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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
you can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else.
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
If you want to realize the truth, don't be for or against. The struggle between good and evil is the primal disease of the mind.
We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.
The burden of regret can weigh us down heavily on our spiritual journey. The best way to release regret is to forgive ourselves.
Holy name alone is sufficient to take you back home back to godhead. However to cultivate the mood of surrender You need a Guru.
Do not cherish suffering. Don't act like a fool. Don't think that your suffering is going to accelerate your spiritual progress.
To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.
Our Higher Self is the most intimate thing we could possibly know; eternity is the most comfortable home we could possibly fine.
If we pursue a spiritual path in depth, then it changes who and what we are. There is no turning back. We can only move forward.
If you cultivate your body, your mind, your emotions, and your energies to a certain level of maturity, meditation will blossom.
The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.
This bundle of ideas that we have held as being who we are is not actually the one who can make progress in the spiritual realm.
The world is starving for a new spiritual truth - a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life.
One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will.
Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport.
Autobiography of a Yogi is justifiably celebrated as one of the most entertaining and enlightening spiritual books ever written.
Everything a baptized person does each day should be directly or indirectly related to the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.
The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone.
To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity - there is the challenge.
To be free from the possibility of discouragements would be more ‘spiritual’ than Jesus-and therefore not truly spiritual at all.
What makes us happy is to have a spiritual experience ... that experience of ecstasy in the deepest meditation; that's happiness.
This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.
Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.
Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate....It supplies us with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives.
For at the center of all spiritual traditions is the beacon of a truly radical proposal: Open your heart to everybody. Everybody.
Moving ourselves to the background and others to the foreground is evidence that the (spiritual) search is achieving its purpose.
Your energy and your awareness are directly connected. If your energies are intense, your awareness naturally grows and sharpens.
The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity.
Relaxation is the prerequisite for that inner expansion that allows a person to express the source of inspiration and joy within.
To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.
The spiritual journey has to do with learning to think more deeply and take as long a time as we need. That's the path to wisdom.
I think there's a difference between "I Can" and "I Am." And "I Am" is really the goal that I'm looking for, rather than "I Can".
Poetry can be the bridge, the crossover point in the mind between the physical and the spiritual. A place where the two can meet.
Stars burn clear all night till dawn. Do that yourself, and a spring will rise in the dark with water your deepest thirst is for.
Man improves himself as he follows his path; if he stands still, waiting to improve before he makes a decision, he'll never move.
We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
I thank God for his many blessings he has given me, but money and prestige are not what it's about. I seek spiritual progression.
Vegetarianism is a way of life that we should all move toward for economic survival, physical well-being and spiritual integrity.
One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?
When we face difficulties and still remain faithful to Krishna and spiritual master we access the infinite mercy of their hearts.
If you need a transfusion of spiritual strength then just ask for it. We call that Prayer. Prayer is powerful spiritual medicine.
A humble man who lives a spiritual life, when he reads the Holy Scriptures, while relate all things to himself and not to others.
I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.
If you knew who walked beside you at all times, on the path that you have chosen, you could never experience fear or doubt again.
They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.' I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know something of himself.
Spiritual consciousness does not make your problems go away; it does, however, help you view them from a different vantage point.
Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains.