A spiritual journey is a very individual and intimate quest to consciously deepen your understanding of life. It can greatly help you to be more at peace with yourself and the world, as well as, discover lots of beneficial insights about the problems and challenges you’re confronted with. In this article, we want to share with you 50 spiritual journey quotes to support your inner transformation and self-discovery.
Here it is – our collection of spiritual journey quotes!
50 Spiritual Journey Quotes
#1
”I am alone and my spiritual journey is my experience. This is the real experience of freedom and independence. Then we begin to see that being alone is a very beautiful thing. Nobody is obstructing our vision. We have a complete panoramic vision.”
– Chogyam Trungpa
#2
“The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.”
– Ram Dass
#3
“Life is the most precious and wondrous thing that any of us have. Along the way, one of the real miracles occurs when we realize that what really matters is to deepen our relationship to ourselves and that to do this we have to enter a spiritual journey. We have to discover anew, or for the first time, our own relationship to the Infinite. We must begin to risk trusting a whole new level of intimacy with ourselves, life, and the people whose lives we touch.”
– Richard Moss
#4
“The spiritual journey involves going beyond hope and fear, stepping into unknown territory, continually moving forward. The most important aspect of being on the spiritual path maybe just to keep moving.”
– Pema Chodron
#5
“It is more important to go slow and gain the lessons you need along the journey then to rush the process and arrive at your destination empty.”
– Germany Kent
#6
“Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth.”
– Marianne Williamson
#7
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
– Lao Tzu
#8
“When we don’t get what we want, there’s a legitimate grieving, and then the spiritual journey truly begins, because not getting what we want breaks our self-reference; and once that is broken, we are aware that we are a part of a larger whole. It changes everything.”
– Mark Nepo
#9
“The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists of the dissipation of one’s own ignorance concerning oneself and life and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is coming to one’s self.” – Aldous Huxley
#10
“We had thought that we were human beings making a spiritual journey; it may be truer to say that we are spiritual beings making a human journey.”
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
#11
“The spiritual journey is one of continuous learning and purification. When you know this, you become humble.”
– Sogyal Rinpoche
#12
“Within the spiritual journey, you understand that suffering becomes something that has been given to you to show you where your mind is still stuck. It’s a vehicle to help you go to work. That’s why it’s called grace.”
– Ram Dass
#13
“The spiritual journey is what the soul is up to while we attend to daily living.”
– Christina Baldwin
#14
“Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.”
– Greg Anderson
#15
”Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
– Carl Jung
#16
“It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.”
– Wendell Berry
#17
“To be conscious of Being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind. This is one of the most essential tasks on your spiritual journey.”
– Eckhart Tolle
#18
“We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”
– Marcel Proust
#19
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
#20
“The journey home to God is what life is about. In a sense, it’s not even a journey. It’s an ongoing experience.”
– Harold Klemp
#21
“This is the pathless path – returning to where you were initially before you got lost. The deepest truth in you is where the journey leads – shedding, like taking off layers of an onion until you come to your essence. The key to the spiritual journey is not acquiring something outside of yourself. Rather it is shedding the veils to come back to the deepest truth of your being.”
– Ram Dass
#22
“Marriage is not a static state between two unchanging people. Marriage is a psychological and spiritual journey that begins in the ecstasy of attraction, meanders through a rocky stretch of self-discovery, and culminates in the creation of an intimate, joyful, lifelong union.”
– Harville Hendrix
#23
“The spiritual path – is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don’t know it.”
– Marianne Williamson
#24
“The spiritual journey is one that we must take “alone together,” in the same way that a good marriage involves a dance between solitude and communion. The life of the spirit entails a continuous alternation between retreating into oneself and going out into the world: it’s an inward-outward journey. There is a solitary part to it, but that solitude helps us to develop richer and more in-depth relationships with our friends, our children, our community, and the political world.”
– Sam Keen
#25
“The first part of the spiritual journey should properly be called psychological rather than spiritual because it involves peeling away the myths and illusions that have misinformed us.”
– Sam Keen
#26
“I’m not suggesting that I have all the answers or that I have experienced everything someone else has. I’m a firm believer that everyone’s life/spiritual journey is unique and personal, and I’m in no place to tell you what you have or have not experienced. However, I CAN tell you what I have experienced and learned, and I hope it is of use to someone out there.”
– Ryan Miller
#27
“I follow the religion of Love: Whatever way love’s camel takes, That is my religion, my faith.”
– Ibn Arabi
#28
“Facing the darkness, admitting the pain, allowing the pain to be pain, is never easy. This is why courage – big-heartedness – is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey. But if we fail to let pain be pain – and our entire patriarchal culture refuses to let this happen – then pain will haunt us in nightmarish ways. We will become pain’s victims instead of the healers we might become.”
– Matthew Fox
#29
“The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.”
– Robert M. Pirsig
#30
“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”
– Dalai Lama
#31
“It’s never too late to change the programming imprinted in childhood, carried in our genes or derived from previous lives; the solution is mindfulness in the present moment.”
– Peter Shepherd
#32
“How we sit within the body is an extremely important part of the spiritual journey. The body itself is used either by the spirit within us, or by the fear-based mind. When it is used by the spirit, then it is a thing of holiness. How we dwell within it, how we treat it, and how we use it in relationship to other aspects of the planet is extremely important. When we use the body without reverence, we are destructive elements on the planet. We become destructive to ourselves, to other life forms, and to the earth.”
– Marianne Williamson
#33
“Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There is no greater investment.”
– Stephen Covey
#34
“I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It’s a journey of recovery. It’s a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It’s already there.”
– Billy Corgan
#35
“Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.”
– Sai Baba
#36
“Knowing others is wisdom; knowing the self is enlightenment.”
– Tao Te Ching
#37
“In the place of stillness, rises potential. From the place of potential, emerges possibility. Where there is possibility, there is choice. And where there is choice, there is freedom!”
– Gabrielle Goddard
#38
“Our compassion is the fruit of our spiritual lives; it actually arises spontaneously when formed by intention in our spiritual practice. Love and compassion are always the goods of the spiritual journey, and they are guided by divine wisdom, which then shapes compassion in the concrete situations of our existence.”
– Wayne Teasdale
#39
“All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion, and forgiveness … the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.”
– Dalai Lama
#40
“Big-heartedness is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey.”
– Matthew Fox
#41
“Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging. But certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other’s experiences. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination.”
– A.R. Rahman
#42
“About once a week I think about going and living in a cave and meditating instead. I think that would be a more peaceful life, where my spiritual journey was not interrupted by egomania so regularly.”
– Simon Amstell
#43
“May all beings everywhere with whom we are inseparably connected, be fulfilled, awakened, liberated, and free. May there be peace in this world and throughout the entire universe, and may we all together complete the spiritual journey.”
– Surya Das
#44
“The creative process, like a spiritual journey, is intuitive, non-linear, and experiential. It points us toward our essential nature, which is a reflection of the boundless creativity of the universe.”
– John Daido Loori
#45
“There comes a time in the spiritual journey when you start making choices from a very different place. And if a choice lines up so that it supports truth, health, happiness, wisdom, and love, it’s the right choice.”
– Angeles Arrien
#46
“Your spiritual journey and your spiritual welfare are really dependent on two primary factors: One, your ability to meditate, and two, your ability to give of yourself.”
– Frederick Lenz
#47
“Every positive change – every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness – involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.”
– Dan Millman
#48
“Do not do tomorrow what you can do today.
If you feel the need to forgive, forgive today.
If you feel the need to risk, risk today.
If you feel the need to apologize, apologize today.
If you feel the need to love someone, love them today.
If you feel the need to create something, create something today.
If you do this there will be no conflict within, you will grow in Spirit
because you will be your true authentic Self – living at full potential.
Live for today, not for tomorrow.”
– Wallace Huey
#49
“I close my eyes in order to see.”
– Paul Gauguin
#50
“Bring everything up to the surface. Accept your humanity, your animality. Whatsoever is there, accept it without any condemnation. Acceptance is transformation because through acceptance awareness becomes possible.”
– Osho
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