Essential Spirituality Quotes

“Desire by itself is not wrong. It is life itself, the urge to grow in knowledge and experience. It is the choices you make that are wrong. To imagine that some little thing—food, sex, power, fame—will make you happy is to deceive oneself. Only something as vast and deep as your real self can make you truly and lastingly happy. —Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj,”
― Roger Walsh, Essential Spirituality: The 7 Central Practices to Awaken Heart and Mind

“Life Contains Inevitable Difficulties Life is not only short, but difficult. There are times of great joy, love, triumph, and delight, moments when we are beside ourselves with happiness. But there are also times of inevitable sorrow: of sickness and loss, of grief and despair. There are also incomprehensible amounts of unnecessary sorrow: of senseless oppression and torment, slaughter and suffering. None of us escapes life unscathed. It is crucial to recognize this and not gloss over the inevitable difficulties of life, because “If a way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst.” This is why religious scholar Jacob Needleman concluded, from his survey of world religions: The perception of the suffering inherent in the human condition, the perception of man’s inhumanity to man: this moment of awareness has been spoken of in all traditions as a tremendous moment. It is a tremendous moment because it is the recognition of suffering—both ours and the world’s—which gives birth to both compassion and the urge to awaken. These motives propel us to spiritual practice and thereby eventually allow us to escape suffering and to relieve the suffering of others. Our”
― Roger Walsh, Essential Spirituality: The 7 Central Practices to Awaken Heart and Mind

“The inertia of a lifetime is not undone in a day.”
― Roger Walsh, Essential Spirituality: The 7 Central Practices to Awaken Heart and Mind

“We keep hearing from advertisers, “You can have it all.” What they don’t tell us is that having it all is never enough.”
― Roger Walsh, Essential Spirituality: The 7 Central Practices to Awaken Heart and Mind

“Never let the sun go down upon your anger. —St. Paul”
― Roger Walsh, Essential Spirituality: The 7 Central Practices to Awaken Heart and Mind

“However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act upon them?”
― Roger Walsh, Essential Spirituality: The 7 Central Practices to Awaken Heart and Mind

“We have underestimated ourselves tragically. We are sadly mistaken when we see ourselves as merely temporary bodies instead of timeless spirit; as separate, suffering selves instead of blissful Buddhas; as meaningless blobs of matter instead of blessed children of God.”
― Roger Walsh, Essential Spirituality: The 7 Central Practices to Awaken Heart and Mind

“we are not only more than we imagined but more than we can imagine.”
― Roger Walsh, Essential Spirituality: The 7 Central Practices to Awaken Heart and Mind

“Our lives are rich with opportunities and our challenge is to live them to the full. All of us can be the creative artists of our lives.”
― Roger Walsh, Essential Spirituality: The 7 Central Practices to Awaken Heart and Mind

“Life is not always easy, but it can be ecstatic.”
― Roger Walsh, Essential Spirituality: The 7 Central Practices to Awaken Heart and Mind

“Our years come to an end like a sigh…. Their span is only toil and trouble; they are soon gone.”
― Roger Walsh, Essential Spirituality: The 7 Central Practices to Awaken Heart and Mind

“Awareness heals,”
― Roger Walsh, Essential Spirituality: The 7 Central Practices to Awaken Heart and Mind

“Like the swan flying north in its yearly migration, the true human being moves powerfully forward in one direction, toward Truth alone.”
― Roger Walsh, Essential Spirituality: The 7 Central Practices to Awaken Heart and Mind

“Renounce and rejoice!”
― Roger Walsh, Essential Spirituality: The 7 Central Practices to Awaken Heart and Mind

“Above all, be patient. Transforming yourself and your life is a gradual process.”
― Roger Walsh, Essential Spirituality: The 7 Central Practices to Awaken Heart and Mind