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“I read world literature and I read French romances in the originals. I had quite a profound knowledge - no, that sounds conceited, but I did have a profound interest in everything spiritual.”

World Spiritual Romance Literature Sound Interest Originals Profound Conceited World Literature

Author:Baldur von Schirach

“We must come to understand the deep mutual connection or kinship between the various forms of our spirituality. We must recollect our original spiritual and moral substance, which grew out of the same essential experience of humanity. I believe that this is the only way to achieve a genuine renewal of our sense of responsibility for ourselves and for the world. And at the same time, it is the only way to achieve a deeper understanding among cultures that will enable them to work together in a truly ecumenical way to create a new order for the world.”

“genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man, the strongest known link between the material life we have and the spiritual life that we can only guess at. Every great poet, painter, or musician - every inventor or man of science, every fine actor or orator, comes to us as the exponent of something diviner than we know. We cannot understand it, but we feel it, and acknowledge it.”

“I consider Otto Rank to be one of the great spiritual giants of the twentieth century, a genius as a psychologist and a saint as a human being. Though vilified by his original community of Freudians, he never became bitter. He died a feminist and deeply committed to social justice, in 1939....His deep understanding of creativity makes him a mentor for all of us living in a postmodern world....I believe that Art and Artist, especially chapters 12 to 14, may well emerge as the most valuable psychoanalysis of the spiritual life in our time.”

“Also when it is a case of only upholding some spiritual tenet, such as infant baptism, original sin, and unnecessary separation, then . . . we conclude that . . . the stubborn sectaries must be put to death.”

Spiritual Sin Cases Originals Separation Unnecessary Stubborn Infant Baptism Original Sin

Author:Martin Luther

“So with science, it's original idea was to ignore the spiritual or nebulous side of reality and to strictly work on concrete things. Say there's a brick which we cut it in half and then see there's two half's of a brick. If we keep cutting we can then see there's particles and so on and so forth.”

Ifs Two Ideas Reality Spiritual Sides Half Cutting Originals Concrete Bricks Particles Original Ideas

Author:Brad Warner

“I think the Buddhist ethic is clearer and more systematic in some ways. The Buddhist notion is that our chief problems are greed, hatred and delusion. Well, delusion is not much mentioned in the Christian tradition. In the West, we have underplayed the idea that our moral and spiritual troubles have to do with a lack of clarity or insight because original sin has dominated so much of our thinking. We tend to think that our troubles are caused by insufficient will power.”

“Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of my all-time favorite writers. I feel spiritual when reading his words, even though they're translated. I wish desperately that I could read it in its original language. I already feel like I'm going to church when I read him; imagine if I could read it in the original.”

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Author:Conor Oberst

“There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original impulse that can only be described as sacred. Something in the person (dare we call it a soul?) wants to be free, and it seeks its freedom any way it can. ... There is a drive for transcendence that is implicit in even the most sensual of desires.”

Way Want Persons Soul Spiritual Desire Originals Sacred Addiction Dare Sensual Impulse Yearning Transcendence Degenerates Implicit

Author:Mark Epstein

“In original nature There is no this and that. The Great Round Mirror Has no likes or dislikes.”

Spiritual Spirituality Mirrors Originals Rounds Likes Dislike

Author:Seungsahn

“No individual can ultimately fail. The Divinity which descends into humanity is bound to re-gain its original state.”

States Spiritual Humanity Individual Failing Gains Originals Bounds Divinity

Author:Nilakanta Sri Ram

“The greatest moments of Native History lie ahead of us if a great spiritual renewal and wakening should take place. The Native American has been a sleeping giant. He is awakening. The original Americans could become the evangelists who will help win America for Christ! Remember these forgotten people!”

“The main theme of the Bible is the restoration of humanity and, through humanity, of the whole of creation to its original harmony.”

Whole Spiritual Humanity Creation Harmony Originals Theme Restoration

Book:A New Vision of Reality: Western Science, Eastern Mysticism and Christian Faith

Source: A New Vision of Reality: Western Science, Eastern Mysticism and Christian Faith

“A true music, that is to say, spiritual, a music which may be an act of faith; a music which may touch upon all subjects without ceasing to touch upon God; an original music, in short, whose language may open a few doors, take down some yet distant stars.”

May Spiritual Language Stars Doors Subjects Originals Original Music

Author:Olivier Messiaen

“To be free is to be capable of thinking one's own thoughts - not the thoughts merely of the body, or of society, but thoughts generated by one's deepest, most original, most essential and spiritual self, one's individuality.”

Thinking Self Body Spiritual Essentials Capable Originals Individuality

Author:Rudolf Steiner

“The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of change within us; the uncanny discovery that the seeker is the mystery which the seeker seeks to know. The hero journey is a symbol that binds, in the original sense of the word, two distant ideas, the spiritual quest of the ancients with the modern search for identity, “always the one, shape-shifting yet marvelously constant story that we find.”

Source: The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work