Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
Hermann Hesse
If you live your life burning for the highest possibility, in that burning itself, there is liberation.
Bhagavad Gita
Do what is right at a given moment and leave it behind.
Ramana Maharshi
If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your back.
Eido Tai Shimano Roshi
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.
Joseph Campbell
The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.
Marianne Williamson
Anything that makes weak – physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Swami Vivekananda
The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.
Ram Dass
Religion is for people who’re afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who’ve already been there.
Vine Deloria Jr
Knock, and He’ll open the door. Vanish, And He’ll make you shine like the sun. Fall, and He’ll raise you to the heavens. Become nothing, and He’ll turn you into everything.
Rumi
Let the breath lead the way.
Sharon Salzberg
Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you.
Osho
Bath, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.
Ambrose Bierce
You will have to create the path by walking yourself; the path is not ready-made, lying there and waiting for you.
Osho
The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.
Swami Sivananda
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Swami Vivekananda
You and your purpose in life are the same thing. Your purpose is to be you.
George Alexiou
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
W.B. Yeats
God finds himself by creating.
Rabindranath Tagore
At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Spiritual progress is like a detoxification.
Marianne Williamson
Be guided by spirit and not driven by ego.
Anonymous
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Michel de Montaigne
I close my eyes in order to see.
Paul Gauguin
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us.
John Lennon
Nothing is, unless our thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
Jack Kornfield
If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.
Thomas Merton
I choose gentleness… Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself.
Max Lucado
It is in our wild nature that we best recover from our un-nature, our spirituality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not.
Deepak Chopra
When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.
Stephen Richards
The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
Jack Kornfield
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious – the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
Albert Einstein
Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.
Walt Whitman
The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable.
Michel de Montaigne
Let what comes come. Let what goes go. Find out what remains.
Ramana Maharshi
You’ll be calm the day you learn to sit alone and do nothing.
Maxime Lagacé
When everything gets answered, it’s fake.
Sean Penn
Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go “Uh, I’m kind of an asshole”.
Louis C.K.
The power within you is greater than the power within the world.
Rhonda Byrne
You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God’s creative principle works in you.
Paramahansa Yogananda