Quotes about spiritual
spiritual thinking animal
God who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other principles of motion in bodies [which] we may understand as little. Some would readily grant this may be a Spiritual one; yet a mechanical one might be showne, did not I think it better to pass it by. Isaac Newton
spiritual thinking body
I think the spirit survives when we die, and nothing is wasted in nature and just as our material body disintegrates and becomes something else in the soil. The spirit becomes something else, reunites with a spiritual force that is out there in the universe. Not as individuals but as part of this spirituality. Isabel Allende
spiritual hate mean
I don't want to be looking inside my ego, my stuff, my achievements, my me, me, me, me, I hate that stuff. I just want to be out there eh to the last day of my life ah interested in the world, in causes, in helping other people. Um that doesn't mean that I don't have a spiritual practice, that I don't look at my own soul, that I don't prepare myself for the that transition that death is but I cannot sit in meditation to contemplate my navel for the rest of my life. That would be boring for me.
spiritual ironic church
It is ironic to watch the churches, including large sections of my own religion, surrendering to the spirit of modernity at the very moment when modernity itself is undergoing a kind of spiritual collapse.... Irving Kristol
spiritual men thinking
Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual. Indra Devi
spiritual abortion moral
Abortion raises moral and spiritual questions over which honorable persons can disagree sincerely and profoundly. But those disagreements did not then and do not now relieve us of our duty to apply the Constitution faithfully. Harry A. Blackmun
spiritual who-i-am america
I am who I am despite what America has put before me. I am who I am despite the obstacles that we have all faced based upon race and based upon social and spiritual humiliation. Harry Belafonte
spiritual blessing thank-god
I thank God for his many blessings he has given me, but money and prestige are not what it's about. I seek spiritual progression. Glenn Hughes
spiritual smell giving
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. Georges Rouault
spiritual emotional hands
The only way out is spiritual, intellectual, and emotional revolution in which, finally, we learn to experience first hand the interloping connections between person and person, organism and organism, action and consequence. Gregory Bateson
spiritual islamic political
If you have political reform in the Islamic world, the spiritual reform would follow. Imran Khan
spiritual men opposites
Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.
spiritual thinking confusion
Some other people think that awakened consciousness is really about fullness or presence, being completely present for every moment, but these experiences are only one of the dimensions of awakened consciousness. Understanding these different dimensions as facets of awakening can help with the confusion surrounding the different spiritual paths. They're not leading to different places, but rather reflect the luminous and liberated aspects of consciousness itself. These qualities are not far away; in fact, they are right here. Jack Kornfield
spiritual grief heart
A bulging portfolio of spiritual experiences matters little if it does not have the power to sustain us through the inevitable moments of grief, loss, and change. Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched. Wisdom is alive only as long as it is lived, understanding is liberating only as long as it is applied.
spiritual sadness buddhism
When repeated difficulties do arise, our first spiritual approach is to acknowledge what is present, naming, softly saying 'sadness, sadness', or 'remembering, remembering', or whatever.
spiritual heart mean
Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to help us to see in a new way by developing a stillness of mind and a strength of heart.
spiritual buddhism practice
We can bring our spiritual practice into the streets, into our communities, when we see each realm as a temple, as a place to discover that which is sacred.
spiritual teacher determination
Taking the one seat describes two related aspects of spiritual work. Outwardly, it means selecting one practice and teacher among all the possibilities, and inwardly, it means having the determination to stick with that practice through whatever difficulties and doubts arise until you have come to true clarity and understanding.
spiritual sex men
The longing for initiation is universal and for modern youth, it is a desperate need. When nothing is offered in the way of spiritual initiation to prove one's entry into the world of men and women, initiation happens instead in the road or the street, in cars at high speed, with drugs, with dangerous sex, with weapons. However troubling, this behavior is rooted in a fundamental truth; a need to grow.
spiritual confused territory
It is the basic principle of spiritual life that we learn the deepest things in unknown territory. Often it is when we feel most confused inwardly and are in the midst of our greatest difficulties that something new will open. We awaken most easily to the mystery of life through our weakest side. The areas of our greatest strength, where we are the most competent and clearest, tend to keep us away from the mystery.
spiritual commitment dedication
Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.
spiritual loss past
An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past.
spiritual generosity quality
For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually; otherwise our spirituality can become idealistic and imitative, acting out the image of generosity before it has become genuine.
spiritual war discipline
The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.
spiritual practice judgmental
Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.
spiritual kindness heart
...Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
spiritual journey reason
We don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go.
spiritual art mistake
To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
spiritual acceptance self
Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
spiritual heart life-is
The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.
spiritual practice matter
All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.
spiritual warrior needs
To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.
spiritual animal body
To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.