Spirituality Quotes for the Soul to Ponder...

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1.)  “That which you resist stays.”  David R. Hawkins
2.)  “Would you rather be right or free?”  Byron Katie
3.)  “Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity.”  Lester Levenson
4.)  “The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give.”  Mother Teresa
5.)  “Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”   Khalil Gibran
6.)  “And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to the span of life?”  Jesus
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7.)  “To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity.”  Osho
8.)  “Wherever we may come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual.”  David Steindl-Rast
9.)  “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”  Rumi Quote

10.)  “Success is a welcomed gift for the uninhibited mind.”  Adlin Sinclair
11.)  “I love all religions, but I am in love with my own.”  Mother Teresa
12.)  “I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have.”  Dan Brown

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13.)  “Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one’s awareness of one’s ignorance.”  Anthony de Mello
14.)  “The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.”  Bono
15.)  “The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.”  Deepak Chopra

16.)  “The purpose of the heart is to know yourself, to be yourself, and yet one with God.”  Edgar Cayce

15.)  “The lust for comfort murders the passions of the soul.”  Khalil Gibran
16.)  “The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.”  Anais Nin
17.)  “If you reflect within yourself and find nothing to be ashamed of, how could you have anxiety or fear.”  Confucius

18.)  “For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”  Jesus

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19.)  “You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are!”  Eckhart Tolle
20.)  “Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.”  Carl Jung
21.)  “I believe in myself. I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love.”  Richard Branson
22.)  “It enables me to go to bed with an enriching feeling in my soul and the belief that I am changing myself.”  Nelson Mandela
23.)  “But maybe, by raising my voice, I can help the greatest of all causes – good will among men and peace on earth.”  Albert Einstein

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24.)  “Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.” The Buddha

25.)  “One hour’s meditation on the work of the Creator is better than seventy years of prayer.”  Muhammad
26.)  “In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness.”  Gandhi

27.)  “…where we entirely miss the obvious-that is, that we are all trying to decipher life’s big mysteries, and we’re each following our own paths of enlightenment.”  Dan Brown

28.)  “When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become.”  Carlos Castaneda
29.)  “Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.”   Joseph Campbell

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30.)  “It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.”  Jiddu Krishnamurti
31.)  “Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive – the risk to be alive and express what we really are.”  Miguel Angel Ruiz

32.)  “It’s just such a freeing thing to set these great challenges for yourself, to travel, to learn more about the world, to just go out there and get crazy and get free and get strong.” Angelina Jolie

34.)  “I think there’s an invisible principle of living too. If we believe we’re guided through every step of our lives, we are. It’s a lovely sight, watching it work.”  Richard Bach
35.)  “Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn’t, it is of no use.”  Carlos Castaneda
36.)  “However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?”  Buddha

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37.)  “It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the “I Am,” our real presence, can awaken.”   G.I. Gurdjieff
38.)  “We have always been involved in spiritual evolution. We are spiritual beings, we have always been spiritual beings and we will always be spiritual beings.”  Gary Zukav
39.)  “Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged.”  Rumi
40.)  “In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.”  Buddha

41.)  “The Buddha’s teachings on love are clear. It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.”  Thich Nhat Hanh

42.)  “The continual awareness of what was going on made me feel ashamed I wasn’t saying anything. I burst out because I could no longer play that game any more, it was just too much for me.”  John Lennon

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43.)  “Without faith, hope and trust, there is no promise for the future, and without a promising future, life has no direction, no meaning and no justification.”  Adlin Sinclair
44.)  “Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”   Buddha
45.)  “We must have the faith that things will work out somehow, that God will make a way for us when there seems no way.”  Martin Luther King
46.)  “Through awareness, you get a certain attitude. That’s the way, you see, to achieve more peaceful, more compassion, more friendship through that way.”  14th Dalai Lama
47.)  “Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.”  Ram Dass
48.)  “The sage seeks freedom from desire. He does not collect precious things. He learns not to hold on to ideas. He brings men back to what they have lost.”  Lao Tzu 

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49.)  “If we knock on the door until it opens, not taking no for an answer, our lives will be transformed as we step up into a higher awareness.”  James Redfield
50.)  “I see the potential for a new world being born in front of me and all around me, and I feel the only way to bring that potential into being is to know myself.”  Gary Zukav
51.)  “No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities. It’s a shame to waste those by doing what someone else has done.”  Joseph Campbell
52.)  “We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people’s models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.”  Shakti Gawain

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53.)  “The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing. When the being is intense enough, when the words are spoken enough, when the thoughts are thought enough, the doing will automatically follow.”  Marianne Williamson
54.)  “Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”  Carlos Castaneda
55.)  “If you deny yourself access to the child within because you’re too serious, you also block your connection to the divine Light and your feminine self. Every creator who’s any good uses their feminine side to create with.. Whether a scientist working on a hunch, a painter working on the interplay of colors, or a musician dealing with the juxtaposition of notes and chords.”  Stuart Wilde
56.)  “Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.”  Fyodor Dostoyevsky
57.)  “The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe.”  Deepak Chopra

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58.)  “I think the new spirituality will be a spirituality that’s not based on a particular dogma. And that steps away from the old spiritual paradigm that we have created on this planet, which comes from a thought that there is such a thing as being better.”  Neale Donald Walsch
59.)  “I have an almost religious zeal… not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.”  Dan Millman
60.)   “Where is the peace in more is better?  This idea keeps us exclusively in the physical domain.  You can replace the more is better belief with an inner serenity that doesn’t need more to be acceptable.  There is no peace in more is better, and if it doesn’t being peace to your life, then it’s something you want to discard.”   Wayne Dyer
61.)  “Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.”  Zig Ziglar
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