SPIRITUAL QUOTATIONS
ALBERT EINSTEIN
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.
BLAISE PASCAL
It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.
CARL SCHURZ
Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands.
But like the seafaring man in the desert waters, you choose them as your guides,
and, follow them you will reach your destiny.
CARTER HEYWOOD
But doubt is as crucial to faith as darkness is to light. Without one, the other has no context and is meaningless. Faith is, by definition, uncertainty. It is full of doubt, steeped in risk. It is about matters not of the known, but of the unknown.
CONFUCIUS
Confucius sad, 'When you see a good man, try to emulate his example,
and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.'
EURIPIDES
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
Belief to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness.
GERMAINE DE STAEL
Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely as a vehicle for joy.
HERACLITUS
You can never step in the same river twice.
JOHN KEATS
I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of Imagination.
J.KRISHNAMURTI
So each of us must seek, so each one of us must dance through life, must have tremendous ecstasies, great sorrows and pains and great pleasures; and the greater and stronger they are, the more quickly shall we arrive at that of Nirvana, that absolute oneness with Life.
KAHLIL GIBRAN
There is no depth beyond the soul of man, and the soul is the deep that calls unto itself; for there is no other voice to speak and there are no other ears to hear.
LEO TOLSTOY
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
MATSUO BASHO
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
MOLIERE
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
OSHO
The question is not finding in your thoughts what is right and what is wrong,
in your actions what is right and what is wrong. The question is of finding a right remains, and whatever is false burns out. You don't have to decide.
PARACELSUS
Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifest the hidden.
PETER ABELARD
The key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning .
For by doubting we come to inquiry, and by inquiry we arrive at truth.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
That which oppresses me, is it my soul trying to come out in the open,
or the soul of the world knocking at my heart for its entrance?
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Before the revelations of the soul, Time and Space and nature shrink away.
RENE DESCARTES
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt,
as far as possible, all things.
SARMAD
Do not ask me questions on my way of life.
All writings is useless; useless is all interpretation;
All words and sentences are useless,
Unless the Spirit is ready to hear.
SOPHOCLES
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
ST AUGUSTINE
People travel to wonder at the heights of a mountain,
At the huge waves of the sea,
At the long courses of the rivers,
At the vast compass of the ocean,
At the circular motion of the stars;
And they pass by themselves without wondering.
THE BHAGAVAD GITA
In this world, aspirants may find enlightenment by two different paths. For the contemplative is the path of knowledge; for the active is the path of selfless action.
THEODORE M. HESBURGH
Faith is not an easy virtue but in the broad world of man's total voyage through time to eternity,
faith is not only a gracious companion, but an essential guide.
THE DHAMMAPADA
Watchfulness is the path of immortality: watchfulness is the path of death.
Those who are watchful never die:
those who do not watch are already as dead.
THE UPANISHADS
Spirit is not born, nor deceases ever, has not come from any, or from it any.
This Unborn, Eternal and Everlasting Ancient is not slain, be it slain the body.
HIPPOCRATES
The human soul develops up to the time of death.
THOMAS MERTON
We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know we have fallen.
T.S. ELIOT
We shall not cease from exploring, and the end of our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
WILLIAM JAMES
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will create the fact.
