Top 1200 Profound Spiritual Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.

You must have courage to love, you have to have a profound will to do what is right to love, and it does not come easy.

Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.

The prevailing theory of capitalism suffers from one central and disabling flaw, a profound distrust and incomprehension of capitalism.

Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have - and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with the superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are true levellers. They give to all, who faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence of the best and greatest of our race.

To watch how lovingly your children parent their own children is to know profound achievement.

Nothing may truly be said to be a miracle except in the profound sense that everything is a miracle.

Spiritual power is a force which history clearly teaches has been the greatest force in the development of men. Ye. we have been merely playing with it and never have really studied it as we have the physical forces. Some day people will learn that material things do not bring happiness, and are of little use in making people creative and powerful. Then the scientists of the world will turn their laboratories over to the study of spiritual forces which have hardly been scratched.

The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence

I had never really thought of myself as a baby person, but it's just a really profound connection.

My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life.

Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.

A man of independent judgment is a man of profound self-esteem.

There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.

Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.

A lot of the dysfunction that exists underneath the surface of a lot of big business corporations is really profound.

You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.

True spiritual knowledge has sometimes flourished most grandly in some who were without eloquence and almost illiterate. And this is very clearly shown by the case of the Apostles and many holy men, who did not spread themselves out with an empty show of leaves, but were bowed down by the weight of the true fruits of spiritual knowledge: of whom it is written in Acts: 'But when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were ignorant and unlearned men, they were astonished' (Acts 4:13).

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

Don't be a half-Christian. There are too many of such in the world. The world has a profound respect for people who are sincere in their faith.

Dreams provide a kind of wisdom of the heart, an echoing voice of a profound human sensitivity too often lost to us in the reasonable life of days.

I love black. Anything black transforms lives in a profound way, particularly for women.

Authenticity is fundamental, more fundamental than spiritual enlightenment. Without authenticity, no genuine spiritual enlightenment is possible. Authenticity is the state of being committed to truth. Truth is simple. And no matter how simply a truth is stated, only those who have walked the path of understanding and evolution on their own can know and understand it authentically. The path of truth is the path least traveled. Authenticity is the clarity of being in which there is no self-deceit.

I don't believe that songwriting has to be profound, but I truly believe that it's a crime for you to go outta your way for it not to be.

I have a profound affection for Buddhism, and Zen Buddhism's particular ways of meditating.

When an animal dies, it gives you the chance to love another animal. That's an insightful and profound way to look at it.

Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.

Ancient wisdom offers . . . a simple yet profound formula to guide everyone who leads, anyone who aspires to leadership: 'Do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly.'

That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.

Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound.

Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.

If psychoanalysis was late 19th century secular Judaism’s way of finding spiritual meaning in a post-religious world, and retail is the late 20th century’s way of finding spiritual meaning in a post-religious world, what does it mean that I’m impersonating the father of psychoanalysis in a store window to commemorate a religious holiday?

In my path, three things are really important. One is associating with people who inspire us with their positive influence. The company we keep is very important. Number two is our spiritual practice. Putting aside sacred time every day to make that journey within, to tune into the frequency of our true nature and the love and the grace that is within us. Number three is to try living with ethical, moral and spiritual values, which culminates in unselfish service.

In his scientific genius, man has wrought material miracles and has transformed his world. He has harnassed nature and has developed great civilizations. But he has never learned very well how to live with himself. The values he has created have been predominantly materialistic; his spiritual values have lagged far behind. He has demonstrated little spiritual genius and has made little progress toward the realization of human brotherhood. In the contemporary atomic age, this could prove man's fatal weakness.

Hurricane Katrina touched our customers, communities we serve, and our associates in a profound way.

Your dreams are always going to seem much more profound to you then they are to your friend.

There is a profound difference between an activist judge and an engaged judge.

There is nothing compared to the feeling of losing life. The moment when you are close to death is nothing but a profound experience.

All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence.

I speak often about my personal experiences with malaria in the field as a young public health officer because it had such a profound impact on my life and my work.

I'm connected with a lot of different paranormal groups out there worldwide, a lot of different spiritual people. My networking over the course of the past 40 years has really grown where I deal with quite a bit. There's a lot of work that I do behind-the-scenes that I just don't ever talk about or things that don't always come to the forefront as far as investigating and getting involved with spiritual people, meaning any type of clergy, because I do work with a lot of them behind-the-scenes.

I consider Otto Rank to be one of the great spiritual giants of the twentieth century, a genius as a psychologist and a saint as a human being. Though vilified by his original community of Freudians, he never became bitter. He died a feminist and deeply committed to social justice, in 1939....His deep understanding of creativity makes him a mentor for all of us living in a postmodern world....I believe that Art and Artist, especially chapters 12 to 14, may well emerge as the most valuable psychoanalysis of the spiritual life in our time.

The saddest symptom about many so-called Christians is the utter absence of anything like conflict and fight against spiritual apathy in their Christianity. They eat, they drink, they dress, they work, they amuse themselves, they get money, they spend money, they go through a brief round of formal religious services once or twice every week. But of the great spiritual warfare - its watchings and strugglings, its agonies and anxieties, its battles and contests - of all things they appear to know nothing at all. Let us take care that this case is not our own.

I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.

I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.

Dying away from home, away from the soil of your birth - and to do so unseen and unmourned - is a profound horror.

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

Whether you reach a lot of people or have a profound impact on a few people, their memories of you are your afterlife.

Our rich and varied cultural heritage has a profound power to help build our nation

It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement. When this comes to be realized man's journey toward higher and more lasting values will show more marked progress while the evil in him recedes into the background. Knowing that material and spiritual progress are essential to man, we must ceaselessly work for the equal attainment of both. Only then shall we be able to acquire that absolute inner calm so necessary to our well-being.

True joy is a profound remembering; and true grief the same.

James Clerk Maxwell's [work is the] most profound and the most fruitful.

Nothing profound ever happens in your life when you remain in your comfort zone.

Get in touch with nature. The stillness of nature is profound and yet subtle.

Companies that are design-led understand that design is not a deliverable; it is a profound manifestation of the human spirit.

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.