#spirituality

“The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great. And the outward work can never be great or even good if the inward one is puny or of little worth.”

— Meister Eckhart

#spirituality #inner life #work

“Respond to every call that excites your spirit”

— Rumi

#spirituality #calling #excitement

“Love is the bridge between you and everything”

— Rumi

#spirituality #love #bridge

“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #stillness #universe

“The world is imprisoned in its own activity, except when actions are performed as worship of God.”

— Unknown

#spirituality #action #devotion

“Of all that God has shown me I can speak just the smallest word”

— Mechthild of Magdeburg

#spirituality #mystery #expression

“No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now”

— Alan Watts

#spirituality #present #planning

“You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible”

— Deepak Chopra

#spirituality #possibility #inner

“Crave for a thing you will get it renounce the craving the object will follow you by itself”

— Swami Sivananda

#spirituality #renunciation #abundance

“What the soul sees and has experienced that it knows the rest is appearance knowledge and prejudice”

— Sri Aurobindo

#spirituality #soul #experience

“We are already one but we imagine that we are not”

— Thomas Merton

#spirituality #unity #oneness

“The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union.”

— John of the Cross

#spirituality #detachment #freedom

“Happiness is your nature it is not wrong to desire it what is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside”

— Ramana Maharshi

#spirituality #happiness #nature

“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive”

— Marcus Aurelius

#spirituality #morning #gratitude

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have make the now the primary focus of your life”

— Eckhart Tolle

#spirituality #present #focus

“Be strong then and enter into your own body there you have a solid place for your feet”

— Kabir

#spirituality #body #grounding

“Raise your words not your voice it is rain that grows flowers not thunder”

— Rumi

#spirituality #words #gentleness

“The greatest sin is to think yourself weak”

— Swami Vivekananda

#spirituality #strength #sin

“The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves.”

— Thomas Fuller

#spirituality #soul #love

“When you are unborn you see things as they are without trying to judge them”

— Bankei

#spirituality #perception #non-judgment

“Compassion is the foundation of everything positive everything good that you want to bring into the world”

— Amma

#spirituality #compassion #foundation

“The meaning of life is just to be alive it is so plain and so obvious and so simple”

— Alan Watts

#spirituality #meaning #aliveness

“The time of business does not differ from the time of prayer”

— Brother Lawrence

#spirituality #prayer #daily life

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars”

— Khalil Gibran

#spirituality #suffering #strength

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#spirituality #society #health

“The spiritual life is not about acquiring it is about letting go”

— Meister Eckhart

#simplicity #spirituality #release

“A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters.”

— Thomas Merton

#hope #spirituality #wholeness

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are”

— Joseph Campbell

#spirituality #authenticity #life

“The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union.”

— John of the Cross

#life #detachment #freedom

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be just be one”

— Marcus Aurelius

#spirituality #action #goodness

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

— Carl Jung

#spirituality #self-awareness #awakening

“The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go”

— Mooji

#spirituality #meditation #letting go

“Put your heart mind and soul into even your smallest acts this is the secret of success”

— Swami Sivananda

#spirituality #devotion #action

“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves the most fundamental harm we can do is to remain ignorant”

— Pema Chodron

#spirituality #ignorance #harm

“In this universe it is love that binds everything together”

— Amma

#spirituality #love #universe

“There is no path to happiness happiness is the path”

— Buddha

#spirituality #happiness #path

“Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #nature #patience

“Every day priests minutely examine the law and endlessly chant complicated sutras before doing that though they should learn how to read the love letters sent by the wind and rain the snow and moon”

— Ikkyu

#simplicity #nature #spirituality

“Arise awake and stop not until the goal is reached”

— Swami Vivekananda

#spirituality #awakening #persistence

“Whoever goes to God with his whole heart will never be lost on the way.”

— Meister Eckhart

#faith #devotion #journey

“What a liberation to realize that the voice in my head is not who I am”

— Eckhart Tolle

#spirituality #liberation #identity

“In the beginners mind there are many possibilities in the experts mind there are few”

— Shunryu Suzuki

#spirituality #beginners mind #openness

“Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.”

— Rumi

#ego #surrender #transformation

“When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.”

— Gautama Buddha

#spirituality #enlightenment #joy

“People neglect the root and seek the branches”

— Huang Po

#spirituality #root #essence

“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart”

— Carl Jung

#spirituality #vision #heart

“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt”

— Anthony de Mello

#spirituality #doubt #intelligence

“I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside.”

— Rumi

#spirituality #seeking #awakening

“We do not need more knowledge we need more wisdom and wisdom comes from our own experience”

— Tenzin Palmo

#spirituality #wisdom #experience

“I am not this hair I am not this skin I am the soul that lives within”

— Rumi

#spirituality #soul #identity

“He who controls others may be powerful but he who has mastered himself is mightier still”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #self-mastery #power

“To the mind that is still the whole universe surrenders”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #stillness #universe

“Whatever you do dont shut off your pain acknowledge your pain and remain vulnerable”

— Sogyal Rinpoche

#spirituality #pain #vulnerability

“Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.”

— Rumi

#love #wholeness #spirituality

“Be content with what you have rejoice in the way things are when you realize nothing is lacking the whole world belongs to you”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #contentment #abundance

“The river that flows in you also flows in me”

— Kabir

#spirituality #unity #river

“To be fully alive and fully human and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest”

— Pema Chodron

#spirituality #aliveness #awakening

“The nature of mind is like the sun behind the clouds always shining always present”

— Tulku Urgyen

#spirituality #mind nature #sun

“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning”

— Meister Eckhart

#spirituality #beginners mind #renewal

“The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

#spirituality #words #enlightenment

“When you are inspired by some great purpose, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations.”

— Patanjali

#spirituality #purpose #transcendence

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love”

— Rumi

#spirituality #love #calling

“Smile, breathe, and go slowly.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#spirituality #peace #mindfulness

“God breaks the heart again and again until it stays open”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

#spirituality #heart #openness

“When I let go of what I am I become what I might be”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #letting go #potential

“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.”

— Charles Kingsley

#beauty #gratitude #presence

“When you do something you should burn yourself up completely like a good bonfire leaving no trace of yourself”

— Shunryu Suzuki

#spirituality #wholeness #devotion

“Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.”

— Unknown

#spirituality #mindfulness #simplicity

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts”

— Khalil Gibran

#spirituality #silence #peace

“Courage is not the absence of fear it is the total presence of fear with the courage to face it”

— Osho

#spirituality #courage #fear

“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone”

— Alan Watts

#spirituality #clarity #patience

“This world of ours is a dream within a dream — do not take it for real, and do not deny it.”

— Rumi

#dream #reality #spirituality

“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”

— Meister Eckhart

#gratitude #prayer #simplicity

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time”

— Thomas Merton

#spirituality #art #self

“Almost everything works again if you unplug it for a few minutes including you”

— Teresa of Avila

#spirituality #rest #renewal

“Peace comes from within do not seek it without”

— Buddha

#spirituality #peace #within

“Late have I loved you, Beauty so ancient and so new, late have I loved you! You were within me, but I was outside.”

— Augustine of Hippo

#spirituality #beauty #awakening

“Some people look for a beautiful place others make a place beautiful”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

#spirituality #beauty #creation

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are”

— Carl Jung

#spirituality #becoming #authenticity

“Brahman is the only truth the world is illusion the self is ultimately Brahman”

— Shankara

#spirituality #truth #illusion

“You are the sky everything else is just weather”

— Pema Chodron

#spirituality #sky #identity

“Silence is a source of great strength for the spiritual seeker”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #silence #strength

“The greatest achievement is selflessness”

— Atisha

#spirituality #selflessness #achievement

“Because you are alive everything is possible”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#spirituality #life #possibility

“The next message you need is always right where you are”

— Ram Dass

#spirituality #messages #here

“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe.”

— Black Elk

#peace #oneness #spirituality

“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”

— Emily Dickinson

#spirituality #openness #soul

“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order”

— Thomas Merton

#spirituality #happiness #balance

“The everyday practice is simply to develop complete acceptance of all situations”

— Dilgo Khyentse

#spirituality #acceptance #practice

“All of the body is in the mind but not all of the mind is in the body”

— Swami Rama

#spirituality #mind #body

“The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering idiots are always dead sure”

— Sadhguru

#spirituality #intelligence #wonder

“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#spirituality #purpose #humility

“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves”

— Thomas Merton

#spirituality #love #acceptance

“My religion is very simple my religion is kindness”

— Dalai Lama

#simplicity #kindness #spirituality

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field I will meet you there”

— Rumi

#spirituality #field #beyond

“Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you unfold your own myth”

— Rumi

#spirituality #myth #authenticity

“Through our eyes the universe is perceiving itself through our ears the universe is listening to its harmonies”

— Alan Watts

#spirituality #perception #universe

“The problem is not enjoyment the problem is attachment”

— Tilopa

#spirituality #attachment #enjoyment

“Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.”

— Francis of Assisi

#spirituality #peace #meditation

“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”

— Eckhart Tolle

#spirituality #life #flow

“Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”

— Paul the Apostle

#self-worth #empowerment #sacred

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#spirituality #inner strength #self

“Silence is the language of God; all else is poor translation.”

— Shams Tabrizi

#silence #God #spirituality

“Nature is an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.”

— George Washington Carver

#abundance #nature #spirituality

“Love is our true essence it has no limitations”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

#spirituality #love #essence

“Be as simple as you can be you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated life can become”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

#spirituality #simplicity #life

“Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.”

— Walter Savage Landor

#solitude #spirituality #reflection

“Do not follow the ideas of others but learn to listen to the voice within yourself”

— Dogen Zenji

#spirituality #inner voice #independence

“Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes you will be fine”

— Sadhguru

#spirituality #resilience #self

“Once you realize that all comes from within that the world you see is what you yourself have projected you will stop looking elsewhere”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

#spirituality #projection #inner world

“Drink your tea slowly and reverently as if it is the axis on which the world turns”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#spirituality #tea #mindfulness

“The world is its own magic and the practice of meditation is to see that magic”

— Shunryu Suzuki

#spirituality #magic #meditation

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#hope #spirituality #identity

“Feelings are just visitors let them come and go”

— Mooji

#spirituality #feelings #impermanence

“Enlightenment is a destructive process it has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier”

— Adyashanti

#spirituality #enlightenment #destruction

“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth”

— Alan Watts

#spirituality #self #paradox

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts”

— Marcus Aurelius

#spirituality #thoughts #happiness

“Stop acting so small you are the universe in ecstatic motion”

— Rumi

#spirituality #greatness #universe

“The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day.”

— Heraclitus

#spirituality #soul #thoughts

“The present moment is the only moment available to us and it is the door to all moments”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#spirituality #presence #mindfulness

“Three things cannot be long hidden the sun the moon and the truth”

— Buddha

#spirituality #truth #revelation

“In the gap between thoughts non-conceptual wisdom shines continuously”

— Milarepa

#spirituality #wisdom #gaps

“All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well”

— Julian of Norwich

#spirituality #trust #wellbeing

“Enlightenment is ego falling away every moment you just have to keep your eye on the ball”

— Chogyam Trungpa

#spirituality #enlightenment #ego

“A perception sudden as blinking that subject and object are one will lead to a deeply mysterious wordless understanding”

— Huang Po

#spirituality #unity #perception

“Smile breathe and go slowly”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#spirituality #peace #simplicity

“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart and you shall see that you are weeping for that which has been your delight”

— Khalil Gibran

#spirituality #sorrow #delight

“In a world dedicated to distraction silence and stillness terrify us”

— Sogyal Rinpoche

#spirituality #silence #distraction

“In a conflict between the heart and the brain follow your heart”

— Swami Vivekananda

#spirituality #heart #intuition

“Be grateful for whoever comes because each has been sent as a guide from beyond”

— Rumi

#spirituality #gratitude #guides

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

— Aristotle

#self-knowledge #wisdom #philosophy

“Silence is the language of God all else is poor translation”

— Rumi

#spirituality #silence #God

“Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a person whose hair is on fire seeks a pond”

— Sri Ramakrishna

#spirituality #urgency #seeking

“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #self-knowledge #wisdom

“Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.”

— Kahlil Gibran

#spirituality #daily life #wholeness

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #journey #openness

“Settle yourself in solitude and you will come upon Him in yourself.”

— Teresa of Ávila

#solitude #spirituality #inner peace

“You cannot always control what goes on outside but you can always control what goes on inside”

— Wayne Dyer

#spirituality #control #inner

“The supreme calling of every human being is to aspire to self-realization”

— Anandamayi Ma

#spirituality #calling #self-realization

“When another person makes you suffer it is because he suffers deeply within himself”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#spirituality #compassion #suffering

“To be beautiful means to be yourself you dont need to be accepted by others you need to accept yourself”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#spirituality #beauty #self-acceptance

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding”

— Kahlil Gibran

#spirituality #pain #understanding

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it”

— Eckhart Tolle

#spirituality #thoughts #unhappiness

“Not in the sky, not in the midst of the sea, not in the clefts of the mountains is there known a spot where, having entered, death could overcome one.”

— Dhammapada

#mortality #acceptance #impermanence

“Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth”

— Pema Chodron

#spirituality #fear #truth

“Experience life in all possible ways good and bad bitter and sweet dark and light summer and winter”

— Osho

#spirituality #experience #wholeness

“No matter what is happening no matter what is going on around you your mind can be cool and at ease”

— Tenzin Palmo

#spirituality #equanimity #mind

“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way ask yourself do I want to be a prisoner of the past”

— Deepak Chopra

#spirituality #freedom #reaction

“Let the mind come as it wants do not go with it the mind will settle by itself”

— Papaji

#spirituality #mind #stillness

“The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.”

— Plutarch

#gratitude #spirituality #joy

“You give but little when you give of your possessions it is when you give of yourself that you truly give”

— Kahlil Gibran

#spirituality #giving #self

“The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.”

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

#spirituality #engagement #world

“Let everything happen to you beauty and terror just keep going no feeling is final”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#spirituality #feelings #persistence

“You cannot stop the waves but you can learn to surf”

— Swami Satchidananda

#spirituality #acceptance #skill

“I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.”

— Bayazid Bastami

#spirituality #God #self-discovery

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure”

— Marianne Williamson

#spirituality #power #fear

“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.”

— Francis of Assisi

#peace #love #prayer

“The whole world is a series of miracles, but we are so used to them we call them ordinary things.”

— Hans Christian Andersen

#spirituality #wonder #miracles

“We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God”

— Brother Lawrence

#spirituality #service #small things

“Step into the fire of self-discovery this fire will not burn you it will only burn what you are not”

— Mooji

#spirituality #self-discovery #fire

“All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop”

— Kabir

#spirituality #ocean #merge

“Since you are not sick do not go looking for a doctor”

— Huang Po

#spirituality #wholeness #seeking

“All life is yoga every moment can be used for spiritual growth”

— Sri Aurobindo

#spirituality #yoga #life

“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you that will be enough”

— Meister Eckhart

#spirituality #gratitude #prayer

“This is the real secret of life to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now”

— Alan Watts

#spirituality #engagement #presence

“What a person takes in by contemplation they must pour out in love”

— Meister Eckhart

#spirituality #contemplation #love

“To know yourself as the being underneath the thinker is freedom”

— Eckhart Tolle

#spirituality #being #freedom

“My religion is very simple my religion is kindness”

— Dalai Lama

#spirituality #kindness #religion

“The world is a traveller's inn, not his dwelling place.”

— Rumi

#life #impermanence #perspective

“Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I know, would have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to bind me in all cases whatsoever to his absolute will, am I to suffer it?”

— Thomas Paine

#spirituality #conscience #moral courage

“If you think you are too small to make a difference try sleeping with a mosquito”

— Dalai Lama

#spirituality #impact #humor

“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love”

— Osho

#spirituality #solitude #love

“Hasten slowly and you will soon arrive at your destination”

— Milarepa

#spirituality #patience #haste

“The mind is restless, turbulent, strong and unyielding. I consider it as difficult to subdue as the wind.”

— Vyasa

#mind #discipline #struggle

“The interior of every soul is a vast and unexplored country.”

— Teresa of Ávila

#spirituality #soul #self-discovery

“Love is the essence of all religion mysticism and philosophy”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

#spirituality #love #essence

“The moment you become aware of the ego in you it is strictly speaking no longer the ego”

— Eckhart Tolle

#spirituality #ego #awareness

“The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil.”

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#spirituality #nature #God

“The bad news is you are falling through the air the good news is there is no ground”

— Chogyam Trungpa

#spirituality #groundlessness #freedom

“There is neither creation nor destruction neither destiny nor free will neither path nor achievement this is the final truth”

— Ramana Maharshi

#spirituality #truth #beyond

“You are not a drop in the ocean you are the entire ocean in a drop”

— Mooji

#spirituality #ocean #wholeness

“Where there is ruin there is hope for a treasure”

— Rumi

#spirituality #ruin #treasure

“The act of meditation is being spacious and allowing thoughts to dissolve on their own”

— Sogyal Rinpoche

#spirituality #meditation #spaciousness

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#spirituality #identity #perspective

“Silence is the true teaching it is the perfect teaching it works only for the advanced seeker”

— Ramana Maharshi

#spirituality #silence #teaching

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom”

— Anais Nin

#spirituality #growth #blossoming

“Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.”

— Rumi

#love #wholeness #spirituality

“Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #stillness #flow

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”

— John Milton

#spirituality #mind #perception

“The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.”

— Meister Eckhart

#spirituality #inner life #stillness

“Wherever you are you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see”

— Shunryu Suzuki

#spirituality #oneness #nature

“Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.”

— Rumi

#silence #spirituality #depth

“In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is signed by God's name.”

— Walt Whitman

#spirituality #God #divinity

“Hidden nature is secret God”

— Sri Aurobindo

#spirituality #nature #God

“Truth is one paths are many”

— Swami Satchidananda

#spirituality #truth #paths

“All life is yoga and the meeting of the human and the divine is its ultimate purpose.”

— Sri Aurobindo

#karma #spirituality #purpose

“Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life.”

— Rumi

#gratitude #abundance #spirituality

“Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

#spirituality #kindness #connection

“I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion and where it isnt that is where my work lies”

— Ram Dass

#spirituality #love #work

“What you seek is seeking you”

— Rumi

#spirituality #seeking #destiny

“If you resist change you resist life”

— Sadhguru

#spirituality #change #resistance

“The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.”

— Jesus of Nazareth

#light #focus #spirituality

“The mind creates the abyss the heart crosses it with a bridge of love”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

#spirituality #heart #love

“Whatever the present moment contains accept it as if you had chosen it”

— Eckhart Tolle

#spirituality #acceptance #choice

“Let be in a state of utter openness all things are intrinsically free no need to be bound by outside measures”

— Longchenpa

#spirituality #openness #freedom

“The only thing that stands between you and your wellbeing is a simple fact you have allowed your thoughts and emotions to take instruction from the outside”

— Sadhguru

#spirituality #wellbeing #inner

“The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love”

— Sri Aurobindo

#spirituality #journey #love

“Minds create the abyss and hearts cross it”

— Huang Po

#spirituality #mind #heart

“The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name.”

— Lao Tzu

#Tao #mystery #spirituality

“Do not try to become anything let the mind be free from all grasping”

— Ajahn Chah

#spirituality #freedom #non-grasping

“Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#love #energy #spirituality

“My actions are my only true belongings I cannot escape the consequences of my actions”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#spirituality #actions #karma

“Glance at the sun see the moon and the stars gaze at the beauty of earth and be in awe”

— Hildegard of Bingen

#spirituality #awe #nature

“Whoever has God for his friend has all friends.”

— Rumi

#faith #God #friendship

“You are not a drop in the ocean you are the entire ocean in a drop”

— Rumi

#spirituality #ocean #wholeness

“Heaven means to be one with God.”

— Confucius

#heaven #unity #God

“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness”

— Eckhart Tolle

#spirituality #experience #evolution

“The lamps are different but the light is the same”

— Rumi

#spirituality #unity #light

“Wisdom tells me I am nothing love tells me I am everything between the two my life flows”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

#spirituality #wisdom #love

“The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough”

— Rabindranath Tagore

#spirituality #time #moments

“Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

#spirituality #beauty #moment

“To find a buddha all you have to do is see your nature”

— Bodhidharma

#spirituality #nature #buddha

“Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself in your way of thinking”

— Marcus Aurelius

#spirituality #happiness #thinking

“The whole point of the spiritual path is to wake up out of the dream of samsara”

— Tenzin Palmo

#spirituality #awakening #samsara

“Your own self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world”

— Ramana Maharshi

#spirituality #self-realization #service

“Who looks outside dreams who looks inside awakens”

— Carl Jung

#spirituality #inner #awakening

“All the ups and downs are grace in disguise opportunities to wake up”

— Milarepa

#spirituality #grace #awakening

“Travel light live light spread the light be the light”

— Yogi Bhajan

#spirituality #light #simplicity

“A flower falls even though we love it a weed grows even though we do not love it”

— Dogen Zenji

#spirituality #acceptance #nature

“Every great change is preceded by chaos”

— Deepak Chopra

#spirituality #change #chaos

“You are not your mind you are the awareness behind the thoughts”

— Eckhart Tolle

#spirituality #awareness #mind

“Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise”

— Ram Dass

#spirituality #suffering #wisdom

“The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is praying.”

— Anthony the Great

#spirituality #prayer #contemplation

“Beauty is the shadow of God on the universe.”

— Gabriela Mistral

#beauty #spirituality #universe

“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”

— Deepak Chopra

#spirituality #choice #freedom

“The first peace which is the most important is that which comes within the souls of people”

— Black Elk

#spirituality #peace #soul

“Always bear this in mind everything is in Gods hands and you do what needs to be done”

— Anandamayi Ma

#spirituality #surrender #action

“If you let go a little you will have a little peace if you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace”

— Ajahn Chah

#spirituality #letting go #peace

“The things that we love tell us what we are.”

— Thomas Aquinas

#love #identity #soul

“The soul walks upon all paths the soul does not grow on a single line”

— Khalil Gibran

#spirituality #soul #paths

“The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

#spirituality #failure #seeds

“God is at home it is we who have gone out for a walk”

— Meister Eckhart

#spirituality #home #God

“To study the self is to forget the self to forget the self is to be enlightened by all things”

— Dogen Zenji

#spirituality #self #enlightenment

“Resign every forbidden joy; restrain every wish that is not referred to God's will; banish all eager desires, all anxiety.”

— François Fénelon

#acceptance #surrender #peace

“You were born with wings why prefer to crawl through life”

— Rumi

#spirituality #potential #wings

“It is always the false that makes you suffer the false desires and fears the false values and ideas”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

#spirituality #false #suffering

“Faith is a knowledge within the heart beyond the reach of proof”

— Khalil Gibran

#spirituality #faith #heart

“Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache you wont find it but when your heart is ready peace will come looking for you”

— Ajahn Chah

#spirituality #peace #readiness

“A calm mind is good for our physical health but it also helps us see things more clearly”

— Dalai Lama

#spirituality #calm #clarity

“Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #self-knowledge #wisdom

“In the midst of movement and chaos keep stillness inside of you”

— Deepak Chopra

#spirituality #stillness #chaos

“The sun shines down and its image reflects in a thousand different pots filled with water”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

#spirituality #reflection #unity

“The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress”

— Ramana Maharshi

#spirituality #progress #concentration

“Where there is love there is no effort”

— Amma

#spirituality #love #effortlessness

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