"Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. "Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life." - Buddha "Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love, and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention." - Deepak Chopra There is no other teacher but your own soul." - Swami Vivekananda None can teach you, none can make you spiritual.
"Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go and do that." - Howard Thurman
"The human spirit is the lamp of the Lord." - Proverbs 20:27 "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton I have a great Christ for my need." - Charles Spurgeon "By having reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the world." - Albert Schweitzer "The more faithfully you listen to the voice within you, the better you hear what is sounding outside of you." - Dag Hammarskjold
"Between God and the soul there is no between." - Julia of Norwich "Meditation quiets conscious thought and the physical realm, making a doorway to spiritual awareness." - Jenna Alatari "We need more explorers in consciousness and less followers of beliefs, isms, and credos." - Robert Cosmar "God knows us from within ourselves, not as objects, not as strangers, not as intimates, but as our own selves." - Thomas Merton Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord." - Psalm 139:1-4 You discern my going out and my lying down you are familiar with all my ways. You know when I sit and when I rise you perceive my thoughts from afar. "O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. In each individual the spirit has become flesh, in each man the creation suffers, within each one a redeemer is nailed to the cross."We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. That is why every man's story is important, eternal, sacred that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of every consideration. But every man is more than just himself he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again. If we were not something more than unique human beings, if each one of us could really be done away with once and for all by a single bullet, storytelling would lose all purpose. I am as little able to do this as the novelist is, even though my story is more important to me than any novelist's is to him - for this is my story it is the story of a man, not of an invented, or possible, or idealized, or otherwise absent figure, but of a unique being of flesh and blood, Yet, what a real living human being is made of seems to be less understood today than at any time before, and men - each one of whom represents a unique and valuable experiment on the part of nature - are therefore shot wholesale nowadays. “Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost godlike attitude toward their subject, pretending to a total comprehension of the story, a man's life, which they can therefore recount as God Himself might, nothing standing between them and the naked truth, the entire story meaningful in every detail.