Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation.

The body in its masculinity and femininity has been called "from the beginning" to become the manifestation of the spirit. The body, in fact, and only the body, is capable of making visible what is invisible: the spiritual and the divine.

A true spiritual seeker should exercise control all the time, throughout the day and night.

We do meditation, spiritual practices in this temporary body. Though this body is temporary, you have to use temporary things to realize the Truth.

I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play, but in the spiritual arena there are people who are even closer to me than that.

We need a guide and teacher in spiritual life just as much as in material life.

Devote yourself sincerely to spiritual practice. You must enter into the inner life.

Meditation is a glorious link to connect and harmonize the two ends of life - material and spiritual.

If you have enough faith, you can give up money and possessions. God will give you everything you need for your spiritual development.

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

Group Meditation is a castle that protects the new spiritual aspirants as well as the veteran meditators. Meditating together increases the degree of Self-realization of each member of the group by the law of invisible vibratory exchange of group magnetism.

Look within. Within you is the hidden God. Within you is the immortal soul. Within you is the inexhaustible spiritual treasure. Within you is the ocean of bliss. Look within for the happiness which you have sought in vain.

Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes, but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life.

With spiritual growth comes new creative potential, leading to the realization that you are pure potential, able to fill any creative impulse.

Bhakti yoga is the science of transforming material into spiritual by harmonizing our relationships, talents, and property in devotion to the Lord.

The great spiritual masters all seem to say that it’s God’s will alone—Thy will be done. It is God’s will which is working through everything, not ours.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

You can live in the world and yet be spiritual. To be spiritual means to be aware of the Reality all the time.

Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.

Fearlessness is very important. One should constantly remain in spiritual delight, so that no fear is entertained. Fearlessness comes from knowing that God is with us, and that we are with God.

The strongest of us are those that are spiritually strong, and a spiritual warrior is one of vulnerability.

Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.

The moral task of man is a process of spiritualization. All creatures are go-betweens, and we are placed in time that by diligence in spiritual business we may grow liker and nearer to God. The aim of man is beyond the temporal - in the serene region of the everlasting Present.