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The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.
Meditation is the only way to freedom from stress as it is a dimension beyond the mind. All the stress and struggle are of the mind.
Ecstasy carries you completely outside your ego boundaries. In ecstasy you know yourself as cosmic ego, unbounded in time and space.
Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the 'enemies' who appear from time to time in our lives.
The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.
Are you honest with the Lord in the payment of your tithes? Living this divine law will bring both spiritual and material blessings.
And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality .
The New Testament never once warns us that humbly seeking and praying for spiritual gifts will bring anything other than a blessing.
Devotion is not drama. Devotion is a way of living. Devotion is the way you walk, the way you breathe, and the way your heart beats.
Faith gives me the ability to rise above anything, because what is true in the spiritual realm is forever true. It cannot be denied.
If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was the most creative moment of all.
The person who constantly studies without doing spiritual practice is like the fool who attempts to live in the blueprint of a house.
Only when you stop identifying yourself with things that are not you, the possibility of knowing the nature of your existence arises.
One thing I have no worry about is whether God exists. But it has occurred to me that God has Alzheimer's and has forgotten we exist.
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
By seeing the beauty in every face we lift others into their wisest self and increase the chances of hearing a synchronistic message.
The destiny of the woman must be shaped to a large extent on her own conception of her spiritual imperative and her place in society.
That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity.
To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.
I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.
People who meditate and have a good spiritual practice, their immune systems are stronger. Generally, they are happier and healthier.
Given how deeply the ways of war have penetrated our collective consciousness, it will take spiritual power to turn the issue around.
The Holy Spirit illuminates the minds of people, makes us yearn for God, and takes spiritual truth and makes it understandable to us.
The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.
I need the spiritual revival that comes from spending quiet time alone with Jesus in prayer and in thoughtful meditation on His Word.
If you have stumbled or even been lost for a time, you can move forward with faith and not wander to and fro in the world any longer.
I find that when I put my spiritual life first, the rest of my life is easy. When I put my career first, that's when I have problems.
It is serving God and others persistently with full heart and soul that turns testimony of truth into unbreakable spiritual strength.
Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru's words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.
For individuals to become fully active in the Church, they generally must experience a spiritual conversion and a social integration.
Love ranges from just fascination to something almost spiritual. In the case with my wife Barbara it just keeps growing all the time.
Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music.
We can go through our whole lives worrying about our future happiness, and totally miss where true peace lives-right here, right now.
The Truth Is That Existence Wants Your Life To Become A Festival Because When You Are Unhappy, You Also Throw Unhappiness All Around.
If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual practitioner
There is nothing for you to go back and live over, or fix, or feel regret about now. Every part of your life has unfolded just right.
Spiritual healing is KNOWING that the body is perfect. Mental healing is effecting a perfect body by visualizing the body as perfect.
There's something overwhelming about being in raw nature. It's got an aura about it is that is really kind of majestic and spiritual.
If you become obsessive in spiritual practice, if you just try and try, you are not going to be happy. You are going to be obsessive.
Imperfect people are all god has ever had to work with. That must be terribly frustrating to him, but he deals with it. So should we.
Oprah Winfrey has a spiritual connection with so much of this country, and it was built over years and years of doing that talk show.
Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them.
Now and again, it is necessary to seclude yourself among deep mountain and hidden valleys to restore your link to the source of life.
Generally, people who are not self-realized are full of themselves. One who is self-realized sees that the whole world is full of one.
We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.
If peace is our single aim in all we do, we will always know what to do because we will do whatever will protect and deepen our peace.
Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.
Love is the spiritual essence of what we do. Technique is the manifestation of the preparation and investment as a result of the love.
Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.
My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently