Top 100 Spiritual Reality Quotes
#1. The more high technology around us, the more the need for human touch ... HighTech/High Touch. The principle symbolizes the need for balance between our physical and spiritual reality.
John Naisbitt
#2. Only what coronation is in an earthly way, baptism is in a heavenly way; God's authoritative declaration in material form of a spiritual reality.
Frederick William Robertson
#3. And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality .
Hans Hofmann
#4. I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.
Cat Stevens
#6. The important correction needed by worldly religions is the transformation from external religious teaching to truthful internal spiritual reality.
Hua Ching Ni
#7. How could you possibly know that no religion can see the whole truth unless you yourself have the superior, comprehensive knowledge of spiritual reality you just claimed non of the religions have?
Timothy Keller
#8. God has communicated to man, the infinite to the finite. The One who made man capable of language in the first place has communicated to man in language about both spiritual reality and physical reality, about the nature of God and the nature of man.
Francis Schaeffer
#9. For Judaism, God is not a Kantian idea but an elementally present spiritual reality - neither something conceived by pure reason nor something postulated by practical reason, but emanating from the immediacy of existence as such, which religious man steadfastly confronts and nonreligious man evades.
Martin Buber
#10. The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.
N. Scott Momaday
#11. A college which does not confer the knowledge of the Spiritual Reality to the students who are engaged in the pursuit of various material studies, is as barren as the sky without the moon, or a heart without peace, or a nation without reference to law.
Sai Baba
#12. After Galileo, Einstein and even Freud, we try to hang onto a pathetic sort of significance on this planet and in this universe, that we are in some way more special than anything else. Our supreme arrogance that in some way the world was created for us has neither scientific nor spiritual reality.
David Brandon
#13. It is not only the proclamation of the whole truth that is needed today; it is the release of the spiritual reality which the truth expresses, and that can only be realized as we allow ourselves to be caught into the mighty on-flowing tide of the Spirit.
Watchman Nee
#14. The body is a field of ideas and it is a field of interpretations and when you change your experience of your own identity to a spiritual being, the body expresses the physical manifestation of that spiritual reality.
Deepak Chopra
#15. In the spiritual reality of the church, neither Marcel Lefebvre, nor his bishops and priests, nor the people who frequent the SSPX chapels suffered or suffer excommunication. I believe history will record that the intent to impose such an excommunication was invalid and illicit.
Malachi Martin
#16. It's as if the universe has a sense of humor, since at a deep level it's impossible not to lead a spiritual life ...
the universe is living through you at this moment. with or without belief in god, the chain of events leading from silent awareness to physical reality remains intact.
Deepak Chopra
#17. We create our own reality. The blessing (or problem) with this is that when one creates one's own reality, one must live it! Are you living a blessing or is it a curse?
Gary R. Ryan
#18. If 'one' really were the sufferer or the enjoyer, then he would get tired. But the Self in reality is not experiencing anything. He simply does egoism only.
Dada Bhagwan
#19. Trying to change social, national, or global realities without working on human consciousness means there is no serious intention.
Jaggi Vasudev
#20. When contemplating a work of art it is possible to perceive if it has been created according to the eye or to the spirit, in other words, if it projects three-dimensional reality or spiritual n-dimensionality.
Theo Van Doesburg
#22. 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
#23. He is so used to living a purely spiritual life that he cannot reconcile himself to realities, and, after all, Varenka is a reality!
Leo Tolstoy
#24. Authentic spiritual authority is what puts you in touch with reality.
John Ortberg
#25. 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
#26. You may tell me that my hand and foot are only imaginary symbols of my existence. I could believe you, but you never, never can convince me that the I is not an eternal reality, and that the spiritual is not the true and real part of me.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#27. Peace does not demand that everyone like or want the same reality.
Alaric Hutchinson
#28. The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.
Abbas Kiarostami
#29. Spiritual growth is more than procedure, it's a wild search for God in the midst of the tangled jungle of our souls, a search for which involves a volatile mix of messy reality, wild freedom, frustrating stuckness, increasing slowness and a healthy dose of gratitude
Mike Yaconelli
#30. Spirituality is not primarily about values and ethics, not about exhortations to do right or live well. The spiritual traditions are primarily about reality ... an effort to penetrate the illusions of the external world and to name its underlying truth.
Parker J. Palmer
#31. 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
#32. The sensation that allows you to experience the physical reality, when detached from the physical body allows you to realize life beyond the physical reality.
Roshan Sharma
#33. Most religious individuals do not conceive God in an anthropomorphic or angry way. Rather, in their personal psychological domain of religious or spiritual beliefs, they conceive God in more abstract, spiritual and merciful way.
Abhijit Naskar
#34. Your ideas need not have anything to do with reality. Making conclusions is a sure way of not enhancing our perception.
Jaggi Vasudev
#35. When you understand that [in reality] the bitter fruit [unfavourable result] is sweet and the sweet fruit [favourable result] is bitter, then you will go to moksha [the ultimate liberation]!
Dada Bhagwan
#36. 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
#38. Accepting the reality of our broken, flawed lives is the beginning of spirituality not because the spiritual life will remove our flaws but because we let go of seeking perfection and, instead, seek God, the one who is present in the tangledness of our lives.
Mike Yaconelli
#39. Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual demands that reality cannot fulfill. We have expectations of a just and moral world. Man requires meaning in a meaningless world.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#40. In the search for reality, energy creates its own discipline. But mere discipline, without full comprehension of all this, has no meaning, it is a most destructive thing.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#41. In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
John Ortberg
#42. Faith is actually spiritual defiance. It is righteous rebellion against your own "messed up" reality.
William H. Curtis
#43. The plants that produce visions can function- for those of us who have inherited the New World Order of barren materialism, cut off from our spiritual heritage by a spiteful culture that gives us nothing but ashes- as the talismans of recognition that awaken our minds to reality.
Daniel Pinchbeck
#45. Dreams can only become reality when they are sought after with the spirit of boldness.
Ellen J. Barrier
#46. Acceptance of ignorance (of reality) is the true knowledge path.
Dada Bhagwan
#47. Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of the senses worn out in selfish use, and flying "swifter than a weaver's shuttle," or an ascension of the soul, by daily duties and unfaltering faith, to more spiritual relations and to loftier toils.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#48. ...the Christian life in its fullness is far more than being active in a Christian community, affirming a certain set of beliefs or adopting a particular behavior pattern. These are a secondary result of the primary reality of a life engaged in an ever deepening union with God in love.
M. Robert Mulholland Jr.
#49. Spiritual life is absolute reality. Krishna is real but we have lost the ability to realize him.
Bhakti Charu Swami
#50. Our reality is colored by our vibration and belief systems. In other words, the experiences we have in the world with other people are dictated by the energy we bring with us wherever we go.
Alaric Hutchinson
#51. Leave greatness to others. Become so small that no one can see you. This conviction results from growing devotion to the supreme reality.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#52. If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.
Eckhart Tolle
#53. Everything is just electricity and magnetism; everything is only an illusion. The reality is in the spiritual plane.
Lobsang Rampa
#54. Never allow dogmatic interpretations of Karma to keep you from defending what is right or just. You must accept the reality that on occasion, you may very well be the proper instrument of this cosmic force.
Gary Hopkins
#55. If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#57. When Ruben talked about spiritual freedom and self-awareness and how to change your reality, it wasn't with mystical grandeur. He spoke very practically. He talked about the body as a machine and the brain as the software that ran the machine.
Ruben Papian
#58. Truth will screw with you every which way, before it lets you to be anywhere near itself.
Fakeer Ishavardas
#59. All beliefs will crash somewhere. Only reality will sustain itself.
Jaggi Vasudev
#60. In reality, the outer instruments (hands, feet, eyes, etc) are not the hindrance (for liberation); it is the inner instrument (mind, intellect, chit and ego) that is obstructive.
Dada Bhagwan
#61. I believe in the transformative power of cinema. It is only through this shared dream-experience that we can transcend the oppressive minutiae of daily existence and find some spiritual connection in the deeper reality of our mutual desire.
Daniel Clowes
#63. Devotion means your limited entity has been dissolved; a much larger possibility has become a living reality for you.
Jaggi Vasudev
#64. He (God) is right and always has been, because in reality God is only love.
Deepak Chopra
#65. I would call myself a Gnostic. Which means, I'm interested in pursuing and understanding the spiritual nature of things. A Gnostic is somebody seeking knowledge of that aspect of reality.
Robert Crumb
#66. Have faith in 'What Is'. You will get your due, good or not so good, to your liking or not, but in time, as it is meant to be.
Fakeer Ishavardas
#67. You've got this guy who refuses to die for some reason whether it be a physical or metaphysical reason or spiritual reason so you can do anything. You can kill off anybody and you can still bring them back because he's kind of half there and half in reality, you know?
Josh Brolin
#68. Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?
Rumi
#69. Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.
Jimmy Carter
#70. Goodness, generosity, or love does not come into being save through the search for reality.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#71. The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#72. Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They determine the way in which we use or squander our energy, time, and land resources.
Leon Krier
#73. A weak man is not as happy as that same man would be if he were strong. This reality is offensive to some people who would like the intellectual or spiritual to take precedence. It is instructive to see what happens to these very people as their squat strength goes up.
Mark Rippetoe
#74. As men and women we need to occupy our space as Kings and Queens; move into our new reality. It only requires mindset.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#75. A spiritual kingdom lies all about us, enclosing us, embracing us, altogether within reach of our inner selves, waiting for us to recognize it. God Himself is here waiting our response to His Presence. This eternal world will come alive to us the moment we begin to reckon upon its reality.
A.W. Tozer
#76. The only permanent solution to your problems is to go inside and let go of the part of you that seems to have so many problems with reality. Once you do that, you'll be clear enough to deal with what's left.
Michael Singer
#77. The way to Elfin is found on the path
That weaves through the Misty Forest
That lives between the Mountain of Vision
And the River of Reality
The Silver Elves
#78. Man, as a spiritual being, cannot be maintained in strength, uprightness, and peace except if he periodically withdraw himself from the outer world of perishable things and reach inwardly towards the abiding and imperishable realities.
James Allen
#79. Most of us are used to thinking that "imaginary" is the opposite of "real." That is, when we imagine things, we are just making them up. In the spiritual life, though, there are some realities that cannot manifest unless we begin by imagining them.
Linda Bender
#80. To see through the illusion of duality, remember that fear and darkness have no substance in themselves, for they do not indicate the presence of a second universal force, but are only names given to the one Light unperceived.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#81. What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.
Keith Miller
#82. A wise man loves any kind of work, be it spiritual, physical or intellectual
Sunday Adelaja
#84. Yeah, I love your hateful messiahs and gods, as I cherish all idiots, and mad dogs.
Fakeer Ishavardas
#85. Do not give up when touching the Door of Awareness, you meet its Mindfulness Magic, but let it open wide giving your family a possibility to Create Reality of Your Dreams.
Natasa Nuit Pantovic
#86. I believe that my father had some kind of direct experience of the spiritual nature of reality, maybe a vision, that he tried to convey perhaps unconsciously in his work- that there is a different, more loving and transcendent reality beyond this world of imagined conflicts.
Lisa Henson
#87. I tell you about a fact and truth. In physical reality of matter,
there's no such thing as an imaginary spirit nor spiritual ghost.
They are also made of matter, but totally different in size and
laws of physics which rule their life and the way they interact.
Toba Beta
#88. This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests.
Bede Griffiths
#89. Seeing all life
in perfect symmetry.
Perceiving each day
with righteous clarity.
Living each moment
in purposed reality.
Believing each day
is the start of eternity.
S. Tarr
#90. To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual.
Piet Mondrian
#91. Art is mainly about wrestling with material reality, not striving after a spiritual ideal.
Calvin Seerveld
#92. We must have a spiritual rebirth. We must be born out of the belief in externalities into the belief of inner realities, out of the belief that we are separated from God, into the belief that we are part of a Unitary Wholeness.
Ernest Holmes
#93. we recognize the fundamental reality behind all spiritual belief is the thought that 'everybody is Lord' then the opinion of the Character is essentially the same to any person who in their behavior and impact up on the Planet, shows the divine and transcendent to the earthly plane.
Stella Stone
#94. There are times that people can be so blinded by what they want IT to be, that whatever reality they perceieve it SHOULD be, they lose.
Jared Matthew Kessler
#95. After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards and regain your ignorance; you have to move forward.
Zeena Schreck
#96. I think that grief is a profound spiritual, metaphysical, and - oddly - physical reckoning with death, which we don't understand well. It's both the process by which you relearn the world in the absence of someone who was a pillar in it, and the process in which you confront the reality of death.
Meghan O'Rourke
#97. One can be a full-fledged Christian and at the same time, enjoy the reality of a universal spiritual truth.
Elizabeth Lesser
#98. 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
#100. In reality, psychiatric diagnosing is a kind of spiritual profiling that can destroy lives and frequently does.
Peter Breggin
