„The secret of spiritual success is a hunger that persists…It is an awful condition to be satisfied with one’s spiritual attainments…God was and is looking for hungry, thirsty people.“

„The mouth is not satisfied by speaking, and the ears are not satisfied by hearing. The eyes are not satisfied by seeing-each organ seeks out one sensory quality. The hunger of the hungry is not appeased; by mere words, hunger is not relieved. O Nanak, hunger is relieved only when one utters the Glorious Praises of the Praiseworthy Lord.“

—  Guru Angad Dev The second Guru of Sikhism 1504 - 1552

Guru Granth Sahib p. 147

„May God help us to prepare a dwelling place for this noble birth, so that we may all attain spiritual motherhood“

—  Johannes Tauler German theologian 1300 - 1361

Quoted in "Johannes Tauler: Sermons" translated by Maria May God help us to prepare a dwelling place for this noble birth, so that we may all attain spiritual motherhood Shardy

„It is no longer the moral, religious, spiritual condition of the people that is our concern, but their physical, practical, economical condition, as regulated by public laws.“

—  Thomas Carlyle Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher 1795 - 1881

1820s, Signs of the Times (1829)

„Zen … does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.“

—  Alan Watts, libro The Way of Zen

The Way of Zen, Pt. 2, Ch. 2 (1957)

„Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe… Anthroposophists are those who experience, as an essential need of life, certain questions on the nature of the human being and the universe, just as one experiences hunger and thirst.“

—  Rudolf Steiner Austrian esotericist 1861 - 1925

Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts (1924)

„The moral and spiritual achievements of man do not depend on tricks or luck or on esoteric spells or on any purely external agency. One's spiritual condition depends on the "stuff" one has to begin with, on the amout and quality of study and good hard work one puts into "shaping" it. Spiritual nobility calls for persistence and effort. "First the difficult…" (6:20) "His burden is heavy and his course is long."“

—  Herbert Fingarette Philosopher 1921 - 2018

8:7
Confucius: The Secular as Sacred (1998)

„There are many sources of spirituality; religion may be the most common, but it is by no means the only. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades.“

—  Michael Shermer American science writer 1954

„Acceptance is spirituality, and inclusiveness is the sign of having attained its highest level.“

—  Swami Samarpanananda Monk, Author, Teacher

The World of Religions ( Page 67 )

„One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God.“

—  Frederick Buechner Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian 1926

Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC (1973)

„Trust in God is the last station on the Divine Path for nothing remains to be attained through mystical efforts after having experienced spiritual satisfaction.“

—  Abu Nasr as-Sarraj

Fuente: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 83

„There are no secrets to success: don’t waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.“

—  Colin Powell Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general 1937

„We must not look at goblin men,
We must not buy their fruits:
Who knows upon what soil they fed
Their hungry thirsty roots?“

—  Christina Rossetti, libro Goblin Market and Other Poems

Fuente: Goblin Market and Other Poems

„The awful phantom of the hungry poor.“

—  Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford American author 1835 - 1921

A Winter’s Night (sonnet).

„Spirituality is not about being fixed; it is about God's being present in the mess of our unfixedness. (Messy Spirituality)“

—  Mike Yaconelli American theologian 1942 - 2003

„Another common, unspoken assumption is that spirituality is about calm and peace, and conflict is unspiritual. Which of course makes it hard to integrate the spiritual with the political, which is all about conflict.
In New Age circles, a common slogan is that "What you resist, persists." Truly spiritual people are never supposed to be confrontational or adversarial — that would be perpetuating an unevolved, "us-them" dualism.
I don't know from what spiritual tradition the "what you resist, persists" slogan originated, but I often want to ask those who blithely repeat it, "What's your evidence?" When it is so patently obvious that what you don't resist persists like hell and spreads all over the place. In fact, good, strong, solid resistance may be the only thing that stands between us and hell. Hitler didn't persist because of the Resistance — he succeeded in taking over Germany and murdering millions because not enough people resisted.“

—  Starhawk American author, activist and Neopagan 1951

Toward an Activist Spirituality (2003)

„Personal religion has a supreme value for its own sake, not merely as a feeder of social morality, but as the highest unfolding of life itself, as the blossoming of our spiritual nature. Spiritual regeneration is the most important fact in any life history. A living experience of God is the crowning knowledge attainable to a human mind.“

—  Walter Rauschenbusch United States Baptist theologian 1861 - 1918

Fuente: Christianizing the Social Order (1912), p. 104

„There is no indication of success up to now in the bringing together of art and science. To achieve success the artist must be spiritually at home in the field of science so he can think and feel in the same way as the scientist. A spiritual union, not a technical one, is requested.“

—  Naum Gabo Russian sculptor 1890 - 1977

Quote of Naum Gabo (1969), in Studio international. Vol.178. p. 64
1936 - 1977

„The highest attainment, as well as enjoyment of the spiritual life, is to be able at all times and in all things to say, 'Thy will be done.“

—  Tryon Edwards American theologian 1809 - 1894

Fuente: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 550.

„In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not to attain it.“

—  Pierre Teilhard De Chardin French philosopher and Jesuit priest 1881 - 1955

On Christian Asceticism, p. 100
The Divine Milieu (1960)