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“Spiritual teaching must always be by symbols.”
Source: The Christian Science Journal
“Spiritual traditions around the world, large and small, have two major gifts to offer: wisdom and beauty. Those who understand religion as truth etched in granite probably wouldn't make much of these soft benefits. For them, religion is about hard convictions and absolute correctness. But you can build a life on wisdom and beauty, cherishing insight into human experience and the glorious expression of that insight in art and craft. The first approach may make you crusty and inflexible, but the second may make your life beautiful.
This is one of the main differences in the new personal religion: going deep rather than being right. This means studying your tradition and others that attract you and following them in your own way sincerely and wholeheartedly. The point is not to join the right group, but to find resources that will take you deep into your search and give you penetrating insights.”
Source: A Religion of One's Own: A Guide to Creating a Personal Spirituality in a Secular World
“Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act... What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.”
“Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.”
Source: The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
“Spiritual truth has more to do with meaning than with facticity, and meaning is a function of personal experience. If we reread the fairy tales that were told to us as children, it is very likely that we will discover a wealth of new meanings. But these meanings could not have been made available to us when we were children because we simply did not have the maturity then to understand them. In a sense, there is not just one Bible but millions of them. For each of us is effectively reading a personalized version of the Bible, even if we all try hard to be "objective" in our reading. Subjectivity in interpretation is built-in - for we read what we are.”
Source: The Zen Teachings of Jesus
“Spiritual truth is something that is so far from us - without any form or name that we can imagine - that we need the things that religions gave us simply as images and metaphors. But they can be found in a variety of ways. It's not a question of religious practice.”
“Spiritual truth should never be sold - those who sell it injure themselves spiritually.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“Spiritual understanding is as necessary as scientific knowledge.”
“Spiritual victory is not something you earn - it is something you accept. The Christian life is not so much about what you have done - it's about what Christ has done. It's not so much about how strong you are - it's about how strong God is.”
Source: Lover of My Soul: Delighting in God's Passionate Love
“Spiritual vision requires that what we see with the eyes of our hearts will be more real to us than what we see with our natural eyes. We must see what is invisible to others.”
“Spiritual warfare is the unseen battle God wages on your behalf.”
“Spiritual warriors are truth speakers and light keepers, not fearmongers or cheerleaders.”
“SPIRITUAL WARRIORS is a terrific voyage. A memorable journey through the light and dark of our lives and ultimately to hope. I loved it.”
“Spiritual wisdom consists in finding out the subtleties, policies, and depths of any indwelling sin... to trace this serpent in all its turnings and windings; be able to say, at its most secret actings, 'This is your old way and course; I know what you aim at.'”
“Spiritual wisdom is now available to everyone, disseminated to the masses as never before in world history.”
“Spiritual work is a work of subtraction.”
“Spiritual Work is not easy. It means the willingness to surrender feelings that seem, while we're in them, like our defense against a greater pain. It means that we surrender to God our perceptions of all things.”
Source: Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage
“Spiritual work is taxing work, and men are loath to do it. Praying, true praying, costs an outlay of serious attention and of time, which flesh and blood do not relish.”
Source: Power Through Prayer
“Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!”
“Spiritual yearning is the homesickness of the soul.”
Source: The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom From The Patterns That Bind You
“Spiritualism, born out of the same discontent with social restrictions and punitive theologies as the suffrage movement, ended up even sharing the same table. The subsequent meeting, at the Seneca Falls Universalist Wesleyan Church on July 19-20 would ignite the woman's suffrage movement, setting the stage for a seventy-two year battle that resulted in the 1920 passage of the Twenty-First Amendment.”
Source: The Reluctant Spiritualist: A Life of Maggie Fox
“Spiritualism exits only for individuals. Reason is born when two men interact; addition of more and more members necessitates the spreading of the reason culminating as culture. Hence a culture is as dynamic as the reason. The nature of the reason is the nature of the spirit within for some and instinct for some others.”
“Spiritualism is but a baby now, an unwelcome stranger, whom public opinion, like an unnatural foster mother, tries to crush out of existence.”
“Spiritualism is not related to the spirit of your God, it is related to the spirit of your soul”
“Spiritualitatea poate fi răspunsul potrivit la căutările noastre. Ea înseamnă să găseşti mulţumire sufletească, credinţă şi iubire într-o lume plină de ipocrizie şi imperfecţiune.
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“Spirituality actually must be above politics. Or some other sort of business.”
“Spirituality and faith are at the core of who I am. I was born to deeply religious parents who were able to give me that rock solid foundation in the church and in my faith which really has served me so well.”
“Spirituality and spiritual life give us the strength to love.”
“Spirituality and the secular world are not that far apart.”
“Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.”
Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
“Spirituality authors, who are generally forgiving of most human foibles ... take a hard line on intellectualism.... Skepticism they view with contempt, as the refuge of the unenlightened.”
Source: Sleeping with Extra-terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety
“Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own. When one becomes spiritual, the ego vanishes gradually on its own. A tree laden with fruits always bends low. Humility is a sign of greatness.”
“Spirituality awakens the soul to act”
“Spirituality becomes a commodity to be bought and sold. So spirituality has to be disciplined by social justice.”
“Spirituality becomes suspect if it is merely an anaesthetic to still one's spiritual hunger. Such spirituality is driven by the fear of loneliness. If you bring courage to you solitude, you learn that you do not need to be afraid.”
Source: Anam Cara [Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition]: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
“Spirituality believes in oneness and universal consciousness.”
“Spirituality belongs to the eternal, and religion belongs to the temporal. Religion belongs to people's behavior. It is really what Pavlov, Skinner, Delgado and others call a conditioning of the behavior. The child is brought up by Christians - then he is conditioned in one way, he becomes a Christian.”
“Spirituality brings a class of men who lay exclusive claim to the special powers of the world. The immediate effect of this is a reaction towards materialism, which opens the door to scores of exclusive claims, until the time comes when not only all the spiritual powers of the race, but all its material powers and privileges are centred in the hands of a very few; and these few, standing on the necks of the masses of the people, want to rule them. Then society has to help itself, and materialism comes to the rescue.”
Source: The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited
“Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the thoughtful love of life. [Spirituality for the Skeptic]”
Source: Spirituality for the Skeptic: The Thoughtful Love of Life
“Spirituality can exists only in a pure heart.”
“Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just”
Source: In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo
“Spirituality can not be separate from how we treat our bodies, construct our lifestyles, and keep our energy at higher levels.”
“Spirituality can release blocks, lead you to ideas, and make your life artful. Sometimes when we pray for guidance, we're guided in unexpected directions. We may want a lofty answer and we get the intuition to clean our bedroom. It can seem so humble and picky and that you don't necessarily think of it spiritual guidance.”
“Spirituality cannot be taught;its something very personal that you can experience for yourself. You may give spirit a name- Soul, Light, God, Universe, or even Nothingness- but each of us has to define who we are and what we believe to be spiritual according to our own understanding.”
Source: The Spiritual Teen: Awakening to the Real You
“Spirituality dawns when individuality vanishes. When our ego becomes aware of something that is higher than it - the individual Spirit, or Soul; then spirituality dawns.”
“Spirituality does not come from religion. It comes from our soul.”
“Spirituality does not have to be serious. You are spirituality. Fun laughter heal you faster than anything. Introduce fun back into your life.”
“Spirituality does not lie in meditating on the body of an ex-master. Spirituality exists in mediating on your own inner body.”
“Spirituality does not lie in meditating the body of an ex-master. Spirituality exists in mediating on your own inner body.”
Source: Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
“Spirituality does not mean going away from life. Spirituality means becoming alive in the fullest possible way so you are not just alive on the surface, you are alive to the core.”