Top 1200 Spiritual Masters Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

I think when you can beat Novak Djokovic in the final of a Masters tournament, you are going to be OK.

I got to a point where kind of a oneness with everything and a great compassion. It teaches you compassion. It was a great, enlightening experience, a spiritual experience. Not particularly religious, but spiritual. It was great. I can still go there.

I'd like to win the Masters and the PGA and complete the career Grand Slam.

People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are the last people who should be sitting out the social and political issues of our day. And there’s an important reason for this: People on such journeys are adepts at change. They know that the mechanics of the heart and mind are the fundamental drivers of transformation.

Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life.

Somehow, conductor as this superhuman conduit between the masters and the masterpieces and the immortals.

No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.

The French were always masters at mid-range. And I like the attitude.

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.

There is absolutely nothing humorous at the Masters. Here, small dogs do not bark and babies do not cry.

Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.

Bill Belichick and Tom Brady are the masters of finding something that you didn't suspect.

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

Jedi Masters do not crack up- they just get eccentric.- Luke Skywalker

The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts.

A revolution is to bring on change and we're spiritual people trying to bring on spiritual change. It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago.

Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

The final group, on Sunday at the Masters, is the greatest feeling in the world for a professional golfer.

Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to be avoided, spiritual poverty is to be abhorred. For it is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

Mystery is like a kind of atmosphere which bathes the greatest works of the masters.

People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women.

At my first Masters, I got the feeling, that if I didn't play well, I wouldn't go to heaven.

The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

It's always great to work with masters, people who are really, truly good at what they do.

There are no victims in the universe, only creators. The Masters who have walked this planet all knew this.

The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour.

I think that voodoo as a spiritual tradition has been demonized for so long in popular culture. I wanted to write against that and write a character who practiced that spiritual tradition who was not evil and intent on creating zombies or causing pain through voodoo dolls or whatever.

Character is revealed in the power to discern the suffering of other people when we ourselves are suffering; in the ability to detect the hunger of others when we are hungry; and in the power to reach out and extend compassion for the spiritual agony of others when we are in the midst of our own spiritual distress.

Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.

All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead of their own purpose attach to the spiritual leader and become fanatical and controlling. That's why Jesus tried to tell his followers not to get attached to outward form.

My mother's a very spiritual woman, and I think Pentecostal religion, Bible religion, was very important to her because it gave her a context for a very spiritual approach to life.

When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters.

Humility is essential to the acquiring of spiritual knowledge. To be humble is to be teachable. Humility permits you to be tutored by the Spirit and to be taught from sources inspired by the Lord, such as the scriptures. The seeds of personal growth and understanding germinate and flourish in the fertile soil of humility. Their fruit is spiritual knowledge to guide you here and hereafter.

People have had to make up for their spiritual impoverishment by accumulating material things. When spiritual blessings come, material blessings seem unimportant. As long as we desire material things this is all we receive, and we remain spiritually impoverished.

Ill fares the State where many masters rule; let one be lord, one king supreme.

The best-run churches and organizations are masters of the midcourse correction. They plan in pencil.

Only the strongest players can swim in the shark-infested waters of the Masters' Seas.

We all can be masters at our craft, but you have to make sacrifices that come along with making that decision.

Sad to say I’m missing the Masters. Thanks to the fans for so many kind wishes.

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

Carl Sagan's 'Pale Blue Dot' is where I got the title 'Momentary Masters.'

I have done masters in Political Science but deep down in my heart I wanted to be a dancer.

And so I came to understand why some masters sometimes say, "You are already enlightened."

Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.

The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters.

It is dangerous for a spiritual master to accept almost any aspirant. Although it is an aspect of mercy, it is dangerous. The danger also depends on the spiritual potency of the particular guru. Without sufficient potency, a few offensive or faithless disciples can lead to the guru's fall.

Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.

The person who masters himself through self-control and discipline is truly undefeatable.

Faith in the continuance and enhancement of the intrinsic values--faith in truth, in beauty, in friendship, in love and harmony of life--in short, faith in reason and the worth of spiritual life--such faith is only another name for faith in the persistence of spiritual individuality. For, I repeat, these values are real only as functions of personal experience and deed. To have faith in the permanence of intrinsic values is to assume the enduring reality of selves who know truth, feel beauty, who love and win spiritual harmony.

I want people to know that they are the masters, the queens, kings, and gods of their own story.

I love working with people who can teach me, because they're masters of the same business I'm in.

The spiritual in my art is giving up control. My paintings are based on what I can do, and what I can do is not controlled. So I give up control, and that's the spiritual aspect of the work - taking what comes and relinquishing control. Although they look very controlled, they're really not, because it's all poured paint.

I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that sense 'English Music' is an exercise in the spiritual as well as the material. I have always been attracted to the Gothic and spiritual imagination, and I've always been interested in visionaries.

For me, yeah, that's going to be my big goal to win a Masters or Grand Slams.

Perhaps I failed, but I did my best, These masters of mine may do the rest.

Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.

From kings to cobblers 'tis the same; Bad servants wound their masters' fame.

The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritual experience does not, or must not, enter into the intelligible texture of philosophy. The pulp of the fruit must consist of nothing but the truth.

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.