160 Best Spirituality Quotes To Guide You Through Life

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The Author’s Choice: 10 Best Spirituality Quotes

1. “What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.” — Alan Watts

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2. “The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.” — Adyashanti

3. “The spirit is beyond destruction. No one can bring an end to spirit which is everlasting.” — Bhagavad Gita

4. “Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not.” — Deepak Chopra

5. “The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.” — Swami Vivekananda

6. “The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.” — Henri J.M. Nouwen

7. “Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament. His true guru will meet him along that path.” — Sivananda

8. “Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.” ― Sri Ramana Maharshi

9. “How many lives are frittered away, age after age, in endless coming and going. Find out who you are!” ― Anandamayi Ma

10. “The very life within you is longing to be joyful because joyfulness is the nature of the source of creation.” — Sadhguru

Spirituality Quotes To Improve Your Life

1. “Let what comes come. Let what goes go. Find out what remains.” ― Ramana Maharshi

2. “Forget the past, for it is gone from your domain! Forget the future, for it is beyond your reach! Control the present! Live supremely well now! This is the way of the wise.” — Paramahansa Yogananda

3. “Remain fixed in the sunlight of the true consciousness – for only there is happiness and peace. They do not depend upon outside happenings, but on this alone.” — Sri Aurobindo

4. “You have power over your mind–not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” — Marcus Aurelius

5. “At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.” — Thich Nhat Hanh

6. “The universe is but a partial manifestation of your limitless capacity to become.” — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

7. “The most fundamental and the most important aspect of the spiritual process can in no way be stopped by anybody – except yourself.” — Sadhguru

8. “Through selfless service, you will always be fruitful and find the fulfillment of your desires.” ― Bhagavad Gita

9. “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn, or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” — Denis Waitley

10. “To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, but to live gratitude is to touch heaven.” — Johannes A. Gaertner

11. “Whatever draws the mind outward is unspiritual and whatever draws the mind inward is spiritual.” ― Ramana Maharshi

12. “Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life.” — Eckhart Tolle

13. “If you want to learn anything, learn trust – nothing else id needed. If you are miserable, nothing else will help – learn trust. If you don’t feel any meaning in life and you feel meaningless, nothing will help – learn trust. Trust gives meaning because trust makes you capable of allowing the whole descend upon you.” ― Osho

14. “The great lesson from the true mystics is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is found in one’s daily life, in one’s neighbors, friends, and family.” — Abraham Maslow

15. “The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man’s slavery.” — Paramahansa Yogananda

16. “The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.” — Henri Nouwen

17. To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.” — Eckhart Tolle

18. “Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.” — Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

19. “The one who has faith, and is sincere, and has mastery over the senses, gains this knowledge. Having gained this, one at once attains the supreme peace.” — Bhagavad Gita

20. “The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.” — Marianne Williamson

21. “At this moment, you are seamlessly flowing with the cosmos. There is no difference between your breathing and the breathing of the rain forest, between your bloodstream and the world’s rivers, between your bones and the chalk cliffs of Dover.” ― Deepak Chopra

22. “A life lived well embraces death by feeling open, from heart to all, in every moment. Wide open, you can offer without holding back, you can receive without pushing away.” ― David Deida

23. “As you learn to trust yourself something miraculous happens. You begin to trust the process you are living and the miracles life brings!” — Iyanla Vanzant

24. “When a person responds to the joys and sorrows of others as though they were his own, he or she has attained the highest spiritual union.” — Lord Krishna

25. “The greatest fear in the world is the opinion of others, and the moment you are unafraid of the crowd, you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion.” — Osho

Spirituality Quotes To Give You New Perspective

1. “Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.” — Bruce Lee

2. “Spirituality does not mean going away from life. Spirituality means becoming alive in the fullest possible way so you are not just alive on the surface, you are alive to the core.” — Sadhguru

3. “Everything in the world was my Guru.” ― Ramana Maharshi

4. “You are already that which you seek.” ― Ramana Maharshi

5. “Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.” — Swami Vivekananda

6. “You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself to be the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty.” — Bhagavad Gita 2.47

7. “God within is leading us always aright even when we are in the bonds of the ignorance; but then, though the goal is sure, it is attained by circlings and deviations.” — Sri Aurobindo

8. “Reality is beyond speech and thought. Only that which can be expressed in words is being said. But what cannot be put into language is indeed That which IS.” — Anandamayi Ma

9. “Whether you worship Christ, Krishna, Kali or Allah, you actually worship the one Light that is also in you, since It pervades all things.” ― Anandamayi Ma

10. “The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.” — M. Scott Peck

11. “Death is certain for one who has been born, and rebirth is inevitable for one who has died. Therefore, you should not lament over the inevitable.” — Bhagavad Gita 2.27

12. “Religion is for people who’re afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who’ve already been there.” — Vine Deloria Jr.

13. “Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don’t know it.” — Marianne Williamson

14. “The utmost mission of Mind is to train our obscure consciousness which has emerged out of the dark prison of Matter, to enlighten its blind instincts, random intuitions, vague perceptions till it shall become capable of this greater light and this higher ascension. Mind is a passage, not a culmination.” ― Sri Aurobindo

15. “Nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see. On the contrary, everything is sacred.” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

16. “Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.” — Bono

17. “This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero!” ― Sivananda

18. “An evil man is a saint of the future. See good in everything. Destroy the evil-finding quality. Develop the good-finding quality. Rise above good and evil.” ― Sivananda

19. “Spiritual maturity is measured in terms of persevering faith, not perfect behavior.” — Andy Stanley

20. “The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.” ― Osho

21. “For though we may not live a holy life, we live in a world alive with holy moments. We need only take the time to bring these moments into the light.” — Kent Nerburn

22. “Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.” — Jack Kornfield

23. “Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionally been called “God.” As soon as you turn away from it, God ceases to be a reality in your life, and all you are left with is the mental concept of God, which some people believe in and others deny. Even belief in God is only a poor substitute for the living reality of God manifesting every moment of your life.” ― Eckhart Tolle

24. “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

25. “You are what you believe in. You become that which you believe you can become.” — Bhagavad Gita

Spirituality Quotes To Help You Transform

1. “Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” — Carl Jung

2. “A man must elevate himself by his own mind, not degrade himself. The mind is the friend of the conditioned soul, and his enemy as well.” — Bhagavad Gita 6.5

3. “The spiritual path is very, very easy for a man of determination, patience, endurance, self-sacrifice, dispassion and a strong will.” ― Sivananda Saraswati

4. “The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less he himself is affected by the phenomenal flux.” — Paramahansa Yogananda

5. “Realization is not the acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.” — Ramana Maharshi

6. “The value of our actions lies not so much in their apparent nature and outward result as in their help towards the growth of the divine within us.” — Sri Aurobindo

7. “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.” — Swami Vivekananda

8. “Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself. ” ― Osho

9. “But he who discards scriptural injunctions and acts according to his own whims attains neither perfection, nor happiness, nor the supreme destination.” — Bhagavad Gita 16.23

10. “Sever the ignorant doubt in your heart with the sword of self-knowledge. Observe your discipline. Arise.” — Bhagavad Gita

11. “We are ready to join as emanations of the One

The new doorways cannot be opened or passed through

By any of us still operating as individual beings of consciousness

They are brought into manifestation through our Unified Presence

Through our focused intent

Through our total commitment to serving our Higher Purpose

This is the bridge to an entirely different energy pattern

It is the step beyond the known dimensional universe

It is a journey into the unknown which shall lead us ever closer to home.” — Placebo, ‘Hold On To Me’

12. “Serious spiritual practice is more than serene walks in the woods, lit candles and incense. You have to be committed. You have to be willing to enter into your own darkness and transcend it.” — Maria Erving

13. “There is no logical necessity for the conclusion that the change cannot begin at all because its perfection is not immediately possible.” — Sri Aurobindo

14. “A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.” — Alan Watts

15. “These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.” — Rumi

16. “Pure awareness transcends thinking. It allows you to step outside the chattering negative self-talk and your reactive impulses and emotions. It allows you to look at the world once again with open eyes. And when you do so, a sense of wonder and quiet contentment begins to reappear in your life.” — Mark Williams

17. “Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.” — Brian Weiss

18. “If we do not work for individual transformation, talking about world peace is just entertainment.” — Sadhguru

19. “Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.” ― Ramana Maharshi

20. “The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.” ― Swami Sivananda

21. “You may have collected many useful profound texts – philosophical scriptures, spoken advice, transcribed teachings, yet if you do not practice, at the time of death, books don’t help. Observe your mind! This is my advice from the heart.” ― Longchen Rabjam

22. “A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your weakness.” ― Mother Teresa

23. “The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.” — Marianne Williamson

24. “Encountering sufferings will definitely contribute to the elevation of your spiritual practice, provided you are able to transform calamity and misfortune into the path.” — Dalai Lama

25. “There is no meditation powerful enough to change you instantly. Consistency is the key. Small but consistent effort.” — Scarlett Miles

Spiritual Words To Live By

1. “Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.” — Paramahansa Yogananda

2. “To live and operate in the world, you may have to identify with something. Play with your identifications, don’t let them rule you.” — Sadhguru

3. “What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.” ― Caroline Myss

4. “When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.” — Stephen Richards

5. “God is simple. Everything else is complex. Do not seek absolute values in the relative world of nature.” — Paramahansa Yogananda

6. “Therefore, without being attached to the fruits of activities, one should act as a matter of duty; for by working without attachment, one attains the Supreme.” — Bhagavad Gita 3.19

7. “There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind – you are the one who hears it.” — Michael A. Singer

8. “Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.” — Oriah Mountain Dreamer

9. “There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind’s immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.” ― Sri Aurobindo

10. “Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.” — Swami Vivekananda

11. “Seek refuge in the attitude of detachment and you will amass the wealth of spiritual awareness. The one who is motivated only by the desire for the fruits of their action, and anxious about the results, is miserable indeed.” — Bhagavad Gita

12. “Anything that makes weak – physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.” ― Swami Vivekananda

13. “There isn’t anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a day.” — Pema Chodron

14. “Yet mostly we remain unconscious of the fact that even in this simplest fulfilling of our daily needs we are partaking of the holiest mysteries of the sacred within the commonplace of our own kitchen. Great is to be found in little.” — Alice O. Howell

15. “In the dark night of all beings awakes to Light the tranquil man. But what is day to other beings is night for the sage who sees.” ― Bhagavad Gita

16. “When a man dwells on the pleasure of sense, attraction for them arises in him. From attraction arises desire, the lust of possession, and this leads to passion, to anger. From passion comes confusion of mind, then loss of remembrance, the forgetting of duty. From this loss comes the ruin of reason, and the ruin of reason leads man to destruction.” ― Bhagavad Gita

17. “The joy of service and the joy of inner growth through works is the sufficient recompense of the selfless worker.” — Sri Aurobindo

18. “All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love’s sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.” — Swami Vivekananda

19. “We all have the potential to come alive through the ordinary, rather than waiting for something extraordinary to awaken our energy and passion.” — Edward Espe Brown

20. “You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.” — Alan Watts

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21. “The wise man lets go of all results, whether good or bad, and is focused on the action alone.” — Bhagavad Gita

22. “A balanced inner calmness radiates from a peaceful centre. It neither craves others’ approval nor rejects others’ presence. It neither pulls towards nor pushes away. It has a reverent attitude towards life and all its inhabitants.” ― Donna Goddard

23. “Just remember that self-discipline is not self-suppression. Suppression is when you resist and fight against your desires, keeping them as buried and unexpressed as possible.” — David Deida

24. “If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

25. “Knowing the truth is fairly useless; feeling it is profound; living it makes all the difference.” ― David Deida

Spiritual Quotes About Life

1. “When every moment, you experience yourself as the source of creation, not as a piece of creation, then you are realized.” — Sadhguru

2. “A state of mind that sees God in everything is evidence of growth in grace and a thankful heart.” — Charles Finney

3. “What you are is God’s gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.” ― Hans Urs von Balthasar

4. “Love is the goal, life is the journey.” ― Osho

5. “Change is the law of the universe. You can be a millionaire, or a pauper in an instant.” — Bhagavad Gita

6. “We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.” — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

7. “The only necessity in this sadhana is to open yourself to the Divine Force; if one is open the necessary understanding or knowledge will come of itself through spiritual experience.” — Sri Aurobindo

8. “You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.” — Anthony de Mello

9. “This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.” ― Alan Watts

10. “I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.” — Paulo Coelho

11. “If you just live totally, you will dissolve lots of karma. Living totally means that you experience anything that comes fully and intensely.” — Sadhguru

12. “The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.” — Alan Watts

13. “It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we’re alive – to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.” — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

14. “Strive constantly to serve the welfare of the world; by devotion to selfless work one attains the supreme goal of life. Do your work with the welfare of others always in mind.” ― Bhagavad Gita

15. “Here is an unspeakable secret: Paradise is all around us and we do not understand.” — Thomas Merton

16. “Solitude is in the mind of man. One might be in the thick of the world and maintain serenity of mind; such a one is in solitude. Another may stay in a forest, but still be unable to control his mind. He cannot be said to be in solitude. Solitude is a function of the mind. A man attached to desire cannot get solitude wherever he may be; a detached man is always in solitude.” ― Ramana Maharshi

17. “Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives.” ― Brené Brown

18. “As you love your own body, so regard everyone as equal to your own body. When the Supreme Experience supervenes, everyone’s service is revealed as one’s own service. Call it a bird, an insect, an animal or a man, call it by any name you please, one serves one’s own Self in every one of them.” — Anandamayi Ma

19. “One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is not so cheap, to reach to the ultimate realization of truth. You will have to create the path by walking yourself; the path is not ready-made, lying there and waiting for you. It is just like the sky: the birds fly, but they don’t leave any footprints. You cannot follow them; there are no footprints left behind.” ― Osho

20. “The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.“ — Daniel Defoe

21. “Instant enlightenment is to give all your happiness away to others.” ― David Deida

22. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” ― Lao Tzu

23. “You create a path of your own by looking within yourself and listening to your soul, cultivating your own ways of experiencing the sacred and then practicing it. Practicing until you make it a song that sings you.” ― Sue Monk Kidd

24. “The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.” — Rabindranath Tagore

25. “The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware; joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” — Henry Miller

Positive Spiritual Quotes To Uplift You

1. “Remain faithful to the Light of your soul even when it is hidden by clouds.” — Sri Aurobindo

2. “Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.” — Hermann Hesse

3. “When you realize there is no lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” — Lao Tzu

4. “Even if you are considered to be the most sinful of all sinners, when you are situated in the boat of transcendental knowledge, you will be able to cross over the ocean of miseries.” — Bhagavad Gita 4.36

5. “If you want to really know higher dimensions of life, there needs to be a constant sense of peacefulness and joyfulness within you.” — Sadhguru

6. “Spiritual process is not for the dead or the dying; it is for the living who want to become fully alive in all dimensions of life.” — Sadhguru

7. “My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.” ― Albert Einstein

8. “On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.” — Bhagavad Gita

9. “Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” — Mahatma Gandhi

10. “Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.” — Vincent McNabb

11. “All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do any thing and everything, without even the guidance of any one. Stand up and express the divinity within you.” — Swami Vivekananda

12. “We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.” — Calvin Coolidge

13. “The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.” ― Anais Nin

14.“Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.” — Thich Nhat Hanh

15. “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.” ― Rumi

16. “In a quiet place, close your eyes, take a deep breath, and go inward. Place your attention on your heart, in the center of your chest. Sit quietly and easily let your attention remain there.” — Deepak Chopra

17. “Actions do not cling to me because I am not attached to their results. Those who understand this and practice it live in freedom.” — Bhagavad Gita

18. “This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor…Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.” ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

19. “Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.” — Alan Watts

20. “The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not.” — Mooji

21. “You are either living fully, giving your gift in the midst of those challenges, even today, or you are waiting for an imaginary future which will never come.” — David Deida

22. “Believe in yourself, your abilities and your own potential. Never let self-doubt hold you captive. You are worthy of all that you dream of and hope for.” ― Roy Bennett

23. “When I look inside and see that I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I look outside and see that I am everything, that is love. And between these two, my life turns.” — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

24. “One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.” ― William Feather

25. “Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.” — Gautama Buddha

To Conclude

I hope these spirituality quotes have inspired you to stay on the spiritual path and keep searching for the answers.