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“Spiritual power is a force which history clearly teaches has been the greatest force in the development of men. Ye. we have been merely playing with it and never have really studied it as we have the physical forces. Some day people will learn that material things do not bring happiness, and are of little use in making people creative and powerful. Then the scientists of the world will turn their laboratories over to the study of spiritual forces which have hardly been scratched.”
“Spiritual power is generated within temple walls, and sent out to bless the world ... Every home penetrated by the temple spirit enlightens, cheers, and comforts every member of the household. The peace we covet is found in such homes. Indeed, when temples are on earth, the whole world shares measurably in the issuing light; when absent, the hearts of men become heavy, as if they said, with the people of Enoch's day, 'Zion is fled'" (See Moses 7:69).”
“Spiritual power is the eternal guide, in this life and the life after, for man ranks supreme among all creatures. Led forward by spiritual power, man can reach the summit destined for him by the Great Creator.”
“Spiritual practice . . . involves, on the one hand, acting out of concern for others' well-being. On the other, it entails transforming ourselves so that we become more readily disposed to do so.”
Source: The Essence Of Wisdom
“Spiritual Practice involves being constantly aware”
“Spiritual practice is allowing the temple (your body) to be full of light and to live life as a total celebration.”
“Spiritual practice is not just sitting and meditation. Practice is looking, thinking, touching, drinking, eating and talking. Every act, every breath, and every step can be practice and can help us to become more ourselves.”
Source: Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh: 365 days of practical, powerful teaching s from the beloved Zen teacher
“Spiritual practice is the capacity to offer your love even when you feel hurt, closed down, tense, angry, misunderstood, or hated.”
“Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.”
“Spiritual practices in any tradition, including mindfulness in its many forms, are meant to help you live what is yours to live, not make you rise above it. These tools are meant to help you feel companioned inside your grief. They're meant to give you a tiny bit of breathing room inside what is wholly unbearable. That's not at all the same thing as making your pain go away.”
Source: It's OK That You're Not OK
“Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“Spiritual pride is the worst of all pride, if it is not the worst snare of the devil. The heart is peculiarly deceitful on just this one thing.”
“Spiritual pride is very apt to suspect others; whereas an humble saint is most jealous of himself; he is so suspicious of nothing in the world as he is of his own heart. The spiritually proud person is apt to find fault with other saints, that they are low in grace; and to be much in observing how cold and dead they are; and being quick to discern and take notice of their deficiencies. But the eminently humble Christian has so much to do at home, and sees so much evil in his own heart, and is so concerned about it, that he is not apt to be very busy with other hearts; he complains most of himself, and complains of his own coldness and lowness in grace.”
Source: Some Thoughts Concerning the Present Revival in New England and the Way It Ought to Be Acknowledged and Promoted
“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. Spiritual pride is very apt to suspect others, but a humble Christian is most guarded about himself. He is as suspicious of nothing in the world as he is of his own heart. The proud person is apt to find fault with other believers, that they are low in grace, and to be much in observing how cold and dead they are and to be quick to note their deficiencies. But the humble Christian has so much to do at home and sees so much evil in his own heart and is so concerned about it that he is not apt to be very busy with other hearts. He is apt to esteem others better than himself.”
“Spiritual problems cannot be solved with intellectual solutions.”
“Spiritual process is not about chanting a mantra or closing your eyes, spiritual process is essentially about enhancing your perception.”
“Spiritual process is not for the dead or the dying; it is for the living who want to become fully alive in all dimensions of life.”
“Spiritual progress is like a detoxification.”
Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of
“Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.”
Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of
“Spiritual progress is when on becomes free not only of the knowledge which is inevitably from the past, but also from the need to know... and a desire to predict and control.”
“Spiritual questions deserve spiritual answers from God.”
“Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.”
Source: The Ways of the Spirit
“Spiritual realization is theoretically the easiest thing and in practice the most difficult thing there is. It is the easiest because it is enough to think of God. It is the most difficult because human nature is forgetfulness of God.”
Source: Prayer Fashions Man: Frithjof Schuon on the Spiritual Life
“Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.”
Source: My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography
“Spiritual renewal and the transformation of a nation, country, or a city cannot take place unless there is first renewal and transformation in the individual.”
“Spiritual Requirement Needed To Function Has Been Revealed”
“Spiritual sadhana is not about making you into something other than what you are, but to erase the false faces that you have created for yourself is not something that you do; it is something that you become.”
“Spiritual science attempts to speak about non-sensory things in the same way that the natural sciences speak about sense-perceptible things...No one can ever deny others the right to ignore the supersensible, but there is never any legitimate reason for people to declare themselves authorities, not only on what they themselves are capable of knowing, but also on what they suppose cannot be known by any other human being.”
“Spiritual security means you are fully alive and comfortable in your life as it is, without expecting anything.”
Source: Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time
“Spiritual seekers particularly are on a quest to understand life; we want to examine our own lives and find meaning in what we do and who we are. ... We find meaning in the seeking itself. Every step along the way is the Way.”
Source: Letting Go Of The Person You Used To Be
“Spiritual seeking means knowing this negative part: that desiring is the root cause of frustration. To desire is to create, of one`s own accord, a shell. Desiring is the world. To be worldly is to desire and to go on desiring, never becoming aware that each desire comes to nothing but frustration. Once you become aware of this, then you do not desire, or your only desire is to know what is.”
“Spiritual-self consist of a determined soul and indomitable spirit.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Spiritual self is victory over sin.”
“Spiritual Self-Renewal forms the nucleus that brings forth our purpose.”
Source: Holistic Wealth (Expanded and Updated): 36 Life Lessons to Help You Recover from Disruption, Find Your Life Purpose, and Achieve Financial Freedom
“Spiritual self-renewal is about taking time to rejuvenate, letting the past go so a new you in a new place in life can be born.”
Source: Holistic Wealth: 32 Life Lessons to Help You Find Purpose, Prosperity, and Happiness
“Spiritual self-renewal means relinquishing your old limited identity and becoming something more expanded, powerful, and closer to your true self.”
Source: Holistic Wealth: 32 Life Lessons to Help You Find Purpose, Prosperity, and Happiness
“Spiritual sensitivity is not a form of sickness. It is a state where one‘ s spiritual antenna becomes so hyperactive that it malfunctions and tunes into everything.”
Source: Sips And Little Portions
“Spiritual sickness is the worst type of sickness. A personal mental hell.”
“Spiritual skepticism is a self-fulfilling prophecy. You will not witness that which you do not believe to be real. One cannot expect to have profound personal experiences of something you’re convinced does not exist.”
“Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.”
“Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“Spiritual starvation is real. Just like when you don’t feed your physical body, if you deprive your spirit of its own nourishment, prayer, studying the Scriptures, what have you, it will begin to shut down, as well.”
-Shenita Etwaroo”
“Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“Spiritual strength frequently comes through selfless service.”
“Spiritual strength is connected to faithful obedience to God's commands.”
“Spiritual strongholds begin with a thought. One thought becomes a consideration. A consideration develops into an attitude, which leads then to action. Action repeated becomes a habit, and a habit establishes a "power base for the enemy," that is, a stronghold.”
“Spiritual success depends on your Conductivity. No Spiritual Conductivity, no progress!”
“Spiritual superiority [consists in] deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love.”
“Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a gathering, the impression changes - we see something abstract, the crowd, and we become different. But in the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd, He only sees each individual.”