#spirituality

“Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I know, would have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to bind me in all cases whatsoever to his absolute will, am I to suffer it?”

— Thomas Paine

#spirituality #conscience #moral courage

“Because you are alive everything is possible”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#spirituality #life #possibility

“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone”

— Alan Watts

#spirituality #clarity #patience

“No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now”

— Alan Watts

#spirituality #present #planning

“A perception sudden as blinking that subject and object are one will lead to a deeply mysterious wordless understanding”

— Huang Po

#spirituality #unity #perception

“Let everything happen to you beauty and terror just keep going no feeling is final”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#spirituality #feelings #persistence

“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created for something new”

— Eckhart Tolle

#spirituality #change #space

“The point is not to become a buddhist the point is to become a buddha”

— Tenzin Palmo

#spirituality #becoming #practice

“The bad news is you are falling through the air the good news is there is no ground”

— Chogyam Trungpa

#spirituality #groundlessness #freedom

“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution”

— Khalil Gibran

#spirituality #tenderness #strength

“Let the beauty we love be what we do there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground”

— Rumi

#spirituality #beauty #devotion

“Glance at the sun see the moon and the stars gaze at the beauty of earth and be in awe”

— Hildegard of Bingen

#spirituality #awe #nature

“The soul walks upon all paths the soul does not grow on a single line”

— Khalil Gibran

#spirituality #soul #paths

“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”

— Deepak Chopra

#spirituality #choice #freedom

“We are already one but we imagine that we are not”

— Thomas Merton

#spirituality #unity #oneness

“Of all that God has shown me I can speak just the smallest word”

— Mechthild of Magdeburg

#spirituality #mystery #expression

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#spirituality #identity #perspective

“The wound is the place where the light enters you”

— Rumi

#spirituality #healing #light

“We do not need more knowledge we need more wisdom and wisdom comes from our own experience”

— Tenzin Palmo

#spirituality #wisdom #experience

“The everyday practice is simply to develop complete acceptance of all situations”

— Dilgo Khyentse

#spirituality #acceptance #practice

“Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.”

— Walter Savage Landor

#solitude #spirituality #reflection

“We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God”

— Brother Lawrence

#spirituality #service #small things

“Not all of me shall die; that which is best in me shall survive my death.”

— Ovid

#spirituality #immortality #legacy

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure”

— Marianne Williamson

#spirituality #power #fear

“Do not try to become anything let the mind be free from all grasping”

— Ajahn Chah

#spirituality #freedom #non-grasping

“Be realistic plan for a miracle”

— Osho

#spirituality #miracles #planning

“The first peace which is the most important is that which comes within the souls of people”

— Black Elk

#spirituality #peace #soul

“The moment you become aware of the ego in you it is strictly speaking no longer the ego”

— Eckhart Tolle

#spirituality #ego #awareness

“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe.”

— Black Elk

#peace #oneness #spirituality

“The whole point of the spiritual path is to wake up out of the dream of samsara”

— Tenzin Palmo

#spirituality #awakening #samsara

“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”

— Emily Dickinson

#spirituality #openness #soul

“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt”

— Anthony de Mello

#spirituality #doubt #intelligence

“Compassion is the foundation of everything positive everything good that you want to bring into the world”

— Amma

#spirituality #compassion #foundation

“Whoever has God for his friend has all friends.”

— Rumi

#faith #God #friendship

“When you are unborn you see things as they are without trying to judge them”

— Bankei

#spirituality #perception #non-judgment

“If you love somebody let them go for if they return they were always yours”

— Khalil Gibran

#spirituality #love #freedom

“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun”

— Alan Watts

#spirituality #play #suffering

“To know yourself as the being underneath the thinker is freedom”

— Eckhart Tolle

#spirituality #being #freedom

“Let be in a state of utter openness all things are intrinsically free no need to be bound by outside measures”

— Longchenpa

#spirituality #openness #freedom

“Love is the essence of all religion mysticism and philosophy”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

#spirituality #love #essence

“A flower falls even though we love it a weed grows even though we do not love it”

— Dogen Zenji

#spirituality #acceptance #nature

“Wherever you are is the entry point to the divine”

— Kabir

#spirituality #divine #presence

“Drink your tea slowly and reverently as if it is the axis on which the world turns”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#spirituality #tea #mindfulness

“Heaven means to be one with God.”

— Confucius

#heaven #unity #God

“What a person takes in by contemplation they must pour out in love”

— Meister Eckhart

#spirituality #contemplation #love

“The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough”

— Rabindranath Tagore

#spirituality #time #moments

“The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day.”

— Heraclitus

#spirituality #soul #thoughts

“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #stillness #universe

“Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth”

— Pema Chodron

#spirituality #fear #truth

“The interior of every soul is a vast and unexplored country.”

— Teresa of Ávila

#spirituality #soul #self-discovery

“All life is yoga every moment can be used for spiritual growth”

— Sri Aurobindo

#spirituality #yoga #life

“If you let go a little you will have a little peace if you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace”

— Ajahn Chah

#spirituality #letting go #peace

“Peace comes from within do not seek it without”

— Buddha

#spirituality #peace #within

“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love”

— Osho

#spirituality #solitude #love

“The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great. And the outward work can never be great or even good if the inward one is puny or of little worth.”

— Meister Eckhart

#spirituality #inner life #work

“All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop”

— Kabir

#spirituality #ocean #merge

“Let the mind come as it wants do not go with it the mind will settle by itself”

— Papaji

#spirituality #mind #stillness

“Your own self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world”

— Ramana Maharshi

#spirituality #self-realization #service

“All the ups and downs are grace in disguise opportunities to wake up”

— Milarepa

#spirituality #grace #awakening

“I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion and where it isnt that is where my work lies”

— Ram Dass

#spirituality #love #work

“The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is praying.”

— Anthony the Great

#spirituality #prayer #contemplation

“Experience life in all possible ways good and bad bitter and sweet dark and light summer and winter”

— Osho

#spirituality #experience #wholeness

“A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters.”

— Thomas Merton

#hope #spirituality #wholeness

“In the gap between thoughts non-conceptual wisdom shines continuously”

— Milarepa

#spirituality #wisdom #gaps

“Happiness is your nature it is not wrong to desire it what is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside”

— Ramana Maharshi

#spirituality #happiness #nature

“The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love”

— Sri Aurobindo

#spirituality #journey #love

“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering out of a fear of the unknown they prefer suffering that is familiar”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#spirituality #suffering #letting go

“What you seek is seeking you”

— Rumi

#spirituality #seeking #destiny

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes dont resist them that only creates sorrow”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #change #acceptance

“The present moment is the only moment available to us and it is the door to all moments”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#spirituality #presence #mindfulness

“The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #tao #mystery

“In a conflict between the heart and the brain follow your heart”

— Swami Vivekananda

#spirituality #heart #intuition

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it move with it and join the dance”

— Alan Watts

#spirituality #change #flow

“The things that we love tell us what we are.”

— Thomas Aquinas

#love #identity #soul

“You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible”

— Deepak Chopra

#spirituality #possibility #inner

“Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.”

— Rumi

#love #wholeness #spirituality

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time”

— Thomas Merton

#spirituality #art #self

“The river that flows in you also flows in me”

— Kabir

#spirituality #unity #river

“The next message you need is always right where you are”

— Ram Dass

#spirituality #messages #here

“God breaks the heart again and again until it stays open”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

#spirituality #heart #openness

“Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #stillness #flow

“Whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”

— Walt Whitman

#compassion #sympathy #spirituality

“I am not this hair I am not this skin I am the soul that lives within”

— Rumi

#spirituality #soul #identity

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love”

— Rumi

#spirituality #love #calling

“Be content with what you have rejoice in the way things are when you realize nothing is lacking the whole world belongs to you”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #contentment #abundance

“Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself in your way of thinking”

— Marcus Aurelius

#spirituality #happiness #thinking

“The time of business does not differ from the time of prayer”

— Brother Lawrence

#spirituality #prayer #daily life

“Be as simple as you can be you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated life can become”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

#spirituality #simplicity #life

“To the mind that is still the whole universe surrenders”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #stillness #universe

“Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes you will be fine”

— Sadhguru

#spirituality #resilience #self

“People neglect the root and seek the branches”

— Huang Po

#spirituality #root #essence

“There is a light that shines beyond all things on earth, beyond the highest, the very highest heavens. This is the light that shines in your heart.”

— Chandogya Upanishad

#spirituality #inner light #heart

“Enlightenment is a destructive process it has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier”

— Adyashanti

#spirituality #enlightenment #destruction

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts”

— Marcus Aurelius

#spirituality #thoughts #happiness

“Whatever you do dont shut off your pain acknowledge your pain and remain vulnerable”

— Sogyal Rinpoche

#spirituality #pain #vulnerability

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding”

— Kahlil Gibran

#spirituality #pain #understanding

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are”

— Joseph Campbell

#spirituality #authenticity #life

“What a liberation to realize that the voice in my head is not who I am”

— Eckhart Tolle

#spirituality #liberation #identity

“There is neither creation nor destruction neither destiny nor free will neither path nor achievement this is the final truth”

— Ramana Maharshi

#spirituality #truth #beyond

“These pains you feel are messengers listen to them”

— Rumi

#spirituality #pain #messages

“In a world dedicated to distraction silence and stillness terrify us”

— Sogyal Rinpoche

#spirituality #silence #distraction

“There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophies my brain and my heart are my temples my philosophy is kindness”

— Dalai Lama

#spirituality #simplicity #kindness

“The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go”

— Mooji

#spirituality #meditation #letting go

“To find a buddha all you have to do is see your nature”

— Bodhidharma

#spirituality #nature #buddha

“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves”

— Thomas Merton

#spirituality #love #acceptance

“Crave for a thing you will get it renounce the craving the object will follow you by itself”

— Swami Sivananda

#spirituality #renunciation #abundance

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have make the now the primary focus of your life”

— Eckhart Tolle

#spirituality #present #focus

“We seldom realize that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own”

— Alan Watts

#spirituality #thoughts #collective

“The real does not die the unreal never lived”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

#spirituality #reality #death

“The problem is not enjoyment the problem is attachment”

— Tilopa

#spirituality #attachment #enjoyment

“Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”

— Paul the Apostle

#self-worth #empowerment #sacred

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it”

— Eckhart Tolle

#spirituality #thoughts #unhappiness

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be just be one”

— Marcus Aurelius

#spirituality #action #goodness

“The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves.”

— Thomas Fuller

#spirituality #soul #love

“If you are peaceful then you will radiate that peace to others”

— Swami Satchidananda

#spirituality #peace #radiation

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves”

— Carl Jung

#spirituality #mirror #self-knowledge

“The world is imprisoned in its own activity, except when actions are performed as worship of God.”

— Unknown

#spirituality #action #devotion

“All life is yoga and the meeting of the human and the divine is its ultimate purpose.”

— Sri Aurobindo

#karma #spirituality #purpose

“To be fully alive and fully human and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest”

— Pema Chodron

#spirituality #aliveness #awakening

“Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

#spirituality #kindness #connection

“Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a person whose hair is on fire seeks a pond”

— Sri Ramakrishna

#spirituality #urgency #seeking

“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way ask yourself do I want to be a prisoner of the past”

— Deepak Chopra

#spirituality #freedom #reaction

“Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.”

— Francis of Assisi

#spirituality #peace #meditation

“Whoever goes to God with his whole heart will never be lost on the way.”

— Meister Eckhart

#faith #devotion #journey

“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.”

— Francis of Assisi

#peace #love #prayer

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts”

— Khalil Gibran

#spirituality #silence #peace

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion; bewilderment is intuition.”

— Rumi

#spirituality #wonder #humility

“An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory”

— Swami Satchidananda

#spirituality #practice #theory

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom”

— Anais Nin

#spirituality #growth #blossoming

“The spiritual life is not about acquiring it is about letting go”

— Meister Eckhart

#simplicity #spirituality #release

“Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth you owe me”

— Hafiz

#spirituality #generosity #sun

“Understanding means throwing away your knowledge if we want to understand we must stop clinging to conclusions”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#spirituality #understanding #openness

“The mind is restless, turbulent, strong and unyielding. I consider it as difficult to subdue as the wind.”

— Vyasa

#mind #discipline #struggle

“The world is illusory Brahman alone is real Brahman is the world”

— Shankara

#spirituality #reality #brahman

“There is no path to happiness happiness is the path”

— Buddha

#spirituality #happiness #path

“Wisdom tells me I am nothing love tells me I am everything between the two my life flows”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

#spirituality #wisdom #love

“Some people look for a beautiful place others make a place beautiful”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

#spirituality #beauty #creation

“You are not a drop in the ocean you are the entire ocean in a drop”

— Rumi

#spirituality #ocean #wholeness

“If you think you are too small to make a difference try sleeping with a mosquito”

— Dalai Lama

#spirituality #impact #humor

“Who looks outside dreams who looks inside awakens”

— Carl Jung

#spirituality #inner #awakening

“The only thing that stands between you and your wellbeing is a simple fact you have allowed your thoughts and emotions to take instruction from the outside”

— Sadhguru

#spirituality #wellbeing #inner

“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”

— Meister Eckhart

#gratitude #prayer #simplicity

“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness”

— Eckhart Tolle

#spirituality #experience #evolution

“Where there is love there is no effort”

— Amma

#spirituality #love #effortlessness

“A fish cannot drown in water a bird does not fall in air”

— Mechthild of Magdeburg

#spirituality #nature #belonging

“You cannot always control what goes on outside but you can always control what goes on inside”

— Wayne Dyer

#spirituality #control #inner

“It is always the false that makes you suffer the false desires and fears the false values and ideas”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

#spirituality #false #suffering

“Stop acting so small you are the universe in ecstatic motion”

— Rumi

#spirituality #greatness #universe

“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning”

— Meister Eckhart

#spirituality #beginners mind #renewal

“In the midst of movement and chaos keep stillness inside of you”

— Deepak Chopra

#spirituality #stillness #chaos

“The nature of mind is like the sun behind the clouds always shining always present”

— Tulku Urgyen

#spirituality #mind nature #sun

“The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.”

— Gautama Buddha

#faith #heart #inner wisdom

“You cannot stop the waves but you can learn to surf”

— Swami Satchidananda

#spirituality #acceptance #skill

“God is at home, it is we who have gone out for a walk.”

— Meister Eckhart

#spirituality #God #presence

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are”

— Carl Jung

#spirituality #becoming #authenticity

“Since everything is but an apparition having nothing to do with good or bad rest in equanimity”

— Longchenpa

#spirituality #equanimity #appearances

“Travel light live light spread the light be the light”

— Yogi Bhajan

#spirituality #light #simplicity

“Late have I loved you, Beauty so ancient and so new, late have I loved you! You were within me, but I was outside.”

— Augustine of Hippo

#spirituality #beauty #awakening

“You were born with wings why prefer to crawl through life”

— Rumi

#spirituality #potential #wings

“The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy not when you are seeking it”

— Sadhguru

#spirituality #joy #expression

“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#spirituality #purpose #humility

“Faith is a knowledge within the heart beyond the reach of proof”

— Khalil Gibran

#spirituality #faith #heart

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act with beauty and courage”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#spirituality #dragons #courage

“The greatest achievement is selflessness”

— Atisha

#spirituality #selflessness #achievement

“Enlightenment is ego falling away every moment you just have to keep your eye on the ball”

— Chogyam Trungpa

#spirituality #enlightenment #ego

“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.”

— Charles Kingsley

#beauty #gratitude #presence

“Be grateful for whoever comes because each has been sent as a guide from beyond”

— Rumi

#spirituality #gratitude #guides

“Three things cannot be long hidden the sun the moon and the truth”

— Buddha

#spirituality #truth #revelation

“A calm mind is good for our physical health but it also helps us see things more clearly”

— Dalai Lama

#spirituality #calm #clarity

“Your task is not to seek for love but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it”

— Rumi

#spirituality #love #barriers

“My religion is very simple my religion is kindness”

— Dalai Lama

#spirituality #kindness #religion

“Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #nature #patience

“As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you cant see how it is”

— Ram Dass

#spirituality #desire #seeing

“Whatever the present moment contains accept it as if you had chosen it”

— Eckhart Tolle

#spirituality #acceptance #choice

“Put your heart mind and soul into even your smallest acts this is the secret of success”

— Swami Sivananda

#spirituality #devotion #action

“Through our eyes the universe is perceiving itself through our ears the universe is listening to its harmonies”

— Alan Watts

#spirituality #perception #universe

“The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name.”

— Lao Tzu

#Tao #mystery #spirituality

“Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #self-knowledge #wisdom

“Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you unfold your own myth”

— Rumi

#spirituality #myth #authenticity

“If you cannot find the truth right where you are where else do you expect to find it”

— Dogen

#spirituality #truth #here

“The spirit desires to remain with its body, because without the organic instruments of that body it can neither act nor feel anything.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

#spirituality #body #spirit

“Where there is ruin there is hope for a treasure”

— Rumi

#spirituality #ruin #treasure

“When I let go of what I am I become what I might be”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #letting go #potential

“Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#love #energy #spirituality

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #journey #openness

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience we are spiritual beings having a human experience”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#spirituality #identity #human

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”

— John Milton

#spirituality #mind #perception

“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded it is an equal partnership”

— Pema Chodron

#spirituality #compassion #equality

“To be beautiful means to be yourself you dont need to be accepted by others you need to accept yourself”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#spirituality #beauty #self-acceptance

“The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.”

— Plutarch

#gratitude #spirituality #joy

“Settle yourself in solitude and you will come upon Him in yourself.”

— Teresa of Ávila

#solitude #spirituality #inner peace

“In the beginners mind there are many possibilities in the experts mind there are few”

— Shunryu Suzuki

#spirituality #beginners mind #openness

“The quality of your life depends on how well you manage your body mind and energies”

— Sadhguru

#spirituality #life quality #management

“Always bear this in mind everything is in Gods hands and you do what needs to be done”

— Anandamayi Ma

#spirituality #surrender #action

“Love is the bridge between you and everything”

— Rumi

#spirituality #love #bridge

“We are all just walking each other home”

— Ram Dass

#spirituality #companionship #journey

“Arise awake and stop not until the goal is reached”

— Swami Vivekananda

#spirituality #awakening #persistence

“Minds create the abyss and hearts cross it”

— Huang Po

#spirituality #mind #heart

“The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.”

— Jesus of Nazareth

#light #focus #spirituality

“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.”

— King David

#wonder #nature #sky

“Feelings are just visitors let them come and go”

— Mooji

#spirituality #feelings #impermanence

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”

— Gautama Buddha

#peace #inner peace #mindfulness

“The meaning of life is just to be alive it is so plain and so obvious and so simple”

— Alan Watts

#spirituality #meaning #aliveness

“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #self-knowledge #wisdom

“Beauty is the shadow of God on the universe.”

— Gabriela Mistral

#beauty #spirituality #universe

“The world is a traveller's inn, not his dwelling place.”

— Rumi

#life #impermanence #perspective

“Not in the sky, not in the midst of the sea, not in the clefts of the mountains is there known a spot where, having entered, death could overcome one.”

— Dhammapada

#mortality #acceptance #impermanence

“Who is it that loves and who that suffers it is the Lord alone”

— Anandamayi Ma

#spirituality #love #suffering

“The whole world is a series of miracles, but we are so used to them we call them ordinary things.”

— Hans Christian Andersen

#spirituality #wonder #miracles

“When the sun of devotion shines the snow of concepts melts”

— Dilgo Khyentse

#spirituality #devotion #concepts

“My actions are my only true belongings I cannot escape the consequences of my actions”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#spirituality #actions #karma

“I pray that there will be peace in the world through art”

— Yayoi Kusama

#creativity #peace #spirituality

“The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil.”

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#spirituality #nature #God

“I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside.”

— Rumi

#spirituality #seeking #awakening

“You are not your mind you are the awareness behind the thoughts”

— Eckhart Tolle

#spirituality #awareness #mind

“Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life.”

— Rumi

#gratitude #abundance #spirituality

“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you that will be enough”

— Meister Eckhart

#spirituality #gratitude #prayer

“Almost everything works again if you unplug it for a few minutes including you”

— Teresa of Avila

#spirituality #rest #renewal

“To study the self is to forget the self to forget the self is to be enlightened by all things”

— Dogen Zenji

#spirituality #self #enlightenment

“In this universe it is love that binds everything together”

— Amma

#spirituality #love #universe

“He who controls others may be powerful but he who has mastered himself is mightier still”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #self-mastery #power

“The supreme calling of every human being is to aspire to self-realization”

— Anandamayi Ma

#spirituality #calling #self-realization

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars”

— Khalil Gibran

#spirituality #suffering #strength

“Brahman is the only truth the world is illusion the self is ultimately Brahman”

— Shankara

#spirituality #truth #illusion

“Smile, breathe, and go slowly.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#spirituality #peace #mindfulness

“When you do something you should burn yourself up completely like a good bonfire leaving no trace of yourself”

— Shunryu Suzuki

#spirituality #wholeness #devotion

“You yourself must strive the Buddhas only point the way”

— Buddha

#spirituality #effort #self-reliance

“Step into the fire of self-discovery this fire will not burn you it will only burn what you are not”

— Mooji

#spirituality #self-discovery #fire

“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#spirituality #body #soul

“Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#spirituality #depth #inner life

“The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

#spirituality #words #enlightenment

“No mud no lotus the most beautiful things grow from difficulty”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#spirituality #difficulty #beauty

“The purpose of our lives is to be happy and to help others find happiness”

— Dalai Lama

#spirituality #purpose #happiness

“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance”

— Eckhart Tolle

#spirituality #abundance #gratitude

“In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is signed by God's name.”

— Walt Whitman

#spirituality #God #divinity

“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”

— Eckhart Tolle

#spirituality #life #flow

“Wherever you are you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see”

— Shunryu Suzuki

#spirituality #oneness #nature

“The sun shines down and its image reflects in a thousand different pots filled with water”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

#spirituality #reflection #unity

“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves the most fundamental harm we can do is to remain ignorant”

— Pema Chodron

#spirituality #ignorance #harm

“What the soul sees and has experienced that it knows the rest is appearance knowledge and prejudice”

— Sri Aurobindo

#spirituality #soul #experience

“Be strong then and enter into your own body there you have a solid place for your feet”

— Kabir

#spirituality #body #grounding

“If you resist change you resist life”

— Sadhguru

#spirituality #change #resistance

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field I will meet you there”

— Rumi

#spirituality #field #beyond

“Silence is the language of God; all else is poor translation.”

— Shams Tabrizi

#silence #God #spirituality

“When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.”

— Gautama Buddha

#spirituality #enlightenment #joy

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#spirituality #society #health

“The quieter you become the more you can hear”

— Ram Dass

#spirituality #silence #listening

“Since you are not sick do not go looking for a doctor”

— Huang Po

#spirituality #wholeness #seeking

“Know thyself and thou shalt know the universe and the gods.”

— Pythagoras

#self-knowledge #universe #wisdom

“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth”

— Alan Watts

#spirituality #self #paradox

“When you are inspired by some great purpose, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations.”

— Patanjali

#spirituality #purpose #transcendence

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#spirituality #inner strength #self

“Respond to every call that excites your spirit”

— Rumi

#spirituality #calling #excitement

“The mind is a bundle of thoughts and thoughts arise because there is the thinker”

— Ramana Maharshi

#spirituality #mind #thoughts

“Do not follow the ideas of others but learn to listen to the voice within yourself”

— Dogen Zenji

#spirituality #inner voice #independence

“You are not a drop in the ocean you are the entire ocean in a drop”

— Mooji

#spirituality #ocean #wholeness

“Once you realize that all comes from within that the world you see is what you yourself have projected you will stop looking elsewhere”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

#spirituality #projection #inner world

“God is at home it is we who have gone out for a walk”

— Meister Eckhart

#spirituality #home #God

“Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.”

— Rumi

#silence #spirituality #depth

“The wave does not need to die to become water she is already water”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#spirituality #wave #water

“Every day priests minutely examine the law and endlessly chant complicated sutras before doing that though they should learn how to read the love letters sent by the wind and rain the snow and moon”

— Ikkyu

#simplicity #nature #spirituality

“The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

#spirituality #failure #seeds

“The world out there is a reflection of who you are inside”

— Deepak Chopra

#spirituality #reflection #world

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

— Aristotle

#self-knowledge #wisdom #philosophy

“The lamps are different but the light is the same”