If at times my productions do not express the conventionally beautiful, there is always an effort to express the universal beauty of… — Jacob Lawrence Copy Share Image
Appreciation of life itself, becoming suddenly aware of the miracle of being alive, on this planet, can turn what we call ordinary… — Dan Wakefield Copy Share Image
Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains;… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
How could you possibly know that no religion can see the whole truth unless you yourself have the superior, comprehensive knowledge of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we get christened or married or die, we drift naturally in the direction of the church. And in moments of crisis,… — Tom Hollander Copy Share Image
“There are two things in the world: feeding the ego or breaking it. Everyone’s ego is either being fed or being shattered… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Causes for attachment are formed at the same time that abhorrence is occurring. Acquaintance up to a certain point will result in… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Often suffering is the trigger, or a spiritual teaching, or both. Call it readiness, or grace. This is the beginning of the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“How does the Gnani’s (enlightened one’s) antahkaran (the inner component of the mind, intellect, chit and the ego), work?’ If the ‘Self’… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
So much has to do with going beyond treating black people as cosmetic and symbolic items, as opposed to genuine personalities and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
For the anarch, little is changed when he strips off a uniform that he wore partly as fool's motley, partly as camouflage.… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
“Because of anger-pride-deceit-greed, selfishness [self-interest] remains and consequently one has no awareness of who dies or who takes birth. It is simply… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
My young friends, ... not all the whirlwinds in life are of your own making. Some come because of the wrong choices… — Neil L. Andersen Copy Share Image
It is not only that we want to bring about an easy labor, without risking injury to the mother or the child;… — Grantly Dick-Read Copy Share Image
“Don't you think there is a certain resemblance between the mystery of the Mass and what I am trying to do?...To give… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“The wrong understanding is unhappiness and the right understanding is happiness. One has to see which kind of understanding he is getting.… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities,… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
Through his deferential yet decidedly determined demeanor, Pope Francis is not only setting a superior spiritual standard, but he is also leading… — Denise Morrison Copy Share Image
“Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be not master of that which it creates… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There's… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
“What fear do you have? You, yourself are the absolute Self! If absolute-Self becomes fearful, then the whole universe will have fear!… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
My mortal Guru was my Irish-Christian brother who taught me how to do everything and gave me my moral values. My spiritual… — Victor Banerjee Copy Share Image
God is a wider consciousness than we are, a pure intelligence, spiritual life and actuality. He is neither one nor many, neither… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
The Word of Wisdom does not promise you perfect health, but it teaches how to keep the body you were born with… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
“True spirituality does not require the need of an external middleman or mediator (priest, rabbi, guru, spiritual book, sacred object, etc.) that… — The Inner Light Copy Share Image
I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I'm wondering,… — Bill Blass Copy Share Image
“Happiness is a state of mental,physical and spiritual well-being. Think pleasantly,engaged sport and read daily to enhance your well-being.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Only when there is dharmadhyan (absence of adverse internal state of being that hurts the self and others) in the body, there… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Just as one gets the firstfruits of spiritual salvation in the life that now is, so we get the firstfruits of our… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
“That which reduces our flawed vision is called religion [dharma]. It is non-religion [adharma] that increases a flawed vision. The worldly life… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The Story Is Always There Sometimes you don't need to speak to someone to know how they are feeling. You don't need… — Delma Pryce Copy Share Image
God is to me that creative force, behind and in the universe, who manifests Himself as energy, as life, as order, as… — Henry Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
“Realization includes everything, the mundane and the transcendental. In true awakening, nothing stands apart and nothing is excluded. If we find ourselves… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
“Every true spiritual experience means that we have discovered a certain fact in Christ and have entered into that. Anything that is… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
One has to ascertain the right path for his activities by following in the footsteps of great saintly persons and books of… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit - a very common symptom indeed among God's children. Such bitterness and… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
At the heart of each spiritual tradition is the question of how to be in the world without losing what matters, and… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
I would say: yes, I'm spiritual. I do believe in something else. I don't quite know what they are, but I don't… — Tara Fitzgerald Copy Share Image