Quotes of: Spiritual Keyword

Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

Joseph Joubert

Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of peace? Are they telling us to fight against that other 'undesirable' side, the bad and the black. That is a big question. If there...

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

We need to approach the Bible each day with a spirit of deep humility, recognizing that our understanding of spiritual truth is at best incomplete and to some extent inaccurate ... we should approach the Scriptures in humility and expect the Spirit t...

Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey

Low states are a like a poison to the psyche. Millions of people throughout the world take tranquillizers each day to combat depression, but this does not tackle its root cause, which is found in the basic state of the internal energies of the psyche...

Self-Knowledge for Spiritual Awakening

I kept running around it in large or small circles, always looking for someone or something able to convince me of my Belovedness. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the "B...

Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World

After Galileo, Einstein and even Freud, we try to hang onto a pathetic sort of significance on this planet and in this universe, that we are in some way more special than anything else. Our supreme arrogance that in some way the world was created for...

Tao of Survival: Spirituality in Social Care and Counselling

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

When what one does, reps, or 'spits', repetitively, is foul or beastly - one summons spiritual undertakers to dine on fleshly parasites. In various forms, nature's law purges all that becomes wasteful. Change your game, or the game will change you.

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

Many people regard leaders as natually gifted with intellect, personal forcefulness, and enthusiasm. Such qualities certainly enhance leadership potential, but they do not define the spiritual leader. True leaders must be willing to suffer for the sa...

Spiritual Leadership

The idea that each of us can be directly spiritual is radical. Most religions are based not on teaching adherents to be directly spiritual, but in persuading them to trust in the intercession of ministers or priests. The problem with this approach is...

Ming-Dao Deng

At their best, religious and spiritual communities help us discover this pure and naked spiritual encounter. At their worst, they simply make us more ashamed, pressuring us to cover up more, pushing us to further enhance our image with the best desig...

Brian D. McLaren

Study cannot happen until we are subject to the subject.

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

Celebration comes when the common features of life are redeemed.

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Never go shopping for kiwis in a shoe store.

How to Be Happy, Dammit: A Cynic's Guide to Spiritual Happiness

Money may be a good servant, but for sure it is a bad master

The Beautiful Scientist: A Spiritual Approach to Science

Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy.

Michael Leunig

Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.

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

Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.

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