I believe, and therefore anything is possible. UnknownOur way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea. Shunryu SuzukiHope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. Desmond TutuAnd, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. Paulo CoelhoRemember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. Paulo CoelhoSpirituality 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 LesserIf you don’t behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave. Fulton J. SheenThe greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves. Swami VivekanandaDo one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else. Swami VivekanandaOnce we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. E.E. CummingsTo me, faith means not worrying. John DeweyBe patient. You’ll know when it’s time for you to wake up and move ahead. Ram DassIf you believe it will work out, you’ll see opportunities, if you believe it won’t you will see obstacles. Wayne DyerA belief is only a thought I keep thinking. Abraham HicksAppreciation in advance brings everything you want to you. Abraham HicksSee also: How to Believe in YourselfSPIRITUAL QUOTES ABOUT BIBLE, GODGo to table of contentsPray, and let God worry. Martin LutherWhat you are is God’s gift to you, what you become is your gift to God. Hans Urs von BalthasarLove 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 13:4-7Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God’s love for us does not. C.S. LewisA thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. Theodore RooseveltI prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. Frederick DouglassWhatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God. Martin LutherGod enters by a private door into every individual. Ralph Waldo EmersonAnd 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. LewisMake 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 EmersonThe moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God. Rob BellIf prayer is you talking to God, then intuition is God talking to you. Wayne DyerFaith is God’s work within us. Thomas AquinasGod loves me when I sing. God respects me when I work. Rabindranath TagoreSPIRITUAL QUOTES ABOUT STRENGTH, TOUGH TIMES, HEALING, CHANGEGo to table of contentsSuffering is part of our training program for becoming wise. Ram DassThe period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one’s life. Dalai LamaReal generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present. Albert CamusAll 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 FranceTake care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face. Dolores del RioCourage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway. Joyce MeyerIt is the inner life that is to spark the change in consciousness that will permit us to advance. Brother Wayne TeasdaleI 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 UllmanOn the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel or insight. Anne LamottCharacter 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 KellerYour pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Kahlil GibranWe cannot change anything unless we accept it. Carl JungWhen there’s nothing but humility, there’s nothing but spiritual oneness. Frederick LenzThe more you recognize the immense good within you, the more you magnetize immense good around you. Alan CohenWhen 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 CoelhoThe ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world. Matthieu RicardThoughts become things. If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand. Bob ProctorWe 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 SalzbergThe only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. Alan WattsA 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 TeresaUntil you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility. Elder Thaddeus of VitovnicaComfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable. Swami VivekanandaThe secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. SocratesThink the thought until you believe it, and once you believe it, it is. Abraham HicksYour feelings are your greatest tools to help you create your life. Rhonda ByrneSee the things that you want as already yours. Rhonda ByrneSee also: positive quotes, focus quotesSPIRITUAL QUOTES ABOUT ENLIGHTENMENT, AWARENESS, MEDITATION, UNIVERSEGo to table of contentsYou are not in the universe, you are the universe. Eckhart TolleYour own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world. Ramana MaharshiYou can only stop the flow of thoughts by refusing to have any interest in it. Ramana MaharshiThe enquiry “Who am I?” is the principal means to the removal of all misery and the attainment of the supreme bliss. Ramana MaharshiIf 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 MaharshiMeditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are. Matthieu RicardNo 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 RayInsight occurs when, and to the degree that, one knows oneself. Andrew SchneiderAwakening is dynamic, Constantly evolving in accordance with life’s realities. Taitetsu UnnoThe goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind. Jack KornfieldThose who are awake live in a state of constant amazement. Jack KornfieldEnlightenment 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. AdyashantiAs 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. AdyashantiNever 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. OshoEnlightenment is ego’s ultimate disappointment. Chögyam TrungpaIf, 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 TolstoyWhat is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. Abraham H. MaslowIt is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the ‘I Am’, our real presence, can awaken. G.I. GurdjieffAwakening 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. ShavastiYou can’t have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation. Cory BookerThe awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind. Eckhart TolleThe 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 WallacePart 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 KornfieldBelieve 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 DuaneWe are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically. Neil DeGrasse TysonThese 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 MelloYour greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature. Amit RayNo great spiritual awakening has begun anywhere in the world apart from united prayer. J. Edwin OrrWaking 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 LevineEnlightenment is nothing more than the complete absence of resistance to what is. End of story. Adyashanti