Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades... It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of the wealthy.
Men of science offer us health, an obvious benefit; it is only afterwards that we discover that by health, they mean bodily slavery and spiritual tedium.
The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
Feelings come and go, and when they come a good use can be made of them, but they cannot be our regular spiritual diet.
Nature intends all men and women to be mental and spiritual giants, and does not intend that any one should follow the will of another.
All four elements were happening in equal measure - the cuisine, the wine, the service, and the overall ambience. It taught me that dining could happen at a spiritual level.
As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.
Joy is based on the spiritual knowledge that, while the world in which we live is shrouded in darkness, God has overcome the world.
I was wedded to all the stars of the sky.There was not a single star left, and I married every one of them with great spiritual pleasure. Then I married the moon.
It's funny how guilty people start to question your spirituality and education only because they have nothing to say that will justify their faults.
When you love yourself, you love your spirit, so everyone can feel it, because everyone is a spiritual being.
Disease is, in essence, the result of conflict between soul and mind, and will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort.
Some spiritually alert parents hold early-morning devotionals with their families in their homes. They have a hymn, prayer, and then read and discuss the Book of Mormon.
The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.
Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.
There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level.
Do not allow consumerism to dictate your spiritual practice. You need nothing more than your focused attention to gain enlightenment.
But the first differentiation of its reflection in the manifested World is purely Spiritual, and the Beings generated in it are not endowed with a consciousness that has any relation to the one we conceive of.
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.
Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences.
The question isn't if someone will sign up for spiritual formation; it's just who and what our spirits will be formed by.
