Spiritual quotes are encouragement from divine masters who have expressed their love and wisdom trying to help everyone who walks the same path they did. You are brave to even be remotely interested in such wild things. What are you even doing here :). Anyways here’s some love from brave fools like you. These are some of my favorite quotes from my favorite teachers that have been helping me immensely on my own spiritual journey. Hope you find some light as well.
“You have to be an original individual; you have to find your innermost core on your own, with no guide, no guiding scriptures. It is a dark night, but with the intense fire of inquiry you are bound to come to the sunrise. Everybody who has burned with intense inquiry has found the sunrise. Others only believe. Those who believe are not religious, they are simply avoiding the great adventure of religion by believing.” ~ Rajneesh
The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness of divinity. So it is that we must weather that dark time, the period of transformation when what is familiar has been taken away and the new richness is not yet ours. ~ Ram Dass
“There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” ~ Carl Jung
“In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.” ~ John of the Cross
“The dark night of the soul is a journey into light, a journey from your darkness into the strength and hidden resources of your soul.” ~ Caroline Myss
“Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol’ dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes!”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in the lives of all of us, and of the saints, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints. Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.” ~ Flannery O’Connor
“A Prayer Refuse to fall down If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down. If you cannot refuse to stay down, lift your heart toward heaven, and like a hungry beggar, ask that it be filled. You may be pushed down. You may be kept from rising. But no one can keep you from lifting your heart toward heaven only you. It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good came of this, is not yet listening.” ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Quan Yin, also spelled Guanyin or Kuan Yin, is a bodhisattva in East Asian Buddhism, particularly revered in Chinese Buddhism. She is considered to be the Goddess of compassion and mercy. So if you need some compassion for yourself or those you care about, invoking her name, will help you immensely on your journey towards happiness and peace.
In Sanskrit, her name is Padma-pâni, which means “Born of the Lotus” She is seen often depicted with a lotus flower. That is important, cause if you connect to her energy, you may start seeing lotus flower signs appearing around you, as a confirmation that she is there with you.
Lotus flower of course is viewed as a symbol of spiritual enlightenment and connecting deeply to this powerful imagery, might bring more light into your life. Flowers always do, but this is mystical and goes so deep, you’ll find yourself feeling the light shine so brightly in your heart. You feel the energy already in you as you read, you don’t just land on this type of message without being ready and open to receive.
Guanyin is short for Guanshiyin, which means “The One Who Perceives the Sounds of the World, referring to the fact that she hears everyone who is asking for her help and guidance. Imagine being this in love with everyone on the planet.
She is the supreme Goddess, viewed as the female version of Avalokiteśvara, a bodhisattva who embodies the compassion of all the Buddhas. He’s the one looking over every being with great love and will be here until every single soul has also reached enlightenment.
So this is high energy, spiritual awakening, heart breaking open love flowing towards you. What does enlightenment mean to you ? How do you see yourself on this path? Connecting to these ideas and Gods, opens you up to the energy more and more. This isn’t just an article, it’s love in motion. How do you feel now? Close your eyes and feel your energy.
What do you bring to this light filled space? What do you need healing from? What is your question? Let the Goddess help you find your answers and soothe your loving heart. If you are here, I am sure you are on a brink of a beautiful change and your life will start new. I wish you great peace and joy as you walk you sacred path.
Quan Yin is You
She is the embodiment of all things good and we really are the same as her but we’re on a path of remembering that. Are you a goddess of compassion and ultimate perfect devotion. Think about it, don’t just be quick to say no…ponder all the ways in which you do embody perfect love and kindness, those sweet and short moments where you let love guide you. Even as a man, you have the divine feminine within you as active as all women, we are all both divinely masculine and feminine. So are you the expression of Quan Yin love here on Earth? Are you on the way of becoming even closer to her love and ever joyful spirit?
Open my Heart
Let’s spend a few moments here together, dear friend. Looking at her image and receiving all her love, melting in this pure energy of healing that flows. Find a quiet space and listen to some beautiful music, light a candle and just meditate for a few minutes in the love that Quan Yin brings. It’s never ending, forgiving everything, purifying like a sweet water that flows over you. You are well, you are loved.
May the Gods be with you always!
I found a beautiful playlist dedicated to the Goddess Kuan Yin, I am listening to it as I write now. It melts my heart. It’s really wonderful. Hope it brings you peace and serenity. Lotus flowers all around you.
Please send me a message if you see lotus flowers appearing in your day in any meaningful way.
I wish you great compassion and may all your heart’s desires become true.
Spiritual quotes from Carlos Castaneda’s books, inspired by his time spend as an apprentice to Don Juan, a yaqui Indian and great enlightened teacher. I recommend any of his works. The first book of the 12 is The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge and get ready to have your reality altered. If you’re open, I promise , the energy of the books will change you and give you powerful clarity.
Beyond the actual words and teachings, the books shine a lot of light and a deep subtle knowledge that will raise your awareness to new heights. In the meantime, here are some of my favorite quotes from Don Juan. How do they make you feel? Notice the swirls of energy that are flowing to you as you read. It’s magic.
For me books are alive and the message is vibrant and moving me as I read. Go deep into the words and find yourself as the great shaman that you have always been.
Spiritual quotes from the Teachings of Don Juan
“You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”
“We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same”
“A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn’t it is of no use.”
“If one is to succeed in anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.”
“A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance.”
“Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete.”
“The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.”
“Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you’re about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you’re wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, ‘I haven’t touched you yet.
We are luminous beings. We are perceivers. We are an awareness; we are not objects; we have no solidity. We are boundless. The world of objects and solidity is a way of making our passage on earth convenient. It is only a description that was created to help us. We, or rather our reason, forget that the description is only a description and thus we entrap the totality of ourselves in a vicious circle from which we rarely emerge in our lifetime.”
“You take yourself too seriously, ” he said slowly. “You are too damn important in your own mind. That must be changed! You are so goddamn important that you feel justified to be annoyed with everything. You’re so damn important that you can afford to leave if things don’t go your way. I suppose you think that shows you have character. That’s nonsense! You’re weak, and conceited!”
“Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.”
“The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.”
Spiritual awakening process…there’s no dignity to it. You will feel so silly and always under the waves. It’s the most humbling you will ever feel again and again, it destroys all your ego spells you may be under and you’ll be nothing but clumsy, silly, and you’ll be feeling very lost and not like your old self while you embark on your spiritual wake journey. Sure the end result is great wisdom and you will have great big moments of clear but it’s so mixed up with moments of utter confusion that it’s best you don’t let that hard earned wisdom get to your head. It takes about 10 years for the light to settle in, for a spiritual seeker to gain some spiritual maturity and for them to start feeling more comfortable in this whirlwind of great energy.
So meditation helps with that, immensely. You will still struggle and you will make so many mistakes, but having quiet time everyday makes it somehow less sad. That’s it. That why you meditate, to make yourself less sad while you go trough seriously sad things.
You will be gasping for air while you go trough the dark night of the soul and having a solid spiritual practice is a way to breathe. Thing is that while you’re on fire and goring trough hard things, you won’t really want to do high level practices. You can’t have a two hour meditation session every day while your whole life is upside down. You will want to focus on making that life better, doing things to fix it. That’s the paradox, you can’t. The more you will do the more it will fall apart and it will break your heart in pieces again and again. This is when the only thing , THE ONLY THING that will make you feel better will be sitting in a quiet space for a while by yourself while your mind settles and your heart opens and you feel the light. A nature walk o a dance session, spending time getting lost in something bigger than you is the best medicine for all your troubles.
You become a stranger in your own life and the only thing that makes sense is that incredible beauty that woke you up a while ago and keeps shinning trough all the mess. And there’s hope that when the clouds clear, and they will , you will be left with this beauty of yours and you will be free and peaceful within your own little world and life will feel kind and sweet.
So if you feel that you are waking up , that it has already began for you. I suggest that instead of trying to compensate for everything that is going wrong, you meditate, a lot, way more than you already are. You have to let your old life go, all things that truly matter to you will remain but you are changing and becoming new and you need clarity and light to take you there. So please, take good care of your energy by doing things that make you feel good. Anything that wakes up your spirit in you, do more of that and less of the things that don’t.
You don’t need to drop everything at once, don’t quit your job ….yet. But slowly and gently do more of what you truly love to do. The arts….what is your favorite form of making pretty things? Do you love to cook, do you love nature, do you love music? So many things can be a meditation and a way to go deeper within your spirit. And you need at least 5 a day. 5 different way to dwell in your inspiration.
It can be a session of light exercise, making a drawing, doing a ritual of clearing the house, a purifying bath , reading something deeply spiritual, chanting a mantra, an actual meditation. I like to sing and moving my body is super important to me. I cannot go without a serious qi gong practice everyday. I need it to function. If I don’t do these things, I get stuck, things around don’t flow like they usually do. I am less inclined to like things, I am more moody and anxious. I get upset more easily. If I don’t nurture my connection to spirit, my life is less beautiful.
That’s why having a meditation practice matters. It’s your way back home. It’s who you really are. Those glimpses of light, that’s you and why wouldn’t you want to get back to that perfect light again and again. Walk the path with grace. Keep your head up. You are beyond extraordinary and your beauty shines trough all you do every day. I see you and trust me , you will be happy and wise. Dare to awaken and become your highest , sweetest, funniest , kindest version of yourself.
