India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.
~By Sri Aurobindo ~
Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel.
~By Rose Tremain ~
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
~By Margaret Fuller ~
In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.
~By William Robertson Smith ~
I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.
~By Mel Gibson ~
I am and have always been a strong proponent of public education. But by the virtue of its very nature - publicly funded schools cannot offer the type of spiritual education that Catholic schools have long provided.
~By Mark Foley ~
Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness.
~By Terry Riley ~
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.
~By Sai Baba ~
There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man.
~By Ana Castillo ~
The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.
~By Franz von Papen ~
A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.
~By Christina Aguilera ~
No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.
~By Stephen Greenblatt ~
The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
~By Aiden Wilson Tozer ~
The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
~By M. Scott Peck ~
Why didn't we recognize how much it bothered them spiritually and politically?
~By Chris Matthews ~
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
~By Rita Mae Brown ~
There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.
~By Ziggy Marley ~
But, you know, they don't enjoy the dinner hour together. It's just not as much of a ritual at night and it's interesting. I think the ritual is taking place perhaps more in the morning.
~By Katie Couric ~
To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.
~By Matthew Fox ~
Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.
~By Arthur Helps ~
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.
~By Peter Jennings ~
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
~By Margaret Deland ~
A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.
~By Walter Martin ~
I think the new spirituality will be a spirituality that's not based on a particular dogma. And that steps away from the old spiritual paradigm that we have created on this planet, which comes from a thought that there is such a thing as being better.
~By Neale Donald Walsch ~
Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers.
~By Arianna Huffington ~
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
I was emotionally and spiritually dried up, so I was just searching for God.
~By Scott Stapp ~
I also pray for favor and His anointing on my life and ministry that I might have spiritual blessing when I minister to people. They're my principal prayers; I don't have a prayer list that I go down.
~By Pat Robertson ~
There the union of Church and State tends strongly to paralyze some of the members of the body of Christ. Here there is no such influence to destroy spiritual life and power.
~By Josiah Strong ~
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 ~
Only a spiritual being has awareness.
~By Chick Corea ~
I don't believe that there are no spiritual beings around us. I don't know what to call them, I don't know how they work. But I know they're there.
~By Martha Beck ~
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.
~By Abraham Cahan ~
The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.
~By Lewis Mumford ~
Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
~By Gary Oldman ~
This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.
~By Henry A. Wallace ~
I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.
~By Garry Shandling ~
The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.
~By Paul Twitchell ~
For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
~By Jerry Garcia ~
The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.
~By Salvatore Quasimodo ~
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 ~
The new spirituality will bring about what I'm calling the 'end of better.' And that is in fact what is called for in the next of the series of books that I've been writing.
~By Neale Donald Walsch ~
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
~By Annie Dillard ~
From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
~By Bernard Berenson ~
For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality.
~By Peabo Bryson ~
Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.
~By Sting ~
A lot of times when you go through a very traumatic situation and it's emotionally difficult to deal with you come back spiritually stronger. It changes you in a way.
~By Elvis Stojko ~
I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.
~By Mary A. Ward ~
I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers.
~By Harold Ramis ~
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
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 ~
There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others that receive it less interiorly; the former are called celestial angels, and the latter spiritual angels.
~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
~By Joyce Brothers ~
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 ~
By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.
~By Emmett Kelly ~
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.
~By Jim Rohn ~
The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.
~By Sting ~
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 ~
We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling of well being, that life is not too bad after all are required more and more.
~By John Hench ~
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 ~
I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that.
~By F. Murray Abraham ~
In listing these tendencies making for a new world, we must not forget developments in the religious or spiritual thinking and feeling of mankind, where also we feel a strong unifying trend.
~By Emily Greene Balch ~
The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.
~By Roland Allen ~
I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.
~By Barbara Walters ~
To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
~By Vladimir Lenin ~
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 ~
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
~By George Eliot ~
My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships.
~By Westbrook Pegler ~
What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.
~By Keith Miller ~
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
~By Max Beerbohm ~
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
~By Simone Weil ~
When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
~By Xun Zi ~
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
~By Swami Vivekananda ~
There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience!
~By John Philip Sousa ~
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 ~
I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible.
~By Ahmet Zappa ~
True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.
~By Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ~
Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.
~By Johannes Tauler ~
My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
In the mental calmness of a spiritual life, I have found that the answers to the whys in our lives are able to come to you. In my music I find the same thing.
~By Clarence Clemons ~
A spiritual person is also in touch with his or her own reality, feelings and thoughts, and the reality of the people around him or her, not projecting on them.
~By Keith Miller ~
It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.
~By Lydia M. Child ~
Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember.
~By Louise Brown ~
I am attracting a new audience now, one that is more open and more spiritually inclined.
~By Kenny Loggins ~
Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian.
~By Kirk Cameron ~
Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
~By Alexander Solzhenitsyn ~
A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.
~By Xun Zi ~
One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?
~By Anish Kapoor ~
Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.
~By Nursultan Nazarbayev ~
The word spiritual, not the word religious, is the key.
~By Clarence Clemons ~
Coincidences are spiritual puns.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.
~By Amy Alcott ~
The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.
~By Ella Maillart ~
Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.
~By Daniel Berrigan ~
Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
~By Edgar Winter ~
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