Spiritual Laws Quotes

“There are spiritual laws at work that most people know nothing about. So when others hurt us, our tendency is to strike back because we assume that we must defend ourselves, defend our name, our honor, our career, and so on. In reality we strike back at ourselves. ... What we consider as justifiable defense of our rights may in reality plunge us into a vicious cycle that can undermine our very spiritual foundation. By reacting to aggression with aggression we lose the opportunity to spiritually benefit from the experience. this law also explains why saints, when hit, often would literally turn the other cheek. (Fr. Maximos)”
― Kyriacos C. Markides, The Mountain of Silence: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality

“The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful if man will live the life of nature and not import into his mind difficulties which are none of his. No man need be perplexed in his speculations.

Not less conspicuous is the preponderance of nature over will in all practical life. There is less intention in history than we ascribe to it. We impute deep-laid far-sighted plans to Cæsar and Napoleon; but the best of their power was in nature, not in them.

Our life might be much easier and simpler than we make it; that the world might be a happier place than it is; that there is no need of struggle, convulsions, and despairs, of the wringing of the hands and the gnashing of the teeth; that we miscreate our own evil.

A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events; that our painful labors are unnecessary and fruitless; that only in our easy, simple, spontaneous action are we strong, and by contenting ourselves with obedience we become divine.

No man can learn what he has not preparation for learning, however near to his eyes is the object.

Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for all its pride.

He may see what he maketh. Our dreams are the sequel of our waking knowledge.
The visions of the night bear some proportion to the visions of the day. Hideous dreams are exaggerations of the sins of the day. We see our evil affections embodied in bad physiognomies.

The same reality pervades all teaching. The man may teach by doing, and not otherwise. If he can communicate himself he can teach, but not you words. He teaches who gives, and he learns who receives. There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you and you are he; then is a teaching, and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he never quite lose the benefit.

The effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not that he was great. It look a century or two for that fact to appear. What he did, he did because he must; it was the most natural thing in the world, and grew out of the circumstances of the moment. But now, every thing he did, even to the lifting of his finger or the eating of bread, looks large, all-related, and is called an institution.

We are full of these superstitions of sense, the worship of magnitude. We call the poet inactive, because he is not a president, a merchant, or a porter. We adore an institution, and do not see that it is founded on a thought which we have. But real action is in silent moments. The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of our choice of a calling, our marriage, our acquisition of an office, and the like, but in a silent thought by the wayside as we walk; in a thought which revises our entire manner of life and says,—‘Thus hast thou done, but it were better thus.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When you go against the flow of nature and betray the spiritual laws existing within, there will always be a negative reaction.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Legal and illegal does not necessarily mean good and bad or right and wrong. It simply means that some men in power got together and decided that certain things are “right” while others are “wrong”. So it is largely a matter of perspective; and perspectives tend to change over time.

As such, there seem to be man-made laws from one side and — timeless, universal, almost unwritten — Spiritual laws from another. Assisted by our own logic, reason and morality, us cosmic, visiting travellers who are made of stardust and who happen to be citizens of the Earth for some decades can choose to be guided by the Spiritual laws.”
― Omar Cherif

“She could envision Jesus out on the stormy waves calling her to join him, and not to depend on the laws of nature. She’d just need to keep her focus on the Savior and move forward in these tossing waves. To keep looking down on the watery sprays trying to sink her would be her undoing. As her father understood and often repeated, she now saw the storm warning. “You win some, you lose some.” Could Jesus defy natural endings?”
― Lynn Byk, The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch

“She could envision Jesus out on the stormy waves calling her to join him, and not be distracted by the laws of nature. She’d just need to keep her focus on the Savior and move forward in these tossing waves. To keep focusing on the watery sprays trying to sink her would be her undoing. As her father understood and often repeated, she now saw the storm warning. “You win some, you lose some.” Could Jesus defy natural consequences-gravity?”
― Lynn Byk, The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch

“It truly is gratifying to have morals. Without expecting some divine reward or fearing any retribution, one can indeed be a decent human being who aspires to do the right things.”
― Omar Cherif

“The whole universe, in its essential nature, is the movement of energy and information.”
― Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams

“Quantum Power is transformative. It’s the power to change not just oneself but also to influence the world in a positive way. It’s the power to dream, to aspire, and to achieve. It’s the power to stand up and have a positive impact in your life and in the world, and to be a force for good in a world that needs it today, and will continue to need it if there is a tomorrow.”
― Kevin L. Michel, The 7 Laws of Quantum Power

“Quantum Power is not just good; it’s a vital, life-affirming force. It’s a power that each of us has the potential to tap into, a source of strength that lies waiting within the depths of our own minds and spirits.”
― Kevin L. Michel, The 7 Laws of Quantum Power