Harold Kushner Quotes

Spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst But you got to change it On the inside first To be satisfied

Authentic spirituality... does not render the self content, it renders it undone.

I'd rather be one of the devotees of God than one of the straight, so-called sane or normal people who just don't understand that man is a spiritual being, that he has a soul.

No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it.

It is blessed to eat into the very soul of the Bible until the very essence of the Bible flows from you.

Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkness that the soul requires to deepen into life.

We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.

As you awaken to your divine nature, you'll begin to appreciate beauty in everything you see, touch and experience.

The phrase, 'You must die before you die,' is found in most of the world religions. If you don't learn how to die early, you spend the rest of your life avoiding failure. When you can free your True Self, the whole spiritual life opens up.

AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress.

Never forget that you are not in the world; the world is in you. When anything happens to you, take the experience inward. Creation is set up to bring you constant hints and clues about your role as co-creator. Your soul is metabolizing experience as surely as your body is metabolizing food

The nature of spiritual awakening is frequently misunderstood. The adoption of spiritual beliefs, seeing visions of God or celestial beings, the ability to channel, to heal, to foretell the future, or other paranormal powers - all such phenomena are of value and are not to be dismissed, but none of them is in itself indicative of spiritual awakening in a person who experiences them.

A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.

Well, my opinion is that real change occurs through deep interpersonal experiences. Others will also say deep spiritual experiences.

There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.

We've gotten lost in our Ego and have forgotten that our Soul's only motive is to merge with the Beloved.

A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny.

When love enters, the whole spiritual constitution of a man changes, is filled with the Holy Ghost, and almost his form is altered.

For most people, spiritual awakening is a gradual process. Rarely does it happen all at once. When it does, though, it is usually brought about by intense suffering.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?

The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth

Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well.

To speak about this universal force that will lead us beyond on the last horizon of our known self toward a wiser, more loving, more luminous states of being, we do not need to invent a new language. But we do need to listen to the old, the ancient one, not with our jaded minds, but with our awakened souls.

There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul.

Once you realize that the way you exist right now is not enough, that there is something more, your spiritual process has already begun.