Quotes of: Spiritual-life Keyword

Life provides chances to open your heart all the time.

The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, & Soul Mates

The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.

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

In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.

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

We need to learn how to honor and use a practice for as long as it serves us.

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

Life, for the living, is a gift of opportunity; an exercise of the will to choose.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

Often it takes outer authority to send us on the path to our own inner authority.

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

Business is not a spiritual matter, and my business decisions are not based on spiritual considerations. When I founded the Essence of Life, a project aimed at teaching tolerance and respectful dialogue, the person appointed to head it was Irit Atzmo...

Shari Arison

That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot b...

Emanuel Swedenborg

The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim to believe that, but very few people actually live as if that were true.

Neale Donald Walsch

Life is the reflection of consciousness. Change your consciousness and your life will change.

Spiritual Regeneration

Life is a spiritual journey and love is the Milky Way.

Debasish Mridha

As you grow in true spiritual power and understanding you will actually find that many outer rules and regulations will become unnecessary; but this will be because you have really risen above them; never, never, because you have fallen below them. T...

The Sermon on the Mount: The Key to Success in Life

Gratitude becomes spiritual, a spiritual virtue and a spiritual emotion, when we are moved in our response by a God-centered view of the three: gift, recipient, and giver. – p. 56

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

The last part of life is a spiritual concern. You need to find a context to put your life into, that will allow you to go through it with as much grace and balance as possible, even if there is rebellion and adventure and exploration and resistance.

James Cromwell

We must learn, then, not to HAVE a spirituality, something we turn on at a particular place or time, but to BE spiritual, as a habit of life, a continuous state of being. It is to this end that we seek after God in the stillness and hubbub of life, b...

Common Roots: The Original Call to an Ancient-Future Faith

Enmeshed in collective hatred and anger, each side proclaims the crimes of the other and its own righteousness, is unable to listen to the others suffering, and cannot look at the deeper roots of the conflict and how we often need our enemies in orde...

The Engaged Spiritual Life: A Buddhist Approach to Transforming Ourselves and the World

There seems to be something in our human nature that draws us away from a life-giving relationship with Jesus because it feels more comfortable to focus on what to do and not do. That tendency robs us of real joy and peace.

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

Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the o...

The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude. The movement from loneliness to solitude, however, is the beginning of any...

Reaching Out

As we follow a genuine path of practice, our sufferings may seem to increase because we no longer hide from them or from ourselves. When we do not follow the old habits of fantasy and escape, we are left facing the actual problems and contradictions ...

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

Freedom and wildness, that which we were born into, is a grand mystery and miracle that creates a openness reserved not for barring us in but for keeping us out of cages. It is our ability to find the truth that has been a survival tool for our speci...

Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction