“Sages speak of the immutable Tree of Life, with its tape root above and its branches below.”
“I'm aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the spirit world look after me.”
“When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.”
“Wherever you go, you will always bear yourself about with you, and so you will always find yourself.”
“Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?”
“Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality.”
“All spiritual disciplined are done with a view to still the mind. The perfectly still mind is universal spirit.”
“But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.”
“The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth”
“You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.”
“He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.”
“In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.”
“There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.”
“All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.”
“You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.”
“The one who count are those persons who-though they may be of little renown-respond to and are responsible for the continuation of the living spirit.”
“He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”
“What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed?”
“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.”
“If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?”
“The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.”
“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.”
“There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.”
“This latter day work is spiritual. It takes spirituality to comprehend it, to love it, to discern it. Therefore, seek the spirit in all you do. Keep it with you continually. That is our challenge.”
“The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.”
“The adept may reach one of those rare moments that spell illumination -- aware of the light of the consciousness that illumines our consciousness as the sun dawns on the sleeping earth and bathes it in effulgence.”
“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.”