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 ~
Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.
~By Daniel Berrigan ~
We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.
~By Ernest Holmes ~
I have a much wider, freer view about spirituality. I feel that people need to pursue it on their own, personally. You know, let it be theirs - a personal relationship with their soul, or their God, or with their church.
~By Peter Jurasik ~
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 ~
They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.
~By Katherine Anne Porter ~
I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.
~By Sandra Bernhard ~
The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.'
~By Neale Donald Walsch ~
My driving force is spirituality.
~By Debra Wilson ~
I have an interest in spirituality, and it opens up so many different areas of Indian life.
~By Francois Gautier ~
Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
~By Bonnie Raitt ~
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 ~
Fay has spirituality too, but she also has that very real sex appeal that takes hold of the hearts of men.
~By Erich von Stroheim ~
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
~By Simone Weil ~
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 ~
An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.
~By Danny Glover ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious.
~By Neale Donald Walsch ~
I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church wanted me to structure it.
~By Peter Jurasik ~
In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
~By Barbara de Angelis ~
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 ~
I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality.
~By Amber Tamblyn ~
Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.
~By Sri Aurobindo ~
I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.
~By Dave Davies ~
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 ~
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 ~
For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality.
~By Peabo Bryson ~
Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.
~By Dennis Banks ~
Any spirituality can be enhanced with the practice or study of yoga.
~By Christy Turlington ~
Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.
~By Pat Buckley ~
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 ~
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 ~
A lot of people over the years have been doing yoga and I think even more these days are expressing an interest in it. So there are a lot of manifestations of spirituality here in town.
~By Ashley Judd ~
To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.
~By Reese Witherspoon ~
The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'
~By Neale Donald Walsch ~
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 am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.
~By Peter Jennings ~
We have a world that is searching for answers, that is searching for a way back to spirituality.
~By Moira Kelly ~
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 ~
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 ~
Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for direct, face-to-face communication with God, if you want to call all of this creation part of God.
~By Story Musgrave ~
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 ~
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 ~
The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.
~By Francis Schaeffer ~
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 ~
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 ~
I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization.
~By Noah Taylor ~
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 ~
I also work with the spirituality of people.
~By Della Reese ~
I don't think my spirituality has affected my character. I feel like my character is much more cynical about his beliefs, and I think I have to kind of drop what I believe in order to play him.
~By Jason Ritter ~
When younger, I was thin as a rail. As I've grown older, I've put on weight. I have continued to love myself in all those roles. Part of my spirituality, I always tell people, is to accept yourself for who you are.
~By Troy Perry ~
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