Neal Shusterman Quotes

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

My soul is not a palace of the past.

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.

The final goal of all human endeavor is the development of the human soul.

The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.

Meditation was invented as a way for the soul to venture inward, there ultimately to find supreme identity with Godhead. Whatever else it does, and it does many beneficial things, meditation is first and foremost a search for the God within.

A lot of so-called Christian souls are not fine. People need to look inside themselves and look at the lives they're leading and fix themselves before they try to fix other people.

Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.

Those to whom worshiping is a window, to open but also to shut, have not yet visited the house of their souls whose windows are open from dawn to dawn.

God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.

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

Both heaven and hell are within us.

The other world is hidden in this world. The Buddha is asleep in the Zorba. It has to be awakened. And nobody can awaken you except life itself.

Meditation, perhaps, is the only alchemy that can transform a beggar into an emperor.

Soul development should take precedence over all things.

Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation.

Like the ocean is your god-self; It remains for ever undefiled. And like the ether it lifts but the winged. Even like the sun is your god-self; It knows not the ways of the mole nor seeks it the holes of the serpent. But your god-self does not dwell alone in your being. Much in you is still man, and much in you is not yet man, But a shapeless pigmy that walks asleep in the mist searching for its own awakening.

Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.

Enlightenment is not a complete remedy.

The expansion of your own consciousness, love capacity, humility and compassion - this is the path; this is the way.

A certain giving up of control is good for the soul.

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

The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one?s self.