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“Spiritual growth is like childbirth: you dilate, then you contract, you dilate, then you contract again. as painful as it all feels, it's the necessary rhythm for reaching the ultimate goal of total openness.”

Feels Spiritual Goal Growth Ultimate Painful Rhythm Reaching Spiritual Growth Contracts Openness Childbirth Ultimate Goal

Book:A Woman's Worth

Source: A Woman's Worth

“More than just a moral issue, hope is a spiritual and even religious choice. Hope is not a feeling; it is a decision. And the decision for hope is based on what you believe at the deepest levels - what your most basic convictions are about the world and what the future holds - all based on your faith. You choose hope, not as a naive wish, but as a choice, with your eyes wide open to the reality of the world - just like the cynics who have not made the decision for hope.”

World Believe Made Feelings Reality Eye Spiritual Choices Wish Religious Decision Levels Moral Issues Conviction Wide You Choose Naive Moral Issues Eyes Wide Open

Author:Jim Wallis

“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.”

“In the spiritual search doubt is beneficial, a closed mind is not. Doubt used wisely assists enlightenment; a closed mind assists ignorance.”

Mind Spiritual Used Doubt Ignorance Enlightenment Beneficial Closed Mind

Author:Ian Gardner

“When the dream in our heart is one that God has planted there, a strange happiness flowers into us. At that moment all of the spiritual resources of the universe are released to help us. Our praying is then at one with the will of God and becomes a channel for the Creator's always joyous, triumphant purposes for us and our world.”

World Heart Moments Helping Dream Spiritual Purpose Universe Strange Flower Praying Resources Creator Gods Will That Moment Our World Joyous Triumphant

Author:Catherine Marshall

“Spiritual growth depends on two things: first a willingness to live according to the Word of God; second, a willingness to take whatever consequences emerge as a result.”

Firsts Two Spiritual Growth Results Depends Consequence Two Things Spiritual Growth Willingness Word Of God

Author:Sinclair B. Ferguson

“When comfort is withdrawn, do not be cast down, but humbly and patiently await the visitation of God. He is able and powerful to give you more grace and more spiritual comfort than you first had.”

Giving Firsts Able Spiritual Powerful Grace Comfort Casts Visitation

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“Work is not primarily a thing one does to live but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.”

Should Doe Spiritual Expression Offers Workers Satisfaction Mediums Faculty

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“Music is a spiritual doorway. ... Its power comes from the fact that It plugs directly into the soul.”

Soul Facts Spiritual Music Is Doorways Plugs

Author:Peter Gabriel

“It is just a wonderful, wonderful time to be alive and to be able to be part of the ever-growing spiritual awareness that is happening around the world.”

World Able Spiritual Alive Growing Wonderful Awareness Happenings Around The World Spiritual Awareness Wonderful Times

Author:Jon Anderson

“Once you get to this place on what we might metaphorically call your spiritual quest, once you get to the place where you hear about psychedelics, the issue is no longer then about where is the gas peddle on the spiritual vehicle. The issue suddenly becomes, where is the brake? Because this is the fuel to go where you want to go. This is the power to lift you where you want to be lifted.”

Want Might Spiritual Issues Lifts Fuel Gas Vehicle Quests Brake

Author:Terence McKenna

“We all understand genetics. You get your eyes from your dad, your mom's nose, there's nothing you can do about that. But your spiritual genetics you can choose, pick, embrace and commit to. That's what I did.”

Eye Spiritual Can Do Mom Dad Picks Embrace Commit Noses Genetics Your Mom Your Dad

Author:Chris Gardner

“Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold. When wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.”

Spiritual Evil Results Benefits Institutions Mature Spiritual Life Preaching Exceed

Book:Power Through Prayer

Source: Power Through Prayer

“I define God as an energy. A spiritual energy. It has no denomination, it has no judgment, it has an energy that when we're connected to it we know why we're here and what we're here to do.”

Knows Spiritual Energy Judgment Connected Denominations Spiritual Energy

Author:Debbie Ford

“Spiritual evolution is a movement from the states of mind that reflect life less accurately to the states of mind that reflect life more accurately.”

Mind States Spiritual Movement Evolution State Of Mind Spiritual Evolution

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The fact is that there is a profound spiritual hunger in the western world which, for a variety of reasons, its church is no longer able to assuage. So a book which suggests that there is a spiritual significance to the Christian story but that this has been suppressed by the church undoubtedly appeals to those who are anxious to square this circle.”

“The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to diving or universal love.”

Humans Spiritual Marriage Ideals Stones Universal Aim Unions Stepping Stones Diving Human Love Universal Love

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“It's not what you do - it's the intensity of your feeling that determines how far you go in the spiritual life.”

Feelings Spiritual Effort Determine Intensity Spiritual Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In future years a number of you will become spiritual teachers. After many years of study and doing a good job, go out into the world and teach people.You'll reach points of advancement where you'll be able to be of great help to many, many people.”

People World Years Helping Able Jobs Spiritual Numbers Compassion Teach Study Teacher Good Job Advancement Spiritual Teachers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“... it takes several years of serious fishing before a man learns enough to go through a whole season with an unblemished record of physical and spiritual anguish.”

Men Years Enough Whole Spiritual Records Sea Serious Rivers Seasons Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Anguish

Author:Ed Zern

“I meditated on my own for some time, read spiritual books, became a vegetarian and had incredible experiences every day, every meditation, where I was just thrown into the infinite - never realizing that other people didn't necessarily have those experiences in meditation that quickly.”

People Book Spiritual Realizing My Own Meditation Infinite Incredibles Thrown Vegetarian Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I entered a spiritual community when I was 20, which I was in for 11 year, with very strict meditative practices, with an Eastern teacher. It was very much like a religious order.”

Years Spiritual Order Community Religious Practice Teacher Strict Eastern Rama Spiritual Community

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Some of the most exalted states of consciousness I experienced were in bed with someone, alone, or with my spiritual teacher. There was never a difference for me.”

States Spiritual Differences Consciousness Teacher Bed Rama Exalted States Of Consciousness Spiritual Teachers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I went through times of self-hate, thinking how undeveloped spiritual I was. Everyone else in the ashram, a thousand people, nobody had a girlfriend or boyfriend. I did.”

People Thinking Self Spiritual Hate Thousand Girlfriend Rama Rough Times Self Hate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As the years progressed, my spiritual evolution seemed to increase in speed. I stepped outside this world, the selves reordered. The combination, the aggregate of beings that I was, dissolved in the white light of eternity.”

World Years Self Light Spiritual White This World Evolution Eternity Increase Speed Combination Rama White Light Spiritual Evolution

Author:Frederick Lenz

“At a certain point I left my spiritual teacher because I began to see the limitations of my teacher, who was a very powerful occultist, but who I thought was, to some extent, limiting others in their spiritual growth.”

Spiritual Certain Left Growth Powerful Teacher Limitation Spiritual Growth Very Powerful Rama Spiritual Teachers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“So I went off on my own and started the process of spiritual teaching.”

Spiritual Process My Own Teaching Rama Spiritual Teaching

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I believe it should be the legal right of any woman who wants to have an abortion to have one. From the spiritual point of view, I don't see a problem with abortion in that the soul doesn't usually take incarnation until the last month before birth, sometimes not even until the moment of birth.”

Want Should Believe Soul Sometimes Moments Problem Lasts Spiritual I Believe Views Months Birth Point Of View Abortion Incarnation Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In writing Snowboarding to Nirvana I have intentionally written an inspirational spiritual adventure story, which will hopefully provide people with metaphysical techniques, spiritual knowledge, hope and a brighter view of life.”

People Writing Stories Spiritual Views Written Adventure Technique Hopefully Metaphysical Brighter Rama Snowboarding Spiritual Knowledge

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Many spiritual teachers have done this. They have disbanded their whole community because everyone got angry. The karma, at a certain point, has to go back to the person; it's intensified and hurts them spiritually.”

Persons Done Whole Spiritual Certain Community Hurt Teacher Buddhism Angry Karma Rama Spiritual Teachers Disbanded

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's very funny. People do not want to achieve liberation or be happy. This is the basic guideline they teach you in Spiritual Training School.”

People Want School Spiritual Teach Achieve Buddhism Training Liberation Rama Guidelines Funny People

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Samadhi is the highest octave spiritual light. Not the best, but the highest octave.”

Light Spiritual Buddhism Highest Rama Samadhi Spiritual Light

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When I enter into nirvikalpa samadhi, most can see this light, or feel it. This light creates very powerful, steady spiritual transformation. The reason you are here is to sit in this light.”

Feels Reason Light Spiritual Powerful Buddhism Transformation Steady Very Powerful Rama Spiritual Transformation Samadhi

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I know some teachers say that you shouldn't display the psychic powers and other powers referred to as the siddhas, but as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't really matter. There are no absolute rights or wrongs in spiritual practice”

Knows Matter Spiritual Practice Teacher Rights Buddhism Concerned Absolutes Display Psychics Rama Spiritual Practice

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Today in the west the word 'guru' has come to mean someone who leads a cult, someone who deprives others of their intellectual or spiritual freedom and rips them off financially.”

Mean Today Spiritual Buddhism Intellectual West Cult Rip Guru Rama Spiritual Freedom

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We have a spiritual community but everyone lives where they want to. I recommend certain areas to live because of their power.”

Want Spiritual Certain Community Buddhism Areas Rama Spiritual Community

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If a person sets out to practice meditation in this lifetime and they have a little bit of spiritual evolution behind them and they're quite dedicated, it really is not at all an impossible task to enter into salvakalpa samadhi in this particular lifetime.”

Ifs Littles Persons Spiritual Bits Behinds Practice Meditation Impossible Particular Evolution Little Bit Tasks Lifetime Dedicated Samadhi Spiritual Evolution

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The teaching process becomes most interesting for spiritual seekers once they've managed to hit the lower samadhis. However at that point many seekers become very egotistical.”

Spiritual Process Interesting Teaching Seekers Most Interesting Egotistical Samadhi

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantra is for a person who has reached a point in their spiritual evolution where everything looks the same.”

Looks Persons Philosophy Spiritual Evolution Tantra Spiritual Evolution

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantra is for the advanced spiritual practitioner who is ready to push aside spiritual practice in the name of spiritual practice.”

Philosophy Spiritual Names Practice Ready Spiritual Practice Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantra is spiritual, not religious. It deals with the spirit. Religion is just an applied body of doctrines that's believed or not believed by one or more individuals. Spirituality is the science of metaphysics.”

Philosophy Body Spiritual Spirit Spirituality Individual Religious Deals Doctrine Metaphysics Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Living in the spiritual world is very easy, once you grow accustomed to it. But initially, it puts you through some changes.”

World Philosophy Spiritual Grows Easy Accustomed

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantra and adventure are very, very connected. Perhaps the greatest enemy for one who's journeying along the spiritual path is complacency.”

Philosophy Spiritual Enemy Path Adventure Connected Complacency Spiritual Path Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's not what you do that matters. It's not what you say. There's nothing that is not holy or spiritual. Be beyond definition, beyond categorization, be absorbed.”

Matter Philosophy Spiritual Holy Definitions Categorization

Author:Frederick Lenz

“But I didn't even see God in the show as being very spiritual, I see him or her, it, as being something that is just relevant and very important in her life.”

Important Shows Spiritual Relevant

Author:Amber Tamblyn

“I very much believe in things unseen, both of positive and destructive energy, and I have never seen The Exorcist through from start to finish. I find it too realistic, frankly, and too disturbing for me. I absolutely believe in spiritual warfare and have experienced it in my life. So I respect Mr. Friedkin's extraordinary success with that, but it's not a picture I'll ever see.”

Believe Spiritual Energy Extraordinary Destructive Realistic Warfare Unseen Disturbing Spiritual Warfare Exorcist Too Real

Author:Ashley Judd

“As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.”

Feels Long Ideas Pain Spiritual Felt Practice Fundamentals Breathing Pushing Spiritual Practice Contractions

Author:Christy Turlington

“Yoga has reinforced and grounded my own spiritual beliefs.”

Spiritual Belief My Own Yoga Grounded Spiritual Beliefs

Author:Christy Turlington

“A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.”

Men Trying Play Character Bigs Wanted Spiritual Political Social Boys Journey Discovery

Author:Orlando Bloom

“The Zen Master was constantly attempting to break up concepts that people had about what it was like to be a spiritual teacher. We have a traditional image. Each Zen master was a complete character.”

People Character Spiritual Break Teacher Masters Concepts Traditional Attempting Zen Master Spiritual Teachers

Author:Frederick Lenz

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