Quotes about spirit
spiritual journey practice
In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a swami is a monk who forgoes regular family life for the purpose of making the whole world his family and channels his full energy into spiritual practice, devotion to God and service to humanity. Radhanath Swami
spiritual essence use
The essence of spiritual life is simply to use our free will properly.
spiritual art attitude
The art of loving creates the unity which has unlimited spiritual strength, and that is the greatest need in the world today. Each one of us can make such a difference if we become humble, if we develop a service attitude, and if we develop the broad mind to see the oneness of all living beings.
spiritual culture form
As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form. Ralph Waldo Emerson
spiritual moral all-things
All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.
spiritual mixtures doe
If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.
spiritual america united-states
I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, "Are you victimizable?
spiritual stars night
In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the first hillock aswell as from the top of the Alleghanies. The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest common, with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed on the Campagna, or on the marble deserts of Egypt.
spiritual morality practicals
If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.
spiritual memories block
It is, in both cases, that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature; that the solid seeming block of matter has been pervadedand dissolved by a thought; that this feeble human being has penetrated the vast masses of nature with an informing soul, and recognised itself in their harmony, that is, seized their law. In physics, when this is attained, the memory disburthens itself of its cumbrous catalogues of particulars, and carries centuries of observation in a single formula.
spiritual solitude isolation
But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.
spiritual believe inspiration
The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of thehuman mind to new influx of light and power; he believes in inspiration, and in ecstacy.
spirit reverence symbols
Nature is the symbol of Spirit.
spiritual religious school
If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use in reporting religious experience, as "spiritual life," "God," "soul," "cross," etc., and if they could not find new ones next week, they might remain silent.
spiritual fear spring
Fear always springs from ignorance.
spiritual soul gardening
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
spiritual responsibility order
Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success. Les Brown
spiritual musical growth
Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth. Lenny Kravitz
spiritual practice people
I always wonder when people have any kind of spiritual and meditative practice especially if it's one designed in part to help them cope with things that seem unmanageable and to cope with something like death, if they're able to maintain that practice and maintain the equanimity at the time of death whether it's, you know, that person's or that person's loved one. Laurie Anderson
spiritual performing higher-power
I feel connected to a higher power when I'm making music or performing. There's a spiritual experience for me. Laura Bell Bundy
spiritual communication thinking
I think spirituality is probably one of the most important things. I feel that I'm a spiritual person and as long as you're walking on that path, you have a communication with God - that's spiritual to me. That spirituality is something that emanates through all of us and is the source energy, and that energy makes everything stronger. LaToya Jackson
spiritual religious interesting
If you don't put the spiritual and religious dimension into our political conversation, you won't be asking the really big and important question. If you don't bring in values and religion, you'll be asking superficial questions. What is life all about? What is our relationship to God? These are the important questions. What is our obligation to one another and community? If we don't ask those questions, the residual questions that we're asking aren't as interesting. Larry Brilliant
spiritual immortality used
Scientology is used to increase spiritual freedom, intelligence, ability and to produce immortality. L. Ron Hubbard
spiritual animal men
Convince a man that he is an animal, that his own dignity and selfrespect are delusions, that there is no 'beyond' to aspire to, no higher potential self to achieve, and you have a slave. Let a man know he is himself, a spiritual being, that he is capable of the power of choice and has the right to aspire to greater wisdom and you have started him up a higher road.
spiritual community faithful
Just as in a physical body the operation of one member contributes to the good of the whole body, so it is in a spiritual body such as the Church. And since all the faithful are one body, the good of one member is communicated to another; everyone members, as the Apostle says, of one another [Eph 4:25]. For that reason, among the points of faith handed down by the Apostles, is that there is a community of goods in the Church, and this is expressed in the words Communion of Saints. Thomas Aquinas
spiritual memories good-life
The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to concupiscence, cleanses the soul from sin, quiets the anger of God, enlightens the understanding to know God, inflames the will and the affections with the love of God, fills the memory with spiritual sweetness, confirms the entire man in good, frees us from eternal death, multiplies the merits of a good life, leads us to our everlasting home, and re-animates the body to eternal life
spiritual men water
Just as a man cannot live in the flesh unless he is born in the flesh, even so a man cannot have the spiritual life of grace unless he is born again spiritually. This regeneration is effected by Baptism: "Unless a man is born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" (Jn 3:5)
spiritual doors baptism
Baptism is the door of the spiritual life and the gateway to the sacraments.
spiritual needs sin
Sin is a spiritual illness; thus sinners are in need of salvation.
spiritual men addiction
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
spiritual men medicine
In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in the spiritual life a man is sick on account of sin. For that reason he needs medicine so that he may be restored to health; and this grace is bestowed in the Sacrament of Penance.
spiritual heaven soul
I am convinced that one should tell one's spiritual director if one has a great desire for Communion, for Our Lord does not come from Heaven every day to stay in a golden ciborium; He comes to find another heaven, the heaven of our soul in which He loves to dwell. Therese of Lisieux
spiritual mean winning
By our little acts of charity practiced in the shade we convert souls far away, we help missionaries, we win for them abundant alms; and by that means build actual dwellings spiritual and material for our Eucharistic Lord.