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If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.
For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
As far as ignorance is concerned, not just Buddhism, every religion recognizes it as the source of suffering.
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
We can walk through the darkest night with the radiant conviction that all things work together for the good.
The transformation from separation to unity, from conflict to peace, is the goal of all spiritual traditions.
If you are not moving closer to what you want in sales (or in life), you probably aren't doing enough asking.
We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.
Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever.
An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church.
Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
A person desperately searching for love," Merlin said, "reminds me of a fish desperately searching for water.
You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
You can't solve a spiritual problem with politics. You may as well as throw the Parliament to a drowning man.
Never turn back to see the result of what you have done. Give all to the Lord and go on, and think not of it.
The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.
Feeling unworthy is like putting a huge obstacle into the God force, into the life force which is everywhere.
My main goal is still for the books to minister in some way, to teach a spiritual truth, to enlighten people.
What is spiritual experience? A snowflake melting, a bee sucking honey, a fat man at a traffic light. Trivia.
It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested.
When spiritual leaders have done their jobs, the people around them have encountered God and obeyed his will.
Many people find spiritual growth possible only when times are hard; prosperity tends to promote complacency.
Arrogance and fanaticism cause the hardening of positions taken and entrenchment can only lead to a dead end.
When all material advancements utilized in spiritual need that is the real advancement of human civilization.
All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all.
Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.
I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening.
Why separate your spiritual life and your practical life? To an integral being, there is no such distinction.
There is no need of any competition with anybody. U R yourself, and as U R, U R perfectly good. Accept urself
The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.
I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.
Without preservation and cultivation of the spiritual, your material success will be as ashes in your mouths.
What man really seeks is not perfection which is in the future, but fulfillment which is ever in the present.
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
The sense of spiritual relief which comes from rejecting the idea of God as a supernatural being is enormous.
Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him Whom the Angels serve.
The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
Isn't is amazing that almost everyone has an opinion to offer about the Bible, and yet so few have studied it?
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.
I feel connected to a higher power when I'm making music or performing. There's a spiritual experience for me.
The science and technology of how this life functions and what we can do with it, is what we refer to as yoga.
The journey home to God is what life is about. In a sense it's not even a journey. It's an ongoing experience.
Faith in Christ makes one a regenerated believer; obedience to the Holy Spirit makes him a spiritual believer.
In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.
I think those of us on a spiritual journey can help create a new conversation, a new America, and a new world.
This is the principle of Universal Brotherhood of man with one another, with all life down to the little ants.
As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.