Spirituality is a very
wide concept, but it generally involves searching for the meaning of life and
trying to connect with something bigger than ourselves.
We are in a constant
quest for success and happiness and we often neglect our spiritual side.
Spirituality is a universal human experience and it’s at the core of who you
really are -- that’s why it’s so important to develop a stronger connection to
everything inside and outside of you.
For some people a spiritual
experience can be described as sacred or transcendent. Some chose to pray and find
comfort in a personal relationship with a higher power, while others look for
meaning in their connection with nature or art.
Whatever practices
you may choose to achieve its full potential, spirituality should always result
in positive emotions, such as inner peace, contentment, gratitude, and
acceptance. Remember that you become what you speak about and feel more often.
Sometimes we just need to slow down and reconnect, so let the following
spiritual quotes guide your way to joy and lightheartedness.
Here are 150 spiritual quotes about love, life, healing, growth, strength and happiness
Spiritual quotes about love
Step out of the circle of time and into the circle of love.
RUMI (more Rumi quotes)
This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.
ABERJHANI
The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God.
MARCUS AURELIUS
For some people, the point of no return begins at the very moment their souls become aware of each others existence.
JOYBELL C.
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
PAULO COELHO (The Alchemist quotes)
What is planted in each person's soul will sprout.
RUMI
To see the universal and all pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.
MAHATMA GANDHI
Your giving and searching for ways to give is love in action. This is the evidence of Spirit at work.
MARSHALL VIAN SUMMERS
Don't ever think you are nothing. Somewhere along the line, there is going to be someone who thinks you are everything.
M.H.S. POURR
If you want the moon, do not hide at night. If you want a rose, do not run from the thorns. If you want love, do not hide from yourself.
RUMI
Spiritual love is a position of standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.
CHRISTINA BALDWIN
The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Divine love glorifies heart & shines soul it makes one pure from body, mind, and soul.
MAMTA RAJSHREE
Love is the most satisfying way to control the mind. Bhakti makes us single-minded when it awakens our innate spirit of love.
RADHANATH SWAMI
You can never love another person unless you are equally involved in the beautiful but difficult spiritual work of learning to love yourself.
JOHN O'DONOHUE
Love is the bridge between you and everything.
RUMI
The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Each of us are angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
LUCIANO DE CESCENZO
Spiritual love, derived from love intelligence, is nonconditional, nonpersonal benevolence. It is the love of being loving, with no strings attached, just for the sake of being what God wants us to be.
THOMAS HORA
I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand.
TALIB KWELI
Some people come and go and are forgotten. But there are other people who share a part in our destinies. They come, they go, but they are never forgotten. They come, they go, but even after they go they're still here. They never really went anywhere.
JOYBELL C.
The real meaning of detached love is to let others exist without forcing our will upon them. That is spiritual love.
HAROLD KLEMP
He loved constantly, instantly, spontaneously, without thought or words. That's what he taught me. Love is not something you think about, it is a state in which you dwell. That was his gift.
CHRISTOPHER MOORE
The path to love is our spiritual destiny.
DEEPAK CHOPRA (more Deepak Chopra quotes)
Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible.
RUMI
Spiritual love is without limits or boundaries. Worldly love is superficial and fluctuating.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI
Love is the spiritual essence of what we do. Technique is the manifestation of the preparation and investment as a result of the love.
WYNTON MARSALIS
When I look inside and see that I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I look outside and see that I am everything, that is love. And between these two, my life turns.
SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ
You and your love in my life are the grace of God, I could never deserve.
MAMTA RAJSHREE
Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside.
BADRUL HISHAM
In love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we are to the spiritual experience.
PAULO COELHO
When there is someone that really loves you there will always be hope, so love everybody.
DR. JAMES J. KRIEGER D.D.
Love holds the cells of bodies as a unity.
MURSHID SAMUEL LEWIS
From love, the complete panorama of life. It's absence leads to death, to war, to fratricide.
MURSHID SAMUEL LEWIS
Love for oneself does not mean the self-centered love of the ego. It means to love life.
SRI MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI DEVI
I profess the religion of love, Love is my religion and my faith.
RUMI
We take birth in love, lead this life in love and at last get merged in love.
SRI MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI DEVI
Love is the religion and the Universe is the book.
MIRABAI STARR
The truth is there is no end for love. Only through love can life spring forth and flower.
SRI MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI DEVI
Spiritual quotes about life
What each of us believes in is up to us, but life is impossible without believing in something.
KENTETSU TAKAMORI
Don’t let a day go by without asking who you are…each time you let a new ingredient to enter your awareness.
DEEPAK CHOPRA
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life.
ECKHART TOLLE (more Eckhart Tolle quotes)
It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. Paulo Coleho
PAULO COLEHO
The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.
HENRI J.M. NOUWEN
Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.
ORIAH MOUNTAIN DREAMER
I've learned through the years that it's not where you live, it's the people who surround you that make you feel at home.
J.B. MCGEE
Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
ECKHART TOLLE
Life is like riding a bicycle, to keep your balance, you must keep moving.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life -- after that you cannot be deceived.
ZEN PROVERB (more Zen quotes and proverbs)
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN
As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color and fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.
BUDDHA
You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars, guides you too.
SHRII SHRII ANANDAMURTI
Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.
SAMUEL ULLMAN
Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.
JIM CARREY (more Jim Carrey quotes)
I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose.
R.J. ANDERSON
Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except yourself.
BUDDHA
Let what comes come. Let what goes go. Find out what remains.
RAMANA MAHARSHI
No individual can ultimately fail. The Divinity which descends into humanity is bound to regain its original state.
N. SRI RAM
The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.
SWAMI SIVANANDA
Nothing ever exists entirely alone. Everything is in relation to everything else.
BUDDHA
Within each of us is a light, awake, encoded in the fibers of our existence. Divine ecstasy is the totality of this marvelous creation experienced in the hearts of humanity.
TONY SAMARA
Spiritual quotes about healing
Healing happens when we see things differently. The question is: do you want suffering or peace? It's that simple.
DONNA GODDARD
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
RUMI
The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.
CAROLINE MYSSV
Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls your life.
AKSHAY DUBEY
Healing is an art. It takes time, it takes practice. It takes love.
MAZA DOHTA
Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
HIPPOCRATES
Self–forgiveness is essential to self–healing.
RUTH CARTER STAPLETON
Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
SAI BABA
Spiritual healing occurs as we begin to consciously reconnect with our essential being – the wise, loving, powerful, creative entity that we are at our core.
SHAKTI GAWAIN
One of the most healing things you can do is recognize where in your life you are your own poison.
STEVE MARABOLI
To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear.
STEPHEN LEVINE
Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.
BUDDHA
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.
STEPHEN RICHARDS
Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
HERMANN HESSE
For every spirit who is learning: you heal yourself.
THAIIA SENQUETTA
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
KAHLIL GIBRAN
Healing the world begins with healing yourself.
ANTHON ST. MAARTEN
Authentic spiritual ideas have the power to heal. Healing is the building block of both individual and collective spiritual evolution.
DONNA GODDARD
When the healer thinks he is healing, his power is as small as a drop; when he thinks God is healing, and when owing to this thought his own self is forgotten and he is only conscious of the Self of God, then his power becomes as large as the ocean.
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN
Healing is active involvement in your process, ongoing.
S. KELLEY HARRELL
Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.
MA JAYA SATI BHAGAVATI
Spiritual quotes about God
He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
Whenever your foundation is laid in God, there will be nothing that can shake it, no matter how strong the storm is.
ANGELO M. SWINSON
A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness.
MOTHER TERESA
Too often we fail to appreciate that (the) apprehension of God is not only the test of our worship, but also the test of our spiritual growth.
SINCLAIR B. FERGUSON
To love another person is to see the face of God.
VICTOR HUGO
Being with God is an intense experience of love, calling and purpose. The more you focus on this, the more it melts aware the icy cold of separation, like the sun melting the ice off of the mountain.
MARSHALL VIAN SUMMERS
When I release my weaknesses and blind spots to God, He uses them to help me grow up spiritually.
CRYSTAL MCDOWELL
The priceless gift of life is love, with the help from God above. Love can change the human race, make this World a better place. For love dissolves all hate and fear, it makes our vision bright and clear, So we can see and rise above our pettiness on the wings of love.
NATALIA LOVE
I looked in temples, churches, and mosques. But I found the divine within my heart.
RUMI
To have you and your love is the blessings of almighty God, I never forget.
MAMTA RAJSHREE
God is love, from love the world became.
MURSHID SAMUEL LEWIS
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
This is no mystery to the awakened heart; Peace on earth to men of universal will, Who rise above their selfish limitations And see the world as God would have them see.
MURSHID SAMUEL LEWIS
There are three expressions of love that awaken us from within: love for oneself, love for God, and love for the entire creation.
SRI MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI DEVI
Spiritual quotes about growth
Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
PEMA CHODRUN
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
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
DANIEL DEFOE
The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow.
BRUCE LEE
If a man does not exercise his arm he develops no biceps muscle; and if a man does not exercise his soul, he acquires no muscle in his soul, no strength of character, no vigor of moral fiber, nor beauty of Spiritual growth.
HENRY DRUMMOND
Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people.
A. W. TOZER
It is not the number of books you read, nor the variety of sermons you hear, nor the amount of religious conversation in which you mix, but it is the frequency and earnestness with which you meditate on these things till the truth in them becomes your own and part of your being, that ensures your growth.
FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON
A misleading perception or false belief is increasingly being perpetuated that the unconscious or the intuitive is all that really matters in any spiritual endeavor, and that the conscious, rational, logical, analytical mind is the mortal enemy of spiritual awareness and soul growth.
ANTHON ST. MAARTEN
Spiritual growth depends on two things: first a willingness to live according to the Word of God; second, a willingness to take whatever consequences emerge as a result.
SINCLAIR B. FERGUSON
The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.
M. SCOTT PECK
The hardest thing to ever do is to reveal the naked soul to the world. However, in doing so brings healing, growth, strength, and powerful inspiration!
H.E. OLSEN
Give yourself permission to see and feel the extraordinary events in your own life. In internalizing them, you also will find your perspective about life and its meaning will change, resulting in growth and expansion of your soul.
SUSAN BARBARA APOLLON
The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth. Once we begin to understand this, and accept it as a spiritual fact of life, adversity becomes easier to bear.
CHARLES STANLEY
An intentional spiritual dietary plan is as essential to your spiritual growth as a deliberate dietary plan is fundamental to your physical well-being.
PATRICIA ENNIS
Spiritual quotes about strength
You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
MARCUS AURELIUS
I am building a house where the floor is made up of strength. Where the walls are crafted of ambition. Where the roof is a masterpiece of forgiveness. I am building myself.
NOOR UNNAHAR
Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
If you were born with the weakness to fall. You were born with the strength to rise.
RUPI KAUR
Bring into play the almighty power within you, so that on the stage of life you can fulfill your high destined role.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA
If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR
At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
FRIDA KAHLO
Strength doesn’t come from what you do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.
RIKKI ROGERS
You really are good enough, pretty enough, and strong enough.
AL CARRAWAY
Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.
UNKNOWN
Never be ashamed about being broken, because strength is nothing but pain that’s been repaired.
TRENT SHELTON
Do not let your mind whisper fear into your heart. It will try. It will try.
ALISON MALEE
Life has got all those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go.
NICOLE KIDMAN
I’ve never met a strong person with an easy past.
ATTICUS
Some women fear the fire some women simply become it.
R.H. SIN
May the flowers remind us why the rain was so necessary.
XAN OKU
We’re stronger in the places that we’ve been broken.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Spiritual quotes about happiness
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
When you realize there is no lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
LAU TZU
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
MAHATMA GANDHI
Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face.
DOLORES DEL RIO
My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
JIM CARREY
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
DALAI LAMA
Whatever makes you feel the sun from the inside out chase that.
GEMMA TROY
When I feel like dancing, I dance. I don’t care if anyone else is dancing or if everyone else is laughing at me. I dance.
RACHEL DANSON
A whole new kind of spiritual happiness dawns in us as we realize that dark clouds do not ruin sunny skies... they merely pass through them to help us remember our love of the light.
GUY FINLEY
Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it.
JOHN TEMPLETON
The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
RAM DASS
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
NHAT HANH
When we understand clearly that inner peace is the real source of happiness, and how, through spiritual practice, we can experience progressively deeper levels of inner peace, we will develop tremendous enthusiasm to practice.
GESHE KELSANG GYATSO
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
RAMANA MAHARSHI
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.
HELEN KELLER
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
BUDDHA
There is no way to happiness -- happiness is the way.
NHAT HANH
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
ARISTOTLE
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
ALBERT CAMUS
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Be so happy that when others look at you, they become happy too.
HARBHAJAN SINGH YOGI
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
