Top 100 Spiritual Experience Quotes
#1. The kirtana of Madhava has an almost magnetic influence. The mind and heart get totally attracted, then drawn into the inside world where one can meet the soul of the universe. Tune in and you will have a deeply rewarding, spiritual experience.
Sacinandana Swami
#2. The spiritual experience isn't one of filling ourselves up - with either religious or intellectual beliefs - but of emptying ourselves so that we can experience what is, directly, unfiltered.
Kevin Griffin
#3. If I may take the risk of defining what a spiritual experience is, it is one in which pure awareness reveals itself to you as the maker of reality - where you suddenly discover through insight or meditation or a freak accident that your essential nature is spiritual, non-material.
Deepak Chopra
#4. From the point of view of meditation, there is nothing that is not God. When we meditate, we are participating in a spiritual experience. We are seeing life is not perhaps as we thought, but a little bit different, vastly different.
Frederick Lenz
#5. The readers of Luke's gospel, like most people in the ancient world, did not make a sharp distinction between myth and reality; the two were intimately tied together in their spiritual experience. That is to say, they were less interested in what actually happened than in what it meant.
Reza Aslan
#6. When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)
Joseph Campbell
#7. Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction.
A.W. Tozer
#8. As Christian mystic Pierre Teilhard de Chardin once said: "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience." He was right. If we recognize the soul lesson, we can grow beyond suffering, and there is no stress in this state of understanding.
Brian L. Weiss
#9. The mess of the human condition is that fundamental trust has not yet been realized. The true value of profound spiritual experience lies in the discovery of that fundamental trust.
Andrew Cohen
#10. We must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there are no rules.
Paulo Coelho
#11. Happiness cannot be owned.
It is in living in the spiritual experience of living every breath, that lets us taste a moment of it.
Mimi Novic
#12. The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
Sally Ride
#13. May not the inadequacy of much of our spiritual experience be traced back to our habit of skipping through the corridors of the Kingdom like children in the market place, chattering about everything, but pausing to learn the value of nothing.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#14. We are not human beings in search of a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings emersed in a human experience.
Wayne W. Dyer
#15. People who've had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don't know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a Love, which is incomprehensible to the mind.
Richard Rohr
#16. The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritual experience does not, or must not, enter into the intelligible texture of philosophy. The pulp of the fruit must consist of nothing but the truth.
Jacques Maritain
#17. I grew up in a little Methodist church that was very rural, very community support-oriented, made up of great people who talked about love and grace and the spiritual experience, but only in rhetorical terms.
James Redfield
#18. You are a Spirit, living in a body, who has a mind. You are a spiritual being having a human experience, not a human being having a spiritual experience.
Steve D'Annunzio
#19. Give God the margin of eternity to justify Himself in, and the more we live and know of our own souls and of spiritual experience generally, the more we shall be convinced that we have to do with one who is good and just.
Hugh Reginald Haweis
#20. The Wanderer then leaves behind the spiritual seeker, with all the accumulated knowledge and lofty spiritual experience, and takes the first step on the Journey.
Frank M. Wanderer
#21. Until those charismatic churches who have poor teaching can supply both spiritual empowerment and sounder teaching, many of them will continue to be only a way station for Christians who need a fresh spiritual experience but who end up taking it elsewhere once they have it.
Craig S. Keener
#22. The jewels of spiritual service are always quarried in the depths of spiritual experience. Never is this more true than in revival. Bend the church and save the people.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#24. Some claim evolution is just a theory. As if it were merely an opinion. The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact. Evolution really happened. Accepting our kinship with all life on Earth is not only solid science. In my view, it's also a soaring spiritual experience.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#25. You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#26. If you know Christ, you don't need to beg for the Holy Spirit to come into your life; He is already there - whether you "feel" His presence or not. Don't confuse the Holy Spirit with an emotional feeling or a particular type of spiritual experience.
Billy Graham
#27. My yoga practice was and will always be a spiritual experience. I can honestly say, "Yoga delivered me back to GOD!"
Faith Hunter
#28. I got to a point where kind of a oneness with everything and a great compassion. It teaches you compassion. It was a great, enlightening experience, a spiritual experience. Not particularly religious, but spiritual. It was great. I can still go there.
Larry Hagman
#29. For me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me.
Sue Monk Kidd
#31. When practiced to its fullest, mindful eating turns a simple meal into a spiritual experience, giving us a deep appreciation of all that went into the meal's creation as well a deep understanding of the relationship between the food on our table, our own health, and our planet's health.
Nhat Hanh
#32. In the mountains, worldly attachments are left behind, and in the absence of material distractions, we are opened up to spiritual thought. We should be attempting to carry the spiritual experience of the mountains with us everywhere.
Jamling Tenzing Norgay
#33. Each tree has its own personality, i chose them by the way I felt at the moment. Sometimes they even change my sentiments. It's kind of a spiritual experience.
Jacques Lecoq
#34. while grace sets apart Christianity, so does truth. Jesus was filled with grace and truth, and in Christianity you can know the truth, not just through some sort of spiritual experience, but also through careful investigation.
Lee Strobel
#35. Many think Jesus came to earth so you and I can have a special kind of spiritual experience and then go merrily along, as long as we pray and read our Bibles and develop intimacy with the unseen God but ignore the others-oriented life of justice and love and peace that Jesus embodied.
Scot McKnight
#36. Most important, Christmas should be a spiritual experience ... Christmas is not just an event in time; it is a spiritual experience available to every person who hears the Gospel.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#37. Every true spiritual experience means that we have discovered a certain fact in Christ and have entered into that. Anything that is not from Him in this way is an experience that is going to evaporate very soon.
Watchman Nee
#38. In love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we are to the spiritual experience.
Paulo Coelho
#39. The universe is not a world of separate things and events but is a cosmos that is connected and coherent. The physical world and spiritual experience are both aspects of the same reality and man and the universe were one
Alexis Karpouzos
#40. Now for me, music is indeed a spiritual experience. It may be hypnotizing or violently stimulating. I listen to and appreciate all kinds of music, from folk, to jazz, to classical, to hard core rock.
Robert M. Price
#41. Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#42. There's something about yoga that makes it a spiritual experience, I'm realizing. It's opening me beyond myself. A good class seems like a dose of LSD--without the worry you'll find yourself jumping off a roof into a swimming pool.
Meryl Davids Landau
#43. Keating leaned back with a sense of warmth and well-being. He liked this book. It had made the routine of his Sunday morning breakfast a profound spiritual experience; he was certain that it was profound, because he didn't understand it.
Ayn Rand
#44. For me dancing is not just moving your arms and legs but basically it's a very spiritual experience. It's part of me and a second nature to me. You can say it is in my blood.
Madhuri Dixit
#45. 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
#46. In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.
Bill W.
#47. When I went on this trip I had a sexual/spiritual experience with a creature named Lucifer.
Tori Amos
#48. The teachings of ECK define the nature of Soul. You are Soul, a particle of God sent into this world to gain spiritual experience.
Paul Twitchell
#49. The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience.
Henryk Skolimowski
#50. Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer's life with truth.
Watchman Nee
#51. The waking dreams of life as most people know them are spiritual experiences, but there is another order of spiritual experience and that's to be in the garden of the heart, in the perfect stillness, where the white light of eternity meets the white light of eternity.
Frederick Lenz
#52. I feel connected to a higher power when I'm making music or performing. There's a spiritual experience for me.
Laura Bell Bundy
#53. But ultimately there is no good reason for our suffering, for in every love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we come to spiritual experience.
Paulo Coelho
#54. To me, theater is a spiritual experience. Probably the reason I do theater is it, I guess, comes the closest to feeling like God, or to feeling a spiritual experience that people can have together.
Kate Arrington
#55. More than ever I find myself in the hands of God. This (illness) is what I have wanted all my life from my youth. But now there is a difference; the initiative is entirely with God. It is indeed a profound spiritual experience to know and feel myself so totally in God's hands.
Pedro Arrupe
#56. I may not receive any new insights and God may not feel particularly close. This has taught me that the demand for spiritual experience can be as gluttonous as the desire for food, money, or sex. Desire for spiritual highs needs to be contained so that we can develop other parts of our being.
Gary L. Thomas
#57. The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.
Oswald Chambers
#58. Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#59. What makes us happy is to have a spiritual experience ... that experience of ecstasy in the deepest meditation; that's happiness.
Frederick Lenz
#60. Most of the songs are, in a roundabout way, actually addressed to myself, there's a certain aspect of the songs that's very confessional, very unadulterated ... It was a very unfettered, spiritual experience.
Alanis Morissette
#61. I've always felt that spiritual experience is dropping the illusion that we're not. Growing up at Londolozi nourished that sense in me from my earliest years. Mom and Dad often had to visit with the guests in
Boyd Varty
#62. I believe that the 'dark night of the soul' is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and perseverance. It helps to know that others have endured a loss of faith.
Julia Cameron
#63. There is a difference in just attending the temple and having a rich spiritual experience. The real blessings of the temple come as we enhance our temple experience. To do so, we must feel a spirit of reverence for the temple and a spirit of worship.
L. Lionel Kendrick
#64. Matter is fun for a while; but ultimately, it is the spiritual experience where we leap beyond what we know- that is the happiness.
Frederick Lenz
#65. We're far more than just physical beings having a spiritual experience. We're spiritual beings having a temporary physical experience.
Ted Dekker
#66. Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs.
Terence McKenna
#67. The closest thing I have to a spiritual experience anymore is a Mocha Frappe from McDonald's.
Laura A. Lord
#68. Organised religion generally gets in the way of spiritual experience.
Alan McCluskey
#69. Self dedication is a spiritual experience.
Cesar Chavez
#70. I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'
David O. Russell
#71. Religious structure often dilutes the spiritual experience.
Steve Maraboli
#72. Religion is the organized attempt to understand spiritual experience, to interpret it with words and concepts, and to use this interpretation as the source of moral guidelines for the religious community.
Fritjof Capra
#73. The sad fact is that biblical truth has never been the hallmark of the Charismatic Movement, where spiritual experience is continually elevated above sound doctrine.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#74. Christ was the first feminist and because of that I've learned from his teaching to call myself a Christian feminist, adding that her faith is not a matter of traditions and dogmas but, rather, a spiritual experience.
Jane Fonda
#75. Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith.
Jane Goodall
#76. I am not looking for a thing; I am searching for a spiritual experience.
Daniel Klein
#77. Bread pudding makes me weak. I have been known to be moved to tears by cookies and ice cream, and ribs are a spiritual experience for me.
Bill Rancic
#78. No man who has lived through a temporary spiritual experience is ever likely to forget it. His days will be haunted until he sets out to seek ways and means of repeating it.
Paul Brunton
#79. I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that.
Patty Griffin
#80. Atheists maintain that spiritual experience is purely subjective, with no basis in a reality outside of the subject.
Robert Todd Carroll
#81. When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.
Gael Garcia Bernal
#82. Do you think it's possible that when we're on something like marijuana or mushrooms and we believe we're having a really spiritual experience that we're just high?
Bill Maher
#83. Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may be able to master and to rule them, and in later ages take his place in the creative and directing hierarchies of the universe.
Annie Besant
#84. When we understand the illusory nature of life and the profound power of eternal love, which enables us to create miracles and experience the presence of our deceased loved ones, we find ourselves living with joy, hope and peace.
Susan Barbara Apollon
#85. The moral and spiritual individuality comes here to live a painful adventure, full of frustrations, a dramatic experience of living in foreign lands, dominated by a constant, painful feeling of absence from its true home; a feeling of nostalgia, thirst and lack of fulfilment.
Paul Amadeus Dienach
#86. I think of myself as a highly spiritual person, but without - I was never really given a religion or a religious experience or a community to sort of subscribe to.
James Taylor
#88. What is any religion? A little ritual, a little superstition, and some magic. It's not a strictly spiritual affair; it has psychological roles to fulfill. You might not want it to be a religion based on your own experience but that's like wanting to clean up your dreams
Gary Snyder
#89. Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.
Deepak Chopra
#91. You are an infinite spiritual being having a temporary human experience.
Wayne W. Dyer
#92. When pastors don't have rich spiritual lives with Christ, they become victimized by other models of success - models conveyed to them by their training, by their experience in the church, or just by our culture.
Dallas Willard
#93. We must come with great expectation--for we will experience just what we expect.
Barbara Hughes
#94. If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use in reporting religious experience, as "spiritual life," "God," "soul," "cross," etc., and if they could not find new ones next week, they might remain silent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#95. The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.
Wayne Dyer
#96. The belief that a personal life exists apart from God creates experience disconnected from God. This is painful and frustrating. Our spiritual work is to break down the illusion that we have a life here and that a life of God is somewhere else.
Michael Beckwith
#97. When you experience permanent bliss of the Self (samadhi), then it will be considered that your entire work is completed.
Dada Bhagwan
#98. It must never be forgotten that the purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous is to sober up alcoholics. There is no religious or spiritual requirement for membership. No demands are made on anyone. An experience is offered which members may accept or reject. That is up to them.
Bill W.
#99. 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
#100. The venerable teachers, philosophers & spiritual practitioners throughout history have concluded that the greatest happiness we can experience comes from the development of an open, loving heart.
Allan Lokos
