Spiritual Teaching Quotes

#1. Spiritual teaching must always be by symbols.

Mary Baker Eddy

#2. I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.

Marianne Williamson

#3. Some form of suffering often brings about a readiness. One can say it cracks open the shell of the egoic mind with which many people identify as "me." Life cracks open that shell, and once that crack is there, then we are reached more easily by spiritual teaching.

Eckhart Tolle

#4. Every spiritual teaching points to the possibility of the end of suffering - Now. It is true that most teachers have had to go through the "Dark Night of the Soul," although for one or two it was very, very quick.

Eckhart Tolle

#5. So I went off on my own and started the process of spiritual teaching.

Frederick Lenz

#6. Often suffering is the trigger, or a spiritual teaching, or both. Call it readiness, or grace. This is the beginning of the awakening process.

Eckhart Tolle

#7. With any spiritual teaching, we are working with rounded-off truths, because we cannot work directly with the whole truth - it's too big.

Shepherd Hoodwin

#8. If the only teacher you have is your suffering, you will need a substantial dose of it for the ego to dissolve. But if the power of spiritual teaching is already at work, then a minor event can dissolve the ego.

Eckhart Tolle

#9. Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life's biggest questions,
but actually, the opposite is true.
The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to
answer your questions, but to question your answers.

Adyashanti

#10. Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.

Eckhart Tolle

#11. The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'

Neale Donald Walsch

#12. The Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit. To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.

Akkineni Nagarjuna

#13. Nature will teach us many lessons if we take the time to visit her classroom.

Donald L. Hicks

#14. When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth.

William H. Hunt

#15. I always say, don't be a Christian, be Christ-like. Don't be a Muslim, be Mohammed-like. Be Buddha-like. Emulate these great spiritual Masters and what they were teaching.

Wayne Dyer

#16. The sum and substance of my teaching is this: Don't be dishonest to your vital breath; worship that only, abide in that only, accept it as yourself. And when you worship in this manner, it can lead you anywhere, to any heights- this is the quintessence of my talks.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#17. "Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no spiritual teacher left.

Eckhart Tolle

#18. Gardening can become a spiritual exercise, teaching us discernment as we eliminate the weeds from our lives, giving what we value room to grow.

Diane Dreher

#19. Buddhas continue to live on through their teachings as dharma bodies. Their spirits become manifest in the sangha (spiritual community) where their teachings are passed on.

Shinjo Ito

#20. I'm appalled that an industry has grown around teaching a practice as wholesome and spiritual as yoga, so I decided to create my own free video to help people get started.

Andrew Mason

#21. Great spiritual teachings do not change, but we do. As we grow older and wiser, we can receive the teachings at deeper levels.

Marianne Williamson

#22. Any teaching will not transform you as long as you are deeply attached to your body. Yoga is towards reducing this attachment.

Jaggi Vasudev

#23. When I came to the West, I realized there was much hunger for spiritual teachings, but no environment for spirituality.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#24. If you are still thinking of yourself as two parts - soul and body, then you will inevitably confuse your psychological reactions with your spiritual life, and this is not only confusing to the understanding, but it can actually, in this very psychological age, lead you into real false teaching.

Dennis J. Bennett

#25. It is my conviction that there is perhaps no single factor more important in a spiritual home and in building spiritual strength in our children than the teaching and practice of prayer.

Belle S. Spafford

#26. 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

#27. As the eye of the body once put out, can never be restored by the creature's art, so neither can the spiritual eye lost by Adam's sin be restored by the teaching of men or angels. It is one of the diseases which Christ came to cure.

William Gurnall

#28. To forget is to render the pages of history as entirely blank, and the lessons of history as never taught.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#29. Although all spiritual teachings originate from the same Source, once they become verbalized and written down they are obviously no more than a collection of words-and a word is nothing more than a signpost ...

Eckhart Tolle

#30. Even Satan can quote scripture out of context why are we surprised when men do it.

Gary Rohrmayer

#31. I went to Catholic school for 12 years and went to church every Sunday. I may not do that anymore but I think it gave me a good basis. I've also explored things on my own different philosophies and spiritual teachings and I use what works for me.

Jennifer Lopez

#32. People always form images of who others are, and they can be inflated images. People may not realize that the enormous energy and spiritual power that comes through a teacher, especially in a teaching situation, has nothing to do with that person.

Eckhart Tolle

#33. The important correction needed by worldly religions is the transformation from external religious teaching to truthful internal spiritual reality.

Hua Ching Ni

#34. The Lord Buddha was once asked by a disciple to sum up the whole of His teaching in one verse. He replied: Cease to do evil; Learn to do well; Cleanse your own heart; This is the religion of the Buddha.

Arthur E. Powell

#35. How can we give if there is nothing there? ... Support and understanding cannot come from the emotionally starved. Teaching cannot come from the unlearned. And most important of all, spiritual guidance cannot come from the spiritually weak.

Marion G. Romney

#36. Necessity demands that one should carefully examine who it is that comes to the position of spiritual authority; and coming solemnly to this point, how he should live; and living well, how he should teach; and teaching rightly, with what kind of self-examination he should learn of his own weakness.

Gregory The Great

#37. You have to begin to develop a repertory of jokes, multi-plane spiritual jokes, the sort of things the Zen masters tell each other when they're asleep. These are the secret teachings.

Frederick Lenz

#38. Secondly, if we continue to view ourselves as moral lepers and spiritual failures, if our lives are shadowed by low self-esteem, shame, remorse, unhealthy guilt, and self-hatred, we reject the teaching of Jesus and cling to our negative self-image. In

Brennan Manning

#39. 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

#40. The teaching process becomes most interesting for spiritual seekers once they've managed to hit the lower samadhis. However at that point many seekers become very egotistical.

Frederick Lenz

#41. 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

#42. It is part of the amazing originality of Christ that there is to be found in his teaching no word whatever which suggests a difference in the spiritual ideals, the spheres, or the potentialities of men and women.

Maude Royden

#43. We are always learning from each others. Only when we merge inside God would we stop learning. We will understand more as we teach others, so we rely on teaching in order to learn for ourselves.

Baba Hari Dass

#44. I think science and spirituality are one and the same, I don't think they're really different ... quantum physics is validating all kinds of spiritual teachings.

Jennifer Beals

#45. Spiritual learners too slowly graduate like students of normal education. If you are mentally elevated, you can grasp and appreciate complex teachings.

Girdhar Joshi

#46. The words of the Lord are found in the scriptures and the teachings of the apostles and prophets. They provide us counsel and direction that, when followed, will act like a spiritual life jacket and will help us know how to hold on with both hands.

M. Russell Ballard

#47. Educators are spiritual beings - we are on earth to make a difference.

Holly Elissa Bruno

#48. No matter what I write or speak about, it always has some connection to how our spiritual understanding impacts the world we live in. Whether I'm writing or teaching about nutrition, pilates, green living or meditation, all topics simmer down to self thought and intention.

Marianne Williamson

#49. Nearly all spiritual practices are based on attention. In fact, whenever you think you have lost the path, or whenever you feel confused by esoteric terminology or technique, remember that all these techniques or teachings are various ways to help you learn to pay attention.

Rick Fields

#50. Somewhere in the back of every child's conscious, lies the teaching of Spiritual Guidance, when it has been taught.

Ellen J. Barrier

#51. The author charted the importance of human examples on his spiritual journey, confessing that when harsh and domineering people based their bullying on Christ's authority, he rebelled. But when his wife represented the gracefulness of Christ's character, he was drawn back to know Christ more fully.

Don Wilton

#52. To me it seemed that the teaching of God's Word was unmistakably clear: 'Owe no man anything.' To borrow money implied to my mind a contradiction of Scripture
a confession that God had withheld some good thing, and determination to get for ourselves what He had not given.

James Hudson Taylor

#53. A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time.

Eckhart Tolle

#54. The Awakened One sees the observer and the observed as one. The unawakened one sees the observer and the observed as different.

Sri Amma Bhagwan.