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“Do not entertain the notion that you ought to advance in your prayer. If you do, you will only find you have put on the brake instead of the acceleration. All real progress in spiritual things comes gently, imperceptibly, and is the work of God. Our crude efforts spoil it. Know yourself for the childish, limited and dependent soul you are. Remember that the only growth which matters happens without our knowledge and that trying to stretch ourselves is both dangerous and silly. Think of the Infinite Goodness, never of your own state.”

“You can solo-climb Everest without using oxygen or you can pay guides and Sherpas to carry your loads, put ladders across crevasses, lay in 6,000 feet of fixed ropes, and have one Sherpa pulling you and another pushing you. ... The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.”

“What is dangerous about the far right is not that it takes religion seriously - most of us do - but rather that it condemns all other spiritual choices - the Buddhist, the Jew, the Muslim, and many others who consider themselves to be good Christians. The wall of separation between church and state is needed precisely because religion, like art, is too important a part of the human experience to be choked by the hands of censors.”

“The concept of emotional or spiritual survival has an honorable history, but it does invite self-indulgence. In my own case, the worst I ever survived was severe personal and political confusion, the temptation to various sorts of craziness and a couple of bad acid trips. It felt pretty horrendous at the time, and some of it was even dangerous, but Auschwitz it wasn't.”

Source: Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock-And-Roll

“Supremely, spiritual directors/mentors/pastors are persons who have a sense of being established in God. Otherwise they are too dangerous to be allowed into the soul space of others.”

Persons Soul Spiritual Space Dangerous Directors Mentor Pastor

Author:Richard J. Foster

“That is the challenge of a spiritual teacher: not to take on board the projections of specialness people have. This is especially dangerous for spiritual teachers who only have contact with disciples or followers, who may live in an ashram.”

People May Spiritual Challenges Teacher Dangerous Contact Boards Followers Disciple Projection Spiritual Teachers Specialness

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Ignorance is a dangerous and spiritual poison, which all men ought warily to shun.”

Men Spiritual Dangerous Ignorance Ought Poison

Author:Pope Gregory I

“a towering intellect, grand in its achievements, and glorious in its possibilities, may, with the moral and spiritual faculties held in abeyance, be one of the most dangerous and mischievous forces in the world.”

World May Spiritual Force Moral Dangerous Possibility Achievement Intellect Glorious Faculty Mischievous

Author:Frances Harper

“There is on earth among all dangers, no more dangerous thing than a richly endowed and adroid reason, especially if she enters into spiritual matters which concern the soul and God. For it is more possible to teach an ass to read than to blind such a reason and lead it right; for reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed.”

Ifs Soul Matter Reason Earth Spiritual Teach Dangerous Danger Concern Blind Ass Destroyed Dangerous Things Blinded Deluded

Author:Martin Luther

“If a state political organization is founded in part upon a state religion with a dogma based on one or a few 'official' prophets, then shamanism, where every shaman is her or his own prophet, is dangerous to the state. [...] Shamanism, as I said, is not a religion. The spiritual experience usually becomes a religion after politics has entered into it.”

Ifs Said States Spiritual Political Dangerous Organization Officials Prophet Dogma Shamanism Spiritual Experience

Author:Michael Harner

“There is nothing more dangerous in the spiritual life, than to wish to rule ourselves after our own way of thinking.”

Thinking Way Spiritual Wish Dangerous Spiritual Life Way Of Thinking

Book:The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri

Source: The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri

“The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?”

Men World Today Spiritual Nations Sides Conditions Dangerous Intellectual World Today

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)

“Indeed, some secularists are so worried about Christianity, they think Christians are about as dangerous as Muslim terrorists. They get really worried when we don't invest our lives in this-worldly concerns. They look on us as unpredictable free agents. When we reject their relativism and make absolutist spiritual claims, they look at us as nervously as they would a terrorist with a suicide bomb strapped to his back. Of course, Christians are not into coercion in any form. But it is very hard to persuade secularists of that.”

“There were the physical challenges of hitchhiking across Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan as they were quite dangerous areas. I wrote about that in The Journey Home. I loved my family and they loved me, so making a choice so completely different from the life they knew was also a challenge. Not having material possessions or the security of a home and taking vows of celibacy for life were kind of natural for me, although they were also challenging. But I guess the greatest challenge for me was that I loved so many different spiritual paths.”

Kind Different Home Spiritual Choices Natural Challenges Path Journey Security Dangerous My Family Possession Afghanistan Vow Celibacy Material Possessions

Author:Radhanath Swami