Russell Brand Quotes

To be spiritual means you have cosmic ambitions. You want to know not just the whole creation but the Creator and the source of creation as well. To be material means you have petty ambitions of owning a house - or 10 houses - or a whole apartment building.

We've been proceeding so long on the plane of consciousness, we don't realize we are spiritual beings. Our minds, our senses, and the society around us all say, "Come on, you're getting into fantasy.

The world is starving for a new spiritual truth - a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life.

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

Religion can be one of the greatest impediments to finding God.

The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal.

I am a Sufi guy, so fame is maya for me, a worldly illusion.

My main goal is still for the books to minister in some way, to teach a spiritual truth, to enlighten people.

I've been on a quest for spiritual answers for a long time. The things I've learned about interconnectedness and non-duality and the feeling of tapping into your soul that goes beyond the edge of your skin is important to me. Once I learned that, I'm far less often trapped in my own little man problems. Me against the universe problems.

The Westerners have lost the vision of heaven, they go hunting for the pure spirit in the belly. The pure soul takes not color and scent from the body, and Communism has nothing to do save with the body.

It may be that today gold has become the exclusive ruler of life, but the time will come when man will again bow down before a higher god.

No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual.

Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind.

In the space of no-mind, truth descends like light

It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos.

The Holy Spirit illuminates the minds of people, makes us yearn for God, and takes spiritual truth and makes it understandable to us.

With the attraction for lust and lucre working the other way, how many long for the realisation of God?

All our problems are spiritual, and our only spiritual problem is not realizing we are spiritual.

Our noblest purpose in life is to remember our spiritual nature in the face of suggestions that we are a material society.

Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.

The problems facing humanity today are spiritual problems, and they can only be solved by taking a long, hard look at what it is we all believe.

If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience. But if we shift our experience of self-identification - and this is what enlightenment is - from the body-self to the spiritual-self, then we place ourselves under an entirely different set of possibilities and probabilities.

The story of Ramakrishna is a story of religion in practice. His life enables us to see God face to face.... In this age of skepticism Ramakrishna presents an example of a bright and living faith which gives solace to thousands of men and women who would otherwise have remained without spiritual light.