Quotes and Sayings about Spirituality

For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life.

You live among this ridiculous wealth and you get lost. You worry about nonsense like spirituality and inner health and satisfaction and relationships. You have no idea what it is like to starve, to watch yourself turn to bones.

When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up - it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.

Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.

That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.

There's something overwhelming about being in raw nature. It's got an aura about it is that is really kind of majestic and spiritual.

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.

I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.

When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Being different isn't a bad thing. It means you're brave enough to be yourself.

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.

We can be only who we are; no more, no less.

I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It's because of them I did it myself.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

Don't let anyone, ever, make you feel like you don't deserve what you want.

What other people think of you is none of your business.

Don't ever let someone tell you, you can't do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you got to protect it. People can't do something themselves, they want to tell you you can't do it. You want something, go get it. Period. All right?

Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that!

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside, while still alive. Never surrender!

If you can dream it, you can do it!

Songs are as sad as the listener.

The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us.

The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly Truth comes by and puts them out.

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

Hope could be a wonderful thing. But hope could crush you anew every single day. Hope could be the cruelest thing in the world.

Those who believe that we are anything other than animals are blind. All humans are savages. The ones who are well fed are just lazier. They don't need to kill to get their food. So they dress up and find so-called loftier pursuits that make them believe that they are somehow above it all. Such nonsense. Savages are just hungrier. That was all. You do horrible things to survive. Anyone who believes that they are above that is delusional.

You'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.

Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart.

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

Time travel is a fantasy we all have. The 'Back to the Future' series really exploits that wish.

I think that music, being an expression of the human heart, or of the human being itself, does express just what is happening - the whole of human experience at the particular time that it is being expressed.

Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.

Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do.

Hell is empty, devils are here!

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective - people who know to see a problem as an opportunity.

A true leader does what is right, no matter what others think.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.