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Spirituality is that which is concerned with consciousness and the spirit

• Spirituality: The quality of being concerned with the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things. Oxford Dictionary
• Spirituality: The quality that involves deep feelings and beliefs of a religious nature, rather than the physical parts of life. Cambridge Dictionary
• Spiritual: Relating to the spirit or soul, as distinguished from the physical nature.  Dictionary.com
• This universe is formed out of both consciousness forces and matter. While the study of matter has been the domain of traditional science, the study of consciousness is the science of spirituality. Shriram Sharma Acharya
• My personal definition of spirituality is that which quietens the mind, opens the heart and expands the soul. Anthony Lambert
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Religion and spirituality overlap but there are differences

• I think spirituality and religion overlap in many areas. Religions contain many deep spiritual truths and can be a potent source of spirituality. However, there are also some distinct differences.  Anthony Lambert
• Religion is just coded spirituality. Ken Wilber
• Every day people are straying away from the Church and going back to God. Lenny Bruce
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Spirituality is the perception of divinity wherever you go, in whatever you perceive   

• The spiritual path – is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don’t know it. Marianne Williamson
• True success is therefore the experience of the miraculous. It is the unfolding of the divinity within us. It is the perception of divinity wherever we go, in whatever we perceive — in the eyes of a child, in the beauty of a flower, in the flight of a bird. Deepak Chopra
• You don’t have to call it God or Jesus. That’s religious humbug to a lot of people, but you’ve gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life. Jack LaLanne
• Spirituality on the other hand, is a chosen path of developing intimate relationships with God. It’s chosen, it’s nurtured, and it’s optional. Caroline Myss
• Real spirituality is not up in the clouds–it is down on earth, here and now. Deep spirituality is seeing God every day in the common things, and showing God your appreciation by doing common tasks. Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
• Spirituality is defined as a “search for the sacred” – that is, a search for meaning in life through something that is larger than the individual self. KI Pargament
• When your life is filled with the desire to see holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul!  Harold Kushner
• Perform all thy actions with mind concentrated on the Divine, renouncing attachment and looking upon success and failure with an equal eye. Spirituality implies equanimity.  The Bhagavad Gita
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Spirituality is about discovering, experiencing and connecting with your true nature, beyond the ego

• The effort to discover an authentic self, to strip away layers of alienation and culturally imposed identity and find a soul in a clear, unimpeded communion with the sacred is consonant with spiritual quests throughout the ages. Cynthia Eller
• The main requirement for spiritual growth is a yearning to know who you really are. Adyashanti
• Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Baba Ram Dass
• The essence of spirituality is the search to know our true selves, to discover the real nature of consciousness. Peter Russell
• The true vocation of man is to find his way to himself. Hermann Hesse
• I define spiritual practice as something you do every single day that draws you deeper into who you really are by connecting you with your divine self. Maggie Lyon
• The journey by which we discover God is also the journey by which we discover, or uncover, our true self hidden in God. It is a journey that we all have to make. Esther de Waal
• The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul? Oscar Wilde
• The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one’s own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one’s self. Aldous Huxley
• My central message is not about religiosity or churchianity. It is about aspiring toward spiritual liberation, which I define as becoming free from the narrow confines of fear, doubt, worry, and lack, and living instead from a conscious awareness of one’s Authentic Self, one’s true nature of wholeness. Michael Bernard Beckwith
• Spirituality dawns when individuality vanishes. When our ego becomes aware of something that is higher than it – the individual Spirit, or Soul; then spirituality dawns. Swami Rama
• Discovery,  Transcending the ego,  Awaken to who you really are.  Self-knowledge,  Connection

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… and getting in touch with the best in yourself   

• Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention. Deepak Chopra  
• Whether you are aware of them or not, whether you recognize them as spiritual or not, you probably have had the experiences of silence, or transcendence, or the Divine—a few seconds, a few minutes that seem out of time; a moment when the ordinary looks beautiful, glowing; a deep sense of being at peace, feeling happy for no reason. When these experiences come…believe in them. They reflect your true nature.  Ravi Shankar
• I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being. Hafez of Shiraz
• Spirituality is natural goodness. God is not a person; God is a presence personified in us. Spirituality is not a thing; it is the atmosphere of God’s Presence, goodness, truth, and beauty. Ernest Holmes
• Spirituality means respecting and honoring the spirit or life force within us. Bhanumati Narasimhan

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Spirituality is about being part of the world and deepening your experience of life   

• The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it. Henri J. M. Nouwen
• It isn’t by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves. Ken Kesey
• Many spiritual teachers – in Buddhism, in Islam – have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment. Bell Hooks
• If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak. Satish Kumar
• A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire. Thomas Merton
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Spirituality is about waking up to the wonder of being conscious in a wondrous universe   

• Spirituality is about being awake. It’s the attempt to transcend the mundane, sleepwalking experience of life we all fall into, to tap into the wonder of being a conscious and grateful thing in the midst of an astonishing universe. It doesn’t require religion. Religion can, in fact, and often does, blunt our awareness by substituting false wonders for real ones. It’s a fine joke on ourselves that most of what we call spirituality is actually about putting ourselves to sleep. Dale McGowan
• A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge. Carl Sagan
• Appreciation of life itself, becoming suddenly aware of the miracle of being alive, on this planet, can turn what we call ordinary life into a miracle. We come awake to such a realization when we recognize our connection to a spiritual dimension. Dan Wakefield
• We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born. Albert Einstein
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Spirituality is about expanding your state of consciousness   

• Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness. Eckhart Tolle
• Consciousness is dreaming you. It likes it. But, it also wants to wake up. Eckhart Tolle
• The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness. Lao Tzu
• If one wishes a life of abundance, development of the soul is of the utmost import. By fulfilling the souls potential we celebrate the divine spirit, raise the collective consciousness and fuel the fires of transformation. Micheal Teal
• The essence of spirituality is the search to know our true selves, to discover the real nature of consciousness. Peter Russell
• A really spiritual person will live life as an art, will create a deep harmony between the body and the consciousness. And this is the greatest art there is. His life will be a joy to see. Osho
• “How “spiritual” you are has nothing to do with what you believe but everything to do with your state of consciousness. Eckhart Tolle
• In other words, the real problem is not exterior. The real problem is interior. The real problem is how to get people to internally transform, from egocentric to sociocentric to worldcentric consciousness, which is the only stance that can grasp the global dimensions of the problem in the first place, and thus the only stance that can freely, even eagerly, embrace global solutions. Ken Wilber
• How ‘spiritual’ you are has nothing to do with what you believe but everything to do with your state of consciousness. This, in turn, determines how you act in the world and interact with others. Eckhart Tolle
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Spirituality is getting a sense of your place in the cosmos and your connection to it all   

• Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of one’s place in the cosmos, a relationship to that which extends beyond oneself.  Michael Shermer
• For me, spirituality means seeing myself as a microscopic part of the cosmos. I believe that whatever force makes the day turn into night and night turn into day, and winter become spring and fall become winter; whatever keeps all the stars and planets going around perfectly in their orbits, creates new buds in spring and moves old leaves to drop away in autumn, can surely look after this one little life of mine. Joshua Rosenthal
• We are earth people on a spiritual journey to the stars. Our quest, our earth walk, is to look within, to know who we are, to see that we are connected to all things, that there is no separation, only in the mind. Lakota Seer
• Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives. Brené Brown
• Spirituality for me is recognizing that I am connected to the energy of all creation, that I am a part of it and it is always a part of me. Whatever label or word we use to describe “it” doesn’t matter. Words are completely inadequate. Oprah Winfrey
• At the deepest level of ecological awareness you are talking about spiritual awareness. Spiritual awareness is an understanding of being imbedded in a larger whole, a cosmic whole, of belonging to the universe. Fritjof Capra
• Spirituality exists wherever we struggle with the issue of how our lives fit into the greater cosmic scheme of things. This is true even when our questions never give way to specific answers or give rise to specific practices such as prayer or meditation. We encounter spiritual issues every time we wonder where the universe comes from, why we are here, or what happens when we die. We also become spiritual when we become moved by values such as beauty, love, or creativity that seem to reveal a meaning or power beyond our visible world. An idea or practice is “spiritual” when it reveals our personal desire to establish a felt- relationship with the deepest meanings or powers governing life. Robert Fuller
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Spirituality is about finding meaning   

• Spiritual seekers particularly are on a quest to understand life; we want to examine our own lives and find meaning in what we do and who we are. … We find meaning in the seeking itself. Every step along the way is the Way… Lama Surya Das
• Religion and spirituality undoubtedly help us to find meaning in life. Why do we need a sense of meaning? Because we need to feel that we matter, that our suffering and our hard work aren’t futile, and that our life has a purpose.  Sonja Lyubomirsky
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Spirituality is about the revealing of and discovery of deep truth

• All spiritual progress is the growth of half-knowledge into clear illumination. In our inspired moments we have the feeling that there is a greater reality within us, though we cannot tell what it is. Radhakrishnan
• I believe in a spiritual world – not as anything separate from this world – but as its innermost truth. With the breath we draw we must always feel this truth that we are living in God. Rabindranath Tagore
• In other words, don’t seek externally for fulfillment; rather turn the searchlight inward. ‘Hey, what are you gawking at? Don’t you see, it’s all about you!’ the twentieth-century Zen master Sawaki Roshi once said. It’s a fact: You’re not going to find truth outside yourself. Not through lovers or mates, not with friends, not with family, and certainly not via material success. The only place you are going to be able to find your truth is in your genuine spiritual center. Truth is found by living truly—in your own authentic way. Lama Surya Das
• I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don’t know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten. Eckhart Tolle
• The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. Anaïs Nin
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Spirituality is about being exactly who you are and realising that is enough   

• To be real is to be spiritual. A cat is normal because no one has fixed him with a neurotic notion that he should be a tiger. A man loses neurosis when he is what he is. Vernon Howard
• The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that’s all there is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented. Vernon Howard
• Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough. Ram Dass
• It is the aim of all spiritual seeking to bring us home, home to the understanding that we already have everything we need. Katrina Kenison
• We are on a journey of becoming that which we already are. That is the impossible paradox of our lives. Leonard Jacobson

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Spirituality is about developing your senses of the soul   

• Our bodies have five senses: touch, smell, taste, sight, hearing. But not to be overlooked are the senses of our souls: intuition, peace, foresight, trust, empathy. The differences between people lie in their use of these senses; most people don’t know anything about the inner senses while a few people rely on them just as they rely on their physical senses, and in fact probably even more. JoyBell C.
• Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes, so does a man develop in himself soul and spiritual organs of perception through which the soul and spiritual worlds are opened to him. For those who do not have such higher senses, these worlds are dark and silent, just as the bodily world is dark and silent for a being without eyes and ears. Rudolf Steiner
• Those who know God know that it is quite a mistake to suppose that there are only five senses. Coventry Patmore
• Spirituality is the science of the Soul. Swami Vivekananda
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Spirituality is about practicing love and unlearning fear…   

• Spiritual practice is the capacity to offer your love even when you feel hurt, closed down, tense, angry, misunderstood, or hated.  David Deida
• In love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we are to the spiritual experience. Paulo Coelho
• Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
• Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us. Marianne Williamson
• Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Brené Brown
• The spiritual being sees the physical world as an arena for growth and learning with the specific purpose of serving and evolving into higher levels of love. Wayne Dyer
• The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Marianne Williamson
• All the manifestations of love can be seen as a connection with our spirituality. John Pierrakos
• The spiritual path can only be traveled through the daily experience of love. Paulo Coelho
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Spirituality is about making a difference in the real world   

• The kind of spirituality I value is one in which you get great joy out of contributing to life, not just sitting & meditating, although meditation is certainly valuable. But from the meditation, from the resulting consciousness, I would like to see people in action creating the world that they want to live in. Marshall Rosenberg
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Spirituality is about growth and evolution of the soul   

• On the path to love, impossibilities are resolved by turning non-love into love. With spiritual growth comes new creative potential, leading to the realization that you are pure potential, able to fill any creative impulse. Deepak Chopra
• Spiritual growth is like learning to walk. We stand up, fall, stand up, fall, take a step, fall, take a couple of steps, fall, walk a little better, wobble a bit, fall, run, and finally, eventually fly.  Geri Larkin
• The spiritual being sees the physical world as an arena for growth and learning with the specific purpose of serving and evolving into higher levels of love. Wayne Dyer
• If we are the same as we were last year, we are worse, for the spiritual life was meant to grow. Thomas G. Morrow
• The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour. M. Montgomery
• The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness. Lao Tzu
• With spiritual growth comes new creative potential, leading to the realization that you are pure potential, able to fill any creative impulse.  Deepak Chopra  
• There comes a time in the evolution of every soul when the chief concern is no longer the survival of the physical body, but the growth of the spirit; no longer the attainment of worldly success, but the realization of Self. Neale Donald Walsch
• Your soul already knows that, what it needs is to use the long journey to be able to grow, stretch along the horizon, touch the sky. Paulo Coelho
• Let your soul be an oasis of transformation that takes your life to the next level and fulfills your dreams. Rejoice in your awakening, the future is now and love is in every breath you take. Micheal Teal
• The spiritual journey is one of constant transformation. In order to grow, you must give up the struggle to remain the same, and learn to embrace change at all times. Michael Singer
• Soul development should take precedence over all things. Edgar Cayce
• You grow to heaven. You don’t go to heaven. Edgar Cayce
• Spiritual evolution occurs as the result of removing obstacles and not actually acquiring anything new. Devotion enables surrenders of the mind’s vanities and cherished illusions so that it progressively becomes more free and more open to the light of Truth. David Hawkins    
• Becoming integrated and whole is the spiritual path. The body is your vehicle. Your job is to learn about yourself from your experiences and change yourself. This is spiritual growth. Gary Zukav
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… and your life serves as a fertile arena for your spiritual growth and discovery…   

• Every relationship, every situation is part of a divinely created and highly specific curriculum for your soul growth. Marianne Williamson
• I have learned that everything is an opportunity for spiritual enrichment. Marlo Morgan
• I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken. Ram Dass
• Life is a chance to grow a soul.   Powell Davies
• Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.  Eckhart Tolle
• The spiritual being sees the physical world as an arena for growth and learning with the specific purpose of serving and evolving into higher levels of love. Wayne Dyer
• The world is our school for spiritual discovery. Paul Brunton
• You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. Swami Vivekananda
• Your soul already knows that, what it needs is to use the long journey to be able to grow, stretch along the horizon, touch the sky. Paulo Coelho
• When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul. Jon Kabat-Zinn
• All life is yoga. Every moment is an opportunity for training the mind. Eknath Easwaran
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… including the problems and difficult times you experience   

• Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process. Sai Baba
• The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.    M. Scott Peck
• In all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden. Swami Chinmayananda
• Problems are spiritual lessons from God–spiritual lessons to be learned. Tony Robbins
• Problems are God’s resistance to create spiritual muscles. Tony Robbins
• All spiritual growth takes place by leaps and bounds, both in the individual and, as here, in the community. The crisis is to be regarded as a nexus of growth. Jacob Burckhardt
• That’s the fascinating thing about problems. When taken on, they are life-changing gifts. Once we can do the mind shift (from paranoid mode to creative mode) necessary to see them for what they are, all problems become advanced seminars in What I Now Need to Learn to Advance on this Spiritual Journey Up the Ladder of Consciousness to Some Real Fun and Good Mischief and a condition we’ve all heard described as fearless. Steve Chandler
• For practitioners or spiritual warriors—people who have a certain hunger to know what is true—feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding back. They teach us to perk up and lean in when we feel we’d rather collapse and back away. They’re like messengers that show us, with terrifying clarity, exactly where we’re stuck. This very moment is the perfect teacher, and lucky for us, it’s with us wherever we are. Pema Chodron
• The religious traditions encourage us to do more than react with passivity and resignation to loss and crisis; they advise us to change our perspective, so that our suffering is transformed into an opportunity for growth. Not only does the experience of tragedy give us an exceptional opportunity for growth, but some sort of suffering is also necessary for a person to achieve maximal psychological growth. Robert Emmons
• It is in falling down that we learn almost everything that matters spiritually. Richard Rohr
• Unfortunate events, though potentially a source for anger and despair, have equal potential to be a source of spiritual growth. Whether or not this is the outcome depends on our response. The Dalai Lama
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Spirituality is about embracing, not denying life and seeing the sacredness in all

• The purpose of the spiritual journey is not to arrive anywhere, but rather to engage with the adventure of life in a new way, so that the evolutionary process unfolds powerfully within us. It’s about waking up to our deeper being so that we can more fully engage with the evolutionary adventure of becoming a more conscious individual. It’s about living our lives as a transformational process through which we are learning to love. Tim Freke
• Every form of life is sacred. It is not possible to have an activity that is not sacred…Coming to see everything as sacred and honouring everything is spiritual development. Gary Zukav
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Spirituality is about following your own path

• The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It cannot be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth. Ram Dass
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Spirituality is important because at heart, we are spiritual beings   

• You need to know that you are a spiritual being so that you can do helpful things to allow your innate qualities to unfold and express. Roy Eugene Davis
• We are not human beings trying to be spiritual. We are spiritual beings trying to be human. Jacquelyn Small
• In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body. Barbara De Angelis
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A spiritual life provides real wealth that cannot be taken away   

• 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
• 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
• Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A spiritual life connects you to energy and power   

• The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man’s life; and until he has realized it, he is not a complete human being, has not entered into possession of all his powers. Evelyn Underhill
• It isn’t until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are – not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within – that you can begin to take control. Oprah Winfrey
• Just as a candle cannot burn without fire man cannot live without a spiritual life. Buddha
• Bringing a spiritual dimension into all that we do is essential for ending the struggle and dancing with life. Our body and our minds can take us only so far, our spirit can lead us all the way Home. Susan Jeffers
• The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us. Marianne Williamson
• To truly honour life we must sink our roots into what is holy and embrace the infinite life force while radiating love and light. Micheal Teal
• Energy doesn’t come to us so much from the things around us–although we can absorb energy directly from some plants and sacred sites. Sacred energy comes from our connection to the divine inside us. James Redfield
• The flower draws its life energy from the soil and from the sun. We are very similar. We continuously receive energy from the earth through our feet and from the air. Energy is everywhere, like love. We just have to open ourselves up to receive it. Ratu Bagus
• The unseen energy that was once in Shakespeare or Picasso or Galileo or any human form, is also available to all of us. That is because the spirit energy does not die, it simply changes form. Wayne Dyer
• The electric energy which motivates us is not within our bodies at all. It is a part of the universal supply which flows through us from the Universal Source with an intensity set by our desires and our will. Walter Russell
• There is a well of infinity hidden within each Soul. There you will find an incredible energy source, beyond your broadest understanding. It is Light and Healing. The Force of Nature. The essence of Love. Royce Addington
• If we identify with the soul we awaken the authentic self, inspire the spirit and fuel the fire of transformation. Micheal Teal
• What is soul? It’s like electricity – we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light up a room.  Ray Charles    
• The object in being on the spiritual path is not to have just a little influx of energy, but to be the energy itself – consciously. Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
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A spiritual life is a source of happiness and health…   

• I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness of something wider than materialism; in the capacity to live in a world that makes you unselfish because you are not overanxious about your own comic fallibilities; that gives you tranquility without complacency because you believe in something so much larger than yourself. Sir Hugh Walpole
• Studies show that compared with those who profess no faith, religious and spiritual people are calmer and healthier. Michael Castleman
• If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.  Paramahansa Yogananda
• It is in the balancing of your spirituality with your humanity that you will find immeasurable happiness, success, good health, and love. Steve Maraboli
• Studies show that spiritual people are relatively happier than nonspiritual people, have superior mental health, cope better with stressors, are physically healthier and live longer lives. People who perceive the divine being as loving and responsive are happier than those who don’t.  Sonja Lyubomirsky
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Spirituality is about health of the soul, which is as important as health of the body   

• A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part. Nathaniel Hawthorne
• A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison. Francis Bacon
• A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. John Steinbeck
• Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body. Cicero
• To live without love, compassion, or any other spiritual value creates a state of such severe imbalance that every cell yearns to correct it. Ultimately, that is what lies behind the onset of disease; the body is sending a message that something lacking in the present—an imbalance existing somewhere—has given rise to highly visible, unarguable, physical symptoms. Deepak Chopra
• Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well;… and not today’s pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man.  James H. West
• Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.  K.S. Iyengar
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A spiritual life brings great inner peace and joy   

• As you find your soul-reservoir of peace, less and less controversy will be able to afflict your life. Paramahansa Yogananda
• When one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear. Buddha
• Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find. Wayne Dyer
• The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind. John Burroughs
• Peace is not the absence of trouble, but the presence of God. Steve Dow
• Spiritual practice is returning again and again to softness. Stephanie Dowrick
• You cannot find any peace by escaping from human pain and suffering; you have to find peace and harmony right in the midst of human pain. That is the purpose of spiritual life. Dainin Katagiri
• Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. Marcus Aurelius
• Peace is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. Jawaharlal Nehru
• Inner peace is oxygen to the spirit. Alison Stormwolf
• Joy is not dependent on circumstances; it is your own. It is not a titillation produced by things; it is a state of peace, of silence- a meditative state. It is spiritual.  Osho
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A spiritual life can bring great healing   

• Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit. William Saroyan
• Finding your highest levels of consciousness releases healing energy throughout the body system. J. Goldwag
• Healing comes when the individual remembers his or her identity—the purpose chosen in the world of ancestral wisdom—and reconnects with that world of Spirit. Malidoma Patrice Somé
• Healing is not a matter of technique or mechanism; it is a work of spirit. Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.
• Healing ourselves on the spiritual level involves developing a strong connection with our soul. We heal ourselves on the mental level as we become aware of our core beliefs, release those that limit us, and open to more supportive ideas and greater understanding.  Emotional healing takes place as we learn to accept and experience the full range of our feelings.  And we heal ourselves on the physical level when we learn to honor and care for our bodies, and for the physical world around us. Shakti Gawain
• I’m touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful – collecting these shards of spirituality – that we may be helping to bring about a healing. Leonard Nimoy
• Illnesses which occur because of physical causes should be treated by doctors with medical remedies; those which are due to spiritual causes disappear through spiritual means. Thus an illness caused by affliction, fear, nervous impressions, will be healed more effectively by spiritual rather than physical treatment. Hence, both kinds of treatment should be followed; they are not contradictory. Abdu’l-Bahá
• Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.  Aberjhani
• Personal healing on all levels—physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual—comes when we get in touch with our disowned energies…. Through integrating all aspects of ourselves, we become whole. Shakti Gawain
• Spiritual medicine is ever-present. Whenever we need it, to whatever extent we need it, we can find it within. Innerspace
• Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface. Marianne Williamson
• The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind. Caroline Myss
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… and can help cure anxiety, depression and distress   

• More often than people realize, psychological distress is caused by some combination of lack of meaning, lack of social engagement, and lack of spirituality.  Jennifer Hamady
• Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. Thomas Merton
• By altering the neurochemistry of the brain, spiritual practices bestow a sense of peace, happiness, and security, while decreasing symptoms of anxiety, depression and stress. Andrew Newberg
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A spiritual life deepens your experience of living   

• The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it. Henri J. M. Nouwen
• I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. Joseph Campbell
• A spiritual practice draws you into the simplicity of the moment. There is nothing like regular practice to bring you into the now, and to keep you from getting lost in the past or mired in fears of the future. Maggie Lyon
• When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul. Jon Kabat-Zinn
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A spiritual life creates abundance   

• If one wishes a life of abundance, development of the soul is of the utmost import. By fulfilling the souls potential we celebrate the divine spirit, raise the collective consciousness and fuel the fires of transformation. Micheal Teal
• 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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A spiritual life brings security   

• Spiritual security means you are fully alive and comfortable in your life as it is, without expecting anything. Dainin Katagiri
• 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
• 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
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Spirituality benefits the world

• We change the world not by what we say or do but as a consequence of what we have become. Thus, every spiritual aspirant serves the world. David R. Hawkins

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Spirituality is not about religion or ideology or dogma   

• If religion, instead of being the manifestation of a spiritual ideal, gives prominence to scriptures and external rites, then does it disturb the peace more than anything else. Rabindranath Tagore
• The spiritual path is not about religions or dogma. It is not about finding the one true way. It is simply the wonder of our own beauty being revealed to ourselves. Of discovering inner sources of power and guidance, and following the path our hearts show us. It is about opening ourselves up to the amazing possibilities that life affords us. For there is more here than we can possibly imagine and all will be greatly rewarded who venture within. John Kehoe
• 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
• This is my simple religion… There is no need for temples. There is no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is the temple. The philosophy is loving kindness and compassion. The Dalai Lama
• With spiritual work, the terms ‘is’ or ‘are’ become progressively replaced by the term ‘seems to’, which is due to the increasing realization of the degree to which perception is the mask that hinders truth. David R. Hawkins
• There is no holy life. There is no war between good and evil. There is no sin and no redemption. None of these things matter to the real you. But they all matter hugely to the false you, the one who believes in the separate self. You have tried to take your separate self, with all its loneliness and anxiety and pride, to the door of enlightenment. But it will never go through, because it is a ghost. Deepak Chopra
• 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, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Albert Einstein
• It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-  hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. D. H. Lawrence
• When you’ve understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can’t understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom. Jack Kerouac
• Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention. Deepak Chopra  
• Spirituality is not about religion. Whether religious or not, a Spiritual person is one who lives from the highest part of who they are…the Higher Self…the part of them that is loving, joyful, powerful, and all life- enhancing qualities. Susan Jeffers
• I would describe my spirituality as exactly the opposite of having a religious affiliation. Bill Maher
• Religion handcuffs the mind, Spirituality frees the soul. Look deep inside for the key. Liam Deegan
• Spirituality is not religion. You can be spiritual and not have a religious context. The opposite is true too: You can be very religious with no spiritual dimension, just doctrine. Oprah Winfrey
• When we talk about spirituality, we talk about what we share. I think when we talk about religion, we talk about how we are different in expressing that spirituality. Rabbi Sandy Sasso
• Everyday people are straying away from the church and going back to God. Lennie Bruce
• Religion encourages you to explore the thoughts of others and accept them as your own. Spirituality invites you to toss away the thoughts of others and come up with your own. Neale Donald Walsch
• Religion is for those afraid of going to hell, Spirituality is for those who know where Heaven is. Riccardo Ferrari
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Too much dogma actually clogs the soul from authentic spiritual experience…   

• The downside, of course, is that over time religions become encrusted with precepts and ideas that are the antithesis of soul, as each faith tries to protect its doctrines and institution instead of nurturing the evolution of consciousness. If one is not careful to distinguish the genuine insights of a religion from its irrelevant accretions, one can go through life following an inappropriate moral compass. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• If religion, instead of being the manifestation of a spiritual ideal, gives prominence to scriptures and external rites, then does it disturb the peace more than anything else. Rabindranath Tagore
• Religion without spirituality is an ideology. Eckhart Tolle

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… and can distract from spiritual practice   

• Spiritual literature can be a great aid to an aspirant, or it can be a terrible hindrance. If it is used to inspire practice, motivate compassion, ad nourish devotion, it serves a very valuable purpose. If scriptural study is used for mere intellectual understanding, for pride of accomplishment, or as a substitute for actual practice, then one is taking in too much mental food, which is sure to result in intellectual indigestion. Prem Prakash
• If you merely collect spiritual information without practicing it, all you will develop is a case of spiritual indigestion and constipation. Michael Bernard Beckwith

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Spirituality is about having a direct, personal experience   

• Spirituality doesn’t require you to believe or do anything. Rather, it continually invites you to notice your experience. Your personal experience becomes your authority, rather than something outside of you or what someone else has told you. Neale Donald Walsch
• Talking about God is not at all the same thing as experiencing God, or acting out God through our lives.  Phillip Hewett
• It is the heart which experiences God, not the reason.  Blaise Pascal
• I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences. William James
• The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one. M. Scott Peck
• I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness. Marianne Williamson
• You can disagree with another person’s opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can’t disagree with their experience. Krista Tippett
• Whether you are aware of them or not, whether you recognize them as spiritual or not, you probably have had the experiences of silence, or transcendence, or the Divine—a few seconds, a few minutes that seem out of time; a moment when the ordinary looks beautiful, glowing; a deep sense of being at peace, feeling happy for no reason. When these experiences come…believe in them. They reflect your true nature.  Ravi Shankar    
• To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that? Bonaventure
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Spirituality is not about philosophical speculation, it’s about real life application and practice   

• To read and study and have conversations about spiritual practices is good, but unless you incorporate them into your life, you won’t embody or integrate them—which means you aren’t receiving their benefits. Michael Beckwith
• It’s easy to talk about spiritual ideals. But, obviously, that means nothing if we don’t LIVE our truths. Brian Johnson
• Of course, there’s nothing wrong with philosophical speculation. But let’s not mistake conceptual thought for the spiritual practice of everyday life. After all, what does it serve to know whether angels wear earrings if we can’t hold a regular job or maintain a long- term relationship? What good does it do to pray like a saint or meditate like a yogi if we are unchanged when we open our eyes? What good to attend a place of worship on Saturday or Sunday if we lack compassion on Monday? Dan Millman
• God cannot be explained… God can only be lived. Meher Baba
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In fact, repeated practice is one of the most basic principles of a spiritual path   

• To advance spiritually requires a method of practice and determination to carry it out. Allan Lokos
• Your philosophy may give you a temporary state of euphoria, but if you want to be anchored in reality, it takes practice, practice, practice. We are not here to be euphoric but to get free. Rudimentary spirituality is theory; advanced spirituality is practice. Michael Beckwith
• Repeated practice is one of the most basic principles of most spiritual and meditative paths.  Whatever you practice most is what you become.  Richard Carlson
• The meaning of spirituality is to be healthy and happy; to be physically, emotionally and mentally strong. We can’t find this with imagination. We must practice. Ratu Bagus
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The trick is to make your everyday life into your spiritual practice…   

• There isn’t anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty- four hours a day. Pema Chodron
• I’m about tearing down the monastery walls and seeing the whole world as the monastery, as the practice, as the spiritual temple. Genpo Roshi
• The whole world is the altar of God… If we can only change our vision and the thought, whatever we do becomes spiritual practice.  Sri Swami Satchidananda
• Your daily life is your temple and your religion. Kahlil Gibran
• All life is yoga. Every moment is an opportunity for training the mind. Eknath Easwaran
• If we can only change our vision and the thought, whatever we do becomes spiritual practice. Sri Swami Satchidananda

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… incorporating spirituality into each moment and action   

• You can find the sacred in the most ordinary of things. Oprah Winfrey
• How can you make more of the mundane moments a part of your practice? Brian Johnson
• Could all of us reclaim lost hours of our lives by making everything—the commonplace along with the extraordinary—a part of our practice? George Leonard
• 90% of life is little things. Be present in them.  Eckhart Tolle
• By changing the way you do routine things you allow a new man to grow inside you. Paulo Coelho
• When he is forced to perform the same task several times, the Warrior uses this tactic and transforms work into prayer. Paulo Coelho
• The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little. Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine. Shunryu Suzuki

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There are many wonderful spiritual practices…   

• Meditation, quiet time, appreciating nature, and prayer can help you cope with even the most minor of hassles so they don’t become major burdens. Try finding twenty minutes today to pay attention to a spiritual need. I’ll make time for prayer and peaceful contemplation today, to help me become quiet and calm. Amy E. Dean

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… and no practice is superior to another   

• Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more sacred than simply breathing. . . . If you wish to attain oneness with the Tao, don’t get caught up in spiritual superficialities. Lao Tzu

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1.  Practice unconditional love

• For at the center of all spiritual traditions is the beacon of a truly radical proposal: Open your heart to everybody. Everybody. Marc Barasch
• Whatever books you may read, you cannot realize the Divine merely by intellectual effort. One must put it into practice. That sense of oneness can only be promoted by the practice of love and not by any other means.  Sri Sathya Sai Baba
• I define love thus: The will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth. M. Scott Peck
• The light of unconditional love awakens the dormant seed potentials of the soul. John Welwood
• Love is the force that ignites the spirit. Phil Jackson
• Spiritual practice is the capacity to offer your love even when you feel hurt, closed down, tense, angry, misunderstood, or hated.  David Deida
• In love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we are to the spiritual experience. Paulo Coelho
• Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
• Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us. Marianne Williamson
• Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Brené Brown
• The spiritual being sees the physical world as an arena for growth and learning with the specific purpose of serving and evolving into higher levels of love. Wayne Dyer
• The spiritual path can only be traveled through the daily experience of love. Paulo Coelho
• To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. Karen Sunde
• You have to care about yourself before you can really care about other people. If you are continually judging and criticizing yourself while trying to be kind to others, you are drawing artificial boundaries and distinctions that only lead to feelings of separation and isolation. This is the opposite of oneness, interconnection, and universal love-the ultimate goal of most spiritual paths, no matter which tradition. Kristin Neff
• Let your soul be an oasis of transformation that takes your life to the next level and fulfills your dreams. Rejoice in your awakening, the future is now and love is in every breath you take. Micheal Teal
• I feel that the essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others. When you have a pure, sincere motivation, then you have right attitude toward others based on kindness, compassion, love and respect. The Dalai Lama   
• Perhaps the most “spiritual” thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness. Jon Kabat-Zinn 
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2.  Practice compassion   

• Spiritual energy brings compassion into the real world. With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings.  We drop prejudice.  We withhold judgment.  Christina Baldwin
• Compassion needs space because love needs a place of unimpeded encounter between grace and nature. In a world crowded by information, we need to find space for the soul to grow. Ilia Delio
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3.  Forgive

• Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness. Billy Graham
• Keeping our hearts and minds free of the debris of resentment and animosity is vital to our spiritual awakening. Michael Bernard Beckwith
• The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility and largeness of spirit and soul to do either — or both — when needed? Gordon B. Hinckley
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4.  Make time for stillness…   

• Nourish your spirit with stillness. Nourish your mind with knowledge. Nourish your heart with unconditional love. Nourish your body with living food. Nourish your relationships with thoughtfulness. Tim Ong
• The world of men has forgotten the joys of silence, the peace of solitude, which is necessary, to some extent, for the fullness of human living. Man cannot be happy for long unless he is in contact with the springs of spiritual life which are hidden in the depths of his own soul. If man is exiled constantly from his own home, locked out of his spiritual solitude, he ceases to be a true person. Thomas Merton
• Turn your vision inward… and the whole world will be full of supreme spirit. Ramana Maharshi
• True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. William Penn
• If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is. Amy Carmichael
• If you believe the noises of the world, rather than the silences of your soul, you will be lost. Neale Donald Walsch
• I lovingly nurture the god in embryo that lies deep within my soul. I awaken myself to the deep stillness that lies deep within my heart. Deepak Chopra
• Silence is our true teacher because it speaks the language of our soul. Michael Jeffreys
• ..trees, flowers, grass…grow in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls. Wilbur Pierce
• The silence I am describing is a silence that you use to contain the grace you receive when you enter the castle of your soul. You carry this silence within you, even when you are with others. It allows you to hold your center amid the chaos of your life. Caroline Myss
• Noise is the function of the human mind. Silence is the abiding state of your soul. Robert Beno
• We need silence to be able to touch souls. Mother Teresa
• Sometimes, simply by sitting, the soul collects wisdom. Zen proverb
• Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest, and by doing so come to a deeper sense of self and our place in the universe. Silence is not an absence but a presence. Not an emptiness but repletion A filling up. Anne Leclaire
• Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak. Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
• In the stillness, you will find your true being. In the silence, you will hear the breathing of your soul – and of God. You will find God in the Stillness. Neale Donald Walsch
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… for example, through meditation   

• Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake. Thomas Merton
• By constant meditation you rise above your mind and awaken into true spirituality. Remez Sasson
• Meditation is the attuning of the mental body and the physical body to its spiritual source. Edgar Cayce
• Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of the spirit. Jeremy Taylor
• Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. Alan Watts
• Meditation is listening to the Divine within. Edgar Cayce
• Meditation is the soul’s perspective glass. Owen Feltham
• Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God. Diana Robinson
• Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity. Voltaire
• Embrace silence since meditation is the only way to truly come to know your Source. Wayne Dyer
• Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake. Thomas Merton
• The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature. Swami Vivekananda
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This is particularly important in today’s busy. noisy world

• Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the best of intentions a spiritual man finds himself exhausted and deadened and debased by the constant noise of machines and loudspeakers, the dead air and the glaring lights of offices and shops, the everlasting suggestion of advertising and propaganda. The whole mechanism of modern life is geared for a flight from God and from the spirit into the wilderness of neurosis. Thomas Merton

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5.  Practice paying attention and being aware…   

• At the deepest level of ecological awareness you are talking about spiritual awareness. Spiritual awareness is an understanding of being imbedded in a larger whole, a cosmic whole, of belonging to the universe. Fritjof Capra
• If we learn how to inhabit now more – with awareness – then it’s almost as if the universe becomes your teacher. Because there’s no boundary to awareness. Jon Kabat-Zinn
• The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one. M. Scott Peck
• Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God. Peace Pilgrim
• The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness. Lao Tzu
• Knowing yourself as the awareness behind the voice is freedom. Eckhart Tolle
• There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty.  Matthew Fox
• Notice, look, feel, listen, sense, and give yourself fully to the experience you are having, and you will drop into the Now. Gina Lake
• To live without awareness is to live as the deaf, blind and dumb in a world of vibrant light and sound. Belsebuub
• Always, every instant every moment in every circumstance, silent awareness is alive in you. Gangaji
• The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. Henry Miller
• Nearly all spiritual practices are based on attention. In fact, whenever you think you have lost the path, or whenever you feel confused by esoteric terminology or technique, remember that all these techniques or teachings are various ways to help you learn to pay attention. Rick Fields
• Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred. Thich Nhat Hanh
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.. for example, through the practice of mindfulness…   

• Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now. Jon Kabat-Zinn
• You should remain aware every moment of your daily life, fully conscious of what you are doing and how you are doing it. Lama Yeshe
• Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness. Jon Kabat-Zinn
• If mindfulness is deeply important to you, then every moment is an opportunity to practice. Jon Kabat-       Zinn
• If you remember nothing else, always remember this one great secret of spiritual practice: we don’t have to feel any particular way. We don’t have to have special experiences, nor do we have to be any particular way. With whatever arises, whether it’s pleasing or not, try to remember that all we can do is experience and work with whatever our life is right now. No matter what life is and no matter how we feel about it, all that matters in practice is whether we can honestly acknowledge what is going on, and then stay present with the physical experience of that moment. Ezra Bayda
• I have learned over the years that the most creative and trustworthy actions come from meditative awareness. Eric Klein
• To be mindfully engaged is the most natural, creative state we can be in. Ellen Langler
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… and learning to become present in the moment   

• Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionally been called “God.” Even belief in God is only a poor substitute for the living reality of God manifesting every moment of your life. Eckhart Tolle
• Just be. Just being in the moment in this place is the deepest practice of meditation. Thich Nhat Hanh
• The nature of light is to shine. The way of the river is to return home to its sea. The essence of human is being. Chad Christopher Cobb
• Be present in all things and thankful for all things. Maya Angelou
• I embrace the present and become one with it. I fully experience it. Deepak Chopra
• As you become present and thereby total in what you do, your actions become charged with spiritual power. Eckhart Tolle
• A spiritual practice draws you into the simplicity of the moment. There is nothing like regular practice to bring you into the now, and to keep you from getting lost in the past or mired in fears of the future. Maggie Lyon
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6. Pray   

• The spiritual path is a path of prayer. Prayer is food for the soul and the universe. Prayer connects us, humbles us, strengthens us, enlightens us and makes us one with the Great Mystery. John Kehoe
• Prayer is not an act of worship merely, the bending of the knee on set occasions, and offering petitions in need. It is an attitude of soul, opening the life on the Godward side, and keeping free communication with the world of spirit. Hugh Black
• Spirituality without a prayer life is no spirituality at all, and it will not last beyond the first defeats. Prayer is an opening of the self so that the Word of God can break in and make us new. Prayer unmasks. Prayer converts. Prayer impels. Prayer sustains us on the way. Pray for the grace it will take to continue what you would like to quit. Joan D. Chittister
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7.  Fill your mind with gratitude   

• Saying Thank You is more than good manners, it’s good spirituality. Alfred-Pierre Joseph Agache
• Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. Aesop
• If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul. Harold Kushner    
• When your life is filled with the desire to see holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul!  Harold Kushner
• Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. Henry Ward Beecher
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8.  Help and serve others   

• The soul is awakened through service. Erica Jong
• I have found that among its other benefits, givingliberates the soul of the giver. Maya Angelou
• Real generosity is an unfailing sign of spirituality. Hazrat Inayat Khan
• Service is the highest spiritual discipline. Prayer and meditation, or knowledge of scripture cannot help you reach the goal as quickly as service can. Service has a double effect, it extinguishes the ego and gives bliss. Sri Sathya Sai Baba
• When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self- preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness. Joseph Campbell
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9.  Allow life to unfold in its own way and practice acceptance of what is   

• It is the aim of all spiritual seeking to bring us home, home to the understanding that we already have everything we need. Katrina Kenison
• After all our futile efforts to transform our ordinary minds into idealized, spiritual minds, we discover the fundamental paradox of practice is that leaving everything alone is itself what is ultimately transformative. Barry Magid
• Linguistically, surrender means surrender to somebody, but spiritually surrender simply means trust, relaxing. It is an attitude rather than an act, you live through trust. Osho
• All of your pain and suffering comes from your resistance to what is. Dick Sutphen’s one sentence summary of the teachings of Buddha
• Every true spiritual teaching is about entering the state of non-resistance voluntarily, that is to say consciously. Eckhart Tolle
• Of course there is not formula for success except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings. Arthur Rubinstein
• Spirituality : Allowing what IS … to Be. RaMah
• Learn to stop resisting reality, and what used to look like stressful problems will begin to look like the stepping-  stones of your spiritual journey. Michael Singer
• The word “yes” sums up spirituality and sanity. An unconditional yes to what is frees us from the self-     imposed suffering that results when we fear facing the givens of life. Yes is born of trust and heals fear. This is because we are acknowledging that whatever happens to us is part of our story and useful on our path. Our yes to the conditions of existence means getting on with life rather than being caught up in disputes and attempts to gain control over how things play out.  David Richo
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10.  Connect with nature

• The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience. Henryk Skolimowski
• …just as a flower waits all its life for you to smell it…..or as the wind rustles through the trees so you can hear it….or as the rain drops itself against your cheek to taste it…..The Silence waits for your embrace. Susan Holden
• Keep close to Nature’s heart. Break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. John Muir
• A monk asks: Is there anything more miraculous than the wonders of nature? The master answers: Yes, your awareness of the wonders of nature. Angelus Silesius
• Each stone, each bend cries welcome to him. He identifies with the mountains and the streams, he sees something of his own soul in the plants and the animals and the birds of the field. Paulo Coelho
• Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. John Muir
• God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, “Ah!” Joseph Campbell
• He who understands nature walks close with God. Edgar Cayce
• If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. Eleonora Duse
• My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking- places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature. Henry David Thoreau
• Nature – trees, flowers, grass – grow in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls. Wilbur Pierce
• Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge. William James
• So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred; trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. Mikhail Gorbachev
• Something of God flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself. C. S. Lewis
• The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. Anne Frank
• The birds and animals, trees and grasses, rocks, water and wind are our allies. They waken our senses, rouse our passions, renew our spirits and fill us with vision, courage, and joy. David Gaines
• The closer we are to Nature, the closer we are to God. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• The dearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. John Muir
• The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. We realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all this life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship with the universe. Albert Schweitzer
• Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. Albert Einstein
• Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation, affirming my connection to the Earth body. Carol P. Christ
• We are learning finally that the forests and mountains and desert canyons are holier than our churches. Edward Abbey
• We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can’t see the stars at night. Thomas Berry
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11.  Open your eyes to beauty   

• When we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. So are our emotions in the presence of great art or music or literature…  Carl Sagan
• Beauty is to the spirit what food is to the flesh. It fills an emptiness in you which nothing else can fill. Frederick Buechner
• The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul. George Sand
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12.  Open your eyes to wonder, mystery and reverence   

• There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul’s garden, which I love to have watered once a week. Oliver Wendell Holmes
• It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed. Thomas Moore
• The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way. Arthur Christopher Benson
• As children we had a sense of wonder. Our eyes were wide open and drinking in the gifts we beheld. Our thirsty souls could not get enough of the wonders of creation. Then, somehow, we grew too old to dream. Edward Hays
• We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic. E. Merrill Root
• Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge. William James
• By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world. By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.  Albert Schweitzer
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In this respect, Science can actually be a profound source of spirituality   

• Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable. Miriam Simos
• Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. Carl Sagan
• Does scientific explanation of the world diminish its spiritual beauty? I think not. Science and spirituality are complementary, not conflicting; additive, not detractive. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades. Michael Shermer
• There are many sources of spirituality; religion may be the most common, but it is by no means the only. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades. Michael Shermer
• Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. Carl Sagan
• In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt. Huston Smith
• Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble. Albert Einstein

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13.  Make room for laughter   

• A smile starts on the lips, a grin spreads to the eyes, a chuckle comes from the belly, but a laugh bursts forth from the soul, overflows and bubbles all around. Carolyn Birmingham
• God is always joking. Look at your own life – it is a joke! Look at other people’s lives, and you will find jokes and jokes and jokes. Seriousness is illness; seriousness has nothing spiritual about it. Spirituality is laughter, spirituality is joy, spirituality is fun. Rajneesh
• Laugh a lot, and sincerely, because that is the pure sound of your soul. A sense of humor keeps us healthy and belongs in our spiritual practices. Michael Bernard Beckwith
• Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. Lord Chesterfield Stanhope
• Laughter is the sound of the soul dancing. My soul probably looks like Fred Astaire. Jarod Kintz
• What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. Yiddish Proverb
• I think any spiritual experience that’s worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, ‘If you’re not laughing, then you’re not getting it. David O. Russell  
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14.  Listen to beautiful music   

• Music is the soul of language. Max Heindel
• Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body. Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. Lao Tzu
• Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.    Plato
• Music is an outburst of the soul. Frederick Delius
• A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good. Colbie Caillat
• Music is the vernacular of the human soul. Geoffrey Latham
• Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It’s the language of the soul. Gabrielle Roth
• Music isn’t just learning notes and playing them, You learn notes to play to the music of your soul. Katie Greenwood
• Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy… the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Ludwig van Beethoven
• The beauty of a piece of music is not in its technique but in the Soul of its creator; nor is it in the sound vibrations of the piece but in the silence of the Light from which the sound springs. Walter Russell
• For me, music is the smile of the soul. Luis Szaran
• Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. Plato
• Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.  Modest Mouse, Modest Mouse
• A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul. Eric Pio
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15.  Follow your passions and immerse yourself in what you love   

• Wherever we may come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual. David Steindl- Rast
• When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight. Michael Bridge
• Don’t die with your music (stories/talents) still inside you. Listen to your intuitive inner voice and find what passion stirs your soul. Wayne Dyer
• The key is to trust your heart to move where your talents can flourish. This old world will really spin when work becomes a joyous expression of the soul. Al Sacharov
• When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life. Jean Shinoda Bolen
• When you do things from your soul you feel a river moving in you, a joy. When action come from another section, the feeling disappears.  Rumi
• Only Passions, great Passions, can elevate the soul to great things. Denis Diderot
• What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul’s emphasis is always right. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• It is the soul’s duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. Rebecca West
• The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. Ferdinand Foch
• Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.  Albert Diderot
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16.  Make time for creative expression   

• Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the tides of time. Debbie Ford
• Creativity is an attitude that transcends paradigms and beliefs. It’s a soul level yearning to fulfill a purpose, uniquely contribute and leave a mark.  Janice Francisco   
• Trust the process of the subtle push toward art and creative expression from inside you – it is the gentle call of your heart and renewed search for soul. It is an opening to expansion of your expressive abilities and the discovery of hidden limitations ready to be challenged. Be open to what it means, it has many possibilities for action in every part of your life. Ultimately it will lead to significant personal changes – to living life in a new way with new tools of creative expression.   Donald William Mathews   
• What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul. Deepak Chopra
• Art is like singing. Some do it better than others, but everyone can and should be doing it for their soul. Barbara Mason   
• Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.  Somerset Maugham  
• Art is the journey of a free soul. Alev Oguz  
• Dance is one of the most powerful forms of magical ritual… It is an outer expression of the inner spirit. Ted Andrews
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17.  Do something each day to nourish your soul   

• A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny. Michel Faber
• The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on. Josiah Gilbert Holland
• The most important boundary you can set is the time to nourish your spirit. The few minutes a day you take to feed your soul is your strongest investment in your happiness. Do whatever it takes to inspire yourself and stay in a creative consciousness. Choose a time each day to connect with your inner being and do not compromise it. Alan Cohen
• So that I may meet the day with the knowledge to build the day I will look into my soul while it still dawn, before the morning breaketh… Walter Russell
• When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life. Jean Shinoda Bolen   
• The mind, with its emotions, is composed of ideas and impressions, and it is healthy and vital when it is continually replenished with inspiration, confidence, hope, wisdom, and understanding. No man lives long without food of the spirit. Ervin Seale
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18. Contemplate the fleetingness of life and make peace with death   

• The contemplation of one’s mortality, the fleetingness of life and the impermanence of form is a deeply spiritual thing to do. It is a liberating act that makes life feel considerably less heavy. Eckhart Tolle
• Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life’s impermanence. Meredith Young Sowers
• Knowing all objects to be impermanent, let not their contact blind you, resolve again and again to be aware of the Self that is permanent. Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
• Whenever death occurs, whenever a life form dissolves, God, the formless and unmanifested, shines through the opening left by the dissolving form. That is why the most sacred thing in life is death.  That is why the peace of God can come to you through contemplation and acceptance of death.  Eckhart Tolle
• Death in the physical is the birth in the spiritual. Birth in the physical is death in the spiritual. Edgar Cayce
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Seven Perennial Spiritual Practices  

1. Transform your motivation: reduce craving and find your soul’s desire.
2. Cultivate emotional wisdom: heal your heart and learn to love.
3. Live ethically: feel good by doing good.
4. Concentrate and calm your mind.
5. Awaken your spiritual vision: see clearly and recognize the sacred in all things.
6. Cultivate spiritual intelligence: develop wisdom and understand life.
7. Express spirit in action: embrace generosity and the joy of service.”

–   Roger Walsh, M.D., Ph.D.  (Essential Spirituality: The 7 Central Practices to Awaken Heart and Mind)

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Realise that suffering too can awaken you spiritually   

• … the soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears. Native American Saying
• Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment. Eckhart Tolle
• He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower, alike they’re needed to the flower; and joys and tears alike are sent to give the soul its nourishment. Sarah Flower Adams
• If there is pain, use it as an awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. Rajneesh
• Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. Khalil Gibran
• Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one. John Sterling
• People have a need to feel their pain. Very often pain is the beginning of a great deal of awareness. As an energy center it awakens consciousness.  Arnold Mindell
• Religious people fear hell. Spiritual people have walked through it.  Frank Warren
• Suffering and joy teach us, if we allow them, how to make the leap of empathy, which transports us into the soul and heart of another person.  Fritz William  
• Suffering can be endured because there is a reason for it that is worth the effort. What is more worthy of your pain than the evolution of your soul? Gary Zukav
• Suffering is a wonderful teacher. Suffering is most people’s only spiritual teacher. Suffering deepens you, it gradually erodes the mind made sense of self, the ego. And for some people the point arrives where they realize “I have suffered enough.” Eckhart Tolle
• Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us. Ram Dass
• The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation. Joseph Campbell
• The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth. M. Scott Peck
• The worst thing in life can become the best thing. The very thing that awakens you.  Eckhart Tolle
• There is no coming to consciousness without pain. Carl Jung
• We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. Kenji Miyazawa
• When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open, we uncover our true nature.  Wayne Muller
• When you can’t stand the endless cycle of suffering anymore, you begin to awaken. Eckhart Tolle
• You don’t go through a deep personal transformation without some kind of dark night of the soul. Sam Keen
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By all means learn truths from spiritual teachers…   

• Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him. The self-realized soul can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the truth. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

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… but don’t follow them blindly for truth must come from your own realisations and practices…   

• Teachers are there to point out a way and leave you with the choice. They aren’t there to dictate life to you. If you haven’t learned how to trust your own sense of reality over a guru’s, then you place yourself in a position of vulnerability. Teachers aren’t here to tell you how to live, but simply to tell you what has worked for them. Whether or not you want to follow is your choice. But I feel that so many people have become followers of gurus rather than thinking with their own heads. Vesselin Gueorguiev
• Truths cannot be acquired from words out of other people’s mouths. Before Truths can be internalized, they must come from one’s own realizations and practices. Through a lifetime of personal practice, human beings are capable of revealing all of the secrets of the cosmic essence. You are your own best judge. Buddha

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When it comes to spiritual truths, you are the best authority   

• I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don’t know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten. Eckhart Tolle
• We don’t need someone to show us the ropes. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. Deep inside us we know the feelings we need to guide us. Our task is to learn to trust our inner knowing. Sonia Johnson
• Doubt everything. Find your own light. Buddha
• Accept nothing as true that is not your truth. Vernon Howard
• Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else’s view or a mere book. Bruce Lee
• Read and listen with an open mind, an open heart, but with a firm belief that you are the only final authority on what you choose to believe and accept. Amanda Harvey
• There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you. Neale Donald Walsch
• To truly find God, truth needs to be found independantly from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts. A.H. Almaas
• Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself. Osho
• To me spirituality needs an honest individuality. It does not allow any kind of dependence. It creates a freedom for itself, whatever the cost. It is never in the crowd but alone, because the crowd has never found any truth. The truth has been found only in people’s aloneness. Osho
• Embrace only those truths that resonate within
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Beware of false spirituality   

• Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks which leades to a distorted, ego-centered version of spirituality; we can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spiritually when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques. This fundamental distortion may be referred to as spiritual materialism. Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
• Sometimes spiritual people get trapped into seeking spiritual entertainment instead of spiritual attainment. Wayne Iverson

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Science can be a deep source of spirituality

• There are many sources of spirituality; religion may be the most common, but it is by no means the only. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades. Michael Shermer
• Does scientific explanation of the world diminish its spiritual beauty? I think not. Science and spirituality are complementary, not conflicting; additive, not detractive. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades. Michael Shermer
• I don’t understand why people insist on pitting concepts of evolution and creation against each other. Why can’t they see that spiritualism and science are one? That bodies evolve and souls evolve and the universe is a fluid package that marries them both in a wonderful package called a human being. What’s wrong with that idea? Garth Stein
• Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable. Miriam Simos
• Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light‐years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. So are our emotions in the presence of great art or music or literature, or acts of exemplary selfless courage such as those of Mohandas Gandhi or Martin Luther King, Jr. The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both. Carl Sagan
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Spirituality, itself, can be said to be a kind of science

• Try to be like a scientific researcher, observing the mind and body with curiosity and objectivity, and without judgment. Bob Stahl
• This process of self-discovery is scientific and the invariable rule of science has to be applied – experiment and observe. Barry Long
• Stripped of all its outer encrustations, spirituality emerges as a science, as scientific as any other, as verifiable in its results. Let any seeker take it up and let him create in the laboratory of the soul the conditions that are prerequisite; as sure as the day follows the night shall he rise into the Kingdom of God. Sant Kirpal Singh
• The science is simple: When you give the world love and respect, the world will give you love and respect back. Russell Simmons
• Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind and soul. Amit Ray
• Science is an objective enquiry that entails looking out onto the world and asking ‘what is it?’ Spirituality is a subjective enquiry that entails looking within and asking ‘who am I?’ Tim Freke
• Spirituality is the science of the Soul. Swami Vivekananda

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Science and spirituality can be integrated and complimentary

• However, I truly believe that only when Spirit and Science are reunited will we be afforded the means to create a better world. Bruce H. Lipton
• The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both. Carl Sagan
• Science and spirituality seem to be very different approaches to life, but they lead to the same astonishing conclusion. Our common-sense understanding of things is inadequate, because life is much more than it seems to be. Tim Freke
• Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose surging in our nature responds. Arthur Eddington
• This universe is formed out of both consciousness forces and matter. While the study of matter has been the domain of traditional science, the study of consciousness is the science of spirituality. Shriram Sharma Acharya

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• Art is spirituality in drag. Jennifer Yane
• Christian: One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbors. Ambrose Bierce
• Clergyman: A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of bettering his temporal ones.
• Cricket is a game which the British not being a spiritual people had to invent in order to have some concept of eternity. Lord Mancroft
• God Expects Spiritual Fruit Not Religious Nuts Church sign
• Marriage is not just spiritual communion it is also remembering to take out the trash. Joyce Brothers
• Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen and 8 times out of 9 I’ll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities. Charles Bukowski
• So I phoned up the spiritual leader of Tibet he sent me a large goat with a long neck. Turns out I phoned dial-a-lama.   Stewart Francis
• Spiritual is the word people use when they mean they want to be covered when they die but they’re not getting up early on a Sunday. Richard Jeni
• When you ever hear girls say that “I’m not religious but I’m spiritual” I like to reply with “I’m not honest but you’re interesting! Daniel Tosh

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