Quotes of: Spiritual-life Keyword

As you develop, the people around you also develop. As you progress, the world progresses with you to a certain degree.

Creative Transformation - The Golden Lotus Sutras on Spiritual Practice

...the controlling of the sex nature builds up a reservoir of strength, and it is this strength that opens the door to the Innermost.

The Dayspring of Youth: Harness Nature's Highest Energy for Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Elevation

Happiness is a choice. Happiness does not depend on outward conditions but on inward decisions.

Does Your Bag Have Holes? 24 Truths That Lead to Financial and Spiritual Freedom

I have an image of Turtle right on the forehead. She seems to go through the lobes of my brain. Sort of like swimming.

Ema's Odyssey: Shamanism for Healing and Spiritual Knowledge

My arms look as if blood is . . . And on my feet . . . It is dropping on my feet. I now take the fruit and just put it all over my body.

Ema's Odyssey: Shamanism for Healing and Spiritual Knowledge

There are two apparently opposing forces that govern our lives. No, not good and evil. Love and fear. That's right: the opposite of love is not hate, but fear

F**k It: The Ultimate Spiritual Way

The problem is not that you have problems; the problem is that you see having problems as a problem.

The Goddess Who Lost Her Weight: Inspiration For Enlightenment With Abundance, A Spiritual Guide To Weight Loss

Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into dirty. There was wonder in it and enchantment.

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

...I love this about Christian spirituality. It cannot be explained, and yet it is beautiful and true. It is something you feel, and it comes from the soul.

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

If you have one wish, wish for everything to be exactly as it is. Then wait patiently for your wish to come true.

Barefoot Doctor's Guide to the Tao: A Spiritual Handbook for the Urban Warrior

Deeply convinced of the reality of the divine will, he (Lincoln) had no patience at all with any who were perfectly sure they knew the details of the divine will.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

Upon being given a Bible, President Abraham Lincoln replied, "In regard to this Great book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

The key to Lincoln's famous employment of humor is not that he failed to appreciate the tragic aspects of human existence, but rather that he felt these with such keeness that some relief was required.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

The writers in the newspapers could sounds smart because they did not have the responsibilities of decision, and they could sound bold by enunciating positions which they were not required to implement.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

In the Church he (Lincoln) saw people who, though they hated war as much as the editors did, saw with clarity what the moral alternative was.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

A major element in Lincoln's greatness was the way in which he could hold a strong moral position without the usual accompaniment of self-righteousness.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

The difficulty was not that of following a moral principle at personal cost; the difficulty was that of knowing what to do when there is more than one principal, and when the principles clash.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

The question, he (Lincoln) said over and over, is not what a man's particular abilities may be, but what his rights are as a human being made in God's image.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

Lincoln had entirely outgrown juvenile delight in religious argument. Talking with God seemed to the mature Lincoln more important than talking about Him.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

He (Lincoln) recognized the delicate balance between immanence and transcendence, refusing to settle for either of these alone. His was a God who was both in the world and above the world.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

It is most remarkable that Lincoln, when he saw so much that was vulnerable in the leadership of the Church, did not move to the opposite error and become a scoffer.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership