No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.
~By Stephen Greenblatt ~
We have a world that is searching for answers, that is searching for a way back to spirituality.
~By Moira Kelly ~
I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that.
~By F. Murray Abraham ~
It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
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 ~
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
~By Buddha ~
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 ~
Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
~By John Muir ~
My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.
~By Ellen Willis ~
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 ~
I also work with the spirituality of people.
~By Della Reese ~
I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.
~By Sandra Bernhard ~
I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual inheritance of music and really develop my abilities?
~By Wynton Marsalis ~
If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.
~By Ed Sullivan ~
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 ~
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
But the first differentiation of its reflection in the manifested World is purely Spiritual, and the Beings generated in it are not endowed with a consciousness that has any relation to the one we conceive of.
~By H. P. Blavatsky ~
If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.
~By Doug Coupland ~
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 ~
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 ~
I guess any time you believe in God you've got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual person. But I don't really know what that means.
~By Jules Shear ~
As we take our places in the General Assembly and at the Council meetings, let us begin all our work in the name of God, for the solution of all our problems is a spiritual one.
~By Warren R. Austin ~
I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.
~By Billy Corgan ~
I'm not going to fight in the physical with physical weapons, because it's not a physical fight. I'm going to fight with spiritual weapons, cause it's a spiritual fight.
~By Stephen Baldwin ~
I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith.
~By Ryan Gosling ~
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 ~
Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.
~By Steve Earle ~
God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
~By Evelyn Underhill ~
For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality.
~By Peabo Bryson ~
The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.
~By John Owen ~
My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense.
~By Polly Toynbee ~
I guess the biggest thing is that I committed to a spiritual center before I do anything else. And I put some daily things in my life into practice and I maintain that, to make sure that I don't drop the ball.
~By Kathy Mattea ~
I've always wanted to improve on the idea of living well, In moderation, wine is good for you - mentally, physically, and spiritually.
~By Robert Mondavi ~
The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process.
~By Arthur Middleton ~
My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.
~By Wyclef Jean ~
I am attracting a new audience now, one that is more open and more spiritually inclined.
~By Kenny Loggins ~
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 ~
Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.
~By Lenny Kravitz ~
I'm not a religious person. I'm Catholic, so I consider myself more of a spiritual person. I believe in God.
~By Tracey Gold ~
The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim to believe that, but very few people actually live as if that were true.
~By Neale Donald Walsch ~
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 ~
Greatness is a spiritual condition.
~By Matthew Arnold ~
I know that Julia has been given to me for my spiritual growth, and this moment is perfect for us both. I know that I love her, and I know she's my soul mate.
~By Kenny Loggins ~
Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.
~By Alice Foote MacDougall ~
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
~By Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ~
I could not work with a girl who did not have a spiritual quality.
~By Erich von Stroheim ~
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
~By Henry Miller ~
We're nondenominational. I come from Northern Ireland, and we've had religious wars for years. I didn't want to create an illusion that my God is better than your God. So our show is a spiritual show, not a religious show.
~By Roma Downey ~
This is the front edge of the spiritual, psychological movement and is where the tools of psychology have finally come together to create a mass healing. I think spiritual psychology is the next wave.
~By Kenny Loggins ~
I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.
~By Mel Gibson ~
I always wanted to get married with just candles! I think candlelight is the most beautiful light there is and there's something very spiritual about it.
~By Nicole Kidman ~
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 ~
As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed.
~By William Greider ~
Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives.
~By Henry Reed ~
I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well. I believe in creative visualization. So for me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water.
~By Victoria Beckham ~
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
~By Denis Waitley ~
Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.
~By William Jennings Bryan ~
We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.
~By Naomi Klein ~
If there is any one truth from the legacy of the Cayce readings, it would be that there is a spiritual dimension to humans, something beyond time and space.
~By Henry Reed ~
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 ~
Art is spiritual.
~By John Cusack ~
The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.
~By Charles Eastman ~
The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.
~By Ella Maillart ~
The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
~By Carl Jung ~
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 ~
Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.
~By Roland Allen ~
One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.
~By Andrew Cohen ~
Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
~By Edgar Winter ~
I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane.
~By Kelly Jones ~
Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
~By Gary Oldman ~
New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.
~By Brendan Behan ~
Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.
~By Benjamin Hoff ~
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 ~
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 ~
I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.
~By Marilyn Manson ~
Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.
~By Malcolm Boyd ~
The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.
~By Swami Sivananda ~
It depends on how it is done but what we are drifting into, which is that people grow up without any sense of a spiritual dimension to life, is just impoverishing.
~By Douglas Hurd ~
A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal.
~By Andrew Cohen ~
Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.
~By Jimmy Swaggart ~
Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
~By Beverly Sills ~
I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.
~By Dan Brown ~
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
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 ~
The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them.
~By Phillip Noyce ~
Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.
~By Sarah Ban Breathnach ~
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 ~
Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.
~By John Henrik Clarke ~
If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.
~By Carlos Santana ~
The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.
~By Luciano Berio ~
Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two.
~By Franz Marc ~
Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.
~By Mary Garden ~
We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.
~By Naomi Judd ~
I was emotionally and spiritually dried up, so I was just searching for God.
~By Scott Stapp ~
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