Quotes about spiritual
spiritual emotional hands
The only way out is spiritual, intellectual, and emotional revolution in which, finally, we learn to experience first hand the interloping connections between person and person, organism and organism, action and consequence. Gregory Bateson
spiritual islamic political
If you have political reform in the Islamic world, the spiritual reform would follow. Imran Khan
spiritual men opposites
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.
spiritual thinking confusion
Some other people think that awakened consciousness is really about fullness or presence, being completely present for every moment, but these experiences are only one of the dimensions of awakened consciousness. Understanding these different dimensions as facets of awakening can help with the confusion surrounding the different spiritual paths. They're not leading to different places, but rather reflect the luminous and liberated aspects of consciousness itself. These qualities are not far away; in fact, they are right here. Jack Kornfield
spiritual grief heart
A bulging portfolio of spiritual experiences matters little if it does not have the power to sustain us through the inevitable moments of grief, loss, and change. Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched. Wisdom is alive only as long as it is lived, understanding is liberating only as long as it is applied.
spiritual sadness buddhism
When repeated difficulties do arise, our first spiritual approach is to acknowledge what is present, naming, softly saying 'sadness, sadness', or 'remembering, remembering', or whatever.
spiritual heart mean
Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to help us to see in a new way by developing a stillness of mind and a strength of heart.
spiritual buddhism practice
We can bring our spiritual practice into the streets, into our communities, when we see each realm as a temple, as a place to discover that which is sacred.
spiritual teacher determination
Taking the one seat describes two related aspects of spiritual work. Outwardly, it means selecting one practice and teacher among all the possibilities, and inwardly, it means having the determination to stick with that practice through whatever difficulties and doubts arise until you have come to true clarity and understanding.
spiritual sex men
The longing for initiation is universal and for modern youth, it is a desperate need. When nothing is offered in the way of spiritual initiation to prove one's entry into the world of men and women, initiation happens instead in the road or the street, in cars at high speed, with drugs, with dangerous sex, with weapons. However troubling, this behavior is rooted in a fundamental truth; a need to grow.
spiritual confused territory
It is the basic principle of spiritual life that we learn the deepest things in unknown territory. Often it is when we feel most confused inwardly and are in the midst of our greatest difficulties that something new will open. We awaken most easily to the mystery of life through our weakest side. The areas of our greatest strength, where we are the most competent and clearest, tend to keep us away from the mystery.
spiritual commitment dedication
Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.
spiritual loss past
An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past.
spiritual generosity quality
For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually; otherwise our spirituality can become idealistic and imitative, acting out the image of generosity before it has become genuine.
spiritual war discipline
The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.
spiritual practice judgmental
Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.
spiritual kindness heart
...Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
spiritual journey reason
We don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go.
spiritual art mistake
To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
spiritual acceptance self
Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
spiritual heart life-is
The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.
spiritual practice matter
All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.
spiritual warrior needs
To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.
spiritual animal body
To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
spiritual heart accomplishment
Even the most exalted states and the most exceptional spiritual accomplishments are unimportant if we cannot be happy in the most basic and ordinary ways, if we cannot touch one another and the life we have been given with our hearts.
spiritual doe good-person
Spiritual life doesn't make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.
spiritual emotional maturity
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.
spiritual mind desire
The purpose of spiritual life is not to create some special state of mind. A state of mind is always temporary. The purpose is to work directly with the most primary elements of our body and our mind, to see the ways we get trapped by our fears, desires, and anger, to learn directly our capacity for freedom.
spiritual light flames
The flames of freedom which were lighted across this great land of ours in Thomas Jefferson's day have continued to burn with an intense and magnetic light for nearly 200 years. They have been fed by the spiritual fuel which abounds only in a land where an abiding faith in God and recognition of Him as the true Author of Liberty prevail. J. Edgar Hoover
spiritual mean thinking
I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak if you try to. J. D. Salinger
spiritual literal
Fanciful spiritualizing, so far from yielding God's meaning, actually obscured it. The literal sense is itself the spiritual sense, coming from God and leading to Him. J. I. Packer
spiritual real humility
Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.
spiritual reading way
Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way.