Quotes About Spirituality❓

Spirituality, like positive emotions, is generated by the limbic system and is more about us than me . We do not have to be taught positive emotions; our brain is hardwired to generate them. Humanity's task is to pay attention to them, for they are the source of our spiritual being and the key to our cultural evolutionary progress.—Dr. George Vaillant

Spirituality reflects humanity's evolutionary press towards connection and community building even more than it reflects humanity's need for solace and revelation. Although positive emotions have been profoundly neglected by the modern social sciences, organized religions, for all their limitations, have helped to bring positive emotions into the ambit of conscious reflection. The Buddhist ideal is that of the ‘Bodhisattva’—one who elects voluntarily to stay in this world [modern society] and to help others, rather than entering directly into nirvana . Nor is spirituality trivial; if one follows the lives of history's great spiritual exemplars, they have always been community builders, not navel gazers.—Dr. George Vaillant

It's only within the last 20 years that psychiatry and psychology have rediscovered the positive emotions which are just as important as the negative emotions which are hate, fear and anxiety. And these emotions when you start thinking about it are the same thing that we mean in the terms spirituality and they derive from the same parts as the brain, namely the limbic system in contrast with the instinctual hypothalamus or the Homosapians’ neocortex.—Dr. George Vaillant

The ego is able to convert everything to its own use, even spirituality. …Ego translates everything in terms of its own state of health, its own inherent qualities. It feels a sense of great accomplishment and excitement at having been able to create such a pattern. At least it has created a tangible accomplishment, a confirmation of its own individuality.—Chogyam Trungpa

The very purpose of spirituality is self-discipline. Rather than criticizing others, we should evaluate and criticize ourselves. Ask yourself, what am I doing about my anger, my attachment, my pride, my jealousy? These are the things we should check in our day to day lives.—Dali Lama

Sometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate department of life, the penthouse of existence. But rightly understood, it is a vital awareness that pervades all realms of our being.—Brother David Steindl-Rast

AA is a fellowship that supports, cares about and facilitates the spiritual growth of its members. …AA achieves these goals with minimal dogma, structure, or hierarchy. …religion is spirituality in community. …without the kind of ‘religious’ fellowship provided by AA …most would not have much spirituality or even sobriety.—Anonymous (aka Dr. John Buchanan)

I treasure that line because it sheds the light of humor on one of the big problems of both religion and spirituality: the assumption that the spiritual life is a life set apart from 'secular' life—which is to say, from the life one is living.—Parker J. Palmer

The feminine body can be seen as a cauldron of transformation. Her body turns things into other things—her body turns a love act into a perfect little child. Yet, in her heart, she knows SHE did not do it. All she had to do was to wait and eat well, to believe and to hope for nine months. This gives a woman a very special access to understanding spirituality as transformation.—Father Richard Rohr

Western Science is approaching a paradigm shift of unprecedented proportions, one that will change our concepts of reality and of human nature, bridge the gap between ancient wisdom and modern science, and reconcile the differences between Eastern spirituality and Western pragmatism.—Dr. Stanislav Grof

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.—Jim Rohn