Quotes about spirit
spiritual soul quality
Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are concerned. Bertrand Russell
spiritual struggle passion
To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things-this is emancipation, and this is the free man's worship... United with his fellow men by the strongest of all ties, the tie of a common doom, the free man finds that a new vision is with him always, shedding over every daily task the light of love.
spiritual war evil
Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.
spiritual philosophy philosophical
The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
spiritual fascists states
For the Fascist, everything is the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. In this sense Fascism is totalitarian. Benito Mussolini
spiritual people synthesis
The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value. Thus understood, Fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist State -- a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values -- interprets, develops, and potentiates the whole life of a people.
spiritual truth men
Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man. Benjamin Disraeli
spiritual buddhist teaching
The Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit. To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.
spiritual buddhist offering
Even offering three hundred bowls of food three times a day does not match the spiritual merit gained in one moment of love.
spiritual motivation numbers
True religion is a universal and (necessarily) ego-transcending psycho-physical motivation of human beings. However, up to the present stage in human history, only relatively few individuals in any generation have been willing and able to make the gesture that is true religion (or, otherwise, true esotericism). In their great numbers, most people have, up to now, never yet been ready or willing to adapt to the true (and progressive) practical, moral, devotional, Spiritual, and Transcendental Wisdom-culture of right life.
spiritual religious teaching
my opinion is that we have, in the person of Da Free John, a Spiritual Master and religious genius of the ultimate degree. I assure you I do not mean that lightly. I am not tossing out high-powered phrases to 'hype' the works of Da Free John. I am simply offering to you my own considered opinion: Da Free John's teaching is, I believe, unsurpassed by that of any other spiritual Hero, of any period, of any place, of any time, of any persuasion.
spiritual men needs
Consequently there is a need for spiritual vitality. What protection is there against the danger of organisation? Man is once more faced with the problem of himself. He can cope with every danger except the danger of human nature itself. In the last resort it all turns upon man. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
spiritual stress giving
The consciousness of being borne up by a spiritual tradition that goes back for centuries gives one a feeling of confidence and security in the face of all passing strains and stresses.
spiritual mean love-is
Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake. Therefore, human love seeks direct contact with the other person; it loves him not as a free person but as one whom it binds to itself. It wants to gain, to capture by every means; it uses force. It desires to be irresistible, to rule.
spiritual sleep should-have
We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God.
spiritual blessed adversity
Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. Edgar Allan Poe
spiritual blessed inspiration
Cathedrals are built with pennies of the faithful. A great opera house also is a spiritual center, a temple of sorts, where many gather together for recreation, education, and inspiration - a blessed trinity worthy of public support. Eleanor Robson Belmont
spiritual spirituality ifs
If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all. Eleanor Roosevelt
spiritual thinking make-you-think
If I supply you with a thought, you may remember it and you may not. But if I can make you think a thought for yourself, I have indeed added to your stature. Elbert Hubbard
spiritual believe economic
I believe in salvation through economic, social, and spiritual freedom.
spiritual events spirit
No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it.
spiritual church important
Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church.
spiritual strong thinking
I have a great belief in spiritual force, but I think we have to realize that spiritual force alone has to have material force with it so long as we live in a material world. The two together make a strong combination.
spiritual moving lessons
Learn your lessons quickly and move on. Eileen Caddy
spiritual distance practice
I was shown a fledgling learning to fly. It's first efforts were very feeble. But as it used its wings more and more, they became stronger until it found the freedom of flight and was able to soar to great heights and fly great distance without any effort. I heard the words: Faith comes with practice. Live by faith until it becomes rocklike unshakable, and find the true freedom of the spirit.
spiritual spring perfect
The spring of the New Age is here, bursting forth in perfect harmony, beauty and abundance; and nothing can stop it from coming about.
spiritual relax world
Relax in my love and in turn pour forth that Divine Love out to the world.
spiritual anchors and-love
I AM your anchor. I AM your haven. Let My Peace and Love infill and enfold you.
spiritual heaven vision
Hold ever before you the vision of the new heaven and new earth.
spiritual taken healing
Great changes are about to take place in the whole universe. It will not be a comfortable time. It is important that each one has no fear, no concern, knowing that this great upheaval is necessary before the next step can be taken.
spiritual doors spirit
Seek and find the freedom of the spirit, for where there is true freedom, there is peace, and where there is peace, there is love,and it is love that unlocks all doors.
spiritual moving onward-and-upward
Never waste time and energy wishing you were somewhere else, doing something else. Accept your situation and realize you are where you are, doing what you are doing, for a very specific reason. Realize that nothing is by chance, that you have certain lessons to learn and that the situation you are in has been given to you to enable you to learn those lessons as quickly as possible, so that you can move onward and upward along this spiritual path.
spiritual records ordinary
The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose. Edvard Munch