

Book:The Truth Is

Source: The Truth Is

“All unhappiness is caused by our trying to be limited, to be an ego. The more we are our Self, the happier we are. We will never be completely happy until we are completely being our Self.”

Trying Self Spiritual Ego Unhappiness

Author:Lester Levenson

“What is joy? Joy is nothing but the Self. When desires are fulfilled, the mind is stilled. This allows the Self to shine forth and that is what we call joy.”

Mind Self Spiritual Joy Desire Shining Fulfilled

Author:Lester Levenson

“Truth can be found by a process of eliminating wrong thoughts, which are thoughts of limitation. When all thoughts of limitation are eliminated, what remains is our natural, unlimited, Self.”

Self Spiritual Found Process Natural Remains Limitation Unlimited Eliminating

Author:Lester Levenson

“I do not stand here before you as a self-righteous saint who has achieved spiritual perfection, but as a sinner who has received Jesus into his heart as his Lord and Savior.”

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Author:Thomas J. Paprocki

“Created man cannot become a son of God and god by grace through deification, unless he is first through his own free choice begotten in the Spirit by means of the self-loving and independent power dwelling naturally in him.”

Men Firsts Mean Self Spiritual Spirit Choices Grace Son Independent Dwelling Free Choice Self Loving

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“Baba tells us that when we serve another, we should remind ourselves that we are serving the Divinity within that other. This is something that we frequently forget, for it needs a very big mental re-adjustment. Don't worry about it -- just serve! But the very least that is demanded of us in this context is to RESPECT the person we are serving. That includes respecting their beliefs; in fact, it means reaching their spiritual Self through their beliefs, not ours. It means putting oneself in their shoes; cheering them up if possible, but seeing things from their point of view.”

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Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“At its most basic, the spiritual is the experience of the connectedness that underlies reality. The depth of that experience depends on the capacity of the individual to set aside considerations of self, thereby gaining access to connection.”

Self Reality Spiritual Spirituality Individual Depends Capacity Connections Depth Access Consideration Connectedness

Author:Arthur J. Deikman

“The great purpose is to set aside a reasonable part of the vanishing wilderness, to make certain that generations of Americans yet unborn will know what it is to experience life on undeveloped, unoccupied land in the same form and character as the Creator fashioned it... It is a great spiritual experience. I never knew a man who took a bedroll into an Idaho mountainside and slept there under a star-studded summer sky who felt self-important that next morning. Unless we preserve some opportunity for future generations to have the same experience, we shall have dishonored our trust.”

“You are living in a time when opportunities for self-empowerment, expanded awareness and spiritual growth appear to be unlimited.”

Self Spiritual Opportunity Growth Awareness Self Esteem Empowerment Self Confidence Esteem Spiritual Growth Unlimited Self Empowerment Boost Self Confidence Boost Self Esteem

Book:Path of Empowerment: New Pleiadian Wisdom for a World in Chaos

Source: Path of Empowerment: New Pleiadian Wisdom for a World in Chaos

“It's amazing to me how many people who profess to be spiritual seekers are self-seekers, and how few of them ever consider God.”

People Self God Spiritual Seekers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is 'I'; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.”

World Self Spiritual

Book:Who am I?

Source: Who am I?

“My father was a naturalist and a very spiritual person, who had a great desire to pass on his knowledge to others, so that they could receive the benefits of Jiu Jitsu as well. Growing up in this environment, I learned the art of Jiu Jitsu is actually a method through which one strives for self-perfection.”

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Author:Carlos Gracie, Jr.

“Business is a creative and therefore spiritual endeavor. Great entrepreneurs enter the field of business in the same way great artists enter the field of art. With their business creation, entrepreneurs express their spiritual desire for self-realization, evolutionary passion for self- fulfillment, and creative vision of a new world. The entrepreneur's business is their artwork. The creation of business is as creative as any creation in art. In fact, building a business may be the most creative human activity.”

“I wish more of us could understand that our increasing isolation, no matter how much it seems to express pride and self-affirmation, is not the answer to our problems. Rather, the answer is a revival of our ancient commitment to God, who rules over all the peoples of the world and exalts no one over any other, and to the moral and spiritual values which were once legendary in America. We must reach out our hand in friendship both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.”

“I am never very forward in offering spiritual consolation to any one in distress or disease. I believe that such resources, to be of any service, must be self-evolved in the first instance. I am something of the Quaker's mind in this, and am inclined to wait for the spirit.”

Mind Firsts Believe Self Spiritual Spirit I Believe Waiting Disease Resources Instance Offering Distress Consolation Quaker

Book:Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The final bridge to cross is to let go of the mind-created 'spiritual' self. Burn that bridge behind you. Stay empty of self-image and cease looking back. Remain in the neutrality of being. That's it!”

Mind Self Spiritual Behinds Letting Go Crosses Empty Finals Cease Bridges Looking Back Behind You Neutrality

Book:White Fire: Spiritual Insights and Teachings of Advaita Zen Master Mooji

Source: White Fire: Spiritual Insights and Teachings of Advaita Zen Master Mooji

“When a soul has advanced so far on the spiritual road as to be lost to all the natural methods of communing with God; when it seeks Him no longer by meditation, images, impressions, nor by any other created ways, or representations of sense, but only by rising above them all, in the joyful communion with Him by faith and love, then it may be said to have found God of a truth, because it has truly lost itself as to all that is not God, and also as to its own self.”

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Author:John of the Cross

“Absolute faith is not the place of self-affirmation, but the place of self-negation. Life of faith is not limited to our spiritual life. What is important is how our spiritual sensitivity is applied to our relative environment.”

Important Self Spiritual Environment Absolutes Relative Spiritual Life Sensitivity Affirmation Negation Self Affirmation

Author:Sun Myung Moon

“By a kind of happy pre-established harmony, such as a later age discovered between the needs of society and the self-interest of the individual, success in business is in itself almost a sign of spiritual grace, for it is a proof that a man has laboured faithfully in his vocation.”

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Book:Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism

Source: Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism

“There can be no doubt that the young of today have to be protected against certain poisonous effects inherent in present-day civilization. Five social diseases surround them, even in early childhood. There is the decline in fitness due to modern methods of locomotion; the decline in initiative due to the widespread disease of spectatoritis; the decline in care and skill due to the weakened tradition of craftsmanship; the decline in self-discipline due to the ever-present availability of tranquilizers and stimulants, and the decline in compassion, which William Temple called "spiritual death.”

“Many people meditate in order that a third eye may open. For that they feel they should close their two physical eyes. They thereby become blind to the world. But the fact is that the third eye will never open. We can never close our eyes to the world in the name of spirituality. Self-realization is the ability to see ourselves in all beings. This is the third eye through which you see, even while your two eyes are open. We should be able to love and serve others, seeing ourselves in them. This is the fulfillment of spiritual practice.”

“Anxiety may consist of the loss of psychological or spiritual meaning which is identified with one's existence as a self, i.e., the threat of meaninglessness.”

May Self Wisdom Spiritual Loss Existence Anxiety Threat Psychological Meaninglessness

Author:Paul Tillich

“It is the profoundest of cosmic ironies. The divine power, our true spiritual essence, does not achieve perfection until it hits the 'rock' bottom of the cosmos - the dense and crude earth. It remains imperfect until the moment of entombment for the simple reason that until that dark nadir is reached the experiential adventure of existence remains incomplete, and Self is not yet endowed with the entire spectrum of the light of consciousness - from spirit to matter - from the highest high to the lowest low.”

Source: The New Hermetics: 21st Century Magick for Illumination and Power

“Faith in the continuance and enhancement of the intrinsic values--faith in truth, in beauty, in friendship, in love and harmony of life--in short, faith in reason and the worth of spiritual life--such faith is only another name for faith in the persistence of spiritual individuality. For, I repeat, these values are real only as functions of personal experience and deed. To have faith in the permanence of intrinsic values is to assume the enduring reality of selves who know truth, feel beauty, who love and win spiritual harmony.”

“Heartbreak is our indication of sincerity: in a love relationship, in a work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the attempt to shape a better more generous self. Heartbreak is the beautifully helpless side of love and affection and is just as much an essence and emblem of care as the spiritual athlete's quick but abstract ability to let go... But heartbreak may be the very essence of being human, of being on the journey from here to there, and of coming to care deeply for what we find along the way.”

“The clergy profession is fundamentally self-defeating. Its stated purpose is to nurture spiritual maturity in the church - a valuable goal. In actuality, however; it accomplishes the opposite by nurturing a permanent dependence of the laity on the clergy. Clergy become to their congregations like parents whose children never grow up, like therapists whose clients never become healed, like teachers whose students never graduate.”

“I went through times of self-hate, thinking how undeveloped spiritual I was. Everyone else in the ashram, a thousand people, nobody had a girlfriend or boyfriend. I did.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“As the years progressed, my spiritual evolution seemed to increase in speed. I stepped outside this world, the selves reordered. The combination, the aggregate of beings that I was, dissolved in the white light of eternity.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“I am a political animal, because for God's sakes I think "We The People" is a job. I think experienced self government demands on all levels - intellectual, moral, historical, and spiritual level. We are supposed to be engaged and give directions to our elected employees.”

People Thinking Giving Self Government Jobs Spiritual Political Animal Levels Moral Demand Intellectual Historical Sake Supposed To Be Engaged Employee Self-government Political Animals

Author:Ted Nugent

“Self-esteem creates natural highs. Knowing that you're lovable helps you to love more. Knowing that you're important helps you to make a difference to to others. Knowing that you are capable empowers you to create more. Knowing that you're valuable and that you have a special place in the universe is a serene spiritual joy in itself.”

Source: On the Wings of Self-esteem: A Companion for Personal Transformation

“Holiness consists in doing God’s will joyfully. Faithfulness makes saints. The spiritual life is a union with Jesus: the divine and the human giving themselves to each other. The only thing Jesus asks of us is to give ourselves to him, in total poverty and total self-forgetfulness.”

Giving Humans Self Spiritual Life Is Asks Jesus Poverty Divine Unions Saint Gods Will Holiness Spiritual Life Faithfulness Forgetfulness Self Forgetfulness

Author:Mother Teresa

“We need others for our physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Without others we are nothing. Our sense that we are an island, an independent, self-sufficient individual, bears no relation to reality. It is closer to the truth to picture ourself as a cell in the vast body of life, distinct yet intimately bound up with all living beings. We cannot exist without others, and they in turn are affected by everything we do. The idea that it is possible to secure our own welfare while neglecting the welfare of others, or even at the expense of others, is completely unrealistic.”

“Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.”

Men Persons Self Character Body Spiritual Conscious Conversion Unconscious Self Conscious Individualization

Book:Character and characteristic men

Source: Character and characteristic men

“For twenty-seven years I was witness to the spiritual deterioration of my own father, watching day after day how everything human in him left him and how gradually he turned into a grim monument to his own self.”

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Book:Only One Year

Source: Only One Year

“As the social self can only be developed by contact with society, so the spiritual self can only be developed by contact with the spiritual world.”

World Self Spiritual Social Contact

Book:Advent with Evelyn Underhill

Source: Advent with Evelyn Underhill

“God's truth is literal truth. The illumined mind has more operative cells. In reclaiming the mystical, we take back our whole selves. Formerly barren mental lands spring to new life through the planting of spiritual seeds.”

Mind Self Whole Spiritual Land Truth Is Spring Seeds Cells Mystical New Life Literal Barren

Book:Illuminata: A Return to Prayer

Source: Illuminata: A Return to Prayer

“Boston - wrinkled, spindly-legged, depleted of nearly all her spiritual and cutaneous oils, provincial, self-esteeming - has gone on spending and spending her inflated bills of pure reputation, decade after decade.”

Self Spiritual Cities Gone Pure Bills Spending Oil Decades Reputation Boston

Book:A View of My Own: Essays on Literature and Society

Source: A View of My Own: Essays on Literature and Society

“When we don't get what we want, there's a legitimate grieving, and then the spiritual journey truly begins, because not getting what we want breaks our self-reference; and once that is broken, we are aware that we are a part of a larger whole. It changes everything.”

Want Self Whole Spiritual Break Journey Broken Grieving Spiritual Journey

Author:Mark Nepo

“I will only ever be drawn to people who suffer from that special and fertile anguish called self-doubt, or the thirst for the ideal, and desire for the soul's mystical fire. Self-satisfaction because of some material accomplishment will never be for me. The truly great are those who quest for better spiritual selves.”

Source: The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt

“Second, the only proven technique for treatment for chemically dependent people involves use of a spiritual program of self-change.”

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Author:Virgil Miller Newton

“I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world.”

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Author:Tanit Phoenix

“The real goal of a spiritual tradition should not be ascent, but openness, vulnerability, and this does not require great experiences but, on the contrary, very ordinary ones. Charisma is easy; presence, self-remembering, is terribly difficult, and where the real work lies.”

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Author:Morris Berman

“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.”

“The idea of suicide, understandable as it is, does not seem commendable to me. We live in order to gain the greatest possible amount of spiritual development and self-awareness. As long as life is possible, even if only in a minimal degree, you should hang onto it, in order to scoop it up for the purpose of conscious development. To interrupt life before its time is to bring to a standstill an experiment which we have not set up. We have found ourselves in the midst of it and must carry it through to the end.”

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