A Collection of Quotes About the Spiritual Journey
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A Collection of Quotes About the Spiritual Journey
There is no path. The path is made by walking. — Antonio Machado
Remember the music is not in the piano. —Clement Mok
Hold on with all your strength to the stirrups of God…our duty is to resign ourselves and do what God wills. —Rumi
To think in a more contemplative way means to slow down and recover our rootedness on Earth, which allows us to ponder and question what kind of beings we are and how best to live in this world. —Stephen Batchelor
Give your approval to all you cannot understand. —Wendell Berry
Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour. —Eckhart Tolle
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
The goal of life is to have your heartbeat match the beat of the Universe, to match your nature with Nature. —Joseph Campbell
Like the little stream
making its way
Through the mossy crevices
I, too, quietly
Turn clear and transparent
—Ryokan
I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me. —Herman Hesse
The spiritual task we are given is a simple one—to attend to that inner spark of radiance and hold vigil over it until we realize it to be ourself—to dig up and cast off all argument we have with its love. —Adyashanti
Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become. —Paramahansa Yogananda
You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle. —Eckhart Tolle
Perhaps ultimately, spiritual simply means experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly, a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven, that nothing is separate or extraneous. If you see in this way, then everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense. Doing science is spiritual. So is washing the dishes. It is the inner experience which counts. And you have to be there for it. All else is mere thinking. —Jon Kabat-Zinn
Even though we cannot see clearly how it’s going to turn out, we are still called to let the future into our imagination. We will never be able to build what we have not first cherished in our hearts. —Joanna Macy and Sam Mowe, “The Work That Reconnects”
Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits. —Father Daniel Berrigan
Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction. —Rumi
Every extension of knowledge arises from making the unconscious conscious. —Friedrich Nietzsche
Practice, both the athletic and the spiritual kind, is not a manifestation of perfection, but an acceptance of imperfection. One does not achieve or attain compassion; one develops it by meeting the moment over and over again. —Alex Tzelnic
We can’t control [insight]; we can just create conditions in which insight is more likely to happen. We can be curious and open. We can inquire. And eventually, if we are lucky, the mind will wake up to itself and know its true nature. —Teah Strozer
I'd like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else. —Richard Linklater
