Spiritual Senses Quotes

#1. Intuition is the gift of knowing, hearing, feeling, or seeing through our spiritual senses.

Catherine Carrigan

#2. God encounters are to occur and continue throughout the life of a believer, constantly bringing each of us into a higher level of spiritual consciousness, constantly sharpening our spiritual senses, constantly challenging our complacency and status quo mentality.

Robin Bertram

#3. We've been proceeding so long on the plane of consciousness, we don't realize we are spiritual beings. Our minds, our senses, and the society around us all say, "Come on, you're getting into fantasy."

Ram Dass

#4. The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest is on another level altogether, Spiritual wine has a subtler taste. The intellect and the senses investigate cause and effect. The spiritual seeker surrenders to the wonder.

Rumi

#5. Give up all desire for enjoyment in earth or heaven. Control the organs of the senses and control the mind. Bear every misery without even knowing that you are miserable. Think of nothing but spiritual freedom.

Swami Vivekananda

#6. When you desire to gratify your senses, that is material life. And when you desire to serve God, that is spiritual life. That is the difference between material life and spiritual life. Now

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

#7. It takes spiritual authority to bless others. Many Christians say, "God bless you," but one clearly senses that although the words express a kind wish, they lack real spiritual authority.

Basilea Schlink

#8. A mystical symphony permeates my senses and a holy lullaby embraces me.

Earthschool Harmony

#9. Everything that is experienced through the five senses is all 'discharge'. It is due to one's merit karmas that everything works according to one's wishes, but he claims, 'I did it' and when one faces losses, he will say, 'God did it' or 'my horoscope is unfavorable'.

Dada Bhagwan

#10. As long as one sees faults with the world, he prevails in the knowledge of the senses. The inner purification has not yet occurred in him.

Dada Bhagwan

#11. Shutting out all external objects, fixing the vision between the eyebrows, making even the inward and outward breaths, the sage who has controlled the senses, mind and understanding, who is intent upon liberation, who has cast away desire, fear and anger, he is ever freed.

The Bhagavad Gita

#12. The hand is defined as "the organ of apprehension." How perfectly the definition fits my case in both senses of the word "apprehend"! With my hand I seize and hold all that I find in the three worlds - physical, intellectual, and spiritual.

Helen Keller

#13. They have science, but science contains nothing that does not come through the senses. The spiritual world, the nobler side of man's being, has been rejected altogether, banned as it were triumphantly, perhaps even with hatred.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#14. There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

Franz Kafka

#15. Between beauty of expression and power of expression there is a difference of function. The first aims at pleasing the senses, the second has a spiritual vitality which for me is more moving and goes deeper than the senses.

Henry Moore

#16. How are we tending to the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual sides to the 'vehicle' of our life...our body.

This garden needs constant care and constant growth to stay alive and healthy in all possible senses

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#17. Imagination is the organ through which the soul within us recognizes a soul without us; the spiritual eye by which the mind perceives and converses with the spiritualities of nature under her material forms; which tends to exalt even the senses into soul by discerning a soul in the objects of sense.

Henry Norman Hudson

#18. There are two aspects to this world; even though it is fickle, it is within principle. Through the medium of the five senses and intellectual knowledge, it appears fickle and through 'Gnan' (Real Knowledge) it appears to be within principle.

Dada Bhagwan

#19. There were in it metaphors as monstrous as orchids, and as subtle in color. The life of the senses was
described in the terms of mystical philosophy. One hardly knew at times whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of some medieval saint or the
morbid confessions of a modern sinner.

Charlotte Bronte

#20. For the senses wander, and when one lets the mind follow them, it carries wisdom away like a windblown ship on the waters.

Anonymous

#21. Human skin is porous; the world flows through you. Your senses are large pores that let the world in. By being attuned to the wisdom of your senses, you will never become an exile in your own life, an outsider lost in an external spiritual place that your will and intellect, have constructed.

John O'Donohue

#22. Some believe that art is the imitation of nature; in fact, nature is so sublime that it cannot be imitated. However noble it may be, art cannot perform a single one of the miracles of nature. And besides, why imitate nature when it can be perceived by all those endowed with senses?

Kahlil Gibran

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. Around the circle eyes began to glisten as Carol's awe of the Gospel laid bare the shame of those of us whose senses had been dulled to its wonder.

Barbara Hughes

#26. The key is to find your own personal spiritual balance."

from "Living Beyond the Five Senses

Teresa DeCicco

#27. As attention to the warning of the physical senses will preserve the health of our body, so attention to the warnings of our inner senses will forewarn and forearm against the influences that are hostile to spiritual life.

F.B. Meyer

#28. The moment we notice our thoughts is one of the most transformative experiences we can have.

Teresa DeCicco

#29. The animal has its happiness in the senses, the human beings in their intellect, and the gods in spiritual contemplation. It is only to the soul that has attained to this contemplative state that the world really becomes beautiful.

Swami Vivekananda

#30. Worldly things (laukik) are perceived through the senses (indriya-gamya). That, which is beyond the world (alaukik), is perceived [through the knowledge which is] beyond the senses (atindriya-gamya).

Dada Bhagwan

#31. Everyone claims to be okay with freedom of religion, but the moment you mention God there is a strange tension that fills the air. If there was a 6th sense, that would be it.

Criss Jami

#32. Knowledge of the [five] senses (indriya gnan) creates all kinds of intents. Knowledge beyond senses (ati-indriya gnan) doesn't allow any intent to occur!

Dada Bhagwan

#33. As much longing for worldly happiness (of 5 senses) there is, that much less is the spiritual development.

Dada Bhagwan

#34. To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.

Alan Watts

#35. Akasha is a Sanskit word for "primary substance" which pertains the quality of light in a person's spiritual and physical senses.

Hema Malini