For many of us spirituality is the quest to find our
essence or true selves. For others it is that, as well as the
desire for connection with a higher consciousness.
However you choose to define it, enjoy these inspiring
quotes from some celebrated thinkers, poets and writers from past and
present. Allow them enhance your view of spirituality.
The Quotes
The spiritual is the parent of the practical. Thomas Carlyle
The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your treasure house is within; it contains all you'll ever need. Hui-Hai
It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh. Douglas MacArthur
Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole
world with an all-embracing love. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the faces of men and women I see God. Walt Whitman
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. Henry David Thoreau
Faith is to believe what we do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what we believe. St. Augustine
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Buddha
You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
Teilhard de Chardin
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures. St. Thomas Aquinas
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition. Honoré de Balzac
Coincidences are spiritual puns. G.K. Chesterton
The universe is a single atom: the convergence of science and spirituality. Dalai Lama
Spiritual force is stronger than material force; thoughts rule the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Buddha
The English are not spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
George Bernard Shaw
The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
M. Scott Peck
You must have failed deeply on some level or experienced some deep loss or pain to be drawn to the spiritual dimension. Or perhaps your very success became empty and meaningless and so turned out to be a failure.
Eckhart Tolle
