“A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 17 of 1176
“Authenticity is about imperfection. And authenticity is a very human quality. To be authentic is to be at peace with your imperfections. The great leaders are not the strongest, they are the ones who are honest about their weaknesses. The great leaders are not the smartest; they are the ones who admit how much they don't know. The great leaders can't do everything; they are the ones who look to others to help them. Great leaders don't see themselves as great; they see themselves as human.”
“Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.”
“God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.”
“To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.”
“In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.”
“We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.”
“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.”
“Difficult things provoke all your irritations and bring your habitual patterns to the surface. And that becomes the moment of truth. You have the choice to launch into your lousy habitual patterns, or to stay with the rawness and discomfort of the situation and let it transform you.”
“Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.”
“A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.”
“For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.”
“Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive”
“Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness”
“He who knows his soul knows this truth: " I am beyond everything finite; I I now see that the Spirit, alone in a space with Its ever-new joy, has expressed Itself as the vast body of nature. I am the stars, I am the waves, I am the Life of all, I am the laughter within all hearts, I am the smile on the faces of the flowers and in each soul. I am the Wisdom and Power that sustain all creation. "”
“With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.”
“God may allow us at times to hit rock bottom, to show us He's the rock-at the bottom.”
“The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction. So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.”
“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.”
“The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.”