“Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity.” FeelsTryingSpiritualResultsDirectorsAdvantagePracticalsProducersFamiliarityLiteralPractical Things Author:Campbell Scott
“Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them for their whole life and thus lose many spiritual benefits and advantages.” WholeSpiritualOrderLosesSinBenefitsAdvantageConcernCatholicWhole LifeCustomsAmendments Author:Saint Francis de Sales
“Bad karma is the spiritual debt one has accumulated for one's mistakes from all previous lives and this life. It includes killing, harming, taking advantage, cheating, stealing, and more. On Mother Earth, when you buy a house, you take out a mortgage from a bank. This mortgage is your debt to the bank. You pay every month for fifteen, twenty, or thirty years to clear your financial debt. In the spiritual realm, if you have bad karma, you may have to pay for many lifetimes to clear your spiritual debt.” IfsYearsMayEarthSpiritualMotherHousePayMistakeClearMonthsAdvantageTwentiesLifetimeKillingFinancialDebtKarmaStealingThis LifeRealmsThirtyCheatingFifteenMortgageThirty YearsMother EarthTaking AdvantageBad KarmaPrevious Life Author:Zhi Gang Sha
“There are some whose Karma is such as to enable them to develop the purely spiritual faculties first of all -- to overleap the astral plane for the time, as it were; and when afterwards they make its acquaintance they have, if their spiritual development has been perfect, the immense advantage of dipping into it from above, with the aid of a spiritual insight which cannot be deceived and a spiritual strength which nothing can resist.” IfsFirstsHas BeensSpiritualPerfectDevelopmentAdvantageInsightAidsKarmaPlanesFacultyImmenseDeceivedAcquaintanceSpiritual DevelopmentSpiritual StrengthSpiritual Insight Author:Charles Webster Leadbeater
“Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.” SpiritualOughtAdvantageCelibacySupposing Book:Bacon's Essays Source: Bacon's Essays