Quotes On Spirituality

What is spirituality? Although we have many definitions and interpretations of what is means it remains open for interpretation and it means something different for everybody. Many wise teachers spent lifetimes contemplating the nature of life and what it means to be alive. Spirituality is at the centre of life and in many ways spirit is synonymous with life. Here are some interesting and insightful quotes on spirituality from some people I (for one) think it’s worth listening to:




“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.” - Albert Einstein

“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.” - Anais Nin

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.” - Denis Waitley

“The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.” - Felix Adler

“Spirituality is a domain of awareness.”  - Deepak Chopra

“The real trick to life is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery.” - Fred Wolf

“We are not physical beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a physical experience.” - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.” - Yoda

“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

“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.” - Mother Teresa

Quotes On Spirituality