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The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question.
Our souls cannot be forced to grow, but like flowers, our spiritual selves can be nurtured until they blossom and flourish.
When I'm near a native community, I visit it. If I hear there's a spiritual person in the neighborhood, I'll seek them out.
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
Knowledge can only be limited. Ignorance is boundless. In recognizing our ignorance, we will touch that which is boundless.
Systematic yoga and vipassana opens the "Dasham Duar" the mystical tenth spiritual gateway located at the top of the skull.
If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.
Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.
I'm a spiritual person. I do believe in a higher power. I believe God placed me on this planet to be a beneficial presence.
We neither need a political revolution nor a religious revolution. What we need is an inner transformation in human beings.
In an asana, the mind has to reach inside the body to find a quiet space until a point comes where perfect balance is felt.
Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.
We must not trust in ourselves, but take the advice of our spiritual father, and recommend ourselves to everybodys prayers.
The most meaningful and spiritual prayers I have experienced contained many expressions of thanks and few, if any, requests.
The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre.
Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.
God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.
The Truth has shared so much of Itself with me That I can no longer call myself A man, a woman, an angel, Or even pure Soul.
Do you want your life to truly take off? Then change your idea about it. About you. Think, speak and act as the God You Are.
And that is what radio-activity is, a quick return to the state of rest which underlies the spiritual or invisible universe.
I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed.
Even offering three hundred bowls of food three times a day does not match the spiritual merit gained in one moment of love.
The driving force of a nation lies in its spiritual purpose, made effective by free, tolerant but unremitting national will.
Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world.
The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.
Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation.
Until you allow yourself to blossom into a state of boundlessness, you should not be content, you must burn with discontent.
My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships.
A good father does these basic things: provides for his family, protects his family, and gives spiritual and moral guidance.
What would we have to hold in compassion to be at peace right now? What would we have to let go of to be at peace right now?
God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness.
Spiritual joy is what you experience when you choose to give thanks to God no matter what happens-even when things go wrong.
I think no matter how snarky you try to be, poetry will always find a way to make a spiritual goal out of what you're doing.
The care of the soul is 'a matter of the highest importance;' beyond any thing which can be brought into comparison with it.
Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.
Life has come from a very beautiful source. If you remain in touch with that source, everything about you will be beautiful.
Life happens from within. How aware you are of it, decides the quality of your body, your mind, and your experience of life.
What helps me is yogic breathing, dropping my spiritual level where I am really, really clear that I am playing a character.
I'm a really spiritual person and I've never experienced anything. In fact I'm thinking of taking this ghost tour in Philly.
If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.
Our intellect has achieved the most tremendous things, but in the meantime our spiritual dwelling has fallen into disrepair.
Living in the spiritual world is very easy, once you grow accustomed to it. But initially, it puts you through some changes.
The life sciences contain spiritual values which can never be explained by the materialistic attitude of present day science
When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.
The need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution.
When there's a disappointment, I don't know if it's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure.
Although I may not be my brother's keeper, I am my brother's brother, and 'because I have been given much, I too must give.'
One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.
When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?