I believe, and therefore anything is possible. Unknown
Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a
time, with no gaining idea. Shunryu Suzuki
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of
the darkness. Desmond Tutu
When you want something, all the universe conspires in
helping you to achieve it. Paulo Coelho
Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find
your treasure. Paulo Coelho
Spirituality is fearlessness. It is a way of looking boldly at
this life we have been given, here, now, on earth, as this
human being. Elizabeth Lesser
If you don’t behave as you believe, you will end by believing as
you behave. Fulton J. Sheen
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature.
Have faith in yourselves. Swami Vivekananda
Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul
into it to the exclusion of all else. Swami Vivekananda
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder,
spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the
human spirit. E.E. Cummings
To me, faith means not worrying. John Dewey
Be patient. You’ll know when it’s time for you to wake up
and move ahead. Ram Dass
If you believe it will work out, you’ll see opportunities,
if you believe it won’t you will see obstacles.
Wayne Dyer
A belief is only a thought I keep thinking. Abraham Hicks
Appreciation in advance brings everything you want to you.
Abraham Hicks
See also: How to Believe in Yourself
SPIRITUAL QUOTES ABOUT BIBLE, GOD
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Pray, and let God worry. Martin Luther
What you are is God’s gift to you, what you become is your
gift to God. Hans Urs von Balthasar
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does
not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not
self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no
record of wrongs. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes,
always perseveres. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come
and go God’s love for us does not. C.S. Lewis
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college
education. Theodore Roosevelt
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I
prayed with my legs. Frederick Douglass
Whatever your heart clings to and confides in,
that is really your God. Martin Luther
God enters by a private door into every individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that
we call human history — money, poverty, ambition,
war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery — the long
terrible story of man trying to find something other than
God which will make him happy. C.S. Lewis
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and
sentences that in all your readings have been to you
like the blast of a trumpet. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and
definitions, we are no longer dealing with God. Rob Bell
If prayer is you talking to God, then intuition is God
talking to you. Wayne Dyer
Faith is God’s work within us. Thomas Aquinas
God loves me when I sing. God respects me when I work.
Rabindranath Tagore
SPIRITUAL QUOTES ABOUT STRENGTH, TOUGH TIMES, HEALING, CHANGE
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Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise. Ram Dass
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the
most difficult period in one’s life. Dalai Lama
Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the
present. Albert Camus
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy;
for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves;
we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France
Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty.
That will reflect in your face. Dolores del Rio
Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to
go forward anyway. Joyce Meyer
It is the inner life that is to spark the change in consciousness
that will permit us to advance. Brother Wayne Teasdale
I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found
myself, my work, and my God. Helen Keller (She was blind)
The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become
during the midst of your frustrations. Samuel Ullman
On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed,
maybe not that same day, but still transformed into
spiritual fuel or insight. Anne Lamott
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through
experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened,
ambition inspired, and success achieved. Helen Keller
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your
understanding. Kahlil Gibran
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Carl Jung
When there’s nothing but humility, there’s nothing but
spiritual oneness. Frederick Lenz
The more you recognize the immense good within you,
the more you magnetize immense good around you.
Alan Cohen
When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to
have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat,
and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.
Paulo Coelho
The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves
in order to be better able to transform the world.
Matthieu Ricard
Thoughts become things. If you see it in your mind, you will
hold it in your hand. Bob Proctor
We can make changes in our lives, we can live consciously
rather than mechanically, we can open our hearts and
we can be more fully alive. Sharon Salzberg
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it,
move with it, and join the dance. Alan Watts
A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty
ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you
to accomplish great things on the condition that you
believe much more in his love than in your weakness.
Mother Teresa
Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn
humility. Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being
comfortable. Swami Vivekananda
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on
fighting the old, but on building the new. Socrates
Think the thought until you believe it, and once you believe it,
it is. Abraham Hicks
Your feelings are your greatest tools to help you create
your life. Rhonda Byrne
See the things that you want as already yours. Rhonda Byrne
See also: positive quotes, focus quotes
SPIRITUAL QUOTES ABOUT ENLIGHTENMENT, AWARENESS, MEDITATION,
UNIVERSE
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You are not in the universe, you are the universe. Eckhart Tolle
Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can
render the world. Ramana Maharshi
You can only stop the flow of thoughts by refusing to have
any interest in it. Ramana Maharshi
The enquiry “Who am I?” is the principal means to the removal
of all misery and the attainment of the supreme bliss.
Ramana Maharshi
If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts
wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where
there is neither sleep nor movement of mind,
stay still in that, the natural (real) state. Ramana Maharshi
Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree.
It completely changes your brain and therefore changes
what you are. Matthieu Ricard
No one and nothing outside of you can give you salvation,
or free you from the misery. You have to light your
own lamp. You have to know the miniature universe
that you yourself are. Banani Ray
Insight occurs when, and to the degree that,
one knows oneself. Andrew Schneider
Awakening is dynamic, Constantly evolving in accordance with
life’s realities. Taitetsu Unno
The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
Jack Kornfield
Those who are awake live in a state of constant amazement.
Jack Kornfield
Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to
do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is
the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the
facade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything
we imagined to be true. Adyashanti
As long as you are trying to become, trying to get somewhere,
trying to attain something, you are quite literally
moving away from the Truth itself. Adyashanti
Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation;
Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race.
Belong to the whole existence. Why limit yourself to small
things? When the whole is available. Osho
Enlightenment is ego’s ultimate disappointment. Chögyam Trungpa
If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could
give, that which I considered to be the most useful to
the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of
God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around
you. Leo Tolstoy
What is necessary to change a person is to change his
awareness of himself. Abraham H. Maslow
It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of
our bodies that the ‘I Am’, our real presence, can awaken.
G.I. Gurdjieff
Awakening is not a journey of discovering a distant land or a
coveted secret, but rather, it is a journey of surrendering
to what has always been present but shrouded in illusion
and disillusion. Shavasti
You can’t have a physical transformation until you have a
spiritual transformation. Cory Booker
The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step
for mankind. Eckhart Tolle
The really important kind of freedom involves attention,
and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being
able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice
for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways,
every day. David Foster Wallace
Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that
it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and
become a different person. You remain the same
person, but you become awakened. Jack Kornfield
Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being
changed. Because you’ve changed, by believing.
Once you’ve changed, other things start to follow.
Isn’t that the way it works? Diane Duane
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth,
chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
These things will destroy the human race: politics without
principle, progress without compassion, wealth without
work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness,
and worship without awareness. Anthony de Mello
Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your
infinite nature. Amit Ray
No great spiritual awakening has begun anywhere in the world
apart from united prayer. J. Edwin Orr
Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness,
it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out,
for the benefit of all beings in existence.
Noah Levine
Enlightenment is nothing more than the complete absence of
resistance to what is. End of story. Adyashanti
