C. S. Lewis Quotes

I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak if you try to.

I'm actually very spiritual.

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.

When you get to a higher level of consciousness, though, when you get into a spiritual approach to life, you are not trying to get someplace else...

Listen to the inner light; it will guide you. Listen to inner peace; it will feed you. Listen to inner love; it will transform you, it will divinise you, it will immortalise you.

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his finger on the pulse of the great secret and the great answer.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

To be awake is to be fully present, no noise, just you and God. Most of us only have seconds of full consciousness. To live in a state of Samadhi - that's what we're here for.

The word spiritual, not the word religious, is the key.

In my state of spiritual abstraction, I no longer belong to myself and to my eyesight. I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and summits.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this.

The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.

Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God.

Is sobriety all that we are to expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only a bare beginning; it is only the first gift of the first awakening. If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. As it does go on, we find that bit by bit we can discard the old life - the one that did not work - for a new life that can and does work under any conditions whatever.

Godliness is the fragrance of the man who has attained enlightenment.

The Ascension is actually the birth of the Inner You expressed as the spiritual individualism of the inner particle state.

Yoga is the journey from just eating and sleeping to becoming an ecstatic being. This is the aspiration of life itself.

The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.

The most important aspect of being on a spiritual path may be to just keep moving.

It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.

I'm not religious, but I am spiritual and I am creating my own practice.

Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow-to let the Self die. No longer to be Self, to experience the peace of an emptied heart, to experience pure thought-that was his goal.