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It seems that our brave new world is becoming less tolerant, spiritual and educated than it ever was when I was young.
Love should start from people close to us, then be extended to other people, to strangers, and eventually to the world
Our tolerance for forms of religious expression we disagree with is a precise barometer of our own spiritual security.
The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.
{The cleansing of spiritual contamination} is accomplished by offering one's talent, resources, and life to the world.
People need each other and think it is love. There's no hanging on to, or fencing in, of the other one when one loves.
Meditation is certainly not a religion, cult, or spiritual path: it's actually a very basic practice to reduce stress.
I am a Christian, but I also dont really see myself as a religious person. I see myself as more of a spiritual person.
Intellectual prowess has its limitations. Thus, do not limit the scope of your learning to the realm of the intellect.
I always say I'm Catholic - but a cultural Catholic. I wouldn't say I'm a spiritual person, although I pray every day.
A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes.
Simply being with other people who are also seekers and who are involved in the same quest you are is very meaningful.
There's a great quote about Virginia Woolf, she had the same spiritual stake in her diaries as she had in her writing.
Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.
Creating records and writing music with people I admire and respect is a very spiritual and enlightening thing for me.
Most people are either awakened to or are strengthened in their spiritual journey by experiences in the natural world.
There is nothing in the cosmos, either in the material plane or the spiritual plane which cannot be directly cognized.
Look at the optimism of Nature. Nothing can stop it. Only the ego makes humans pessimistic, and this causes suffering.
Mental and spiritual laws are so powerful that they can be used to multiply, neutralize, or even reverse natural laws!
Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.
When I came to the West, I realized there was much hunger for spiritual teachings, but no environment for spirituality.
Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar?
When spiritual, metaphysical, material, or immaterial events come into my life, I can only fix them by way of painting.
It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.
The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.
The spiritual quality of earth: eternally pregnant and containing in its fertility the unwritten cipher of cosmic lore.
I don't know if it's the economy, but finding work as a spiritual guru is really hard. Maybe I should grow my hair out.
If you can break the illusion that you are separate and begin to experience the oneness of the existence, that is yoga.
Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy--death.
It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.
I am a very spiritual person. Maybe not traditionally religious in terms of Sunday Mass every week, that sort of thing.
A genuine transformation that results from sustained concerted effort is long lasting because it has a firm foundation.
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.
You are a piece of creation. If you go against any other piece of creation, you are unknowingly going against yourself.
The secret of true prosperity is finding our security through our connection with the divine, with the spiritual world.
A burrito is a delicious food item that breaks down all social barriers and leads to temporary spiritual enlightenment.
It's very reassuring and spiritual to be connected with something larger than yourself and the inside of your own head.
So I phoned up the spiritual leader of tibet, he sent me a large goat with a long neck, turns out I phoned dial a lama.
Forget about trying to stabilize the personal sense of Self. It is inherently unstable. See that the Self watches this.
Writing is a spiritual path. It helps you listen to your heart, trust your inner guidance, and live your life full-out.
Your ideas need not have anything to do with reality. Making conclusions is a sure way of not enhancing our perception.
Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is brutal. The brutality of ignorance is such that it will make you dead while alive.
When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea.
I do think that someone who decides to devote themselves entirely to the spiritual life, that that is more meritorious.
I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that.
I am a Christian, but I also don't really see myself as a religious person. I see myself as more of a spiritual person.
Spiritual experiences and their results are not meant for the individual. They are for the evolution of the whole race.
If the church is to be missionary, she must be spiritual; and if the church is to be spiritual, she must be missionary.
When the very source of creation is within you, all the solutions are within you. The problems are just created by you.
Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling.