Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.
In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment of the present where life quivers in its true sense. The past and the future are both rolled up in this present moment of illumination, and this present moment is not something standing still with all its contents, for it ceaselessly moves on.
It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.
Keep yourself clean and bright. You are the windows through which you must view the world.
Let the spirit of adventure set the tone.
No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
Not by might, or power, but by my spirit, says the Lord.
Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality.
O Krishna, the stillness of divine union which you describe is beyond my comprehension. How can the mind, which is so restless, attain lasting peace? Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, powerful, violent; trying to control it is like trying to tame the wind.
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
Our lives as we lead them as passed on to others, whether in physical or mental forms, tingeing all future lives together. This should be enough for one who lives for truth and service to his fellow passengers on the way.
People see his pleasure-ground; him no one sees at all.
Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear.
Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.
Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof — that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.
Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure.
Sages speak of the immutable Tree of Life, with its tape root above and its branches below.
Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
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