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The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

The time is coming when we will go beyond narrow religious confines and embrace a spirituality that will include the best of all religions and transcend narrow boundaries.

The truly good is he who is one with all those who are deemed bad.

The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.

Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.

The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.

Throw away sacredness and wisdom and people will be one hundred times happier.

This mystical stream [contemplative prayer] is the Western bridge to Far Eastern spirituality.

Through the lens of spirituality, we see all the commandments of God as invitations to blessings.

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.

Those who know the least obey the best.

Throw false spirituality away like a pair of old shoes.

To struggle is difficult but to surrender is easy. Surrender is the beginning of devotion.

True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.

True spirituality is to be aware that if we are interdependent with everything and everyone else, even our smallest, least significant thought, word and action have real consequences throughout the universe.

True spirituality consists in living moment to moment by the grace of Jesus Christ.

True spirituality is the acceptance of earth-life. A true seeker is he who accepts life, transforms life and perfects life so that the earth-life can become a conscious instrument of God.

Two attempts have been made in the world to found social life: the one was upon religion, and the other was upon social necessity. The one was founded upon spirituality, the other upon materialism; the one upon transcendentalism, the other upon realism.

Unselfish love for all people without exception is the most important point of convergence among all significant spiritualities and religions.

Unless you become alert and aware in life, unless you change the quality of your living, you will not die consciously. And only a conscious death can bring you to a conscious birth; and then a far more conscious life opens its doors.

Under the skin, intense fires burn.

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

We are on a journey of becoming that which we already are. That is the impossible paradox of our lives.

We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.

We are all more or less ill till we find -Self-enquiry our Oneness with everyone else.

We are on the planet to... wrap our consciousness around the divine treasure within us.

We're a little lazy about spirituality in this country.

We cannot grow spiritually if we ignore our humanness, just as we cannot become fully human if we ignore our spirituality.

We have to seek the essence of all religions; then we can see how spirituality actually unites us and empowers us instead of breaking us down.

What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate.

What is matter? Never mind.

What is faith if it is not translated into action?

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become attainable.

Women have been systematically pushed out of spirituality by men.

...when I accept Christ as my Savior... I am immediately in a new and living relationship with each of the three persons of the Trinity.

When we love, we are the universe and the universe lives in us.

When you die and go to heaven our maker is not going to ask, 'why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? why didn't you become the Messiah?' The only question we will be asked in that precious moment is 'why didn't you become you?'

When you learn to love hell you will be in heaven.

... you are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily!

Yield all and trust all.

You are as old as God and as young as the morning.

You don't need spirituality to discover the troubles that come your way. But, it's good to know that troubles are not unique to you alone.

You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the Original Face; it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed.

You cannot separate art from life or spirituality. They are bound together in a single unit.

You go to India and you see the poorest village somewhere in the middle of India. And the poor family is happier than any rich billionaire in this country because of spirituality.

Your thoughts are like the seeds you plant in your garden. Your beliefs are like the soil in which you plant these seeds.

You must stop seeing God as separate from you, and you as separate from each other. [...] Nothing exists in the universe that is separate from anything else. Everything is intrinsically connected, irrevocably interdependent, interactive, interwoven into the fabric of all of life.