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

38 quotes

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

“Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It comes from the mind’s mysterious instinct to believe that pain is good, or that it cannot be escaped, o…”

— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com

Tagged: Suffering, Pain, Moving On, forgiveness

“When the brain lights up, its activity is like a radio lighting up when music is played. It is an obvious fallacy to say that the radio composed the music. What is being viewed is only a physical correlation, not a cause.”

— Deepak Chopra, huffingtonpost.com

Tagged: Philosophy, Psychology, The Person You'll Become

“Every great change is preceded by chaos.”

— Deepak Chopra, goodreads.com

Tagged: Change, Chaos, Being Lost, inspiration

“Sometimes the greatest truth isn't in the confession but rather in the lesson learned.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

Tagged: Life

“The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, How to be good at love

“Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

Tagged: Writing, Writers, How to be a writer

“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Survival, Suffering

“Do you realize that your refusal to utter the word 'love' to your lover has created a force field all its own? Withholding distorts reality. It makes the people who do the withholding ugly and small-hearted. It makes the people from whom things are withheld crazy and desperate and incapable of knowi…”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, How to be good at love