Quotes about spirit
spiritual riches longing
Seek spiritual riches within. What you are is much greater than anyone or anything else you have ever yearned for. Paramahansa Yogananda
spiritual lying lakes
Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to be avoided, spiritual poverty is to be abhorred. For it is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering. Paramahansa Yogananda
spiritual self practice
Why shouldn't you strengthen your own vibrations through fellowship with people seeking Self-realization, and by group meditation with them? This practice will fortify your own spiritual convictions you will find that many seemingly insuperable barriers in your life will crumble and dissolve in the waters of meditation. Your devotion and love for God will commingle with the devotion and love of others. Divine bliss will radiate from you, helping all persons you meet. Paramahansa Yogananda
spiritual self law
Group Meditation is a castle that protects the new spiritual aspirants as well as the veteran meditators. Meditating together increases the degree of Self-realization of each member of the group by the law of invisible vibratory exchange of group magnetism. Paramahansa Yogananda
spirit behinds stillness
Spirit is the vast stillness which is behind all created things. Paramahansa Yogananda
spiritual lying suffering
It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering. Paramahansa Yogananda
spiritual blessed soul
Why forgive one who wrongs you? Because if you angrily strike back you misrepresent your own divine soul nature-you are no better than your offender. But if you manifest spiritual strength you are blessed, and the power of your righteous behavior will also help the other person to overcome his misunderstanding. Paramahansa Yogananda
spiritual dark men
Forget the past. The vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames. Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now. Paramahansa Yogananda
spiritual wisdom compassion
Never be petty. Do not feed resentments against anyone. I prefer good-hearted sinners to so called good people who are intolerant and devoid of compassion. Being spiritual is to have an open mind, understand and forgive, and be friends with everyone. Paramahansa Yogananda
spiritual self discipline
Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations. Paramahansa Yogananda
spiritual reality dying
The reality of my life cannot die for I am indestructible consciousness. Paramahansa Yogananda
spiritual men self
The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less he himself is affected by the phenomenal flux. Paramahansa Yogananda
spiritual children attachment
In the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child, without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy. Paramahansa Yogananda
spirit altars stillness
Stillness is the altar of spirit. Paramahansa Yogananda
spiritual believe heart
So long as we believe in our heart of hearts that our capacity is limited and we grow anxious and unhappy, we are lacking in faith. One who truly trusts in God has no right to be anxious about anything. Paramahansa Yogananda
spiritual practice differences
You must know the difference between imagination, theoretical knowledge and true realization. Could you nourish yourself by only listening to a talk on food? To know food only theoretically is to always remain hungry. You must eat to satisfy hunger. So he who seeks new doctrines continuously but does not put them into practice in his life is in continual spiritual starvation. Paramahansa Yogananda
spiritual wisdom art
The material and the spiritual are but two parts of one universe and one truth. By overstressing one part or the other, man fails to achieve the balance necessary for harmonious development... Practice the art of living in this world without losing your inner peace of mind. Follow the path of balance to reach the inner wondrous garden of Self-Realization. Paramahansa Yogananda
spiritual art ideas
It is not your passing thoughts or brilliant ideas so much as your plain everyday habits that control your life....Live simply. Don’t get caught in the machine of the world— it is too exacting. By the time you get what you are seeking your nerves are gone, the heart is damaged, and the bones are aching. Resolve to develop your spiritual powers more earnestly from now on. Learn the art of right living. If you have joy you have everything,so learn to be glad and contented....Have happiness now. Paramahansa Yogananda
spiritual lying self
Truths are not truths to you unless you realize them within yourself. Without realization, they are just ideas. For spiritual perception, spiritual consciousness, lies not in vague theological ideas, but in the acquisition of Self-realization. Paramahansa Yogananda
spiritual religious
I am not religious, but I am spiritual. Paul McCartney
spiritual religious
I'm not religious, but I'm very spiritual. Paul McCartney
spiritual song thinking
I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that. Patty Griffin
spirit influence inaccessible
The nature of a narrow and malevolent spirit is so essentially incompatible with happiness as to render it inaccessible to the influences of the benignant God. Percy Bysshe Shelley
spiritual art ideas
Freedom of mind and mind itself have been most fully developed in regions where trade developed at the same time. In all ages, without exception, every intense production of art, ideas, and spiritual values has occurred in some locality where a remarkable degree of economic activity was also manifest. Paul Valery
spiritual loneliness drinking
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. Paul Valery
spiritual attitude determined
Our spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit. Paul Twitchell
spiritual freedom giving
The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness. Paul Twitchell
spiritual religious compassion
Often when religious leaders come together, they talk about a particular sexual ethic, or an abstruse doctrine, as though this, rather than compassion, was the test of spiritual life. Karen Armstrong
spirit hell lord
The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither. Emanuel Swedenborg
spiritual men long
Moreover, no one is judged from the natural man, thus not so long as he lives in the natural world, for man is then in a natural body; but everyone is judged in the spiritual man, and therefore when he comes into the spiritual world, for man is then in a spiritual body. Emanuel Swedenborg
spirit sin holy
We must not be content to be cleansed from sin; we must be filled with the Spirit. John Fletcher
spirit great-work supplication
When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication. Jonathan Edwards
spiritual expectations delight
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. Francois Fenelon