Quotes of: Spiritual-life Keyword

Great spiritual teachers throughout the ages have stated that orgasm is the closest some people come to a spiritual experience because of the momentary loss of self. Why is this true? Because with spiritual sex, you move beyond orgasm into a connecti...

Erotic Intelligence: Igniting Hot, Healthy Sex While in Recovery from Sex Addiction

Those who speak in spiritual terms routinely refer to God as creator but seldom see "creator" as the literal term for "artist". I am suggesting you take the term "creator" quite literally. You are seeking to forge a creative alliance, artist-to-artis...

The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

The Bible explains that Satan is real, nurses a serious grudge and has impressive power. But having been created, he has limitations. He can never be equal to God in anything."--Kristine McGuire, An Insider's Guide to Spiritual Warfare, Chapter 3, "K...

An Insider's Guide to Spiritual Warfare: 20 Battle Tested Strategies from Behind Enemy Lines

Jesus-shaped spirituality hears Jesus say "believe and repent," but the call that resonates most closely in the heart of a disciple is "follow me." The command to follow requires that we take a daily journey in the company of other students. It deman...

Mere Churchianity: Finding Your Way Back to Jesus-Shaped Spirituality

I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the spiritual world in terms of patterns of neuronal activity. This belief must be classed ...

Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife

What you are, and who you are should provide greater clarity about where you have been and where you are headed. Although one distinguishes spiritual from physical nature, the ultimate unification of the two is the consequence of the struggle for int...

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

Spiritual literature can be a great aid to an aspirant, or it can be a terrible hindrance. If it is used to inspire practice, motivate compassion, ad nourish devotion, it serves a very valuable purpose. If scriptural study is used for mere intellectu...

The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras

I do not belong to any spiritual group or tradition. I am just interested in exploring what it means to live with open eyes. People in spiritual organizations also tend to get caught in ideas of how it should be, and in the need of the ego to create ...

Swami Dhyan Giten

A spiritual teaching is a finger pointing toward Reality; it is not Reality itself. To be in a true and mature relationship with a spiritual teaching requires you to apply it, not simply believe in it. Belief leads to various forms of fundamentalism ...

Adyashanti

There are spiritual laws at work that most people know nothing about. So when others hurt us, our tendency is to strike back because we assume that we must defend ourselves, defend our name, our honor, our career, and so on. In reality we strike back...

The Mountain of Silence: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality

The mechanism by which spirituality becomes passionate is metaphor. An ineffable God requires metaphor not only to be imagined but to be approached, exhorted, evaded, confronted, struggled with, and loved. Through metaphor, the vividness, intensity, ...

Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought

Important insights ought never to be limited to the group from which may arise.

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

To use good things to our own ends is always a false religion

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

The mind will always take on an order conforming to that upon which it concentrates.

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

We love those whom we serve (p. 26)

The Christmas Box Miracle: My Spiritual Journey of Destiny, Healing and Hope

As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

When you come to a place where you have to left or right,' says Sister Ruth, 'go straight ahead.

Dakota: A Spiritual Geography

You are the one who takes the peace away from yourself. You are the one who’s harming yourself.

Ema's Odyssey: Shamanism for Healing and Spiritual Knowledge

We obey God's Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ.

Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey

We are drawn to artists who tell us that art is difficult to do and takes a spiritual effort, because we are still puritan enough to respect a strenuous spiritual effort.

John Updike