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Famous Motivational Quotes About Spiritual Journey

spiritual-journey-quoteWe are all on a spiritual quest. Whether we are aware of the fact or not. Some are walking at a slow pace, others at a moderate pace, and yet a selected few are running. It doesn’t matter how fast you go, as long as you are making progress. And you are making progress, even when you think you are stuck. Everything is a lesson and every lesson helps you make another step on your spiritual journey. I hope you will enjoy these beautiful inspirational spiritual quotes as much as we did:

Search, no matter what situation you are in. O thirsty one, search for water constantly. Finally, the time will come when you will reach the spring.

Rumi


In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a swami is a monk who forgoes regular family life for the purpose of making the whole world his family and channels his full energy into spiritual practice, devotion to God and service to humanity.

Radhanath Swami


Everything is laid out for you. Your path is straight ahead of you. Sometimes it’s invisible but it’s there. You may not know where it’s going, but you have to follow that path. It’s the path to the Creator. It’s the only path there is.

Chief Leon Shenandoah


I follow the religion of Love: Whatever way love’s camel takes, That is my religion, my faith.

Ibn Arabi


The great way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When like and dislike are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the smallest distinction however and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart.

Seng T’san


Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.

Henri Nouwen


This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don’t need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.

R. A. Salvatore


I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spirit and be able to integrate the emotional struggles in their spiritual journeys.

Henri Nouwen


The spiritual path – is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don’t know it.

Marianne Williamson


In the empty heart, void of self can be heard the echoing cry, “I am the Truth.” Thus is man one with the eternal. Travelling, travel and traveller have become one.

Mahmud Shabistari


The spiritual quest is not some added benefit to our life, something you embark on if you have the time and inclination. We are spiritual beings on an earthly journey. Our spirituality makes up our beingness.

John Bradshaw


Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with truth.

Thich Nhat Hanh


I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It’s a journey of recovery. It’s a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It’s already there.

Billy Corgan


Watermelons and Zen students grow pretty much the same way. Long periods of sitting till they ripen and grow all juicy inside, but when you knock them on the head to see if they’re ready – sounds like nothing’s going on.

Peter Levitt


Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self-pity.

Pir Vilayat Khan


We are all in Christ’s energy. We are all in the divine plan. We are all on the sacred journey, if you want to put it into some very spiritual words. And I like to sing about it, so that’s what I do.

Jon Anderson


The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It’s a journey I’m making. I’m heading that way.

Sting


Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy.

Chuang Tzu


A sincere seeker knows what his goal is: the highest Truth. He will not delay his journey. In spiritual life, we aspire for the highest Truth, for God, nothing else.

Sri Chinmoy


You will have peace to the extent that you have God, and the further you are away from God the less you will be at peace… Thus you may measure your progress with God by measuring your peace or the lack of it.

Meister Eckhart


The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Robert M. Pirsig

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Famous Quotes about Spiritual and Personal Growth

spiritual-growthLife is evolution. Improvement. Growth. We have to be inspired to give our best every single day and to improve inner and outer self. Here are some of my favorite quotes about personal development and spiritual growth. Enjoy

No one limits your growth but you. If you want to earn more, learn more. That means you’ll work harder for a while; that means you’ll work longer for a while. But you’ll be paid for your extra effort with enhanced earnings down the road.

Tom Hopkins


A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view.

Wilma Askinas


The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King, Jr.


If you don’t take charge of shaping your own destiny, others will apply their agenda to you.

Eric Allenbaugh


Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson


Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.

Mary Antin


Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg


The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Helen Keller


Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.

Morihei Ueshiba


People on a spiritual path – personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth – are the last people who should be sitting out the social and political issues of our day.

Marianne Williamson


Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

Nora Roberts


When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation – it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Les Brown


Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Benjamin Franklin


You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Audrey Hepburn

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Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica Quotes

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Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica was one of the most renowned spiritual guides of Serbia in the twentieth century. As a novice he lived in obedience to Elder Ambrose of Miljkovo Monastery, a disciple of the Optina Elders. From him Fr. Thaddeus learned the Prayer of the Heart and the selfless love that came to characterize his whole ministry to the suffering Serbian people.

During his life he became widely known for his wisdom and faith in God.  He received everyone who came to him for support and consolation.

Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica Quotes:

Our life depends on the kind of thoughts we nurture. If our thoughts are peaceful, calm, meek, and kind, then that is what our life is like. If our attention is turned to the circumstances in which we live, we are drawn into a whirlpool of thoughts and can have neither peace nor tranquility.

It is of great significance if there is a person who truly prays in a family. Prayer attracts God’s Grace and all the members of the family feel it, even those whose hearts have grown cold. Pray always.

We must learn to ease the burden of thoughts that bears down upon us. As soon as we feel burdened, we must turn to the Lord and give our worries over to Him, as well as the worries and cares of our loved ones.

You must strive to have peace in your homes. Peace starts with each one of us. When we have peace in us, we spread it around to others.

Once we were the masters of all material things, but now everything is rebelling against us, for we are to be blamed for the fall of all things. We must become better in order for everything to be renewed.

When we are completely humble, then everything around us is humble.

Here on earth we frequently experience many misfortunes and hardships, but all of these are because we have not humbled ourselves

If we are united with the Lord with the heart full of faith, the power of Grace works in us. But if we have not yet cleansed ourselves from pride and still feel offended and angered when others say unkind words to us, then the power of God in us is diminishing.

God is Love. And if we call upon God in our life as the Holy Fathers teach us, then we are calling upon Love. If we know and believe that He is present everywhere at all times and if we are united with Him in our hearts, He will teach us how to love our neighbor.

God is at the center of every person’s life. He is in our heart whether we accept Him or not. He never separates Himself from us because He is the Giver of life Who gives life to every created being.

Humility is a Divine property and the perfection of the Christian life. It is attained through obedience. He who is not obedient cannot gain humility. There are very few in the world today who have obedience. Our humility is in proportion to our obedience.

Joy is thankfulness, and when we are joyful, that is the best expression of thanks we can offer the Lord, Who delivers us from sorrow and sin.

We are too engrossed in things of this world and thus become spiritually impoverished, because one cannot sit on two chairs. One cannot drink both from the Cup of the Savior and from the cup of the adversary. We must decide whom we will serve: God or the things of this world. One cannot serve God and mammon at the same time.

We have very little faith in the Lord, very little trust. If we trusted the Lord as much as we trust a friend when we ask him to do something for us, neither we as individuals nor our whole country would suffer so much.

The Most Holy Mother of God prays for us ceaselessly. She is always visiting us. Whenever we turn to her in our heart, she is there. After the Lord, she is the greatest protection for mankind.

Repentance is the renewal of life. This means we must free ourselves from all our negative traits and turn toward absolute good. No sin is unforgivable except the sin of unrepentance.

When we talk to our fellow men and they tell us about their troubles, we will listen to them carefully if we have love for them. We will have compassion for their suffering and pain, for we are God’s creatures; we are a manifestation of the love of God.

We greatly influence others with our thoughts… If our thoughts are kind, peaceful, and quiet, turned only toward good, then we also influence ourselves and radiate peace all around us. However, when we breed negative thought, that is a great evil…we radiate it among our family members and wherever we go. So you see, we can be very good or very evil. If that’s the way it is, it is certainly better to choose good.

Grace is Divine strength which is active everywhere, but especially in the souls of those who seek the source of life, who seek God.

When we are praying, the first thing that’s needed is attentiveness. Without attentiveness prayer is not worthwhile, but if one neglects prayer completely, that is the worst. You have to work!

One must love God first, and only then can one love one’s closest of kin and neighbors. We must not be idols to one another, for such is not the will of God

We must not preach from our heads but from our hearts. Only what is said from the heart can reach another heart.

The fear of God is not the instinctive animal fear of this world. That is a hellish quality. We live in a constant state of fear: what will happen tomorrow, in the future? The fear of God is similar to that when you love someone from your heart and you are careful not to offend him or annoy him with your whole being, not only through your thoughts and actions, but through your thoughts too.

Here on earth there is nothing that can give us inner peace. For neither riches, nor glory, nor honor, nor position, nor family, nor neighbors can give us unshakable inner peace. There is only one giver of life, peace and joy – God

The Lord looks into our hearts and when we turn to Him from the heart, He immediately consoles us.

Peace and joy are the greatest riches in this world and in the world to come.

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Love, joy and peace are Divine gifts, Divine characteristics. In themselves love, peace and joy work miracles, but joined together they can fulfill all the commandments.

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