spirituality

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It is easy to see the spiritual beauty of Raffaelle's Madonnas, but it requires a deeper and more practised, all-embracing, loving, simple spirituality, to see the same beauty in the face of a worn-out, painful, peasant woman haggling about the price of cottons. Form and colour are but the vehicle for the spirit-meaning. In the "spiritual body" I fancy they will both be united with the meaning--all and every part and property of man and woman instinct with spirit!

- MS. 1843.

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When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.

- Dass, Ram

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His spiritual life has been exaggerated by a chronic attack of mental gallstones.

- Gogarty, Oliver St. John

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

- Carl Sagan

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At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our lives, which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will.

- Merton, Thomas

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People see his pleasure-ground; him no one sees at all.

- Upanishad, Brihadaranyaka

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Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

- Dyer, Wayne

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Your treasure house is within; it contains all you'll ever need.

- Hui-Hai

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

- Joubert, Joseph

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In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment of the present where life quivers in its true sense. The past and the future are both rolled up in this present moment of illumination, and this present moment is not something standing still with all its contents, for it ceaselessly moves on.

- Suzuki, Daisetz T.

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Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects in the phenomenal world.

- James, William

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No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

- Carlyle, Thomas

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When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.

- Saadi

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Whether we name divine presence synchronicity, serendipity, or graced moment matters little. What matters is the reality that our hearts have been understood. Nothing is as real as a healthy dose of magic which restores our spirits.

- Long, Nancy

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The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

- Rohn, Jim

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When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.

- Einstein, Albert

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What I am trying to do is to unmuddle the metaphysical.

- Dyer, Wayne

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There is no easy formula for determining right and wrong livelihood, but it is essential to keep the question alive. To return the sense of dignity and honor to manhood, we have to stop pretending that we can make a living at something that is trivial or destructive and still have sense of legitimate self-worth. A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.

- Keen, Sam

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But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo; the splendor of fame fades into nothing; but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.

- Thurber, James