Quotes of: Spiritual-world Keyword

When we develop the heart chakra, we begin to influence the surroundings with our spiritual presence. When we develop the communication chakra, we begin to influence the country with our spiritual presence. When we develop the seventh chakra, we begi...

Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being

All great leaders are known to have faith. They first develop faith in themselves, which means they connect their body, mind and intellect with their soul. They also connect their soul with the Universal Soul where all souls of the world are connecte...

Practising Spiritual Intelligence: For Innovation, Leadership and Happiness

...it is often more difficult to remember to be mindful than to be mindful itself. (p. 47)

The Engaged Spiritual Life: A Buddhist Approach to Transforming Ourselves and the World

...real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy.

Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World

Spirituality is not primarily about values and ethics, not about exhortations to do right or live well. The spiritual traditions are primarily about reality...an effort to penetrate the illusions of the external world and to name its underlying truth...

Parker J. Palmer

There is much to be angry about in today's world, whether you are young or old, but certainly if you are young. Adultism reigns.

Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision for a New Generation

Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may be able to master and to rule them, and in later ages take his place in the creative and directing hierarch...

Annie Besant

That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot b...

Emanuel Swedenborg

Academically brilliant persons usually make excellent managers and bureaucrats as they can efficiently implement the vision of the government or world leaders by following the prescribed methods. However, they may prove to be poor leaders, for they m...

Practising Spiritual Intelligence: For Innovation, Leadership and Happiness

The aspirant would do well to avoid those ‘spiritual teachers’ who delight in pointing out the evils of the world. These are immature egos attempting to discard their own negativities by projecting them onto others. The true yogi is one who is li...

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

All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.

Dean Inge

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

There's a very simple reason why quality relationships are scarce: we live in a fallen world, and it sucks.

Angry Conversations with God: A Snarky but Authentic Spiritual Memoir

But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Forms have changed through the centuries in obedience to the external world to which all forms belong.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ourselves as worthy of love. (9)

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

I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that sense 'English Music' is an exercise in the spiritual as well as the material. I have always been attracted to the Gothic and spiritual imagination, an...

Peter Ackroyd

Karma is simply the law of cause and effect. If you plant an apple seed, you don’t a get a mango tree. If we practice hatred or greed, it becomes our way and the world responds accordingly. If we practice awareness or loving-kindness, it becomes ou...

Stories of the Spirit, Stories of the Heart: Parables of the Spiritual Path from Around the World

What they have is science, and in science only that which is subject to the senses. The spiritual world, on the other hand, the loftier half of the man's being, is rejected altogether, cast out with a certain triumph, hatred even. The world has procl...

The Brothers Karamazov

The belief that every living thing has an individual soul is called animism. (Anima, which means 'soul,' is also the root of the word 'animal.') Anthropologists have found this belief to be universal in children, though the children themselves don't ...

Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals

As I accepted my death and dissolution into God's love, the insectoids began feeding on my heart, devouring the feelings of love and surrender. They were interested in emotion. As I was holding on to my last thought - that God is love - they asked, "...

Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds through Psychedelics & Other Spiritual Technologies