Quotes of: Spiritual Keyword

Listening in the spiritual life is much more than a psychological strategy to help others discover themselves. In the spiritual life the listener is not the ego, which would like to speak but is trained to restrain itself, but the Spirit of God withi...

Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith

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

Religion, which was obviously created to give meaning and purpose to people, has become part of the oppression. This is true in both Eastern and Western religious traditions. The Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad were all revolutionaries who critiqued and a...

Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries

At the same time, we may not as a culture be fond of old-fashioned supernaturalism, but we certainly like spirituality in whatever form we can get it. I suspect that if anyone other than Jesus (Krishna, say, or Buddha) were suddenly put forward as be...

Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church

Multitudes are now turning to Christ in all parts of the world. How unbearably tragic it would be, though, if the millions of Asia, South America and Africa were led to believe that the best we can hope for from the Way of Christ is the level of Chri...

The Spirit of the Disciplines : Understanding How God Changes Lives

Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him-mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp. Dostoevski said once, "There is only one thing that I dread:...

Man's Search for Meaning

First of all, you have to keep unmasking the world about you for what it is: manipulative, controlling, power-hungry, and, in the long run, destructive. The world tells you many lies about who you are, and you simply have to be realistic enough to re...

Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World

From Being to the Eternal To awaken from mind to Being is your responsibility. No one can do it for you. It is not difficult. It can be done, provided you know the way. I can show you the way. But I cannot walk the path for you. If you are sincere, h...

Words from Silence: An Invitation to Spiritual Awakening

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self. Jesus himself entered into this furnace. There he was tempted with the three compulsions of ...

The Way of the Heart: Desert Spirituality and Contemporary Ministry

For many of us prayer means nothing more than speaking with God. And since it usually seems to be a quite one-sided affair, prayer simply means talking to God. This idea is enough to create great frustrations. If I present a problem, I expect a solut...

The Way of the Heart: Desert Spirituality and Contemporary Ministry

Pain is a spiritual wake-up call showing you that there are oceans you have not yet explored. Step beyond the world you know. Reach for heights that you never thought possible. Go to places you have deemed off limits. This is the time to take off the...

Spiritual Divorce: Divorce as a Catalyst for an Extraordinary Life

I wouldn’t say “art” as much as “virtue,” in the ancient Greek sense of “andreia” – manly action – or “arete,” excellence. In my experience, Resistance kicks in any time we try to move ourselves from a lower plane to a higher. I...

Steven Pressfield

Again, it's about patterns––you see the pattern, for example, that a young person has moral outrage and is finding effective ways to express it. It's very important that the older generation sees this, feels it, and tastes it. Otherwise they beco...

Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision for a New Generation

It is of immense importance, that first and foremost, people identify themselves as human beings, rather than as a believer in a spiritual belief system. Any spiritual belief system. There is such a preoccupation with where a person will be after he/...

C. JoyBell C.

Spiritual pride tends to speak of other persons’ sins with bitterness or with laughter and levity and an air of contempt. But pure Christian humility rather tends either to be silent about these problems or to speak of them with grief and pity. Spi...

Jonathan Edwards

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the m...

Alexander Fraser Tytler

How do we find words for describing levels of betrayal and emotional, physical, sexual and spiritual torture that fragment and destroy a child or cast and case traumatic shadows over the whole of adult life? We might, as a society, slowly find it pos...

Valerie Sinason

The problems afflicting a nation are always in equal measure spiritual crises.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

Karma theory is a spiritual philosophy used to explain and maintain the economic status of Asia.

The Dark Side of the Inner Child

Devi-Mahatmayam has special meaning for spirituality, With illumination, wisdom, strength - to freedom finally! - 150 -

Devi Mahatmayam in English Rhyme

Conversation isn't about proving a point; true conversation is about going on a journey with the people you are speaking with.

An Emerging Spirituality