I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
~By Joan Jett ~
The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.
~By Swami Sivananda ~
The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
When we learn new behaviors and break through to higher levels of consciousness and love, we can fulfill the deeper spiritual hunger within.
~By Judith Wright ~
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
~By Billy Graham ~
When the late Bishop was appointed, about thirty-two years ago, to diffuse the light of the Gospel through this extensive portion of His Majesty's dominions, it was even a greater spiritual, than a natural wilderness.
~By John Strachan ~
For me, songwriting is something I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.
~By Sean Lennon ~
I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization.
~By Noah Taylor ~
In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing.
~By Leonard Nimoy ~
For the greater good, I thought I should be a spiritual leader for people for some reason.
~By Johnny Vegas ~
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
~By Mary Baker Eddy ~
When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth.
~By William H. Hunt ~
We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our daily activities.
~By William Griffith Wilson ~
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
Maybe It's not the biggest blockbuster film, but there will be some people that will see it, that will be debating it, that will be questioning their own sense of spirituality. If the film resonates, then I have succeeded in what I set out to do.
~By Eriq La Salle ~
In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.
~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
~By Karen Armstrong ~
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
~By Alan Watts ~
Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.
~By Ken Kesey ~
I like the Beatles. They're at the core of my musicality. And John Lennon's my spiritual father.
~By Esai Morales ~
A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.
~By Douglas Hurd ~
Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.
~By Peace Pilgrim ~
Any spirituality can be enhanced with the practice or study of yoga.
~By Christy Turlington ~
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.
~By Georg Simmel ~
I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time.
~By Herbie Hancock ~
By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts.
~By Ruth St. Denis ~
After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor.
~By George William Russell ~
Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
~By Bell Hooks ~
In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual.
~By Ziggy Marley ~
That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction.
~By David O. Russell ~
The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.
~By Marianne Williamson ~
For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.
~By Elisabeth Kubler-Ross ~
Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever.
~By Giovanni Pico della Mirandola ~
We must maintain strong defenses, military and spiritual.
~By Prescott Bush ~
Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
~By James Broughton ~
For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter.
~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.
~By Edvard Munch ~
I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening.
~By Mariel Hemingway ~
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
~By Buddha ~
More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.
~By Charles Eastman ~
It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host.
~By Jim Bakker ~
It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
~By Arthur Helps ~
The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.
~By Jonathan Lethem ~
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance.
~By Tiger Woods ~
There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience.
~By Amy Lee ~
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.
~By Barack Obama ~
I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.
~By Mel Gibson ~
In a lot of Indian societies, spirituality has been lost, I think it's still the best way of looking at the world for Indians - better than any organized religion in this country.
~By James Welch ~
So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality.
~By Susan Sarandon ~
However, if we examine the Canadian scene closely enough, we can see signs of this physical and spiritual rot settling into a number of our Canadian urban centres with a troubling spill-over into many of our more rural areas.
~By Alex Campbell ~
That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death.
~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.
~By Jack LaLanne ~
The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.
~By Karl Lehmann ~
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
~By Margaret Fuller ~
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
~By Charles Bukowski ~
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
~By Ludwig van Beethoven ~
On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism.
~By Alfred Russel Wallace ~
I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness.
~By Olympia Dukakis ~
It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
~By Oswald Chambers ~
I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
~By Ja Rule ~
You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.
~By Morris West ~
The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.
~By Garson Kanin ~
I have a spiritual advisor I call up, when I just feel lost. Lately, I've been talking to God. I developed this dialogue in rehab, this dialogue with God, and every day I talk to God.
~By Andy Dick ~
The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge.
~By Lionel Blue ~
My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregation and to the rabbi, who happens to be my wife's cousin and who I admire greatly. I talk to him regularly but I consider myself more spiritual than religious.
~By Leonard Nimoy ~
A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.
~By Walter Martin ~
I personally don't believe in aliens. But, I do believe that there is something out there that is accountable for all these mysterious things that are going on: I think it is a spiritual thing not a material thing.
~By J. T. Walsh ~
Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.
~By Paul Tournier ~
Greatness is a spiritual condition.
~By Matthew Arnold ~
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
~By Chuck Palahniuk ~
The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads.
~By Abdullah Ibrahim ~
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
~By Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ~
We always get up about 5:30, and George gets up and goes in and gets the coffee and brings it to me, and that's been our ritual since we got married. And we read the newspapers in bed and drink coffee for about an hour probably, read our briefing papers.
~By Laura Bush ~
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
~By E. O. Wilson ~
Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
~By Hans Kung ~
The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.
~By John Owen ~
When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us.
~By Dorothy Day ~
As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we'll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we're all one but continue to try to win.
~By Neale Donald Walsch ~
So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day.
~By Menachem Mendel Schneerson ~
I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church.
~By Shaun Cassidy ~
The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.
~By Sholem Asch ~
Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
My dad always said I was hard-headed, that it would take something like that to wake me up spiritually, and I guess it did. My heart had gotten so beat up that I didn't have anything left to give.
~By Scott Stapp ~
Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year's Eve. A lot has happened to me in the last couple of years, personally and spiritually. I wanted to mark it for myself.
~By Joan Jett ~
These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion; or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.
~By Joan D. Vinge ~
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
~By Simone Weil ~
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
~By Saint Aurelius Augustine ~
Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.
~By Nursultan Nazarbayev ~
The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions.
~By James Welch ~
No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.
~By Stephen Greenblatt ~
Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
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