Many beginners also at times possess great spiritual avarice. They hardly ever seem content with the spirit God gives them. They become unhappy and peevish because they don't find the consolation they want in spiritual things. Many never have enough ...
Respect spiritual beings but keep your distance.
Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?
He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.
The Spirit, and your soul are not the same things. The Spirit is God - the source. Your soul is God's imagination.
As we get rich, the basics of life - food, clothing and shelter - become a very small part of total expenditure. And people have enough money to purchase things that enhance them spiritually, and I mean the word 'spiritual' not necessarily in a relig...
Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricke...
The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, na...
As long as a believer is worrying about whether or not they are truly saved, they will never grow up in spiritual maturity. It basically guarantees that a Christian will remain stuck in spiritual infancy. And worse, it paints a picture of God that is...
Aren't you, like me, hoping that some person, thing, or event will come along to give you that final feeling of inner well-being you desire? Don't you often hope: 'May this book, idea, course, trip, job, country or relationship fulfill my deepest des...
The unbiblical idea of "spirituality" is that the truly "spiritual" man is the person who is sort of "non-physical," who doesn't get involved in "earthly" things, who doesn't work very much or think very hard, and who spends most of his time meditati...
There may be hostility and ambivalence, there may even be no responses and those are the worst because it means people do not care. Yet all of these are part of the parcel of land that we call human experience and spirituality. The deep lows and pinn...
One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.
Trust allows. Not trusting obstructs.
Our memory of dreams is a glimpse of the full spiritual life that each of us leads beyond the physical.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience.
Strategic spiritual warfare is war in the spirit with your spiritual man to address the physical problem
We are Not a Human Beings having a spiritual experience : we are spiritual beings having a Human Experience !
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
I remembered something Father Michael said to me a the monastery. 'The human soul is meant to expand. Things that once captured your heart may no longer be able to contain it.
Your greatest challenge is to not be distracted by that which happens in front of you, or is pulling on you or calling to you, but instead to find your center and magnetize to yourself all those things that are in alignment with your inner being
