Quotes About The Spiritual Journey

#1. May all beings everywhere with whom we are inseparably connected, be fulfilled, awakened, liberated and free. May there be peace in this world and throughout the entire universe, and may we all together complete the spiritual journey.

Surya Das

#2. When we approach the spiritual journey with an open and teachable spirit, we will continue to gain fresh insights from the Word of God, the people we meet, and the books we digest.

Kenneth D. Boa

#3. The spiritual journey has to do with learning to think more deeply and take as long a time as we need. That's the path to wisdom.

Marianne Williamson

#4. The spiritual journey, the path of recovery and personal growth, is a detoxification process in which we bring up and out the negative beliefs we have carried with us from the past and that now poison the present.

Marianne Williamson

#5. In the spiritual journey, you cannot be a wine taster, you have to become a drunk.

Mooji

#6. Big-heartednes s is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey.

Matthew Fox

#7. Sex is the alpha and enlightenment is the omega. Sex is the first step of the spiritual journey, and enlightenment is the last step of the spiritual journey.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#8. The spiritual journey is what the soul is up to while we attend to daily living.

Christina Baldwin

#9. Spirituality is the sacred center out of which all life comes, including Mondays and Tuesdays and rainy Saturday afternoons in all their mundane and glorious detail ... The spiritual journey is the soul's life commingling with ordinary life.

Christina Baldwin

#10. A pilgrim is a fellow-traveler on the spiritual journey, not a professional guide.

Philip Yancey

#11. The spiritual journey involves going beyond hope and fear, stepping into unknown territory, continually moving forward. The most important aspect of being on the spiritual path may be to just keep moving.

Pema Chodron

#12. Just by the very nature of our birth, we are on the spiritual journey.

Thomas Keating

#13. The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everybody should follow any one path. Listen to your own truth.

Ram Dass

#14. What the spiritual journey is all about is uniting our will with God's will, wanting what He wants, loving what He loves, living a life that in all its aspects honors Him and gives Him glory.

Ralph Martin

#15. EMBARKING on the spiritual journey is like getting into a very small boat and setting out on the ocean to search for unknown lands. With wholehearted practice comes inspiration, but sooner or later we will also encounter fear.

Pema Chodron

#16. The first part of the spiritual journey should properly be called psychological rather than spiritual because it involves peeling away the myths and illusions that have misinformed us.

Sam Keen

#17. The spiritual journey starts with the realization that there's nothing more to wait for. The conditions are already perfect. There is no 'something else' that needs to happen before we begin. We start exactly where we are. After all, whether now or later, this is the only place we can begin

Ross Hostetter

#18. When we don't get what we want, there's a legitimate grieving, and then the spiritual journey truly begins, because not getting what we want breaks our self-reference; and once that is broken, we are aware that we are a part of a larger whole. It changes everything.

Mark Nepo

#19. The only journey worth taking is the spiritual journey within.

Debasish Mridha

#20. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.

Marianne Williamson

#21. There comes a time in the spiritual journey when you start making choices from a very different place. And if a choice lines up so that it supports truth, health, happiness, wisdom and love, it's the right choice.

Angeles Arrien

#22. The spiritual journey is one of continuous learning and purification. When you know this, you become humble.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#23. There is only one royal road for the spiritual journey ... Love

Sathya Sai Baba

#24. These are the two fundamental ways in which the spiritual journey can be approached: you can either go slowly, step-by-step, accepting all natural assistance available to you, or you can ignore all the steps and take the inward leap.

Sadhguru

#25. LIKE A GREAT WATERWHEEL, THE LITURGICAL YEAR goes on relentlessly irrigating our souls, softening the ground of our hearts, nourishing the soil of our lives until the seed of the Word of God itself begins to grow in us, comes to fruit in us, ripens in us the spiritual journey of a lifetime.

Joan D. Chittister

#26. The spiritual journey is an adventure of exploration that gradually starts to open up before us when we are ready to begin asking the questions, "Who am I? and "Who are you?

Mac MacKenzie

#27. As you allow the beloved to grow within you, you will discover a steadfastness to the spiritual journey.

Jean Houston

#28. The spiritual journey is not about acquiring something outside yourself, rather, you are penetrating deep layers and veils to return to the deepest truth of your own being.

Ram Dass

#29. Within the spiritual journey you understand that suffering becomes something that has been given to you to show you where your mind is still stuck. It's a vehicle to help you go to work. That's why it's called grace.

Ram Dass

#30. I would say courage first; then wisdom, which is a sense of knowledge and confidence; and also the wish and desire to uplift. The underlying notion is "How do I help?" That attitude really is a spiritual journey and a path.

Sakyong Mipham

#31. You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.

T. Scott McLeod

#32. May God bless and guide us on path of light in Jesus Name.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#33. When we open the Bible and read it, we are eavesdropping on an ancient spiritual journey.

Peter Enns

#34. Healing is anything that restores your inner sense that all is well, and that returns you to a healthy state of empowerment.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#35. A sincere seeker knows what his goal is: the highest Truth. He will not delay his journey. In spiritual life, we aspire for the highest Truth, for God, nothing else.

Sri Chinmoy

#36. The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into our next life. There are no coincidences.

Raquel Cepeda

#37. Eventually it will become quiet enough so that you can simply watch the heart begin to react, and let go before the mind starts. At some point in the journey it all becomes heart, not mind ... The mind doesn't even get a
chance to start up because you let go at
the heart level.

Michael Singer

#38. Some journeys lead nowhere, but they set the spirit free

Jocelyn Murray

#39. The spiritual path is an inward journey. On the spiritual path, the external life remains the same, but you begin the inward journey towards the truth.

Roshan Sharma

#40. Traveling further ingrained my desire to connect to a place other than an island that is slightly older, in a New World way, than the United States, especially after I found characteristics of my face in the faces of the people in my global community.

Raquel Cepeda

#41. Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.

Raquel Cepeda

#42. The journey to the light starts with a candle. Once it's lit, darkness has gone forever.

Adriano Bulla

#43. I see when you doubt yourself, i feel your fear. please put down your burden and remember i am here. -your angels.

Nikki Rowe

#44. A spiritual pilgrim needs to discern when his or her life is stunted in an old field and find the courage and determination to go to a "new land" that the Lord will show. (Abraham-Journey) ... so that you can find the wholeness you seek.

Sue Monk Kidd

#45. Life is a sacred journey.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#46. This life, so thrift and vague, nothing, but toil and worries, dread, and casts our souls into eternal journey of no return

Michael Bassey Johnson

#47. The soul-Self doesn't follow the crowd. It encourages you to speak up when you need to and live by your truth.

Debra Moffitt

#48. Marriage is not a static state between two unchanging people. Marriage is a psychological and spiritual journey that begins in the ecstasy of attraction, meanders through a rocky stretch of self-discovery, and culminates in the creation of an intimate, joyful, lifelong union.

Harville Hendrix

#49. In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a swami is a monk who forgoes regular family life for the purpose of making the whole world his family and channels his full energy into spiritual practice, devotion to God and service to humanity.

Radhanath Swami

#50. The Artist's Way is a spiritual journey, a pilrimage home to the self.

Julia Cameron

#51. There comes a moment in all travel when you know that you have really started. It may be weeks before you start or weeks after you have started; it is a spiritual emotion, a turning towards the future with an eager heart...

H.V. Morton

#52. Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey of the beloved one who to-morrow will be the intelligent, divine creation, man.

Maria Montessori

#53. One day you will be able to look over all the disaster and heartbreak and feel ok with it, today mighten be the day but one day you will.

Nikki Rowe

#54. I am ready for the most exhilarating time of my life, discovery before me, negativity behind me, through the road to ruin, I will find within me, my most unshakeable truth.

Nikki Rowe

#55. I walk on my sacred path.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#56. The journey of a human is not only to expand its illusory personality of his mind, in the external world, but to realize himself beyond the identity of the mind and see the truth behind the formation of life within.

Roshan Sharma

#57. May your footsteps be ordered by the Lord Almighty.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#58. The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.

Yvon Chouinard

#59. And so I recognized that my sojourn into open-heart territory was ultimately an open heart journey in another sense, a spiritual journey of awakening - to the reality that I am here in this life with a purpose, and have been from the day I was born.

Maggie Lichtenberg

#60. A spiritual journey is becoming what one has always meant to be-come and always was. One with God's Spirit.

Jazz Feylynn

#61. The spiritual quest is not some added benefit to our life, something you embark on if you have the time and inclination. We are spiritual beings on an earthly journey. Our spirituality makes up our beingness.

John Bradshaw

#62. We are all in Christ's energy. We are all in the divine plan. We are all on the sacred journey, if you want to put it into some very spiritual words. And I like to sing about it, so that's what I do.

Jon Anderson

#63. A writer's journey may be tough, but never give up and enjoy every moment.

Rhonda Hughe St. John

#64. Yoga is the journey from just eating and sleeping to becoming an ecstatic being. This is the aspiration of life itself.

Jaggi Vasudev

#65. For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#66. Every journey is personal. Every journey is spiritual. You can't compare them, can't replace, can't repeat. You can bring back the memories but they only bring tears to your eyes.

Riana Ambarsari

#67. People wander about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread.

William Stafford

#68. Oh, hell, I can't go on a spiritual journey - I'm constipated.

Molly Ivins

#69. My sangha, what I seem to attract, are people who have been practicing a long time, they're teaching, they're more serious about their spiritual journey.

Beryl Bender Birch

#70. I used to say ... 'Don't sweat the small stuff
not even the big stuff.' At the end of the day, none of it matters but your own joy, your own spiritual journey that you go on, God, your loved ones, your friends, your animals. These are the things you've got to cherish and love and embrace.

Christina Applegate

#71. About once a week I think about going and living in a cave and meditating instead. I think that would be a more peaceful life, where my spiritual journey was not interrupted by egomania so regularly.

Simon Amstell

#72. I am alone and my spiritual journey is my experience.' This is the real experience of freedom and independence. Then we begin to see that being alone is a very beautiful thing. Nobody is obstructing our vision. We have complete panoramic vision.

Chogyam Trungpa

#73. Meditation leads you to your spiritual information, and takes you on a journey of getting to know yourself and your creations.

Mary Ellen Flora

#74. Life's journey is peppered with many bumps and pitfalls. If we make mountains out of each one, we will get nowhere.

Charles F. Glassman

#75. Change is a road less traveled, but a remarkable journey to take.

Dr. Milan LaBrey

#76. May you walk on sacred-path.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#77. Spiritual ardency is the wellspring of a courageous heart. It gives us the strength to continue through all the difficulties of the journey. The question for us is how to practice and cultivate ardency, so that it becomes a powerful and onward-leading force in our lives.

Joseph Goldstein

#78. Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.

Rumi

#79. Personal growth can be painful, because it can make us feel ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. But our spiritual goal is the journey out of fear-based, painful mental habit patterns, to those of love and peace.

Marianne Williamson

#80. Each person's journey is different. If something - anything - does not feel right to you, then you alone get to decide whether you will honor it or not. The choice of how to respond to your situation is yours - and will always be yours.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#81. Life has no destination, but it is a spiritual journey for eternal happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#82. The problems presented by difficult individuals contribute to your growth and evolution - another reason for filling yourself with gratitude, appreciation, and love!

Susan Barbara Apollon

#83. Nature is grand and is made of dream-like elements.
All is one, and connected,
making an incredible journey, becoming one and united, eternally.

MARTH

#84. Can you allow yourself to be impaled on the present moment?

T. Scott McLeod

#85. As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.

Jack Kornfield

#86. In my spiritual and academic journeys, I have learned that it is imperative for Christians to pursue truth at all costs.

Daniel B. Wallace

#87. Life gives you exactly what you need to awaken.

T. Scott McLeod

#88. Here are two dichotomies here. In the West it is a very physical practice, and even meditation is a practice to become productive and more at peace. In the East, you think of the deep spiritual practices as a journey of complete dissolution of the self, the ego.

Karan Bajaj

#89. Thankfully, life is a journey of progress and not perfection, and we can improve our blurred reflection by taking up the Sword of the Spirit. We can find a healthy dose of just how much God loves us in the Bible and start to have as much respect for ourselves as God has for us.

Kristen Clark

#90. When there is nothing left to give somone in need, we give them what we do have. We give them Divine Love, faith, and friendship. This is always enough to see anyone through anything. This, my friends, is how we save the world. (pg.99 of A Journey In to Divine Love)

C.Michelle Gonzalez

#91. May you find the right path to travel on.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#92. three things were most important in easing life's final journey. People needed strong relief from physical pain and troublesome symptoms, they needed to preserve their dignity, and they needed help with the psychological and spiritual pain of death.

Annie Clara Brown

#93. The biggest surprise on the soulful journey to authenticity, whether as a philosophy or a spiritual path, is that the path is a spiral. We go up, but we go in circles. Eash time around, the view gets a little bit wider.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#94. Focus your intention on what your building, not whats already fallen away.

Nikki Rowe

#95. She was a mystery, personal in her journey but social in her seek; you wouldn't believe the depth in her heart until the day you felt her essence, for the very first time.

Nikki Rowe

#96. You wake up oneday and it's different, not so much in a physical way but in the way you look at things. I think when you reach that primary moment in your life, you finally have the courage to let go of the human attachments and start to live in a way that compliments your heart and soul.

Nikki Rowe

#97. Christian faith for me is no longer a static location but a great spiritual journey. And that changes everything.

Brian McLaren

#98. The Lord's holy fire lit my path.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#99. The most important journey you will take in your life will usually be the one of self transformation. Often, this is the scariest because it requires the greatest changes, in your life.

Shannon L. Alder

#100. Closing the last chapter of our personal history and taking the first step on the Journey will come with the recognition of the futility of spiritual seeking.

Frank M. Wanderer