Robert C. Solomon Quotes

Over time, years of meditation gave me glimpses of the interconnectedness and interdependence of all life. I experienced that on one level we are alone, separate, apart from everyone and everything; on another level, we are the Self in different disguises, different names and forms, a part of everyone and everything. This experience of interconnectedness is part of spiritual traditions and the perennial wisdom in virtually all religions and cultures.

Meditation is listening to the divine within

I did not grow up in the church. I'm not a church-goer now. I'm a very spiritual person.

A spiritual process is not a divorce from life. It is an irrevocable love affair with life.

The transformation from separation to unity, from conflict to peace, is the goal of all spiritual traditions.

I wouldn't say that I'm overly religious, but I have a pretty good relationship with my spiritual being.

The Divine is constantly waiting at your doorstep to move in if only you allow the necessary space.

A soul who is not close to nature is far away from what is called spirituality. In order to be spiritual one must communicate, and especially one must communicate with nature; one must feel nature.

I notice that when I feel the most disconnected, once I'm done blaming the moon and everything else, I can see that I am so mired in identification with form and ego and story and identity, and that if I want to, I can read some scripture or read some spiritual book or pray or meditate or sit in the sun or hang around the birds and the dogs, and get a real objective sense of what's really going on here. That usually softens things.

If you can let go of (the Tao) with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever.

I'm spiritual! You know what spiritual means! Me and God has a good relationship. I'm in tune with the universe, the sun, moon, and stars. I'm in tune with the jinns that are all around us.

Being spiritual does not mean being dead serious. If you allow life to happen within you exuberantly, unbridled, you will touch the spirit.

I can show you new things, have you feeling spiritual.

Be in love with your life, every detail of it.

The one seeking to demonstrate the power of spiritual realization in everyday affairs should believe in Divine guidance... and that everything in life is controlled by love, harmony, and peace.

God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him.

It's important to have a spiritual side because tomorrow's no promise to us. We have to pay homage to our saviour and put him in our life more because, without him, you don't know where you're going to go.

How do we nurture the soul? By revering our own life. By learning to love it all, not only the joys and the victories, but also the pain and the struggles.

Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.

I don't want to be religious, I want to be spiritual. Anybody can be religious. Some people jog religiously. You don't want to be that, you want to be spiritual. You want to have a relationship with God as opposed to doing what everyone else does.

Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order.

Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.

Because God is with you all the time, no place is any closer to God than the place where you are right now.

There's something I believe wholeheartedly: Cynicism is the true refuge of the pseudo-intellectual, .. Cynicism is easy. Joy is an extremely advanced spiritual and intellectual tenet.

It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.