"He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate."
– Henry David Thoreau
"At all costs we must re-establish faith in spiritual values. We must worship something beyond ourselves, lest we destroy ourselves."
– Sir Philip Gibbs
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious – the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science."
– Albert Einstein
"The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself."
– Anais Nin
"Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not."
– Deepak Chopra
"I close my eyes in order to see."
– Paul Gauguin
"At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it."
– Thích Nhất Hạnh
"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
"Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."
– Carl Jung
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
– Socrates
"It isn’t until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are – not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within – that you can begin to take control."
– Oprah Winfrey
"Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not."
– Deepak Chopra
"It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."
– Mahatma Gandhi
"Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force."
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
"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
"You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible."
– Deepak Chopra
"Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are."
– José Saramago
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable."
– Michel de Montaigne
"Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you."
– Eckhart Tolle
"You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple."
– Anthony de Mello
"Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself."
– Hermann Hesse
"Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it."
– Jack Kornfield