67 Great Spiritual Quotes For Upliftment of your Inner Soul
Most of us want to attain greater success, freedom and happiness in our lives. Spirituality is very important for the human soul. We need to develop ourselves not just on the outside but on the inside as well. Spiritual development doesn’t have to be hard or confusing. If we can just learn to break out of our shells and see the bigger picture, we will all have an easier time developing a stronger connection to everything inside and outside of us. The pursuit of spiritual growth is a highly profitable undertaking.
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Here are the 67 top spiritual quotes to help you attain greater freedom and success in life
1.) The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it. ― Henri J.M. Nouwen
2.) You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. – Swami Vivekananda
3.) The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty — it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God. ― Mother Teresa
4.) Step out of the circle of time and into the circle of love. –Rumi
5.) Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. – Denis Waitley
6.) It took me forty years on earth
To reach this sure conclusion:
There is no Heaven but clarity,
No Hell except confusion.– Jan Struther7.) We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
8.) Surrender is the most difficult thing in the world while you are doing it and the easiest when it is done. – Bhai Sahib
9.) If you want others to be happy, practise compassion. If you want to be happy, practise compassion. – The Dalai Lama
10.) It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we’re alive – to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
11.) Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. – Ludwig van Beethoven
12.) Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
13.) One of the most spiritual things you can do is embrace your humanity. Connect with those around you today. Say, “I love you”, “I’m sorry”, “I appreciate you”, “I’m proud of you”…whatever you’re feeling. Send random texts, write a cute note, embrace your truth and share it…cause a smile today for someone else…and give plenty of hugs. ― Steve Maraboli
14.) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. ― Albert Einstein
15.) Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again. ― Joseph Campbell
16.) You and your purpose in life are the same thing. Your purpose is to be you. ― George Alexiou
17.) As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. … That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind. ― Anthony de Mello
18.) If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another.
The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision. There is no right or wrong, only a series of possibilities that shift with each thought, feeling, and action that you experience.
If this sounds too mystical, refer again to the body. Every significant vital sign- body temperature, heart rate, oxygen consumption, hormone level, brain activity, and so on- alters the moment you decide to do anything… decisions are signals telling your body, mind, and environment to move in a certain direction.”
― Deepak Chopra19.) I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. –– St. Thomas Aquinas
20.) You are one thing only. You are a Divine Being. An all-powerful Creator. You are a Deity in jeans and a t-shirt, and within you dwells the infinite wisdom of the ages and the sacred creative force of All that is, will be and ever was. ― Anthon St. Maarten
21.) Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul. ― Walt Whitman
22.) Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face. – Dolores del Rio
23.) Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations. – Samuel Ullman
24.) Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that. – Imran Khan
25.) Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life. – Eckhart Tolle
26.) You can’t have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation. – Cory Booker27.) Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey. – Henri Nouwen
28.) 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
29.) I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose. – R.J. Anderson
30.) The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now. – Henri Nouwen
31.) Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline. – Mahavira
32.) “Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, man cannot live without a spiritual life.” – Buddha
33.) “God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.“ – Elbert Hubbard
34.) “When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.“ – Stephen Richards
35.) “We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.“ – Ray Bradbury
36.) “Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition. By the year 2050, when the conflict began, the world had fallen upon fearful, superstitious times.“ – Bernard Beckett
37.) “The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.“
– Daniel Defoe38.) Big-heartedness is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey. – Matthew Fox
39.) When a man is willing and eager, the Gods join in. – Aeschylus
40.) Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. – Herman Hesse
41.) Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from. – Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
42.) Be guided by Spirit and not driven by ego. – All1son43.) If peace is our single aim in all we do, we will always know what to do because we will do whatever will protect and deepen our peace. – Gerald Jampolsky
44.) Looking deeply at life as it is in this very moment, the meditator dwells in stability and freedom. – Buddha
45.) We are not human beings trying to be spiritual. We are spiritual beings trying to be human. – Jacquelyn Small
46.) You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars, guides you too. – Shrii Shirr Anandamurti
47.) Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us. – St Teresa of Avila
48.) “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you really are.”- Carl Jung
49.) “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.”- Albert Einstein
50.) You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple. – ANTHONY DE MELLO
51.) “You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.”- Amit Ray
52.) “The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware; joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”- Henry Miller
53.) 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
54.) “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
55.) “If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.”- Eleanor Roosevelt
56.) It is in our wild nature that we best recover from our un-nature, our spirituality. – FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
57.) No individual can ultimately fail. The Divinity which descends into humanity is bound to re-gain its original state. – N. Sri Ram
58.) Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. – Kahlil Gibran
59.) Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow. – Dennis Banks
60.) It is the inner life that is to spark the change in consciousness that will permit us to advance. – Brother Wayne Teasdale
61.) This moment is all there is. – Rumi
62.)The next message you need is always right where you are. – Ram Dass
63.) He who is filled with love is filled with God himself. – Saint Augustine
64.) At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it. – Thich Nhat Hanh
65.) The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love. – Marianne Williamson
66.) “Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.“ – Roy T. Bennett
67.) “A man’s spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own insecurities“ – Jeremy Aldana
Conclusion
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