The Spiritual Healing Quotes you need to Read to heal and move ahead in Life
Feeling emotionally low has the destructive potential to set your motivation level down to zero for anything in life. The cause may be anything for your hurt, disappointment, or demotivation.
Sometimes you know (exactly) what has let you down, and sometimes, you do not realize (the reason) why or even the fact that you were subconsciously wounded. Feeling depressed and anxious requires professional help. But if the issue does not fall in the retrospect of the clinic, one can often help themselves.
If we somehow feel capable, there is zero harm in giving it a try and re-motivate ourselves by doing little things in life. Allow oneself to avoid one-thing-centric comprehension and explanation. Sometimes, all we need is a little push to open a new door of perspective. This perspective may be the ability to allow oneself to see our existence in a spiritual light.
Many people may think spirituality has something to do with superstition because of various stereotypes and cultural conditioning. But on a precise understanding, it has everything to do with mental functioning and scientific causality. The power of our mind and the ability to control our thought processes and emotions make spirituality plausible and tangible.
Spiritual leaders have constantly been trying to explain the power of the spirit, actively in tune with the power of the mind. With this understanding, they have also said various things that provide answers to many problems in our daily lives, including emotional/mental pain and suffering.
This article has selected words from inspiring spiritual leaders and writers of the world precisely to help you to see things differently and bring positive changes to your perspective and real-life experience. The quotations here may open another point of view for you that could provide a solution to your hardships instantaneously or in some time. You may read and take away what resonates with you.
Dust your knees and keep walking ahead with these 86 spiritual healing quotes for you, based on the broad dimensions of mindfulness, love, faith, and recreation.
1. Spiritual Healing Quotes on Mindfulness
Being aware of your physical existence and the things surrounding you helps you get back to the neutral zone or the equilibrium of your emotions. We often forget our purpose in the emotionally turbulent bubbles formed in us due to external circumstances. To heal yourself from these adverse factors, being in the present and going into your deeper state as maintaining mindfulness helps a lot. Here are some thoughts to meditate upon to get control of your consciousness.
“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”
Ram Dass
“This moment is all there is.”
Rumi
“Only in the here and the now can we touch life deeply.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“Taking the time to meditate is as important as taking the time to breathe. One pumps oxygen into the body, and the other pumps peace into the mind.”
Marianne Williamson
“To achieve anything in life, whether worldly or spiritual in nature, we must first simplify our intention.”
Daaji Kamlesh Patel
“Don’t hate the arising of thoughts or stop the thought that do arise. Simply realise that our original mind, right from the start, is beyond thought, so that no matter what, you never get involved with thoughts. Illuminate original mind, and no other understanding is necessary.”
Zen Master Bankei Yotaku
“When your world moves too fast and you lose yourself in the chaos, introduce yourself to each colour of the sunset. Reacquaint yourself with the earth beneath your feet. Thank the air that surrounds you with every breath you take. Find yourself in the appreciation of life.”
Christy Ann Martin
“Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.”
Eckhart Tolle
“You are trying to walk forward with your head turned backward. That is why you feel miserable. Just let go and live in the moment.”
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
“Whenever you have an important decision to make, you should wait for a few seconds- take a couple of deep breaths and then decide.”
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life.”
Eckhart Tolle
“I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.”
Martin Luther
“What you affirm consciously and feel as true will be made manifest in your mind, body and affairs. Affirm the good and enter into the joy of living.”
Joseph Murphy
“Perhaps, ultimately, spiritual simply means experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly, and seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven, that nothing is separate or extraneous. If you see in this way, everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense. Doing science is spiritual and so is washing the dishes.”
Jon Kabat-Zinn
“The instinct of self-preservation is the strongest instinct of your nature, and it constitutes a most potent, ever present, and constantly operative truth, inherent in your nature.”
Joseph Murphy
“Awareness is the first step in healing.”
Dean Ornish
“To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti
“To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and things go on their own.”
Jack Kornfield
“As we nurture the subtle conditions bestowed during meditation, over time they create a beautiful environment. Imagine what sort of environment can be created at home when we meditate, our family members meditate, and our friends also come home and meditate. There will be so much lightness, peace and joy. Everyone will feel happy in that space.”
Daaji Kamlesh Patel
“The best meditation is effortless. The best meditation is a gentle awareness.”
Maxime Lagacé
“Effort is the key in the relative, effortlessness is the key to the absolute.”
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
“Each of us has a certain amount of illness in our body or in our mind. The best way to heal is to begin by stopping everything and being totally with the present. This lets our body, our mind heal itself. When we pay attention to our breathing, our in-breath and out-breath become peaceful and relaxed. When we just walk without thinking or being carried away by anything, we already begin to heal.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“Intention, attention, manifestation. That is how the universe works.”
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
“The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.”
Caroline Myss
“The practice of mindful breathing is very important. We should not wait until the strong emotion comes in order to practice. We have to train ourselves so that when the emotion comes, naturally you’ll remember to practice.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
What creates emotional turbulence in our consciousness? In a lake of water, energy creates turbulence in the form of waves and ripples. In the lake of consciousness, energy creates turbulence in the form of thoughts, feelings and emotions.”
Daaji Kamlesh Patel
“Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than thoughts and our feelings.”
Arianna Huffington
“Be here now. Be someplace later. Is that so complicated?”
David M. Bader
“Meditation is hanging out with your soul.”
Rachel Ritlop
“Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.”
Swami Muktananda
“I have lived with several Zen masters- all of them cats.”
Eckhart Tolle
2. Spiritual Healing Quotes on Love and Faith
Sometimes, all we need is love and faith in us to heal ourselves. Being grateful, appreciating the good, having patience, trusting the Universe’s plan, showing self-love, forgiving, and humility are all a part of the greater love and faith. These quotes will guide you through your lost way back to your original and natural state of mind.
“To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear.”
Stephen Levine
Eventually you come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.
Gary Zukav
“Love is the bridge between you and everything.”
Rumi
“All our infirmities, whatever they are, are just opportunities for God to display his gracious work in us.”
C H Spurgeon
“When fear knocks at the door of your mind, let faith in God and all things good open the door.”
Joseph Murphy
“Faith is not something you have to get. it’s something that you, as a born again child of god, already have. Act on it by releasing it to god. That’s when your healing starts.”
Oral Roberts
“Self-forgiveness is essential to self-healing.”
Ruth Carter Stapleton
“If you really want the power to heal, you can have it through faith, which means knowledge of the working of your conscious and subconscious mind.”
Joseph Murphy
“The solution lies within the problem. The answer is in every question. Infinite intelligence responds to you as you call upon it with faith and confidence.”
Joseph Murphy
“Step out of the circle of time and in the circle of love.”
Rumi
“Being there for others is the most self-serving act. For uplifting others uplift you.”
Kushal M. Choksi
“You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too.
Shri Shri Anandamurti
“Some of the most powerful forces of nature are invisible and intangible. Gravity, friction, mind, love, self.”
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
Paulo Coehlo
“Once you choose hope, anything is possible.”
Christopher Reeve
“He loved constantly, instantly, spontaneously, without thoughts or words. That’s what he taught me. Love is not something you think about, it is a stale in which you dwell. That was his gift.”
Christopher Moore
“The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal, love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Two things define you- your patience when you have nothing, your attitude when you have everything.”
Imam Ali
“If we want to reconcile with our family or with friends who have hurt us, we have to take care of ourselves first. If we are not capable of listening to ourselves, how can we listen to another person? If we don’t know how to recognize our own suffering, it won’t be possible to bring peace and harmony into our relationships.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.”
Mathieu Ricard
“Feelings are much like waves, we can’t stop them from coming but we can choose which ones to surf. “
Jonatan Martensson
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.”
Michael Jackson
“Prayer is an inner cry where pearls of tears slowly flow down our face and beautify the inner complexities of the heart. A prayerful heart carries the external fragrance or essense of divinity wherever it goes. It is an expression of love that can only be shared with the Beloved. A heart drowned in prayer keeps us alert to our goal, and this absorbency also helps us to recognise our defects and possible solutions to remove them.”
Daaji Kamlesh Patel
“You can never love another person unless you are equally involved in the beautiful but difficult spiritual work of learning to love yourself.”
John O’Donohue
“Anyone who knows God cannot describe Him. Anyone who can describe God, does not know Him.”
Paulo Coehlo
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
Lao Tzu
“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.”
Albert Einstein.
3. Spiritual Healing Quotes on Recreation
When you feel all is lost, you seek things in the outside world that will help you get back together. But what if you are already an ever-changing entity, a fresh soul every morning you wake up and have everything to heal yourself from past impressions? These quotes will help you see things from a newer perspective, recreate yourself for the better, meditate, become aware of your spiritual self, and see things positively.
“All endings are also beginnings. We just do not know it at the time.”
Mitch Albom
“True sign of success is when you lose everything, and you have the confidence that you can recreate it.”
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
Albert Einstein
“The wound is the place where light enters you.”
Rumi
“Life’s greatest setbacks reveal life’s biggest opportunities. If you have suffered more than your fair share of difficulties in life, perhaps you are being prepared to serve some greater purpose that will require you to be equipped with the wisdom you have acquired through your trials.”
Robin Sharma
“The tragedy of life is not death, but what we let die inside of us while we live.”
Norman Cousins
“You would not have the wisdom and knowledge you now possess were it not for the setbacks you have faced, the mistakes you have made and the suffering you have endured. Once and for all, come to realise that pain is a teacher and failure is the highway to success. You cannot learn to play guitar without hitting a few wrong notes and you will never learn to sail if you are not willing to tip the boat over a few times. Begin to see your troubles as blessings, resolve to transform your stumbling blocks into stepping stones and vow to turn your wounds into wisdom.”
Robin Sharma
“For me, singing songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.”
Reba McEntire
“Barn’s burnt down- now I can see the moon.”
Mizuta Masahide
“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
Booker T. Washington
Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”
Pema Chodron
“My belief is not that the good body by any bodily excellence improves the soul, but, on the contrary, that the good soul, by her own excellence, improves the body as far as this may be possible.”
Plato
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
Abraham H. Maslow
“Just like there is husk inside the paddy, knowledge is there within. You just need to lose the husk…”
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
“A spiritual reinterpretation of events gives us miraculous authority to command the winds, to part the waters, and to break all chains that bind us.”
Marianne Willamson
“I don’t know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.”
Ralph Abernathy
“The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening.”
Albert Einstein
“Motivation is short-lived as it comes from an outside source. Inspiration is more effective and is long-lasting because it comes from within.”
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
“The way to get rid of darkness is with light; the way to overcome cold is with heat; the way to overcome negative thoughts is to substitute the good thought. Affirm the good, and the bad will vanish.”
Joseph Murphy
“If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.”
Rabbi Harold Kushner
“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Everyday we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognise: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black curious eyes of a child- all is a miracle.”
Thich Nhat Nanh
“Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you- all of the expectations, all of the beliefs- and becoming who you are.”
Rachel Naomi Remen
“When you are feeling unwell, remember that the same power that actually made your body knows how to restore it to its original state of well-being. All you have to do is remove the obstacles erected by you and your toxic world, and allow this healing power to flow through you.”
Wayne Dyer
“A mind that is full of conclusions is a dead mind, it is not a living mind. A living mind is a free mind, learning, never concluding.”
J. Krishnamurti
“Forget all you know about yourself; forget all you have ever thought about yourself; start as if you know nothing.”
J. Krishnamurti
“Let your heart sing from the wounded places. When you sing your song with everything you’ve got, it will not only heal you, but it will heal all of us through you.”
Gemma B. Benton
“You have a treasure within you that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.”
Eckhart Tolle
“With every breath, the old moment is lost; a new moment arrives. We exhale and we let go of the old moment. It is lost to us. In doing so we let go of the person we used to be. We inhale and breathe in the moment that is becoming. In doing so, we welcome the person we are becoming. We repeat the process. This is meditation. This is renewal. This is life.”
Lama Surya Das
When we realize our spiritual existence and capabilities, we can do much better than we are now. We need to remember- to let gently go of things we cannot control, resurface love in our hearts, and find our true selves in the form of soul and spirituality. These quotes/thoughts from the souls who have undergone various experiences and greater comprehension of the worldly and spiritual realm on their journeys may help us heal in all forms. These may help you regain composure, make better decisions and ignite habits that evolve your soul to its highest form.
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