“There can be no doubt that the young of today have to be protected against certain poisonous effects inherent in present-day civilization. Five social diseases surround them, even in early childhood. There is the decline in fitness due to modern methods of locomotion; the decline in initiative due to the widespread disease of spectatoritis; the decline in care and skill due to the weakened tradition of craftsmanship; the decline in self-discipline due to the ever-present availability of tranquilizers and stimulants, and the decline in compassion, which William Temple called "spiritual death.” SelfCareTodaySpiritualYoungCertainSocialCompassionDoubtFiveModernChildhoodEffectsDisciplineCivilizationSkillsDiseaseTraditionMethodDuesNo DoubtTemplesSurroundDeclineProtectedInitiativeInherentSelf DisciplinePresent DayPoisonousAvailabilityEarly ChildhoodCraftsmanshipStimulantsSpiritual Death Author:Kurt Hahn
“As far as nonviolence and Spiritual Activism, Marshall Rosenberg is it! Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, is essential reading for anyone who wants to improve their communication skills. Applying the concepts within the book will help guide the reader towards a more loving, compassionate, and nonviolent way of understanding and functioning with others, and foster more compassion in the world. I highly recommend this book.” WorldWayWantBookHelpingSpiritualLife IsReadingLanguageUnderstandingCompassionCommunicationReaderSkillsEssentialsConceptsGuidesActivismCommunication SkillsCompassionateNonviolenceNonviolent Communication Author:Marianne Williamson
“The arts are not simply skills: their concern is the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual maturity of human life. And in a time when religious and political institutions are so busy engraving images of marketable gods and candidates that they lose their vision of human dignity, the arts have become the custodians of those values which most worthily difine humanity, which most sensitively define Divinity.” HumansArtSpiritualPoliticalValuesHumanityLosesReligiousVisionSkillsIntellectualConcernDignityInstitutionsBusyHuman LifeMaturityCandidatesDivinityEthicalHuman DignityCustodiansPolitical InstitutionsSpiritual Maturity Author:Robert Shaw
“Creativity is the vulnerability to spiritual and physical sensation, and to experience, combined with and acting upon a certain level of skill, combined with the compulsion or longing or need or desire to give.” NeedsGivingSpiritualDesireCertainLevelsActingCreativitySkillsLongingVulnerabilitySensationsCompulsion Author:Michael Ventura
“Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?” FirstsSpiritualWealthSkillsQuestsHandicrafts Book:The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“We need to have far less confidence in what man can do and far more confidence in what God can do for every believing soul. He longs to have you reach after Him by faith. He longs to have you expect great things from Him. He longs to give you understanding in temporal as well as in spiritual matters. He can sharpen the intellect. He can give tact and skill. Put your talents into the work, ask God for wisdom, and it will be given you.” MenNeedsGivingBelieveWellsSoulMatterSpiritualAsksGivenUnderstandingCan DoTalentSkillsIntellectGreat ThingsTact Book:Christ's Object Lessons Source: Christ's Object Lessons