Top 1200 Spiritual Masters Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

When people say do you believe in God? what do they mean by it? Do I believe in some spiritual force in the world? In a way, yes. People have thoughts, emotions. If you want to call that a spiritual force, okay. But unless there's some clarification of what we're supposed to believe in or disbelieve in, I can't answer.

It is far easier, though not very easy, to develop and preserve a spiritual outlook on life than it is to make our everyday actions harmonize with that spiritual outlook. For though we may renounce the world for ourselves, refuse the attempt to get anything out of it, we have to accept it as the sphere in which we are to co-operate with the Spirit, and try to do the Will.

The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.

Religious life is not going to go away. It will take a different form. Why am I so sure it's not going to go away? Because there are people whose personalities and gifts, and interests and soul, are simply immersed in living this kind of a spiritual lifestyle. That only makes sense. If you can live an artistic lifestyle, why can't somebody live a spiritual lifestyle? We've always, in every single great tradition, had a percentage of the population that stands in the middle of us being the beacon that calls us to realize that the spiritual life is an essential part of every life.

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.

A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet our religious traditions are intellectually defunct and politically ruinous. While spiritual experience is clearly a natural propensity of the human mind, we need not believe anything on insufficient evidence to actualize it.

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.

If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.

There are certainly loads of players that I admire; I try to learn from all of the great masters both of the past and contemporary as well.

Are you aware that your spirit needs to be fed? Did you know that your spirit would be delighted to partake in a feast of spiritual food? How about a plate full of prayer? Or maybe a few hours of succulent self-reflection. Perhaps a piping-hot selection of spiritual literature, served by the side of a lake or under a tree, would satisfy your spiritual hunger. Can you imagine feasting for a few hours on spiritually uplifting music? What about some forgiveness à la mode, topped with compassion? You cannot imagine how much your spirit would enjoy it.

Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.

Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

The Masters runs deep in my heart; it's a love affair that I've had since I was a little boy with that tournament, that club.

None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.

My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate).

Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.

Looking back on it now, I felt that I was blessed much like the masters, I guess - the guys who wrote the concertos.

There were times in my career when I felt like I was serving several different masters, and for me, that wasn't beneficial.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and Infinite love is the only truth; everything else is an illusion.

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

I watched Picasso visit the Planet of the Apes, as the masters rot on walls and the angels eat the grapes.

I think all of this jogging and everything else shows the people want to be masters of their own bodies and environment.

I'm a fan of musicals from great masters, and I was able to have an opportunity to express myself in musical numbers with Glee.

I modeled my work after contemporary masters of art house cinema but felt my voice was missing.

My music is not for everyone. It's only for the stong-willed, the [street] soldiers music. It's not like party music- I mean, you could gig to it, but it's spiritual. My musi is spiritual. It's like Negro spiituals, except for the fact that I'm not saying 'We shall Overcome.' I'm saying that we are overcome.

Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.

It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty; they haven't learned everything and they know it.

I have my Masters degree in international relations, banking job experience with Citibank, and I have also worked in developmental organisations.

The Lord put it clearly: you cannot serve two masters. You have to choose between God and money.

If we’re going to strive for spiritual growth, we have to be willing to put concepts into practice in our everyday lives, in all relationships with all people. You can’t separate your “spiritual life” from your “work life.” They’re both your life! In the same vein, you can’t separate money and happiness.

I got my undergrad in Creative Writing, and then I didn't get my Masters in obsession, because I figured I already had that covered.

I am intrigued by different religions and respect them all, but to be honest, I feel the most spiritual when I am doing yoga or looking at an ocean. Being spiritual is feeling a connection with a higher power and knowing that life is about more than just achieving goals. It is about feeling good in the moment.

Many people hope a spiritual practice will let them avoid what they are ashamed of. But when you hide something from yourself, you are going to project it onto your world. You continually find it in others and it becomes the source of prejudices and dogmatic views. On top of that, you feel bad about yourself, because you aren't the loving, open-minded, "spiritual" person you'd like to be.

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.

Spiritual awareness is not only one of the keys to the healing process. Spiritual awareness is the only way that healing can occur.

If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.

There is no prize in sales for second place. It's win or nothing. The masters know this and strive for - they fight for - that winning edge.

We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible.

In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.

It's disingenuous to... pretend the sources of our money don't impact the policy we write - you just can't serve two masters.

How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

Many people can reach for and achieve excellence. To do this consistently is what separates masters and geniuses from everyone else.

Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.

Soul-the spiritual principle, the creative spark of God-cannot work if you panic. Anxiety shuts down the creative centers. When you can't think, whatever you try to do becomes one blunder piled upon another. If you slow down, the spiritual principle can begin working through you so that you can figure out the solution to the problem that is bothering you.

I'd like to be an academic, a philosophy lecturer if possible. I'd do a Masters in Ancient Hebrew maybe, and a Ph.D. hopefully, if I get in.

There are so many great players on the men's - and women's - side. Hopefully I can keep improving and eventually play in the Masters.

The fame aspect of winning the Masters... besides being married and becoming a father, that's a strong third there.

Yes, the Masters is too stylish to be an American icon. It's as out of character for Uncle Sam as a McDonald's is for France.

Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.

Try not to be concerned with it. It's a spiritual thing. Don't look for the results, don't live in the payoff. Live in the moment which is a spiritual principle. Live in the moment and let the results take care of themselves. It's in the hands of God. The rest is all ego. And I have learned, over the years, it's got nothing to do with me. As my life is none of my business.

If spiritual science is to do the same for spirit that natural science has done for nature, it must investigate quite differently from the latter. It must find ways and means of penetrating into the sphere of the spiritual, a domain which cannot be perceived with outer physical senses nor apprehended with the intellect which is bound to the brain.

No sublime wisdom asks to be worshipped or served; the greatest and the most honourable masters are those who refuse to have slaves!

It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters.

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

If you're a director and you pay homage to Japan, you're definitely going to remember what you've learned from watching the Japanese masters' films.

I'd met so many enlightened spiritual teachers that it became a challenge to select one. I believed in the oneness of spirituality - unconditional love for God, and unconditional compassion for the beings of this world - but I also understood that unless I chose a particular path, I couldn't focus and take blessings from teachers that would allow me to have deep realizations and spiritual experiences.

On the shining yards of heaven See a wider dawn unfurled. . . . The eternal slaves of beauty Are the masters of the world.