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
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.”
