The fundamental task in spiritual life is to be what we essentially are.
It is becoming what we are in Being.
That is it.
Not becoming something different.
Nothing reaching for something foreign to us;
that is not spirituality.
In spiritual striving, to discover our own true identity.
That is the whole meaning and purpose of our spiritual search.
-Haridas Chaudhuri
The spiritual unfoldment of man...
begins with a definite decision to discover
the ultimate ground of existence, i.e. to realize God.
It ends with a final decision to make a supreme sacrifice of oneself
for the sake of the Divine dynamically present in the world
i.e. for the sake of cosmic welfare.
Aspiration is the initial decision involved in spiritual life.
It is an all-out search for the eternal.
It is a sincere and determined resolve to organize one's whole life
on the basis of spiritual values.
It is the indomitable will to find out the meaning of God
in the context of one's own personal experience.
-Haridas Chaudhuri
You are spiritually conscious
when you know that you are a spiritual being.
-Christian Larson
It is to be conscious of the spirit
that makes one spiritual.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
To grow more and more intensively and extensively conscious
is the supreme privilege of spiritual life.
-Mahendra Nath Sarkar
Spiritual life consists mainly in the discovery and exercise of our highest faculties
and this means joy, joy, ever increasing in depth and intensity
with ever enlargement of consciousness of power.
-R. J. Campbell
and this means joy, joy, ever increasing in depth and intensity
with ever enlargement of consciousness of power.
-R. J. Campbell
The promise of spiritual life
lies in making every part of our being
intensively conscious and equally luminous.
-Mahendra Nath Sarkar
Spiritual development
is raising your conscious awareness of your Self.
-Steven Sadleir
Spiritual awakening is a gradual process
of the unfoldment of Divine Consciousness.
-Sivananda
Spiritual life is about living from the viewpoint of the Spirit,
which is the same in everyone and everything.
-Georg Feuerstein
Spirituality, then, lies in regarding
existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation,
and contemplation merely as a vehicle for joy.
-George Santayana
Spirituality is a single word
expressive of three lines of human aspiration
toward divine knowledge, divine love and joy, divine strength.
-Aurobindo Ghose
The moment we begin to take our spiritual journey upon this path
we realize that we are in the presence of elements and possibilities
that are too vast, too immense and too sublime
for the outer mind to comprehend;
but we know that so long as we continue
to search for the fullness of things
or to enter into the consciousness of the spirit of things,
we are upon the straight and narrow path.
-Christian Larson
Spiritual realization is theoretically the easiest thing
and in practice the most difficult thing there is.
It is easiest because it is enough to think of God.
It is the most difficult because human nature is forgetful of God.
-Frithjof Schuon
There is only your decision and supplication in the present:
to live the life of God.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
Invite the Spirit of God
to live within you.
-Imre Vallyon
to live within you.
-Imre Vallyon
All spirituality is reduced
to the simple working of God in oneself.
-Madame Jeanne Guyon
