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“Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.”

Self Use Spiritual Suffering Taught Messages Instruments Spiritualism Potency

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them.”

Firsts Spiritual Temples Hospitals Diseased Spiritualism

Book:None High: None Low

Source: None High: None Low

“Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.”

World Has Beens Spiritual Progress Conditions Flesh Spiritualism Mortification Spiritual Progress

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“One's everyday life is never capable of being separated from his spiritual being.”

Spiritual Life Is Capable Everyday Everyday Life Spiritualism Spiritual Beings

Book:Writings and Speeches of Mahatma Gandhi Relating to Bihar, 1917-1947

Source: Writings and Speeches of Mahatma Gandhi Relating to Bihar, 1917-1947

“Let not the spirit wander while the words of prayer run on out of our mouth.”

Running Spiritual Spirit Prayer Mouths Wander Spiritualism

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.”

Giving Spiritual South Insight Tolerance Fanaticism Toleration North Pole Spiritual Insight

Book:Gandhi: Selected Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings

“You can find people who have discovered the fact that it's really helping people, it's really being compassionate toward other human beings that makes you happy, that gives you a spiritual fulfillment - a kind of fulfillment that goes way beyond anything you can buy.”

People Way Giving Humans Kind Facts Helping Spiritual Human Beings Fulfillment Compassionate Helping People Make You Happy

Author:George Lucas

“I don't want to be religious, I want to be spiritual. Anybody can be religious. Some people jog religiously. You don't want to be that, you want to be spiritual. You want to have a relationship with God as opposed to doing what everyone else does.”

People Want Doe Spiritual Religious Relationship With God

Author:Lauryn Hill

“There's a difference between mastering something physical and working with an animal. There's a spiritual component to working with a horse. You're dealing with the spirit of a live animal that thinks and makes decisions.”

Thinking Spiritual Spirit Differences Decision Animal Horse Components

Author:Buck Brannaman

“Magic has a spiritual element, and is considered very important and of value, and magicians have always been a little bit silly, so if you're going to portray a modern day magician, there's gotta be a little silliness.”

Ifs Littles Important Spiritual Values Bits Magic Modern Elements Little Bit Silly Magician Modern Day Silliness

Author:Jon Turteltaub

“I write songs for myself, songs come out of me, I get enjoyment out of it. Basically, that's it - I get enjoyment out of my songs, I know they're good songs, and know that the people around me who I respect are all getting up on these tunes, and the feedback is really good, so that's it. There are people who will receive them, and don't receive them. Not in a spiritual sense, but in a commercial sense - do these songs treat people, and so far they're working.”

People Knows Writing Spiritual Song Treats Enjoyment Tunes Feedback

Author:Creed Bratton

“I have spiritual beliefs that I could literally go out and make an entire comedy routine about, and tour as some sort of spiritual guru, but it kind of goes against that [as] I actually believe the things, so I'm always kind of caught in the middle.”

Believe Kind Spiritual Belief Comedy Middle Caught Routine Guru Spiritual Beliefs Caught In The Middle

Author:Jim Carrey

“I'm not in any way religious. I don't go to church, but I consider myself spiritual.”

Way Spiritual Church Religious

Author:Charlie Sheen

“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”

“Faith gives me the ability to rise above anything, because what is true in the spiritual realm is forever true. It cannot be denied.”

Giving Spiritual Ability Forever Give Me Realms Denied Rise Above

Author:Gary Busey

“When you concentrate on the middle of your chest - this is where loving awareness lives. This is the spiritual heart. Not the beating heart, not the emotional heart. This spiritual heart goes way back - goes back many incarnations. We call it the soul.”

Way Heart Soul Spiritual Middle Awareness Emotional Chests Incarnation

Author:Ram Dass

“I think that people should give gifts by really recognizing the spiritual worth of the person and their (the givers') own worth. You usually give a present that the other person needs or wants, and I think it just emphasizes wants and needs.”

People Thinking Want Needs Giving Should Persons Spiritual Recognizing Giver Wants And Needs

Author:Ram Dass

“For if we are bidden to honor carnal fathers and mothers, how much more the spiritual? ... If this virtue of charity has been overlooked, a man will lose any fruit of salvation in any good he may do.”

Ifs Men May Has Beens Christian Spiritual Mother Father Loses Virtue Honor Holy Salvation Charity Fruit Overlooked Holy Mary

Author:Pope Gregory VII

“The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order.”

Soul Use Christian Spiritual Order Three Unhappy Therapy Fearful Frustrated Vocal Spiritual Healing Rosary Simultaneous Holy Rosary Praying The Rosary Distraught

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“I don't think science is necessarily incompatible with mystical or spiritual sensibilities. I often weigh them equally in my thinking, which sometimes finds itself into the work.”

Thinking Sometimes Spiritual Photography Sensibility Mystical

Author:Keith Carter

“Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.”

Men May Spiritual Chance Effort Temper Adapting Elasticity

Book:The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy

Source: The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy

“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”

“I'm a raging leftist political activist. I've never had a spiritual thought in my life related to God. I'm clear that that's a human invention.”

Humans Spiritual Political Clear Rage Invention Related Activist Leftists Human Inventions

Author:Patch Adams

“For me, spiritual means love in action. So if you are working for love, then you are a spiritual person.”

Ifs Mean Persons Action Spiritual Mean Love

Author:Patch Adams

“Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.”

Inspirational Heart Soul Spiritual Environment Feet Average Refuse Christian Inspirational Surrender Spiritual Wisdom Soar Chill My Ambition Feet On The Ground Gnarly

Author:Arthur Helps

“Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical component to it and engages the reader on a visceral level and evokes a strong sympathetic reaction. High art is people driving in Volvos and talking a lot. I just don't want to keep those things separate. I think you can use visceral physical experiences to illustrate larger ideas, whether they're emotional or spiritual. I'm trying to not exclude high and low art or separate them.”

“It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.”

Ifs World May Self Done Spiritual Suffering Loss This World Accounts Self Inflicted

Book:Companions of My Solitude

Source: Companions of My Solitude

“I do not understand how deeply people seem to like my work - but I love that people feel I have helped them through hardships, and also have shared my experience of living a more spiritual and present life. It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back.”

People Feels Self Seems Able Spiritual Laughing Hardship Making People Laugh Present Life

Author:Anne Lamott

“You might have thought that a world such as ours, so hard-nosed and cynical and brash, would have very little time for transcendence, spiritual values of goodness and compassion, gentleness, and caring, but we actually do experience them.”

World Littles Hard Might Spiritual Values Compassion Goodness Caring Cynical Gentleness Transcendence Little Time Spiritual Values Brash

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Coaching is about, "How do I get people to play at their peak level?" It is a spiritual quest. And if it's not that, you don't have a challenge, you don't have a mission. Forming a brotherhood and trying to move it forward - that's what coaching is.”

People Ifs Trying Play Spiritual Moving Challenges Levels Missions Coaching Brotherhood Quests

Author:Phil Jackson

“When you understand spiritual law, then you realize that everything you give, good or bad, will in fact come back to you tenfold and that's just the way it is. You give someone flowers and the person you are ultimately giving to is yourself.”

Way Giving Persons Facts Spiritual Law Realizing Flower

Author:Marianne Williamson

“I like to look good, but I like my body to function well more than anything. For me, it's as spiritual and intellectual as it is physical. And emotional. I'm a better husband, I'm a better father, if my body is physically functioning at the highest possible levels.”

Ifs Wells Looks Body Spiritual Father Levels Emotional Husband Highest Intellectual Function

Author:Willi Smith

“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”

Inspirational Wisdom Spiritual Awareness Wise Words Words Of Wisdom Patience Intelligence Clever Companion Spiritual Wisdom Wise Man Once Said Chakra

Author:Saint Augustine

“Spiritual awareness is not only one of the keys to the healing process. Spiritual awareness is the only way that healing can occur.”

Way Spiritual Process Healing Awareness Keys Spiritual Awareness Healing Process

Author:Deepak Chopra

“If I may take the risk of defining what a spiritual experience is, it is one in which pure awareness reveals itself to you as the maker of reality - where you suddenly discover through insight or meditation or a freak accident that your essential nature is spiritual, non-material.”

Ifs May Reality Spiritual Meditation Risk Awareness Materials Pure Essentials Insight Accidents Makers Freak Defining Spiritual Experience

Author:Deepak Chopra

“The body is a field of ideas and it is a field of interpretations and when you change your experience of your own identity to a spiritual being, the body expresses the physical manifestation of that spiritual reality.”

Ideas Body Reality Spiritual Fields Identity Manifestation Interpretation Spiritual Beings

Author:Deepak Chopra

“The nature of spiritual awakening is frequently misunderstood. The adoption of spiritual beliefs, seeing visions of God or celestial beings, the ability to channel, to heal, to foretell the future, or other paranormal powers - all such phenomena are of value and are not to be dismissed, but none of them is in itself indicative of spiritual awakening in a person who experiences them.”

Persons Spiritual Values Belief Ability Vision Seeing Awakening Heal Paranormal Adoption Misunderstood Spiritual Awakening Celestial Spiritual Beliefs

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“For many people, the first indication of a spiritual awakening is that they suddenly become aware of their thoughts. They become a witness to their thoughts, so to speak. They are not completely identified with their mind anymore and so they begin to sense that there is a depth to them that they had never known before.”

People Mind Firsts Spiritual Speak Known Depth Awakening Witness Spiritual Awakening Indication

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“For most people, spiritual awakening is a gradual process. Rarely does it happen all at once. When it does, though, it is usually brought about by intense suffering.”

People Doe Happens Spiritual Suffering Process Awakening Intense Spiritual Awakening

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time.”

Spiritual Teacher Teaching Essentials Awakening Spiritual Awakening

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Humanity as a whole has already gone through unimaginable suffering, mostly self-inflicted, the culmination of which was the 20th century with its unspeakable horrors. This collective suffering has brought upon a readiness in many human beings for the evolutionary leap that is spiritual awakening.”

“When there is spiritual awakening, you awaken into the fullness, the aliveness, and also the sacredness of now. You were absent, asleep, and now you are present, awake.”

Spiritual Awakening Awake Fullness Absent Spiritual Awakening Sacredness

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“This new large-scale spiritual awakening is occurring primarily not within the confines of the established religions, but outside of those structures. Some of it, however, is also happening within the existing churches and religious institutions wherever the members of those congregations do not identify with rigid and exclusive belief systems whose unconscious purpose is to foster a sense of separation on which the egoic mind structures depend for their survival.”

“Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken.”

States Spiritual Arise Spiritual Power

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Power is not something we should be afraid of. Power is great, power is energy. And in terms of energy, the most important energy is human spiritual energy and when I say spiritual, I feel like have to be very careful, I don't mean religious, I mean the energy of the mind, the energy that exists within us.”

Feels Should Mind Humans Mean Important Spiritual Energy Term Religious Careful Human Spirit Great Power Spiritual Energy

Author:Yoko Ono

“Some form of suffering often brings about a readiness. One can say it cracks open the shell of the egoic mind with which many people identify as "me." Life cracks open that shell, and once that crack is there, then we are reached more easily by spiritual teaching.”

People Mind Spiritual Form Suffering Teaching Cracks Shells Readiness Spiritual Teaching

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“When I'm with people, I'm a spiritual teacher. That's the function, but it's not my identity. The moment I'm alone, my deepest joy is to benobody, to relinquish the function of a teacher. It's a temporary function.”

People Moments Spiritual Joy Teacher Identity Function Temporary Spiritual Teachers

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Once the awakening happens, with it comes the realization that suffering is unnecessary now. You have reached the end of suffering because you have transcended the world. It is the place that is free of suffering. This seems to be everybody's path. Perhaps it is not everybody's path in this lifetime, but it seems to be a universal path. Even without a spiritual teaching or a spiritual teacher, I believe that everybody would get there eventually. But that could take time.”

World Believe Ends Seems Happens Spiritual Suffering I Believe Path Teacher Teaching Universal Lifetime Awakening Realization Take Time Unnecessary Spiritual Teachers Spiritual Teaching

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Complete surrender usually happens through living. Your very life is the ground where that happens. There may be a partial surrender and then there may be an opening, and then you may engage in spiritual practice.”

May Happens Spiritual Life Is Practice Surrender Opening Spiritual Practice

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“It is very hard to tell when I started to be a spiritual teacher. There was a time when occasionally somebody would come and ask me questions. One could say at that point I became a spiritual teacher, although the term did not occur to me then.”

Hard Spiritual Asks Term Teacher Ask Me Spiritual Teachers

Author:Eckhart Tolle

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