38 Quotes About Spirituality That Prove It's More About Being Human Than Religious

“Religion is for people who're afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who've already been there.”

— Vine Deloria Jr., amazon.com

“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”

— Susan B. Anthony, amazon.com

“If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.”

— Fulton Sheen, amazon.com

“I've always felt like 'love at first sight' is reserved for people who don't have much to say.”

— George Watsky, amazon.com

“I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.”

— Eckhart Tolle, amazon.com

“If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another. The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision. There is no right or wrong, only a series…”

— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com

“We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, amazon.com

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

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, amazon.com

“Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.”

— Brian Weiss, amazon.com

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”

— Carl Sagan, amazon.com

“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.”

— John Lennon, amazon.com

“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, amazon.com

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead —his eyes are closed. The insight into the mystery of life, coupled though…”

— Albert Einstein, amazon.com

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

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, amazon.com

“These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness, and worship without awareness.”

— Anthony DeMello, amazon.com

“Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, amazon.com

“I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“We're all pieces of the same ever-changing puzzle; some connected for mere seconds, some connected for life, some connected through knowledge, some through belief, some connected through wisdom, some through Love, and some connected with no explanation at all. Yet, as spiritual beings having a human…”

— Stanley Victor Paskavich, amazon.com

“Religion is for those who don't want to go to hell, and spirituality is for those who have already been there.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

“Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate.”

— Huang Po, amazon.com

“The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin there, and bring order, and from there move endlessly. But if you are concerned only with making order, then that very order will bring about its own limitation, an…”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti, amazon.com

“We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.”

— John Ortberg Jr., amazon.com

“Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.”

— Oriah Mountain Dreamer, amazon.com

“To live was to be a fragment of the cosmere that was experiencing itself.”

— Brandon Sanderson, amazon.com

“You and your purpose in life are the same thing. Your purpose is to be you.”

— George Alexiou, amazon.com

“Your life is your practice. Your spiritual practice does not occur someplace other than in your life right now, and your life is nowhere other than where you are. You are looking for answers, insight, and wisdom that you already possess. Live the life in front of you, be the life you are, and see wh…”

— Karen Maezen Miller, amazon.com

“This silence, this moment, every moment, if it’s genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There’s nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty. Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, ‘Be more silent.’ Die and be quiet. Quietness is the surest…”

— Rumi, amazon.com

“We are not here to match and homogenize and agree on every point. One size of spirituality does not fit all. We are here to be our divine selves, boldly, passionately, respectfully, to the absolute best of our ability — and this, this is more than enough.”

— Sera Break, goodreads.com

“Each person you meet is an aspect of yourself, clamoring for love.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal, amazon.com

“I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given outlet for expression. People need to accept once and for all that there is only one life and each of us is free to shape it through the choices we make. Seeking can’t get anyone out o…”

— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com