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“True Sufism is resistance: spiritual, intellectual, social, cultural, political and economic resistance. It cannot be, for sure, supporting dictators.”

Spiritual Political Social Economic Intellectual Resistance Sufism Dictator

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“People always think that loyalty is laudable. People are always saying that we must remain faithful to tradition, to family, to our class, to our ideas. Of course not! That would be equivalent to zero brain activity. If you really want to think, to seek truth, to advance intellectually, you must turn your back on clichés, on preconceived ideas - even those belonging to your spiritual family. For an intellectual, his true duty is not to fidelity, but to infidelity.”

People Thinking Spiritual Brain Duty Intellectual Tradition Loyalty Faithful Belonging Infidelity Fidelity

Author:Bernard-Henri Levy

“Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.”

Spiritual Form Culture Memories Emotion Psychology Intellectual Artistic Collectives Communion Constructs Collective Memory Collective Intelligence

Book:Islam and the Arab Awakening

Source: Islam and the Arab Awakening

“Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.”

Spiritual Spirituality Nature Keys Intellectual Environmental Satisfaction Aesthetic Cognitive Dissonance Cognitive Science Self-satisfaction Cognitive Dissonance

Author:E. O. Wilson

“My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.”

Men Inspirational Kind Feelings Spiritual Attitude Theory Intellectual Hatred Murder Cruelty Disgusting My Attitude Pacifism Antipathy

Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“Every individual has to assume responsibility for his or her own actions, even the poor and the young. A social system that decrees otherwise is inviting intellectual atrophy and spiritual stagnation.”

Action Spiritual Young Individual Social Poor Responsibility Intellectual Assuming Inviting Decree Stagnation Social Systems Atrophy

Book:Villa Incognito

Source: Villa Incognito

“In a world facing the revolt of ragged and hungry masses of God's children; in a world torn between the tensions of East and West, white and colored, individuals and collectivists; in a world whose cultural and spiritual power lags so far behind her technological capabilities that we live each day on the verge of nuclear co-annihilation; in this world, nonviolence is no longer an option for intellectual analysis, it is an imperative for action”

Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

“Human beings are very unbalanced and prone to go off on tangents. In every area of life- with too great emphasis on one thing, leaving out another important thing altogether. None of us will ever be perfectly balanced in our spiritual lives, our intellectual lives, our emotional lives, our family lives, in relationships with other human beings, or in our business lives. BUT WE ARE CHALLENGED TO TRY, WITH THE HELP OF GOD. We are meant to live in the scriptures.”

“Just being alive is such a gift, but nobody ever told you to be thankful to existence. On the contrary, everyone was grumpy, complaining. Naturally, if everything surrounding your life from the very beginning goes on pointing out to you that you are not what you should be, goes on giving you great ideals that you have to follow and you have to become, your isness is never praised. What is praised is your future - if you can become someone respectable, powerful, rich, intellectual, in some way famous, not just a nobody.”

Ifs Way Giving Should Spiritual Powerful Existence Rich Alive Goes On Intellectual Ideals Contrary Complaining Just Being Pointing Your Future Being Thankful Respectable Grumpy

Author:Rajneesh

“Embrace relational uncertainty. It's called romance. Embrace spiritual uncertainty. It's called mystery. Embrace occupational uncertainty. It's called destiny. Embrace emotional uncertainty. It's called joy. Embrace intellectual uncertainty. It's called revelation.”

Spiritual Romance Joy Destiny Mystery Emotional Intellectual Embrace Uncertainty Revelations

Book:In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars

Source: In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars

“If one's intellectual equipment was not great, one's spiritual experience not deep, the result of doing one's very best could only seem very lightweight in comparison with the effort involved. But perhaps that was not important. The mysterious power that commanded men appeared to him to ask of them only obedience and the maximum of effort and to remain curiously indifferent as to the results.”

Ifs Men Important Seems Spiritual Asks Results Effort Involved Intellectual Mysterious Obedience Comparison Indifferent Equipment Maximum Great Ones Spiritual Experience

Author:Elizabeth Goudge

“Healthy relationships should always begin at the spiritual and intellectual levels - the levels of purpose, motivation, interests, dreams,and personality.”

Should Dream Spiritual Purpose Motivation Interest Levels Personality Healthy Intellectual Healthy Relationship

Book:Waiting and Dating: A Sensible Guide to a Fulfilling Love Relationship

Source: Waiting and Dating: A Sensible Guide to a Fulfilling Love Relationship

“[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a sense in which that sublime despair is the only alternative to that divine audacity. It is even true that the truly spiritual and intellectual man sees it as sort of dilemma; a very hard and terrible choice. There is little else on earth that can compare with these for completeness. And he who does not climb the mountain of Christ does indeed fall into the abyss of Buddha.”

“Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.”

Mind Spiritual Used Break Judging Intellectual Aids Tyranny Multitudes Superiority Great Minds Lethargy Intellectual Superiority

Book:Lectures on the elevation of the labouring portion of the community

Source: Lectures on the elevation of the labouring portion of the community

“For all those who are interested in the spiritual, emotional, intellectual, esthetic, historical or any other aspects of our dance art... It is high time that our universities had faculties for dance, giving the art its due place in the academic world.”

World Giving Art Spiritual Emotional Intellectual Aspect Historical Dance University Dues Faculty Academic

Author:Padma Subrahmanyam

“Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect society from the misuse of the machine. It can also build gigantic intellectual ships, but it constructs no moral rudders for the control of storm tossed human vessel. It not only fails to supply the spiritual element needed but some of its unproven hypotheses rob the ship of its compass and thus endangers its cargo.”

Source: William Jennings Bryan on Orthodoxy, Modernism, and Evolution

“Spiritual nature is inconceivable and unlimited. Therefore, the activities of that realm will always remain beyond our mental speculation and intellectual concept.”

Spiritual Spirituality Activity Intellectual Concepts Realms Unlimited Speculation Krishna Spiritual Nature

Author:Bhakti Charu Swami

“This chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is enacted from the spiritual platform and thus this sound vibration surpasses all lower strata of consciouness - namely sensual, mental and intellectual.”

Spiritual Spirituality Sound Intellectual Sensual Platforms Vibrations Krishna Mantras Hares Chanting Hare Krishna

Author:A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

“Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness.”

Thinking Trying Mind Heart May Ideas Soul Spiritual Belief Consciousness Cry Activity Approach Intellectual Awakening Soulful Thinking Mind

Book:Beyond Within: A Philosophy for the Inner Life

Source: Beyond Within: A Philosophy for the Inner Life

“I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time build a state that is-regardless of how unscientific this may sound to the ears of a political scientist-humane, moral, intellectual and spiritual, and cultural.”

Ifs May States Spiritual Law Political Sound Moral Hero Intellectual Ears Scientist Democratic Convinced Heroic Humane Rule Of Law

Author:Vaclav Havel

“All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.”

Spiritual Life Is Destiny Our Lives Military Emotional Bears Habit Mass Intellectual Practicals Our Destiny

Author:William James

“The intellectual quest, though fine as pearl or coral, is not the spiritual search. That spiritual search is on another level. Spiritual wine is a different substance.”

Different Soul Spiritual Levels Fine Intellectual Wine Substance Quests Pearls

Author:Rumi

“Perhaps the best reason for regarding mathematics as an art is not so much that it affords an outlet for creative activity as that it provides spiritual values. It puts man in touch with the highest aspirations and lofiest goals. It offers intellectual delight and the exultation of resolving the mysteries of the universe.”

Source: Mathematics for the Nonmathematician

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