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Continued dependence on relief inducers a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.
When we align our lives with spiritual laws, challenges remain, but we can approach them with arms open wide, ready to dance.
In these simple words, Lord, is it I? lies the beginning of wisdom and the pathway to personal conversion and lasting change.
Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved.
Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
Devotion is not about a God. Devotion is about you making your emotions so sweet that your life experience becomes beautiful.
You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.
There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope. The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.
Perhaps some have created their own difficulties but don't the rest of us do exactly the same things? Are we not all beggars?
Far too many young people today have no spiritual roots. The've been deprived of values by an agnostic, contemporary culture.
Natural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in grace.
Marinate in your own being, grow in your wisdom, mature in understanding, be firm in your conviction, be strong in your Self.
Spiritual direction involves a process through which one person helps another person understand what God is doing and saying.
If Christians are ever to be united, they must be united in Christ, their living head and the source of their spiritual life.
The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.
We like foreplay with God, but we make sure we have our spiritual contraceptives on! Cause we don't want to conceive nothing.
The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual sense.
Without silence, there cannot be any real appreciation in life, which is as delicate in its inner fabric as a closed rosebud.
Whatever brings you to your knees in weakness carries the greatest potential for your personal success and spiritual victory.
It's like a spiritual elevation that occurs when you're playing and becoming one with the instrument or players on the stage.
For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire.
When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.
When a man gets up so high (spiritual mountaintop) that he cannot reach down and save poor sinners, there is something wrong.
Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.
The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.
Love and spiritual values received from parents are the strongest assets for a child to face the various trials of adulthood.
Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church.
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
In things spiritual, there is no partition, no number, no individuals. How sweet is the oneness-unearth the treasure of Unity.
Great spiritual teachings do not change, but we do. As we grow older and wiser, we can receive the teachings at deeper levels.
Part of my spiritual work is learning to live with the knowledge that we can't protect our loved ones from pain and heartache.
Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body.
Selfliss giving rounds the edges in spiritual practice. Many people can meditate very well but they're still very egotistical.
Let's be cautious about relying so much on material things that we have no energy left for the spiritual aspects of our lives.
Lord Rees-Mogg argues that the time for reconciliation in Tibet is passing with the looming departure of its spiritual leader.
Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.
The discovery that it is in our power to change our lives by the thoughts we think is the first step toward spiritual mastery.
Every truth ever discovered, each new spiritual light that will ever burn bright has already been seeded in our consciousness.
Any teaching will not transform you as long as you are deeply attached to your body. Yoga is towards reducing this attachment.
If you keep in mind that love and love alone is the reason for living, it will calm your heart and free you from your worries.
We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
Friendship means only one thing: you don't create fences around you, but try to remove fences from the life of another person.
We must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there are no rules.
For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on air.
The most important advance in the next fifty years will be in the realm of the spiritual - dealing with the spirit of thought.
To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.