I never try to be religious. I never try to be any type of religious cat. Spiritual, yes, but religion, when you… — Killah Priest Copy Share Image
Assume that your drive to experience pleasure isn't a barrier to your spiritual growth, but is in fact essential to it. Proceed… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Jung first gave us the term ‘shadow’ to refer to those parts of our personality that have been rejected out of fear,… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
“But somehow, standing in the clear night air, under a sky that glowed like a shower of sparks, none of that stuff… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
I didn't want a guru or a kung fu master or a spiritual director. I didn't want to become a sorcerer or… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
We are talking only to ourselves. We are not talking to the rivers, we are not listening to the wind and stars.… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Words alone are inadequate to express spiritual realities. This book expresses the Red Indian spirit because it combines the best photographs ever… — Thomas Yellowtail Copy Share Image
I have no idea what happens, but I do respond to other cultures that treat life with a much more positive approach.… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
I once heard a spiritual man say that he was not so much astonished at the things done by a soul in… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life.… — Haniel Long Copy Share Image
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is left none over for works of… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“Isn't telling about something--using words, English or Japanese--already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
If you offer fasting with humility and with mercy, your bones, as Isaiah said, shall be fat, and you shall be like… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
This is our challenge at the beginning of the twenty-first century - we need to find the courage to see our own… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
In racing marathons, one does not see the dropouts make fun of those who continue; failed runners actually cheer on those who… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon then from… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
Self-Esteem Creates Natural Highs. Knowing That You're Lovable Helps You To Love More. Knowing That You're Important Helps You To Make A… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the spiritual efficacy of the Sacrament doth not depend upon the nature of the thing received, supposing we received what our… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
The longing for initiation is universal and for modern youth, it is a desperate need. When nothing is offered in the way… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“One who does not allow discord [with the wife] to happen even for a minute is considered a [true] husband. Look after… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The body should be strong enough to obey the mind; a good servant must be strong. I know that intemperance stimulates the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are not carelessly designed creatures. Everything about us has purpose, logic and intelligence built into it, including how and why we… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
People who were also traders were also men of Sufism, as we see around Java, people who were outwardly trading but were… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Why should sinners prosper and sins suffer? It is ignorant; don't think that the poorer you are the quicker you will see… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
People want you to be the ambassador of everything. This happens to me especially when I go to Europe. I have to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
If I were to choose the sights, the sounds, the fragrances I most would want to see and hear and smell--among all… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
Compassion- which means, literally, "to suffer with"- is the way to the truth that we are most ourselves, not when we differ… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Deep within the self is the Light of God. It radiates throughout the expanse of His creation. Through the Guru's teachings, the… — Guru Amar Das Copy Share Image
Inherent in the impulse to be free, is insecurity. The impulse to be free comes from outside of the mind, and because… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
If you are a person this world will seem full of persons. When you are the being you will not feel bound.… — Mooji Copy Share Image
“Who doesn’t allow one to attain the ultimate liberation? The pudgal (non-Self complex made up of mind-speech-body). Similarly, what doesn’t let a… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon.… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write.… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
What I'm talking about is both political and then also extra-political. Because what Donald Trump is doing is not simply to be… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
There are stories, like maps that agree... too consistent among too many languages and histories to be only wishful thinking… It is… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I feel it is my Christian duty to be at least as careful in my personal grooming, if not more so, than… — Eugenia Price Copy Share Image
The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Without love even the most radical devotion to God is of no value to Him. Let me make sure that sinks in…… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some spiritual traditions view the moment of birth as a passage from a state of wholeness and knowledge to a state of… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image