Spiritual wealth is true wealth (quotes)

An enriched soul is true wealth…  

  • It’s better to have a rich soul than to be rich. Olga Korbut
  • Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. Oscar Wilde
  • The meaning of earthly existence lies, not as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • It would be idle to say that life is a steady progression in happiness. But it is most certain that in the natural course of things a healthy soul grows continually richer until its latest day on earth. George S. Merriam
  • Don’t gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold. Bob Marley
  • The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel… its poverty by how little.  herrilyn Kenyon
  • Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night. Marian Wright Edelman
  • You may be fortunate and make a lot of money. But be sure your work involves something that enriches your spirit as well as your bank account. Jackson Brown Jr.
  • Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • May those who are impoverished by their thoughts be blessed with the realization of the richness of their spirit. Dodinsky
  • True wealth,  Spirituality,  The soul
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… wealth that lies within us, not without …

  • Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love – you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer. Eckhart Tolle
  • A beggar had been sitting by the side of a road for over thirty years. One day a stranger walked by. “Spare some change?” mumbled the beggar, mechanically holding out his old baseball cap. “I have nothing to give you,” said the stranger. Then he asked: “What’s that you are sitting on?” “Nothing,” replied the beggar. “Just an old box. I have been sitting on it for as long as I can remember.” “Ever looked inside?” asked the stranger. “No,” said the beggar. “What’s the point? There’s nothing in there.” “Have a look inside,” insisted the stranger. The beggar managed to pry open the lid. With astonishment, disbelief, and elation, he saw that the box was filled with gold. Eckhart Tolle
  • You are like an apparently poor person who does not know he has a bank account with $100 million in it and so his wealth remains an unexpressed potential. Eckhart Tolle
  • Look at you, screaming you are thirsty and are dying in the desert when all around you is nothing but water! Kabir
  • Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you? Rumi   
  • Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them. Russell H. Conwell
  • Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy for joy arises from within. Eckhart Tolle
  • The treasure within
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… wealth that comes from being, not having …

  • The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event—through anything that happens. That joy cannot come to you—ever. It emanates from the formless dimension within you, from consciousness itself and thus is one with who you are. Eckhart Tolle
  • If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having. Henry Miller
  • It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has. Henry Ward Beecher
  • Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have. Thomas A. Edison
  • Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth. They are looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love, while they have a treasure within that not only includes all those things but is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer. Eckhart Tolle
  • Being,  Presence
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… wealth that lies in spiritual tranquility and inner peace …

  • The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there. Chanakya
  • Take from me anything. Material possessions are worthless, just leave me with inner peace. Alison Stormwolf
  • The possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. Yogananda
  • A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. Aesop
  • The person who is at peace and has achieved a state of calmness needs no thing. He or she has everything. Peter Cajander
  • The best way for us to create peace in the world is to find peace in ourselves. Nothing on the outside will ever give you that.  Not money.  Not fame.  Not Ferraris.  Robin Sharma
  • Take me and cast me where you will; I shall still be possessor of the divinity within me, serene and content. Marcus Aurelius
  • Tranquility,  Inner peace
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… wealth that cannot be taken away

  • Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. Oscar Wilde
  • Your security is not your job, or your bank account, or your investments, or your spouse or parents. Your security is your ability to connect with the cosmic power that creates all things. Louise L. Hay
  • There’s bank-account rich, and there’s rich in spirit. The second kind is achieved when you make a difference. It’s the forever kind of rich that no one can take away from you but you. Tim Sanders
  • Security
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Don’t center your life around money, for the soul does not need material things to be rich  

  • Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.  Henry David Thoreau
  • It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind. Lucretius  
  • A man can radically change his life and attain to a deeper meaning, a more perfect integration, a more complete fulfillment, a more total liberty of spirit than are possible in the routines of a purely active existence centered on money-making.  Thomas Merton
  • I am aware there are books that instruct you on how to manipulate the market, stocks and people… they might even help you get money. But, let me caution you… when there is no spiritual growth… there is no spiritual strength… there is no lasting happiness… and, there is no real or lasting wealth. Bob Proctor
  • The lust for comfort murders the passions of the soul. Kahlil Gibran
  • Materialism,  Live rich rather than die rich
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However, having a rich soul does not mean you have to be financially poor…  

  • Don’t get me wrong. I am by no means saying that you can’t be both wealthy and happy. But whether you have a seven- figure trust fund or a pile of unpaid bills on your kitchen table, the path to freedom requires that you focus more on your inner life than on your outer financial circumstances. Brent Kessel
  • The goal should not be to make money or acquire things, but to achieve the consciousness through which the substance will flow forth when and as you need it. Eric Butterworth
  • Poverty
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… for spiritual wealth and material wealth can go hand in hand  

  • So now we’re down to the brass tacks. Admit it. You want to be good in business, you want to be a success in your life, but you also have a strong instinct that tells you life wouldn’t be much unless it had a spiritual side to it. You would like to make a million and meditate, too. Geshe Michael Roach
  • One goal is material fulfillment, and the means for that is the creation of wealth. The second goal is the attainment of liberation, and the means for that is spiritual practice. The Dalai Lama
  • You have to be able to look back and say not only that you made money, and not only that you enjoyed making and spending it, but also that you made a difference in the world, while you made the money and afterward. Geshe Michael Roach
  • Wealth
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In fact, spiritual wealth can often lead to outer wealth  

  • Though outer wealth rarely leads to inner wealth, inner wealth often does lead to outer wealth. Brent Kessel
  • Material bounty may well be the by-product of your spiritual bounty, but it won’t be your focus. Michael Ray
  • Life’s irony is that as soon as worldly goods and worldly success are of no concern to you, the way is open for them to flow to you. Neale Donald Walsch
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