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Spirituality Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.
- Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains…
- Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
- Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
- No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
- Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of…
- Life is a journey, not a destination.
- That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.
- Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
- The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
- The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.
- Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.
- We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
- In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study…
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- Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
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