The spiritual quest begins,
for most people,
as a search for meaning.
-Marilyn Ferguson

There is a need within the soul of man
The splendours of the surface never sate.
-Aurobindo Ghose

All spiritual seeking begins with the questions,
'Who am I?
Where did I come from?
Where am I going?
What is the true essence of my being?'
-Haridas Chaudhuri

Spiritual practice always involves going beyond
simply finding out who one is
to a level of finding out also
what one needs to do in the world.
-Gerald May

To live a spiritual life
is to open to another world within.
-Mirra Alfassa, "The Mother"

He who speculates from the shore about the ocean,
shall know only its surface,
but he who would know the depths of the ocean
must be willing to plunge into it.
-Meher Baba

The first thing you will face
after committing yourself to your path
is your fear.
-Barbara Ann Brennan

It is a basic principle of spiritual life
that we learn the deepest things in unknown territory.
Often it is when we feel most confused inwardly
and are in the midst of our greatest difficulties
that something new will open.
-Jack Kornfield

To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires,

we need tremendous courage and strength,

a kind of warrior spirit.

-Jack Kornfield

Spiritual knowledge does not lie in learning something,
but in discovering something;
in breaking the fetters of false consciousness
and in allowing the soul to unfold with light and power.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

The path of spiritual growth
is a path of lifelong learning.
-M. Scott Peck

The spiritual path,
which leads to the rediscovery of our true nature,
is a path of progressive self-transformation.
-Georg Feuerstein

Do not keep planning to consecrate yourself
to the spiritual life one day in the future,
but realize it is precisely because of the spiritual life
that you can find the best solutions to all your current problems.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

The basic principle of spiritual life

is that our problems 

become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

-Jack Kornfield

Let the basic spiritual motivation
transform all the details of living
into significant elements of a self-coherent and meaningful whole.
-Haridas Chaudhuri

The most important thing in spiritual life is growth and evolution.
We must have an attitude of appropriating and assimilating
the light of truth wherever we find it.
-Haridas Chaudhuri

True spirituality rejects no new light,
no added means or materials of our human self-development.
It means simply to keep our center,
our essential way of being, our inborn nature
and assimilate to it all we can receive,
and evolve out of it all we do and create.
-Aurobindo Ghose

The spiritual attitude represents nothing essentially new
in the material life of the individual,
but is rather a reorganization and reinterpretation
of all that has existed in his life,
and an infusion of new meaning into the present and future.
-Meher Baba

The spiritual life requires
that we continually work with the same old truths.
It is in the discoveries that you make each day
by penetrating deeper and deeper into the same old truths
that you will find the new things you are looking for.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

Every kind of work can become spiritual work.
For me, everything I do is work.
The word "work" is always in my mind;
I try to make use of everything.
I never discard anything: I use it all.
Even when I am motionless and apparently idle,
I am working with my thoughts,
sending life, love and light throughout the universe.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

Its actually about integrating the evolution of consciousness
with the body-mind system, or ego.
We are bridging worlds -
from the transpersonal realm to the everyday, or relative world.
We're not leaving.
We are ascending to greater spiritual heights,
but ideally with our feet planted firmly on the Earth.
We become clear and effective vessels for Spirit and evolution,
rather than operating solely from the dictates
of our ego preferences and unconscious attachments.
-Eric Myers

It is a matter of incorporating higher dimensions of awareness
without blacking the lower levels.
-Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

The value of any spiritual discipline
can be measured by the degree
to which it is capable of transforming
not only one's way of life but also one's personality.
-Rajarshi Muni

Every real spiritual step a man takes in his development
is the result of a victory over the forces of inertia or destruction.
-Dane Rudhyar

Spiritual progress is like detoxification.

-Marianne Williamson

One of the wonders
of what people refer to as spiritual practice
(it can also be called "sanity")
is that life gets progressively easier.
-Stephen Mitchell

The more spiritually developed we are,
the stronger and hence calmer we shall be.
-William Walker Atkinson, "A. P. Mukerji"

Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave.
It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life
with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
-Jack Kornfield

I feel that the essence of spiritual practice
is your attitude toward others.
When you have a pure, sincere motivation,
then you have the right attitude toward others
based on kindness, compassion, love and respect.
-Tenzin Gyatso, Dalai Lama

Feeling an understanding
allows us to enter the spiritual world.
-Omraam Mikahel Aivanhov

In order to be spiritual one must communicate,
and especially one must communicate with nature;
one must feel nature.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

It is commonplace in all religious thought,
even the most primitive,
that the man seeking visions and insight
must go apart from his fellows and live for a time in the wilderness.
-Loren Eiseley

In the spiritual quest
everything depends on the degree of sincerity and dedication.
-Sivananda Radha

The true progress of one's spiritual experience
depends on the sincerity and intensity of one's aspiration.
-Anandamayi Ma

Your spiritual life must be very real.
You must be very real.
-Sivananda Radha

It is no exaggeration to say
that it takes but one moment
to change one's outlook on life entirely.
-Hazrat Inyat Khan

The spiritual life is, then,

first of all a matter of keeping awake.

-Thomas Merton

If you want to have a spiritual life
you must unify your life.
A life is either spiritual or not spiritual at all.
-Thomas Merton

There is no half measure in the spiritual path.
-Sivananda

The aim of spiritual development
is to integrate or synthesize the human being
so that he or she will become
physical, imaginative, mental, intuitive and spiritual
at the same time.
-Imre Vallyon

In the spiritual life

all the joys of sense,

all the joys of intellect 

and all the joys of the highest heavens

are divinely blended into one.

-Christian Larson

Spiritual life has infinite shades of expression,
concrete and abstract;
and it is wisdom, not to be categorized by intellect.
-Mahendra Nath Sarkar

Sometimes people get the mistaken notion
that spirituality is a separate department of life,
the penthouse of existence.
But rightly understood,
it is a vital awareness that pervades all realms of our being...
Wherever we may come alive,
that is the area in which we are spiritual.
-David Steindl-Rast

Whatever our initial vision of spiritual life,

to be authentic, it must be fulfilled here and now,

in the place where we live.

-Jack Kornfield

Focusing on one's chosen ideal
is the essence of spiritual life.
-George Feuerstein

Spirituality means growing
into the form of the divine ideal.
It is the transformation of your nature
from the human to the Divine.
-Sivananda

The blossom vanishes of itself as the fruit grows.
So will you lower self vanish
as the Divine grows within you.
-Vivekananda

Spiritual life can be understood
as the discipline of voluntarily stepping up
our rate of vibration.
-Georg Feuerstein

For this is what the spiritual life really is:
the ability to infuse into everything you do this special element,
this leaven that is capable of raising it to a higher plane.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

The spiritual life requires us

to make a vertical approach,

and away from the horizontal plane of the time sequence.

-Arthur Osborne

The secret of spiritual life
is to climb as high as you can and stay there.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

To maintain inner silence
is the secret of all spiritual practice.
-Hariharananda

To remember the other world in this world
is to live your true inheritance.
-David Whyte

In spiritual matters,
knowledge is dependent upon being;
as we are, so we know.
-Aldous Huxley

Acquiring a "new" philosophy
is not like donning a new coat.
We must absorb it into our bones.
We must live it, breathe, think it,
speak it, act it, and grow with it.
-Georg Feuerstein

This is the crux of the issue:
How can one introduce uncompromisingly
the most sublime of spiritual values into everyday life?
-Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

True spirituality means that you yourself
become the living expression
of the divine teaching that you follow.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

It is a rule of the spiritual life that,
when you receive a truth,
you must put it into practice in your life
before trying to pass it on to others.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

You cannot contribute anything
to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood,
however much you preach, posture or agree,
unless you live it.
-Faith Baldwin

Once we are attuned to the spiritual dimension,
all our experiences and knowledge
are anchored in the core of Being.
We think, feel, intend and act differently.
-Georg Feuerstein

The ability to experience and to flow with what is
signals the beginning of the unification
of mind, body and spirit.
-W. Brugh Joy

Spiritual living is a fulfillment from moment to moment,
in which the outer person is in state of living rapport
with the inner being and becomes an extension thereof.
-N. Sri Ram

The spiritual man is he who has found his soul.
He has found the Self, and lives in it,
is conscious of it, and has delight in it.
He does not need anything external
for the fullness of his existence.
-Aurobindo Ghose

Spiritual truth is not something elaborate and esoteric,
it is in fact profound common sense.
When you realize the nature of the mind,
layers of confusion peel away.
You don't actually "become" a buddha,
you simply cease, slowly, to be deluded.
And being a buddha is not being some omnipotent superman,
but becoming at last a true human being.
-Sogyal Rinpoche

The spiritual state is a state of grace that comes by itself
as we cease from the error of our ways,
in our thought, motives and action.
The spirit moves into whatever from is adapted to receive it.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation
that in enjoyment;
but all spiritual pleasures are more in fruition
than in expectation.
-Francois Fenelon

This spiritual work is the sole richness
the sole possession that is truly yours.
Everything else can be taken away from you:
only your work is yours forever.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

To be truly spiritual
is to be completely innocent at heart,
a state of being in which there is nothing corrupting,
no element of disintegration,
because it attaches itself to nothing perishable.
-N. Sri Ram

The one who learns to tread the spiritual path
must become as an empty cup
in order that the wine of music and harmony
may be poured down into the heart.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

When one surrenders, one becomes like a valley.
One becomes depth, not height.
Then the whole Existence begins to pour!
-Chandra Mohan Jain, "Osho"