Quotes about spiritual
spiritual men civilization
Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic, material, and spiritual life. Anthony Daniels
spiritual hot this-life
My experience is that it's precisely the ones who don't know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with another life. Anthony de Mello
spiritual people mind
People who want to rise above a well-cooked meal and a well-tailored garment, are out of their spiritual minds.
spiritual hate guilt
And increasingly - you know this and so do I we're losing the youth everywhere. They hate us; they are not interested in having more fears and guilt laid on them. They're not interested in more sermons and exhortations. But they are interested in learning about love. How can I be happy? How can I live? How can I taste the marvelous things that the mystics speak of?
spiritual distance ignorance
The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition...
spirituality states activity
Spirituality practiced in the state of activity is incomparably superior to that practiced in a state of withdrawel.
spiritual doe said
Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"
spiritual heart delight
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
spiritual heart sensitive
What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons; a loving heart doesn't harden itself to any persons or things.
spiritual eye heart
When the eye is unobstructed, the result is sight. When the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing. When the mind is unobstructed the result is truth. When the heart is unobstructed, the result is joy and love.
spiritual heart thinking
People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.
spiritual reality people
As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. … That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind.
spiritual thinking looks
Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare. Amy Hempel
spiritual heart men
It is not man who is the enemy of the human species. It is the irrational; it is the spiritual when it is divorced from the material; from the lesson in one beating heart or one bleeding vein. Anne Rice
spiritual firsts twenties
The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be. Andre Malraux
spiritual people inspire
If I had in me something that inspires people towards the good and raises them one step on the ladder of mental and spiritual progress, I want to show it by example, indication, and deduction, not by preaching, threatening, and conspiring. Ameen Rihani
spiritual favors
Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
spiritual prayer breathing
Prayer is the natural and joyous breathing of the spiritual life by which the heavenly atmosphere is inhaled and then exhaled in prayer. Andy Murray
spiritual prayer healthy
If the spiritual life be healthy, under the full power of the Holy Spirit, praying without ceasing will be natural.
spiritual men affair
CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones. Ambrose Bierce
spiritual needs capacity
HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.
spiritual religious baths
BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.
spiritual people fluffy
That's a spiritual lifestyle, being willing to admit that you don't know everything and that you were wrong about some things. It's about making a list of all the people you've harmed, either emotionally or physically or financially, and going back and making amends. That's a spiritual lifestyle. It's not a fluffy ethereal concept. Anthony Kiedis
spiritual real commitment
She wasn't about to go down that road herself, which was a testament to her spiritual awakening and her commitment to sanity. It was a real blessing that she didn't follow me, because oftentimes, people go out together and one comes back and the other doesn't. Or both of them never do.
spiritual blue everyday
I didn't have to go all the way to India for spiritual enlightenment. The blue-collar spirituality of everyday life was right in front of me, it was in every nook and cranny if I wanted to seek it, but I had chosen to ignore it.
spiritual crap
In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual', I thought it was all crap, Alice Sebold
spiritual believe people
There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation. Alice Walker
spiritual believe animal
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
spiritual lonely pain
... it is a lonely programme. The very virtues you cultivate become walls that inevitably separate you from your kind.... A new danger comes to your soul, and intolerance and impatience with those who are as you have been all but destroy that which you have taken such pains to build up. Not alone are there spiritual barriers between you and the friends that you have, but your business training has made your mind incisive. In the swift rush of business you have no time for small debates and petty dilemmas.
spiritual pain hardship
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
spiritual pain decision
...when we say we're looking for a spiritual adviser, we're really looking for someone to tell us what to do with our bodies. Decisions of the flesh. We forget to learn from pleasure as well as pain. Anne Michaels
spiritual eye giving
I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
spiritual war luxury
Prison life taught him how little one can get along with, and what extraordinary spiritual freedom and peace such simplification can bring. I remember again, ironically, that today more of us in the world have the luxury of choice between simplicity and complication of life. And for the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication. War, prison, survival periods, enforce a form of simplicity on us. The monk and the nun choose it of their own free will. But if one accidentally finds it, as I have for a few days, one finds also the serenity it brings.