81 Quotes About Spiritual-transformation

Matched with prayer, memorizing scripture enables you to speak to and hear from God wherever you go.

Your faith strengthens and your wisdom increases when you meditate on God's Word.

Responding to God's Word is the spark that activates God's power to complete His good work in you and through you.

The reason that you cannot feel any progress in yourself is that you cannot feel spiritual. There is no such thing as a person’s feeling spiritual. That is as impossible as feeling that you are honest or feeling that you are moral.

Everydayness perfumes the depth of life, the huge ocean where all are interconnected, and makes your life mature. Then a new life arises from the depth and appears on the surface. So, by taking care of everydayness, you don’t make just the surface mature; you also make the depth of your life mature.

The reason that you cannot feel any [spiritual] progress in yourself is that you cannot feel spiritual. There is no such thing as a person’s feeling spiritual. That is as impossible as feeling that you are honest or feeling that you are moral.

We have the assurance of the enlightened beings that reality is goodness, that reality is freedom from suffering, that reality is bliss. So we should never fear to open ourselves to reality, to cast aside our preconceptions and biases, and to open more and more to whatever turns out to be real. You can have faith in enlightenment, faith in evolutionary potential, faith in infinity, faith in your infinite self. (p. 222)

Serious spiritual practice is more than serene walks in the woods, lit candles and incense. You have to be committed. You have to be willing to enter into your own darkness and transcend it.

A unifying factor between the different traditions and lineages of Tantra, is that it is feminine in nature. It acknowledges the feminine as the basis from which all the practices spring. Therefore, Tantra is by its nature, the understanding that all phenomenal existence, the universe, or cosmos, that we experience is feminine in nature.