Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dogen

If you want to do a certain thing, you first have to be a certain person. Once you become that certain person, you will not care anymore about doing that certain thing.

Richard Bach

You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.

Richard Bach

I relax my body completely, relax my mind completely, and then imagine myself at a level where anything can happen.

Richard Bach

There is a family of us who have this yearning for a kind of excellence that we can manifest every day of our lives, a family who wants to believe we're not pawns, we're not victims on this planet, that knows we have the power within us here and now to change the world we see around us!

Richard Bach

I think our learning lies along the path of whatever it is we love.

Robert Fritz

The human spirit will not invest itself in a compromise.

Robert Frost

I am sure I have heard this several times from places I can't recall, but it's not already in the Gaia Quotes database, so I add this profound insight from the fields of psychological healing and spiritual evolution. It sure has helped me.

Robert Frost

Yes, of course [this age] is materialistic, but the only way to counteract it is to create spiritual things. Don't worry yourself about the materialism too much. Create and stir other people to create!

Robert Fulghum

Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life worth living. Love is a little taste of always and a big bite of nothing. And love is everything in between these extremes.

Robert Frost

Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?

Rick Moody

I believe that God locates himself at the spot where you recognize your own fallibility....And the paradox of it all has been that whenever I give up I seem to do better.

Renee O'Connor

I wouldn't say that I'm overly religious, but I have a pretty good relationship with my spiritual being.

Thomas Moore

[Angels] guide us to become spiritual people for the pleasure of it... because the spiritual life itself has a great deal of beauty and real satisfaction, even pleasure. And this is what the soul needs.

Thomas Moore

The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided. The many divisions and polarizations that terrorize a disenchanted world find peaceful accord among mossy rock walls, rough stone paths, and trimmed bushes. Maybe a garden sometimes seems fragile, for all its earth and labor, because it achieves such an extraordinary delicate balance of nature and human life, naturalness and artificiality. It has its own liminality, its point of balance between great extremes.

Thomas More

By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.

Thomas Huxley

Natural knowledge, seeking to satisfy natural wants, has found the ideas which can alone still spiritual cravings. I say that natural knowledge, in desiring to ascertain the laws of comfort, has been driven to discover those of conduct, and to lay the foundations of a new morality.

Thomas Huxley

Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization

Thomas Browne

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

Timothy Leary

If you are serious about your religion, if you really wish to commit yourself to the spiritual quest, you must learn how to use psychochemicals. Drugs are the religion of the twenty-first century. Pursuing the religious life today without using psychedelic drugs is like studying astronomy with the naked eye because that's how they did it in the first century A.D., and besides telescopes are unnatural.

Timothy Leary

Recite to yourself some of the traditional attributes of the word 'spiritual': mythic, magical, ethereal, incorporeal, intangible, nonmaterial, disembodied, ideal, platonic. Is that not a definition of the electronic-digital?

Thomas Sprat

Do not too many believe no zeal to be spiritual but what is censorious or vindictive? Whereas no zeal is spiritual that is not also charitable.

Thomas S. Monson

Prayer continues to provide power--spiritual power. Prayer continues to provide peace--spiritual peace.

Thomas S. Monson

Decisions determine destiny.

Thomas S. Monson

I promise you that one day you will stand aside and look at your difficult times, you will realize that he was always there beside you.

Thomas S. Monson

When we keep the spirit of Christmas, we keep the spirit of Christ, for the Christmas spirit is the Christ spirit.

Thomas S. Monson

There are rules and laws to help ensure our physical safety. Likewise, the Lord has provided guidelines and commandments to help ensure our spiritual safety so that we might successfully navigate this often-treachero us mortal existence and return eventually to our Heavenly Father.

Thomas S. Monson

No problem is too small for His attention nor so large that He cannot answer the prayer of faith. Prayer surely is the passport to spiritual power.

Thomas S. Monson

Spiritual strength frequently comes through selfless service.

Thomas S. Monson

We were not placed on this earth to walk alone.

Thomas S. Monson

So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference.

Thomas S. Monson

Physically walking where Jesus walked is less important than walking as He walked.

Thomas S. Monson

We truly need Him every hour, whether they be hours of sunshine or of rain.

Thomas S. Monson

If you want to give light to others you have to glow yourself.