“This bundle of ideas that we have held as being who we are is not actually the one who can make progress in the spiritual realm.” IdeasSoulSpiritualProgressRealmsWho We AreBundles Author:Alice Gardner
“I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted several times a day, like a Hare Krishna mantra, to encourage penetration into the soul: Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which, if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again, or perhaps any twig with any property that we would care to call consciousness.” IfsHumansLittlesSoulEndsMightCareGrowsResultsConsciousnessProgressRevolutionMessagesRegardPropertyFollowingSeedsTinyStatementsCosmicPredictableKrishnaMantrasPedestalEnd ResultsHaresSmashingTwigsPenetrationAfterthoughtFortuitousHare Krishna Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“By complex ways, by looking deep into the dark well of the human soul, full of filth, somewhere at the very bottom of it Chekhov at last found his faith. And this faith turned out to be faith in man, in the power of human progress. And man became his god.” MenWayInspirationalHumansWellsArtSoulLastsFoundLiteratureDarkProgressComplexesBottomHuman SoulFilthHuman ProgressChekhov Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“Religion and science are the two wings upon which man's intelligence can soar into the heights, with which the human soul can progress. It is not possible to fly with one wing alone! Should a man try to fly with the wing of religion alone he would quickly fall into the quagmire of superstition, whilst on the other hand, with the wing of science alone he would also make no progress, but fall into the despairing slough of materialism.” MenShouldTryingHumansTwoSoulHandsFallProgressWingsHeightMaterialismSuperstitionsSoarScience And ReligionHuman SoulSloughQuagmire Author:Abdu'l-Bahá
“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.” IfsThinkingKnowsTryingRealSoulMatterStatesGodHappensChristianRememberSpiritualReligionGrowthWorkPrayerEffortChristianityKnowledgeProgressDangerousOughtGoodnessInfinitePersonal GrowthNotionSillyGentleDependentKnow YourselfAdvancementSpoilOur PrayersStretchingCrudeAdvancingBrakeAccelerationChildishness Author:Evelyn Underhill
“As the reflections of our pride upon our defects are bitter, disheartening, and vexatious, so the return of the soul towards God is peaceful and sustained by confidence. You will find by experience how much more your progress will be aided by this simple, peaceful turning towards God, than by all your chagrin and spite at .the faults that exist in you.” SoulSpiritualitySimpleProgressPrideReturnReflectionFaultsBitterPeacefulSpiteDefectsChagrinDisheartening Author:Francois Fenelon
“The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.” MenSoulBodyCausesBlackProgressWrittenBloodMen And WomenInstance Book:Emma Goldman Source: Emma Goldman
“You're damn right we need a rational code of morality and ethics. But not much progress can be made in that direction while we've still got a majority ranting about gods, devils, souls, and absolute morality, and using an ancient book written by ignorant nomads as a guide.” NeedsMadeStillsBookSoulProgressWrittenMoralityEthicsDevilAbsolutesMajorityAncientGuidesIgnorantRationalCodeDamnNomadMorality And Ethics Author:Doug Graham
“Progress, in the sense of acquisition, is something; but progress in the sense of being, is a great deal more. To grow higher, deeper, wider, as the years go on; to conquer difficulties, and acquire more and more power; to feel all one's faculties unfolding, and truth descending into the soul,--this makes life worth living.” FeelsYearsSoulSpiritualityGrowsDealsProgressGoes OnHigherDifficultyDeeperConquerAcquireFacultyWorth LivingAcquisitionUnfoldingLife Worth LivingDescending Book:Self-culture, lectures Source: Self-culture, lectures