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 ~
There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
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 ~
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 ~
Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness.
~By Sri Chinmoy ~
The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.
~By Luciano Berio ~
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
~By Alexis Carrel ~
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 ~
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 ~
Our people can draw on the tremendous strides made in recent years, not only in terms of advancing themselves spiritually and materially, but also in having weathered social and economic turbulence, triggered, in the main, by factors not of their own creation.
~By Denzil Douglas ~
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 ~
The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
~By Daniel D. Palmer ~
I also work with the spirituality of people.
~By Della Reese ~
You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.
~By Star Jones ~
The spiritual always did exist, always will. It is eternal, it is changeless.
~By Daniel D. Palmer ~
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 ~
All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.
~By Dean Inge ~
We have a world that is searching for answers, that is searching for a way back to spirituality.
~By Moira Kelly ~
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 ~
People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.
~By Douglas Hurd ~
I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
~By Ja Rule ~
Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
~By Allen Ginsberg ~
When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.
~By Carlos Santana ~
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
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 ~
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
~By Albert Camus ~
We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves.
~By Smokey Robinson ~
Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.
~By Peter Jennings ~
Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
~By Sai Baba ~
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 ~
Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
~By Hans Kung ~
My driving force is spirituality.
~By Debra Wilson ~
In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual.
~By Ziggy Marley ~
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 ~
I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.
~By Rick Springfield ~
Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path.
~By Mariel Hemingway ~
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Most analysts would agree that if all the undocumented immigrants in California were deported in one day, our state would experience a severe economic downturn. This does not even consider the many cultural and spiritual gifts these immigrants bring to our state and nation.
~By Roger Mahony ~
There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
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 ~
Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?
~By Mahalia Jackson ~
I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.
~By Lee Atwater ~
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 ~
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 ~
I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that.
~By F. Murray Abraham ~
We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts.
~By Ruth St. Denis ~
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 ~
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
~By George Eliot ~
The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
~By Sri Aurobindo ~
Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.
~By John Foster Dulles ~
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 ~
The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.
~By Franz Kafka ~
I like the Beatles. They're at the core of my musicality. And John Lennon's my spiritual father.
~By Esai Morales ~
It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
~By Oswald Chambers ~
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
~By Albert Camus ~
That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.
~By Mark Rothko ~
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized vision.
~By Kelly Millar ~
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 ~
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 ~
It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage - our universal awareness.
~By Henry Reed ~
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
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 ~
I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts.
~By Peabo Bryson ~
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 ~
Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it?
~By Albert J. Nock ~
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 ~
Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
~By James Broughton ~
I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.
~By Julian Clary ~
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 ~
The great mistake these people make is that they go to looking after the spiritual welfare of the Indians before securing their physical.
~By George Crook ~
I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives.
~By David Friedman ~
Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.
~By Christopher Dawson ~
To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.
~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
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 ~
My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.
~By Ed Case ~
When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the idea unit.
~By Jerry Falwell ~
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 ~
A lot of the people in San Francisco think of themselves as healers - not just as people delivering this base service, but giving their clients spiritual help. It's almost like being an actor, playing a different part for each trick.
~By James Franco ~
I don't want to be daft and say I had some spiritual awakening or something, but I really did come of age in Los Angeles, where we recorded the album. I had my own little house and my own little circle and I really got to feel how the city ticks.
~By Melanie Chisholm ~
I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.
~By Sandra Bernhard ~
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 ~
The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.
~By Stella Adler ~
The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.
~By Georges Rouault ~
Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.
~By Indra Devi ~
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
~By Simone Weil ~
The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
I could not work with a girl who did not have a spiritual quality.
~By Erich von Stroheim ~
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 ~
Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.
~By Robertson Davies ~
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 ~
You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.
~By Joni Mitchell ~
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 ~
I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers.
~By Tina Turner ~
Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
~By Teilhard de Chardin ~
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 ~
For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine.
~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
Hence the spiritual weariness of the conscientious mother - you're always finding out just one more vital tidbit.
~By Sonia Taitz ~
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