80 Quotes That Will Help You Reflect on Your Spiritual Journey

1. "The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper." – W.B. Yeats
2. "Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, man cannot live without a spiritual life." – Buddha
3. "Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul." – Augustine
4. "Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not." – Deepak Chopra
5. "I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things." – Paulo Coelho
6. "Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality." – Carl Sagan
7. "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. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong." – John Lennon
8. "The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you really are." – Carl Jung
9. "The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not." – C.S. Lewis
10. "To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, but to live gratitude is to touch heaven." – Johannes A. Gaertner
11. "Spirituality: the art of keeping your internal fire alive." – Maxime Lagacé
12. “It isn’t until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are – not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within – that you can begin to take control.” – Oprah Winfrey
13. “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
14. “If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.” – Ed Sullivan
15. “You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.” – Amit Ray
16. “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
17. “A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your weakness.” – Mother Teresa
18. “Religion is for people who're afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who've already been there.” – Vine Deloria Jr.
19. “A quiet conscience makes one strong!” – Anne Frank
20. “The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware; joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” – Henry Miller
21. “You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.” – Cory Booker
22. “The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates
23. “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare
24. “Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.” – Oriah Mountain Dreamer
25. “Peaceful is the one who’s not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.” – Rumi
26. “Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives.” – Brené Brown
27. “Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.” – Richard Rohr
28. “We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.”– Neil DeGrasse Tyson
29. “Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.” – William Blake
30. “You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you.” – Julia Cameron
31. “At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
32. “What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.” ― Caroline Myss
33. “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn, or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” – Denis Waitley
34. “He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.” ― Albert Schweitzer
35. “Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.” – Vincent McNabb
36. “The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.” – Marianne Williamson
37. “The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.” – Henri Nouwen
38. “Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.” – Walt Whitman
39. “Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.” – Joseph Campbell
40. “Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi
41. “Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.” – Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
42. "If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation." – Osho
43. “Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.” – Bono
44. “You have to expect spiritual warfare whenever you stand up for righteousness or call attention to basic values. It's just a matter of light battling the darkness. But the light wins every time. You can't throw enough darkness on light to put it out.” – Thomas Kinkade
45. "If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete." – Jack Kornfield
46. “Realization is not the acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.” – Ramana Maharshi
47. “The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.“ – Daniel Defoe
48. “Energy can't be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere.” – Keanu Reeves
49. “Wake up and live.” – Bob Marley
50. “Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.” – Barbara Kingsolver
51. “No matter your religious or spiritual beliefs … for every person who inhales and exhales… you are alive, you can dream.” – Georgia Dawkins
52. “Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.” – Hermann Hesse
53. “God will test you because he wants you to grow up. He wants you to mature. He wants you to develop a walk with him that is not based on your fluctuating emotions but on your commitment to him as you learn to walk by faith.” – Greg Laurie
54. “Good humor and laughter are far too wonderful not to come straight from the heart of God.” – Beth Moore
55. “Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
56. “The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.” – Henri J.M. Nouwen
57. “Big-heartedness is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey.” – Matthew Fox
58. “Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light.”― Francine Rivers
59. “Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
60. “Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved.” –Jane Goodall
61. “It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    
62. “Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.” – Ludwig van Beethoven
63. "The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves." – Alan Watts
64. “It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.” – Francis of Assisi
65. "You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple." – Anthony de Mello
66. “When you realize there is no lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” – Lao Tzu
67. “Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.” – George Eliot
68. “Love is the doorway through which the human soul passes from selfishness to service.” – Jack Hyles
69. “If you think you’re enlightened, go spend a week with your family.” – Ram Dass
70. “We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.” – Calvin Coolidge
71. “Let the breath lead the way.” – Sharon Salzberg
72. "Happy people build their inner world; unhappy people blame their outer world." –Dalai Lama
73. “When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?” – Virginia Woolf
74. “Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face.” – Dolores del Río
75. “The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.” – Margaret Fuller
76. “I see poetry as spiritual medicine.” – Mahmoud Darwish
77. “Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life.” – Eckhart Tolle
78. “Relax into the moment and let the universe do the driving. If there was a secret to happiness in life, I’d say that was it.” – Jed McKenna
79. “Do anything, but let it produce joy.” – Walt Whitman
80. “You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” – Maya Angelou

Inspirational Spiritual Quotes

Inspirational quotes are the noteworthy thoughts of those who have preceded us along the path of life...the sometimes subtle bread crumb trails left behind to lead us to the meaningful ideas that they had discovered along their way.

 

These inspirational quotes are specially selected gems of philosophy and wisdom which, when taken to heart and acted upon, can lead to the kind of personal peace and tranquility that can only be found along the path less traveled. New quotes will be posted here at the top for a while before being listed with the main group of quotations just beyond the reflecting pool.

 

The path awaits, and we hope you will enjoy your journey.

Think the thoughts and see the sights along the way...

and delight in the anticipation of what may lie ahead.

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness

and just be happy."

Guillaume Apollinaire

 

 

"All shadows whisper of the sun."
Emanuel Carnevali

 

 

"Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color."
Paul Cézanne

 

 

"You'll never find rainbows if you're looking down."

Charlie Chaplin

 

 

"An inch of time on the sundial is worth more than a foot of jade."

Confucius

 

 

"You can't make up time; you can only use what's left, better."
Oscar G. Darlington

"A man who dares waste one hour of time

has not discovered the value of life."

Charles Darwin

 

 

"A man is what he thinks about all day long."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

"Hide not your talents. They for use were made.

What's a sundial in the shade?"

Benjamin Franklin

 

 

"He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion."

Thomas Fuller

 

 

"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

Patrick Henry

 

 

"If you want to make the world a better place,

take a look at yourself and then make a change."

Michael Jackson

"Time is the wisest counselor."
Pericles

 

 

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.

You can steer yourself any direction you choose."

Dr. Seuss

 

 

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams..."

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

 

 

"How far that little candle throws his beams!

So shines a good deed in a naughty world."

William Shakespeare

 

 

"Take care of each other."

Robert Louis Stevenson

 

 

"The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude.

Be alone - that is the secret of invention;

be alone, that is when ideas are born."

Nikola Tesla

"Dreams come true. Without that possibility,

nature would not incite us to have them."

John Updike

 

 

"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."

Paul Valery

 

 

"Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling."
Walt Whitman

 

 

"Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment

is the only one you know you have for sure."

Oprah Winfrey

 

 

"The present is the ever moving shadow that divides

yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope."

Frank Lloyd Wright"

 

 

"Sometimes you have to take the leap,

and build your wings on the way down."

Kobi Yamada

"Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.

I may not reach them, but I can see the beauty, believe in them,

and try to follow where they lead."

Louisa May Alcott

 

 

"The man who has no imagination has no wings."
Muhammad Ali

 

 

"If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success;

if you don't, you have achieved half your failure."

David Ambrose

 

 

"Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes."
Tori Amos

 

 

"Now, after years of observation and enough courage to admit

what I have observed, I try to plant peace if I do not want discord;

to plant loyalty and honesty if I want to avoid betrayal and lies."
Maya Angelou

"Give me a firm place to stand, and I will move the earth."

Archimedes

 

 

"I count him braver who conquers his desires than him

who conquers his enemies;

for the hardest victory is the victory over self."
Aristotle

 

 

"Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness."
Athenaeus

 

 

"Teach us...that we may feel the importance of every day,

of every hour, as it passes."
Jane Austen

 

 

"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly."

Lauren Bacall

"Each day is a journey; and the journey itself is home."
Basho

 

 

"Genius is childhood recaptured at will."

Baudelaire

 

 

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

Sophia Bedford-Pierce

 

 

"We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see."
George Berkeley

 

 

"Whenever you see darkness, there is extraordinary opportunity

for the light to burn brighter."
Bono

"Don't go through #life, grow through life."
Eric Butterworth

 

 

"All you need within you is waiting to unfold and reveal itself."
Eileen Caddy

 

 

"A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder."
Thomas Carlyle

 

 

"Time and reflection change the sight little by little

'till we come to understand."

Paul Cézanne

 

 

"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon,

and the deeper it sinks into the mind."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."

Confucius

 

 

"When you meet someone better than yourself,

turn your thoughts to becoming his equal.

When you meet someone not as good as you are,

look within and examine your own self."
Confucius

 

 

"The happiest people spend much time in a state of flow, the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it."
Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi

 

 

"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."

Marie Curie

 

 

"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you

because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."

Roald Dahl

"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."
Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

"The secret of not having worries, for me at least, is to have ideas."
Eugene Delacroix

 

 

"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."
Rene Descartes

 

 

"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door."
Emily Dickinson

 

 

"I'll tell you how the sun rose…a ribbon at a time."

Emily Dickinson

"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend."
Laertius Diogenes

 

 

"If you can dream it, you can do it."
Walt Disney

 

 

"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances,

but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."
Hugh Downs

 

 

"Our intention creates our reality."

Wayne Dyer

 

 

"If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves."
Thomas Edison

"Do not go where the path may lead,

go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

"People only see what they are prepared to see."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

"People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them."

Epictetus

 

"There are some people who live in a dream world,

and there are some who face reality;

and then there are those who turn one into the other."
Douglas Everett

 

 

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."

Malcolm S. Forbes

 

 

"Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from."
Jodie Foster

 

 

"At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit;

and at forty, the judgement."
Benjamin Franklin

 

 

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by,

and that has made all the difference."
Robert Frost

"We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey,or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way."

Gloria Gaither

 

 

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

Mahatma Gandhi

 

 

"Strength does not come from physical capacity.

It comes from an indomitable will."
Mahatma Gandhi

 

 

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it.

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now."

Goethe

 

 

"Happiness is a direction, not a place."
Syndey J. Harris

"Nothing endures but change."
Heraclitus

 

 

"Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure."
Victor Hugo

 

 

"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving,

and that's your own self."
Aldous Huxley

 

 

"Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost."

Henry James

 

 

"A human being can alter his #life by altering his attitudes of mind."

William James

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."

William James

 

 

"Learn from yesterday, live for today and hope for tomorrow."
Thomas Jefferson

 

 

"Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings."

Samuel Johnson

 

 

"Everything that irritates us about others

can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
Carl Jung

 

 

"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."
Helen Keller

"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."
John F. Kennedy

 

 

"Some men see things as they are and say 'Why?'

I dream things that never were and say 'Why not?'"
Robert Kennedy

 

 

"I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree."
Joyce Kilmer

 

 

"Believe the best of everybody."
Rudyard Kipling

 

 

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
John Lennon

 

 

"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate

of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."

C. S. Lewis

"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Abraham Lincoln

 

 

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for."
John Lubbock

 

 

"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do

if he knew he never would be found out."

Thomas B. Macaulay

 

 

"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude."

Ralph Marston

 

 

"I am still learning."

Michelangelo

"Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life.

It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire.

The art of it is to keep a good heart."

Joni Mitchell

 

 

"Those who dance are thought to be quite insane

by those who cannot hear the music."

Angela Monet

 

 

"No tool is more beneficial than intelligence.

No enemy is more harmful than ignorance."

Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Harithi al-Baghdadi al-Mufid

 

 

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."
Napoleon

 

 

"The sun doesn't stop shining because some people are blind."

Mark Nepo

"In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play."
Friedrich Nietzsche

 

 

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
Anais Nin

 

 

"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop."
Ovid

 

 

"Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new."

Paracelsus

 

 

"The greatest victory a man can win is victory over himself."

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

"The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content

with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion

till he grasps the essential nature of things."
Plato

 

 

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things

which those who dream only by night may miss."
Edgar Allan Poe

 

 

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."

John Powell

 

 

"The fountain of beauty is the heart, and every generous thought

illustrates the walls of your chamber."

Francis Quarles

 

 

"The life you have led doesn't have to be the only #life you have."
Anna Quindlen

"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten"
Anthony Robbins

 

 

"To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion

that it becomes a reality."
Anita Roddick

 

 

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

Eleanor Roosevelt

 

 

"It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
Eleanor Roosevelt

 

 

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
Theodore Roosevelt

"What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence.

The only thing of consequence is what we do."
John Ruskin

 

 

"He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought

will never be able to change reality."
Anwar Sadat

 

 

"Assumptions allow the best in #life to pass you by."

John Sales

 

 

"Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to."
George Seaton

 

 

"No man was ever wise by chance."
Seneca

"Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head?"

William Shakespeare

 

 

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

George Bernard Shaw

 

 

"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves

as the sole cause of all our adversities."

Sophocles

 

 

"Wisdom outweighs any wealth."

Sophocles

 

 

"Know thyself."
Socrates

"There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend."

Socrates

 

 

"Carve your name on hearts and not marble."
Charles H. Spurgeon

 

 

"I don't try to feed all the birds in the world;

I just feed the birds that come to my bird feeder."

Bob Stoll

 

 

"May you live all the days of your life."
Jonathan Swift

 

 

"No man is happy who does not think himself so."
Publilius Syrus

"Stressing is pointless."

Maxwell J. Tallman

 

 

"Fortune favours the brave."
Terence

 

 

"Things do not change, we change."
Henry David Thoreau

 

 

"Only that day dawns to which we are awake."

Henry David Thoreau

 

 

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

Live the #life you've imagined."

Henry David Thoreau

"The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."
Lao Tzu

 

 

"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be."

Voltaire

 

 

"Life is the conversion of time into memories."

Aaron R. Warren

 

 

"We have so much time and so little to do! Strike that. Reverse it."

Willy Wonka

 

 

"The longer I live the more beautiful #life becomes. If you...ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your #life will be impoverished.

But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life."

Frank Lloyd Wright

We have all been given free will, the direction we choose

to go is up to us, and remember...

The sun is always rising somewhere!

Motivational Spiritual Quotes

We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather around us, that they may see their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer perhaps even fiercer life because of our quiet.

- William Butler Yeats

There is only one world; the world pressing against you at this minute. There is only one minute in which you are alive; this minute here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

- Storm Jameson

If you let go a little
you will have a little happiness.
If you let go a lot
you will have a lot of happiness.
If you let go completely
you will be free.

- Ajahn Chah

If you cannot find the truth right where you are,
where else do you expect to find it?

- Dogen

Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with truth.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

If the only prayer you ever said in your life was “thank you”,
that would suffice.

- Meister Eckhart

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

- William Saroyan

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

- Epicurus

Like a thief entering an empty house,
bad thoughts cannot in any way harm an empty mind.

- Padmasanbhava

The mystical is not how the world is,
but that it is.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

God made everything out of nothing.
But the nothingness shows through.

- Paul Valéry

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in pure consciousness without objectification; knowing without thinking – merging finitude in infinity.

- Swami Sivananda

Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.

- Japanese proverb

As long as I am this or that, or have this or that, I am not all things and I have not all things. Become pure till you neither are nor have either this or that; then you are omnipresent and, being neither this nor that, are all things.

- Meister Eckhart

“My former master taught me to accept birth and death.”
“Then what have you come to me for?” asked the master.
“To learn to accept what lies in between.”

- Anthony de Mello

Learning to see love and to express that love is the purpose of living this life. What’s real has love at its heart; the universe is constructed from love, and that love is very much tied to our power of attention and imagination.

- Fred Alan Wolf

If you want to see the heroic, look at those who can love in return for hatred.
If you want to see the brave, look for those who can forgive.

- From the Bhagavad Gita

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

- Yasutani Roshi

In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.

- Peter Matthiesen

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.

- John Lennon

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.

- Albert Einstein

Search back into your own vision – think back to the mind that thinks.
Who is it?

- Wu-Men

He sits down in it.
He reposes in the immediate as if it were infinity – which it is.
That is religion, and the duck has it.
How about you?

- Donald C. Babcock

The outer work will never be puny
if the inner work is great

- Meister Eckhart

Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others,
but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to admire everyone else.

- Thomas Merton

Hatred does not cease by hatred; hatred ceases only by love.
This is the eternal law.

- The Dhammapada

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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

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For the seasoned practitioner, even the Dharma must not become an attachment.

As an analogy; to clean a shirt, it is necessary to use soap. However, if the suds are not then rinsed out, the garment will not be truly clean. Similarly, the practitioner’s mind will not be fully liberated until he severs attachment to everything, including the Dharma itself.

- Traditional Buddhist teaching

A man’s true wealth is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

- Muhammad

Every time you smile at someone it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

- Mother Teresa

What should we “do” with the mind in meditation?
Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.

- Sogyal Rinpoche

If a man’s mind is concentrated and calm, and if he’s abandoned both good and evil, there is no fear for him.

- The Dhammapada

The eye by which I see God is the same eye by which God sees me.
My eye and God’s eye are one and the same;
One in seeing, one in knowing and one in loving.

- Meister Eckhart

It’s good to have an end to journey toward;
but it’s the journey that matters, in the end.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on,
he must close his eyes and walk in the dark.

- St. John of the cross

Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself.

- Erich Fromm