Spirituality Quotes

They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not. (Katherine Anne Porter)
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. View quote
Alan Watts
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. View quote
Jim Rohn
Whenever you wash dishes, cook, or clean, if you make no sound, this is smartness itself. A person who enters a house and makes a lot of noise is revealing a lack of spirituality; even cats and dogs do not make unnecessary sounds, and man as he naturally is does not make any either. View quote
Michio Kushi
The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
We must distinguish between spirituality in general terms, which aims to make us better people, and religion. Adopting a religion remains optional, but becoming a better human being is essential. View quote
Matthieu Ricard
Sexuality is an expression of our spirituality. Sex makes you get real. View quote
Pamela Anderson
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. View quote
Chogyam Trungpa
The new physics provides a modern version of ancient spirituality. In a universe made out of energy, everything is entangled; everything is one. View quote
Bruce H. Lipton
A lot of people are simply interested in exploring their own spirituality, their own values, who they are, whether they're happy where they are. (James Redfield)
I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness. View quote
Olympia Dukakis
My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from. View quote
Wyclef Jean
I think science and spirituality are one and the same, I don't think they're really different...quantum physics is validating all kinds of spiritual teachings. View quote
Jennifer Beals
Spirituality is much wider than any particular religion, and in the larger ideas of it that are now coming on us even the greatest religion becomes no more than a broad sect or branch of the one universal religion, by which we shall understand in the future man's seeking for the eternal, the divine, the greater self, the source of unity and his attempt to arrive at some equation, some increasing approximation of the values of human life with the eternal and the divine values. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinite is native to it. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
See the person's eating and cooking, and then you can judge his or her spirituality. View quote
Michio Kushi
Name one practical, down-to-earth effect of spirituality," said the skeptic who was ready for an argument. "Here's one," said the Master. "When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach. View quote
Anthony de Mello
I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to read. Unfortunately, tragically, like so many young black males, that solitude only came in prison. View quote
Bell hooks
If you see the good in others and cover their defects with your love, they will follow you. If you see only weaknesses in others, your spirituality will be ruined. View quote
Sun Myung Moon
There are several different meanings of the words "religion" and "spirituality", all of which are important. The whole point about an integral or comprehensive approach is that it must find a way to believably include all of those important meanings in a coherent whole. (Ken Wilber)
The life of the spirit is the expression of Infinity and, as such, knows no artificial limits. True spirituality is not to be mistaken for an exclusive enthusiasm for some fad. It is not concerned with any "ism.” When people seek spirituality apart from life, as if it had nothing to do with the material world, their search is futile. View quote
Meher Baba
Spirituality tells the seeker not to live in the hoary past, not to live in the remote future, but to live in the immediacy of today, in the eternal Now. View quote
Sri Chinmoy
Spirituality is recognizing the divine light that is within us all. It doesn't belong to any particular religion; it belongs to everyone. View quote
Muhammad Ali
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. View quote
Carl Sagan