Quotes of: Spiritual-experience Keyword

Religion is to follow someone else's word as truth; whereas Spirituality is to discover your own truth through inquiry, experimentation and experience.

Return to Love: A Guide to Inner Peace, Emotional Healing and Spiritual Transformation

'Faith and Will' sprang from my personal experience with passing through a dark spiritual time.

Julia Cameron

In AA we don’t come to God through theology but through experience, mostly of the humbling and humiliating variety, often reluctantly, and sometimes even kicking and screaming. – p. 179

Practice These Principles: Living the Spiritual Disciplines and Virtues in 12-Step Recovery to Achieve Spiritual Growth, Character Development, and Emotional Sobriety

Our future experiences will be colored by the choices we make in the present.

Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries

Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created.

Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries

Your attitude determines how you experience the world.

Living with Joy: Keys to Personal Power and Spiritual Transformation

The Wanderer then leaves behind the spiritual seeker, with all the accumulated knowledge and lofty spiritual experience, and takes the first step on the Journey.

Frank M. Wanderer

The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate to God-fearing men faux spirituality.

Criss Jami

(The death of his child) "was the first experience of his life, so far as we know, which drove him to look outside of his own mind and heart for help to endure a personal grief. It was the first time in his life when he had not been sufficient for hi...

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we discover that one of three things will happen to our new experience: it will go away, it will stay the same, or it will get more intense. whatever happens does not really matter.

A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life

The mechanism by which spirituality becomes passionate is metaphor. An ineffable God requires metaphor not only to be imagined but to be approached, exhorted, evaded, confronted, struggled with, and loved. Through metaphor, the vividness, intensity, ...

Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought

[W]e need not become fixated upon our own suffering, whatever its origin. We offer it up, thus participating in the well-being of the universe. When we experience an illness or depression not as our own but as the universe’s, we are one with all be...

Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity

In the case of someone who is spiritual receptive, it is possible to talk of an analogy between the impact made by a work of art and that of a purely religious experience. Arts acts above all on the soul shaping its spiritual structure.

Andrei Tarkovsky

Religion is nothing more than the study of other people’s experiences with God. But true spirituality is the opportunity to have your own experience with God.

Kim Wright

Temptation is a test of your , not your self-control.

Fresh Air: Trading Stale Spiritual Obligation for a Life-Altering, Energizing, Experience-It-Everyday Relationship with God

On your quest to spirituality it is often required to suspend your rationality; but true spirituality asks that you enhance your rationality.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

This philosophy of spiritual formation through the consumption of external experiences creates worship junkies — Christians who leap from one mountaintop to another, one spiritual high to another, in search of a glory that does not fade.

Skye Jethani

Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may be able to master and to rule them, and in later ages take his place in the creative and directing hierarch...

Annie Besant

The spiritual freedom we seek cannot be found by grasping at, retreating to, or protecting our perceived safe spaces. Our freedom lies in remaining open continuously, not only to Life’s changes but also to the Divine Light within us and others. Thi...

Everything I Wanted To Know About Spirituality But Didn't Know How To Ask: A Spiritual Seekers Guidebook

One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.

Meher Baba

Whatever experiences we may come across in our spiritual journey we are not any of those experiences but rather the one who is witnessing them, the pure awareness cognizing them without thought.

Enza Vita