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Silver Lining Of Your Cloud
Life Quotes and Sayings
Spiritual Path (3)
You have a right to your own path. ~Sivananda Radha
I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road.
~Anne Sexton
Being ‘spiritual’ simply means being willing to look into the nature of life,
to ask questions and to wonder, and to listen. It also means seeing art
everywhere. ~Quang Ho
The path of the heart requires a full gesture, a degree of abandon that can be
terrifying. Only then is it possible to achieve a sparkling metamorphosis.
~Carlos Castaneda
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any
path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. ~Jiddu Krishnamurti
You don’t go through a deep personal transformation without some kind of
dark night of the soul. ~Sam Keen
That is how I began to learn that the true task of spiritual life is not found in
faraway places or unusual states of consciousness; it is here in the present. It
asks of us a welcoming spirit to greet all that life presents to us with a wise,
respectful and kindly heart. We can bow to both beauty and suffering, to our
entanglements and confusion, to our fears and to the injustices of the world.
Honouring the truth in this way is the path to freedom. To bow to what is
rather than to some ideal is not necessarily easy, but however difficult, it is
one of the most useful and honourable practices. ~Jack Kornfield
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the
negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed. ~Ram Dass
Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has
one: the step you are taking right now. ~Eckhart Tolle
When you lost sight of your path, listen for the destination in your heart.
~Katsura Hoshino
The path to your destination is not always a straight one. We go down the
wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn’t matter which road
we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark. ~Barbara Hall
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your
intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is
yourself. ~Alan Alda
Having no destination, I am never lost. ~Ikkyuu
As soon as you surrender the need to understand, you do understand.
~Gangaji
The true lover finds the light only if like the candle, he is his own fuel
consuming himself. ~Baba Farid-ad-din Attar
Purify yourself and become dust, so that from dust, flowers can grow.
~Rumi
Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself. ~Rumi
Forget what can be forgotten and know yourself to be that which can never
be forgotten. ~Papaji
It is my experience that the world itself has a role to play in our liberation.
Its very pressures, pains, and risks can wake us up–release us from the bonds
of ego and guide to our vast, true nature. ~Joanna Marcy
Give up the search for something to happen and fall in love, fall intimately
in love with the gift of presence in ‘what is.’ ~Tony Parsons
Continue on your journey to release all that binds you until you become all
that you truly are. ~The Violet Flame
No, nobody ever reaches truth. It is always the reverse: truth comes to you.
Whenever you are ready, it knocks on your door; it seeks you whenever you
are ready. And the readiness is nothing but receptivity. When you are
completely receptive, and there is no ego, you become a hollow temple with
nobody in it. ~Osho
O, friend! Nobody veils you, but yourself. In your path there is no thorn or
weed, but yourself. You asked: shall I reach the Beloved or not? Between
you and the Beloved there nobody, but yourself. ~Awhadoddin Kermani
The mind can go in a thousand different directions, but on this beautiful
path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a
flower blooms. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
Always, a shift in awareness includes a period of isolation and loneliness as
one gets accustomed to the new level of truth. And then always, new
companions are found. No one is left alone for long. ~Caroline Myss
The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact
that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.
~M. Scott Peck
Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path. ~Thich
Nhat Hanh
We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our
innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is
overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the
spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the
midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul
we know ourselves to be one with all being. ~Hermann Hesse
The journey is your goal and your work is the path. ~Lao Tzu
The longing to go back to the source is present in each being from the very
time that it is separated from the source by the veil of ignorance. ~Meher
Baba
A truly spiritual person lives for the Truth, and breathes for Love. ~Amma
Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will
resurrect within our being. ~Rainer Maria Rilke
Belief brings me close to You
but only to the door.
It is only by disappearing into
Your mystery
that I will come in.
~Sanai
Everything that happens is designed to awaken us. Everything. ~Leonard
Jacobson
The farther you enter the truth, the deeper it is. ~Bankei Zenji
The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want
the kernel you must break the shell. And therefore if you want to discover
nature’s nakedness you must destroy its symbols, and the farther you get in
the nearer you come to its essence. When you come to the One that gathers
all things up into itself, there you must stay. ~Meister Eckhart
It’s helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that’s sitting right here
right now with its aches and pleasures is exactly what we need to be fully
human, fully awake, fully alive. ~Pema Chodron
This very moment is the perfect teacher, and it’s always with us. Just see
what’s going on – that’s the teaching right there. ~Pema Chodron
Self-inquiry meditation is not a path that leads you anywhere. It is a path that
stops you in your tracks—right in the present moment—so that you can fully
discover directly for yourself who or what you truly are right in the now.
~Gangaji
Spiritual nourishment prepares us for flying, but we only fly when we take
the leap, or are pushed, into the unknown. ~Gangaji
In order to see through the mind and the deeply ingrained sense of separation
that continues to generate so much confusion and suffering in our lives, we
must take a chance; we must leave what we know and enter that mysterious
reality of the unknown. ~Adyashanti
The beginning of love is search
But the end is rest.
~Unknown
Before one knocks at the right door, one has to knock on thousands of wrong
doors. That is part of the game, part of the play. ~Osho
To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it. ~Ken Keyes, Jr.
Meditation is nothing but withdrawing all the barriers; thoughts, emotions,
sentiments everything that builds a wall between you and existence. The
moment they drop, you suddenly find yourself in tune with the whole; not
only in tune, you really find you are the whole. ~Osho
Everything that happens is moving you to live a bigger truth. ~Alan Cohen
Some day, the realization will dawn on you that you do not need to change a
thing in order to be okay. ~Bentinho Massaro
The only reason we don’t open our hearts and minds to other people is that
they trigger confusion in us that we don’t feel brave enough or sane enough
to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at
ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else’s
eyes. ~Pema Chodron
Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are
precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden
meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own
evolution. ~Deepak Chopra
We have to be willing to come apart at the seams, to be dismantled, to let our
old ego structures fall apart before we can begin to embody sparks of the
essential perfection at the core of our nature. To evolve spiritually, we have
to allow these unworked, hidden, messy parts of ourselves to come to the
surface. ~Ezra Bayda
Opening fully to the unwanted to the key to awakening. ~Ezra Bayda
Truth is simple; hence innocence is needed, not knowledge. Hence a pure
heart is needed, not a mind full of information. Hence love is needed, not
logic. Truth is simple. ~Osho
Don’t follow people. Follow truth. ~Alan Cohen
Do not seek the answers. Let the answers find you. ~Leonard Jacobson
The more awake you are, the less there is of you here. At the very deepest
level of Presence, you have disappeared and only God is. ~Leonard
Jacobson
Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary. ~Eckhart Tolle
Everything that occurs in your life is part of God’s plan to wake you up.
~Leonard Jacobson
It’s very hard to grow, because it’s difficult to let go of the models of
ourselves in which we’ve invested so heavily. ~Ram Dass
God will give you everything you need for your spiritual development. Hold
on to nothing. ~Sri Neem Karoli Baba
Those who have attained union have nothing
but the inward eye and the divine lamp—
they have been delivered of signs and roads.
~Rumi
In surrender, you no longer need ego defenses and false masks. You become
very simple, very real. ~Eckhart Tolle
My only description of a spiritual path is you recognize what’s always
already here, you grow convinced of it, and that naturally undermines the
seeking of it, and here you are. ~Bentinho Massaro
There’s a point when you intuitively realize that to be Free you have to give
up your attachment to Freedom. You have to quit asking yourself: Is it still
there? Am I okay? You have to decide to never look over your shoulder
again to see if you’re Free or if others know you’re Free. You just have to let
yourself burn there — no matter what. ~Adyashanti
Take what resonates and leave the rest. ~Story Waters
Believe in love’s infinite journey, for it is your own, for you are love. Love
is life. ~Rumi
There is in the body a current of energy, affection and intelligence, which
guides, maintains and energizes the body. Discover that current and stay
with it. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj
Everyday life is not divorced from the Eternal State. So long as the daily life
is imagined to be different from the spiritual life, then difficulties arise. If
the spiritual life is rightly understood, the active life will be found to be not
different from it. ~Ramana Maharshi
Rare in the world is one who no longer even cares for experience. In him the
true understanding has already dawned. ~Ramesh Balkesar
The path of Love isn’t easy …
I am shipwrecked and must be sunk.
~Rumi
The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation is
in the way we handle this very moment. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
Spiritual maturity is being ready to let go of everything. Giving is a first
step, but real giving-up is the insight that there’s nothing to be given up,
since nothing is your property. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Beloved is with you in the midst of your seeking!
He holds your hand wherever you wander.
~Rumi
We tried reasoning
our way to Him:
it did not work;
but the moment we gave up,
no obstacle remained.
~Hakim Sanai
Forget me, forget my teachings. Stay in the consciousness and your unique
path will emerge. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj
Love is an infinity. So howsoever you open, you will always feel more is
possible. It is a journey which begins, but never ends. Love’s journey begins,
but never ends. It is eternity. ~Osho
Before you have freed yourself from your mind–you may get glimpses of
true joy, true love, or of a deep inner peace, still but vibrantly alive. These
are aspects of your true nature. ~Eckhart Tolle
The single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this:
learn to disidentify from your mind. ~Eckhart Tolle
When your chest is free from your limiting ego,
Then you will see your ageless Beloved.
You cannot see yourself without a mirror;
Look at the Beloved, He is the brightest mirror.
~Rumi
You must have failed deeply on some level or experienced some deep loss or
pain to be drawn to the spiritual dimension. Or perhaps your very success
became empty and meaningless and so turned out to be failure. ~Eckhart
Tolle
There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the
same. ~Chinese proverb
Stop looking for something out there and begin seeing within. Open your
arms if you want an embrace. ~Rumi
I marvel at how even the wrong choices can keep us on the right path. How
the worst mistake can wind up being the best thing that ever happened to us.
~Katie Klein
You’re the only one who knows when you’re using things to protect yourself
and keep your ego together and when you’re opening and letting things fall
apart, letting the world come as it is—working with it rather than struggling
against it. You’re the only one who knows. ~Pema Chodron
It’s not about becoming true, it’s about unbecoming false, so that all that’s
left is truth. ~Jed McKenna
When beauty seems absent , she is often hidden and still at work in the slow
industry of transformation. ~John O’Donohue
Everyone is my teacher.
Some I seek.
Some I subconsciously attract.
Often I learn simply by observing others.
Some may be completely unaware
that I’m learning from them,
and I bow deeply in gratitude.
~Eric Allen
Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation.
Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will
see the way to fly. ~Richard Bach
The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty. ~Byron Katie
It may be when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real
work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun
our real journey. ~Wendell Berry
