Top 100 Spiritual Mind Quotes
#1. The spiritual mind is always metaphorical. Spiritual thinking is poetic thinking. It's always trying to put a very diaphanous experience into words, realizing all the while that words are inadequate.
Sam Keen
#2. The red man divided mind into two parts, - the spiritual mind and the physical mind.
Charles Eastman
#3. To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.
Marianne Williamson
#4. No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
Michel De Montaigne
#5. Your spiritual mind is greater than your physical mind.
Asa Don Brown
#6. Certainty is the culprit. The spiritual person knows uncertainty - a state of mind unknown to the religious fanatic.
Anthony De Mello
#7. The goal of our lives should be nothing less that becoming so familiar with the "mind of Christ" that we could write Jesus' speeches.
Clare De Graaf
#8. Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#9. The source of your mind is love and whatever you do to go to that source, is spiritual practice.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#12. We live in a world of breathtaking material plenty. That has freed hundreds of millions of people from day-to-day struggles and liberated us to pursue more significant desires: purpose, transcendence, and spiritual fulfillment.
Daniel H. Pink
#13. True healing is not physical - it is a spiritual awakening to our True Self. If art is used for that purpose then it can be quite healing as it purifies the mind of thoughts that create disease.
Judith Cornell
#14. The control of your mind is most important, and it will be worth your while. You must think deeply. Clear your mind of all bad, unwanted thoughts
William O'Brien
#15. The idea that I could work wonders as the Lord flutters through my mind like a glamorous butterfly. I hasten to catch it, but it escapes into the depths of my mind.
Stefan Emunds
#16. [Takashi] Murakami, do you think he is spiritual? He is more like de-spiritualized. De-spiritualized might be the most contemporary aspect of the human mind.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#18. 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
#19. Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education.
Charlotte M. Mason
#20. Read the Scripture to renew your mind.
Mediate on the Scripture to nourish your soul.
Affirm the Scripture to revive your spirit
Lailah Gifty Akita
#21. Leaving your ears open to the suggestions of others only closes the mind's eye, thereby creating a type of spiritual glaucoma.
Janeane Garofalo
#22. Each successive period of progress is a period more humane and spiritual. The only logical conclusion is that all is Mind and its manifestation, from the rolling of worlds, in the most subtle ether, to a potato-patch.
Mary Baker Eddy
#23. 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
#24. Isn't there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don't believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than on its virtues!
Margaret Deland
#25. When I ache to live, my mind loves to stay with the peaceful whiteness of a pigeon's care...in boundless amity..
Munia Khan
#27. You would think as you get older your mind would fill up with what they call the spiritual side of things, but mine just seems to get more and more practical, trying to get something settled.
Alice Munro
#28. The mind doesn't harass you; your attachment-abhorrence harasses you!
Dada Bhagwan
#30. Any time you think limitation it is not spiritual or god based,
Frank Healy
#31. Letting go of anger is the best way to find peace of mind, a healthier pain-free body, and an indomitable spirit.
Charles F. Glassman
#33. 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
#34. What is joy? Joy is nothing but the Self. When desires are fulfilled, the mind is stilled. This allows the Self to shine forth and that is what we call joy.
Lester Levenson
#35. Just as the Word of God is used in conversion, so it is a critical instrument in our spiritual growth. By immersing ourselves in the Word of God, we begin to gain the mind of Christ and learn what discipleship is.
In
R.C. Sproul
#36. For the senses wander, and when one lets the mind follow them, it carries wisdom away like a windblown ship on the waters.
Anonymous
#37. The mind is not the one that harasses you, it is the attachment-abhorrence that harasses you. It is because of the attachment-abhorrence that one has memory.
Dada Bhagwan
#38. It is demonstrable and observable that our morals are based on our earliest spiritual beliefs. Matters of the Mind in no small measure have reflected matters of the Soul.
Neale Donald Walsch
#39. Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!
Ram Dass
#40. I wish I could help everyone to understand this one simple fact: we believe in God because of things we know with our heart and mind, not because of things we do not know. Our spiritual experiences are sometimes too sacred to explain in worldly terms, but that doesn't mean they are not real.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#41. Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to help us to see in a new way by developing a stillness of mind and a strength of heart.
Jack Kornfield
#42. Inner peace doesn't have to be religious, spiritual, or impossible. It simply means you think and act with clarity and compassion--no longer conquered by the storms of the mind.
Janice Anderson
#43. Do you mind even a little that you are still addicted to people-pleasing, and are still putting everyone else's needs and laundry and career ahead of your creative, spiritual life? Giving all your life force away, to "help" and impress. Well, your help is not helpful, and falls short.
Anne Lamott
#44. Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
Ramana Maharshi
#45. People's mind becomes their boss and torments them. So what would become of the one who believes he can be the boss [control] of the mind of others?
Dada Bhagwan
#46. If you are pure in intention and in alignment with beauty and love, in body and mind, the highest levels of your spiritual self will subsume your weaknesses.
Bryant McGill
#47. Forgiveness is the fastest way to a spiritual path and inner peace of mind
Muhaya Haji Mohamad
#48. Spiritual formation is not about steps or stages on the way to perfection. It's about the movements from the mind to the heart through prayer in its many forms that reunite us with God, each other, and our truest selves.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#49. When does one become free from all tubers (of the mind)? When one becomes free of kashayas (anger-pride-deceit-greed). Kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) are tubers themselves.
Dada Bhagwan
#50. Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof.
Rumi
#51. I Can't Live without You. expresses the full meaning of true love. It is a beautiful and powerful emotion, words can never express, nor can the mind comprehend its connection within two souls.
Ellen J. Barrier
#54. The ego is like a clever monkey, which can co-opt anything, even the most spiritual practices, so as to expand itself. (155)
Jean-Yves Leloup
#55. The law of your mind is the law of belief. This means to believe in the way your mind works, to believe in belief itself.
Joseph Murphy
#56. 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
#57. The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge ...
Sri Aurobindo
#58. Imaginary (thinking) leads to bliss of the mind and the true (real thinking) leads to bliss of the Self (Soul).
Dada Bhagwan
#59. There is a spiritual godliness that drifts naturally through the affairs of man, but it is visible only if actions are undertaken and performed with that godliness in mind.
Stuart Wilde
#60. Only when the mind is tranquil-through self-knowledge and not through imposed self-discipline-only then, in that tranquillity, in that silence, can reality come into being. It is only then that there can be bliss, that there can be creative action.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#61. But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world of nature; the desacralization of politics from human affairs; and the deconsecration of values from the human mind and conduct.
Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas
#62. Mainly we obsess on fixing or pacifying the mind. I simply ask you to observe it from a place of neutrality.
Mooji
#63. We are born spiritual creatures, with a body to feel and a mind, to fathom the unknowable.
Nelly Mazloum
#64. The only thing better than a happy Heart is a clear mind to keep it pumping. Cleanse yourself from within and you're bound to win.
Stabley Victor Paskavich
#65. It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly.
Virginia Woolf
#66. Faith is the deep want of the soul. We have faculties for the spiritual, as truly as for the outward world. God, the foundation of all existence, may become to the mind the most real of all beings. The believer feels himself resting on an everlasting foundation.
William Henry Channing
#67. The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure and positive.
Jeanette Coron
#68. In spiritual terms, where ever your mind goes, that's where your soul follows.
Catherine Carrigan
#69. 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
#70. Peace of mind always precipitates peace on earth.
Phoenix
#71. Love the Creator with all your heart, all your soul and all your mind.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#72. Your ability to love, to reach out, and to experience life is limitless. The limitation is only of the body and mind.
Jaggi Vasudev
#73. You are all human but what makes, what makes you really really spiritual? What you are here for. What you are really here for? What you are really here for is to make a fundamental change upwards. It is simply crossing a border from one place in your mind to another. That's all.
Roy Masters
#74. The mind and the breath are the king and queen of human consciousness.
Leonard D. Orr
#75. Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.
Rumi
#76. Spiritual: Spirit uplifted, soul ennobled, mind peaceful, body healthful, these are gems of benevolent being. Fill your all, with them all.
Fahmy Attallah
#77. My will is free and connected to my Spirit. When I exercise my free will, I am calm, at peace and serene.
Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos
#78. Freedom lies outside the pattern of society; but to be free of that pattern you have to understand the whole content of it, which is to understand your own mind.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#79. Poetry can be the bridge, the crossover point in the mind between the physical and the spiritual. A place where the two can meet.
Don Pendleton
#80. Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, Emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up the batteries of spiritual energy. Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness.
Benjamin Hoff
#81. When we finally become present in our lives its as if we are seeing things for the first time.
Renae A. Sauter
#82. The power of God is with you at all times; through the activities of mind, senses, breathing, and emotions; and is constantly doing all the work using you as a mere instrument.
Anonymous
#84. The way in which the twists were entangled to knot up the mind-speech-body and the innate nature (relative self, prakruti), is the manner in which they will be untwisted.
Dada Bhagwan
#85. Keen intelligence is two-edged, It may be used constructively or destructively like a knife, either to cut the boil of ignorance, or to decapitate one's self. Intelligence is rightly guided only after the mind has acknowledged the inescapability of spiritual law.
Sri Yukteswar Giri
#86. Already at sixteen, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms: one spiritual, the other earthly.
Michelangelo
#87. All around the world, people believe that there is a great conflict between good and evil. Well, it's true that there's a conflict, but it only exists in the human mind.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#88. If you must be careless with your possessions, let it be in connection with material things. Your mind is your spiritual estate! Protect and use it with the care to which Divine Royalty is entitled. You were given a WILL-POWER for this purpose.
Napoleon Hill
#90. I didn't lose anyone, for everyone that I lost was never really a loss, unless it was death well then I had to have words with God.
Nikki Rowe
#91. Sometimes we miss our blessings in life because they do not arrive the way we think they should. Because our minds are so shallow, so limited, we think our blessings have to come a certain way and sometimes we miss them walking up and down the street. Open your mind: get your blessing.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#92. In order to know the Truth, you have to be out of your mind.
Vivian Amis
#93. The final bridge to cross is to let go of the mind-created 'spiritual' self. Burn that bridge behind you. Stay empty of self-image and cease looking back. Remain in the neutrality of being. That's it!
Mooji
#94. Without meditation, contemplation and skillful action, the anger lurking in your mind can become
the (d)anger within your life."
Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev)
Leonard Perlmutter
#95. 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
#96. Running is very spiritual for me. It is therapeutic; it clears my mind and helps me to focus.
Amy Locane
#97. 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
#98. If you truly want the universe to support you in becoming all you can be; be prepared for having any false supports removed from your life; leaving you standing as the warrior that you are.
Renae A. Sauter
#99. I was never pushed into the religion by my mother or anyone else. I made up my own mind when I was old enough. I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual.
Janet Jackson
#100. Everything originates first in the mind and all things are born there primarily. After the thought has occurred, manifestation happens.
Poonam Dhandhania
