Quotes of: Spiritual-things Keyword

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

Who or what do we truly need? In my opinion, anybody or anything that takes our spiritual life into harmotic state. I name it as love. For me love is harmonization of spiritual life; there cannot be any anger, anxiety, depression when you think of yo...

Elmar Hussein

I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have formerly judged to have had spiritual life, though I see him at present in a swoon as to evidences of the spiritual life. And the reason why I will not judge him so is this - because if you...

John Owen

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

This is a dynamic and mysterious universe and human life is, no doubt, conditioned by imponderables of which we are only dimly aware. People sometimes say, "the strangest coincidence happened." Coincidences may seem strange, but they are never a resu...

Stay Alive All Your Life

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

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

I am not a therapist. I am not a spiritual leader. These elements are in the art: it is therapeutic, spiritual, social and political - everything. It has many layers. But art has to have many layers. If it doesn't, then forget it.

Marina Abramovic

The inner encounters I have with animals—and will be teaching you to have— are exchanges of meaning.

Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals

Grieving the loss of a loved one—whether human or animal—is not only permissible, it is essential.

Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals

Every species embodies a solution to some environmental challenge, and some of these solutions are breathtaking in their elegance.

Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals