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The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world.
We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves.
If governments encourage people to become more spiritual there will be a reduction in healthcare costs.
As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.
I feel that it is vital that we all re-open our spiritual gifts and open up to the voice of the Divine.
Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.
Prayer continues to provide power--spiritual power. Prayer continues to provide peace--spiritual peace.
The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.
To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul.
If you live your life burning for the highest possibility, in that burning itself, there is liberation.
Our goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy.
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.
Life is warning you to get rid of an addiction every time you are emotionally uncomfortable in any way.
Meditation is a way of moving into the unlimited dimension of who you are - it is the ultimate freedom.
... the worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance.
Your mind is the knife that cuts the continuum of space and time into neat slices of linear experience.
When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.
For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.
I'm not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn't have to be as lonely as it is.
Human unity is not something we are called on to create — only something we are called on to recognize.
No amount of time in front of the mirror will make you as attractive as having the Holy Ghost with you.
We undertake certain spiritual exercises to achieve alignment with the creative energy of the universe.
Photography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it.
God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.
We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.
True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.
"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."
The moment you ascribe who you are right now to what happened yesterday, you have written off your life.
When there are no conflicts In you, between material wealth and spiritual life, you have found yourself.
If we fail to solve this moral and spiritual crisis we may be doomed like the great nations of the past.
When something makes no sense, sometimes you make something of it. A joke. A spiritual practice. A life.
We simply cannot call ourselves Christian and continue to judge one another - or ourselves - so harshly.
For me, spiritual means love in action. So if you are working for love, then you are a spiritual person.
Only when you are absolutely devoted to what you do, can you produce something significant in the world.
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Or whatever politically correct spiritual representation of universal goodness you happen to believe in.
As we learn to see each other through our spiritual eyes, the physical differences will cease to matter.
As you allow the beloved to grow within you, you will discover a steadfastness to the spiritual journey.
The indicator of true knowledge is the ability to differentiate what uplifts us from what pulls us down.
In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.
A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.
The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
Just as food and sleep are necessary for the body, spiritual understanding is needed for a healthy mind.
Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.
Destiny is what every human being creates for oneself. Fate is when you fail to create your own destiny.
God is well pleased when all our actions proceed from love, love to Himself, and love to immortal souls.
Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.