“God is not a static thing...but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not think me irreverent, a kind of dance.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 214 of 1176
“It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.”
“When an asana is done correctly the body movements are smooth, there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind.”
“We have got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage.”
“Seclusion is the price of greatness.”
“The body is only a garment. How many times you have changed your clothing in this life, yet because of this you would not say that you have changed. Similarly, when you give up this bodily dress at death you do not change. You are just the same, an immortal soul, a child of God.”
“The man of Self-realization knows a bliss that cannot be compared to anything in this world. His joy is independent of any object or sensory experience. It is an incomparable happiness that cannot be described in words. Such joy is known as sattvik-ananda.”
“Loyalty is the first law of God.”
“Give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting...snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be and enjoy being.”
“True creativity flows only from stillness. When stillness becomes conscious, the spiritual dimension enters your life and you begin to be guided by an intelligence far greater than the human mind.”
“All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.”
“When you say, 'I enjoy doing this or that', it is really a misperception. It makes it appear that the joy comes from what you do, but that is not the case. Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you.”
“My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.”
“God has a plan for you, you are here in this world because God has a plan for you. And the problem is that people start listening to other people and they forget to listen to their heart and to see what is the plan that God has for you.”
“I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.”
“The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.”
“The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.”
“Music is a spiritual doorway its power comes from the fact that it plugs directly into the soul, unlike a lot of visual art or textual information that has to go through the more filtering processes of the brain.”
“To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.”
“The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.”