“Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.” WorldHumansFactsSpiritualCommunityEconomicMankindTheoryDevelopmentCivilizationHealthyOrganizedHuman SocietyCommon InterestsInternationalism Author:Christian Lous Lange
“Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life.” ShouldSpiritualCommunityReligiousLeaderInfluenceVoteEnvironmentalActivismAccessSpiritual LifeSpiritual Leader Author:Radhanath Swami
“As citizen-activists the world over merge, they can become an irresistible force to create peace and protect the planet. From here will come a new movement to abolish nuclear weapons and all weapons of mass destruction. From here will come the demand for sustainable communities, for new systems of energy, transportation and commerce. From here comes the future rushing in on us. How does one acquire the capacity for active citizenship? The opportunities exist every day...Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles.” WorldDoeSpiritualOpportunityEnergyForceCommunityPrinciplesMovementPlanetsCitizensProtectDemandWeaponsMassConsciousCapacityDestructionActiveNuclearOutcomesAcquireActivistApplicationSustainabilityNuclear WeaponsCommerceCitizenshipIrresistibleTransportationWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionRushingAbolishEnvisioningRushing InIrresistible ForceActive Citizenship Author:Dennis Kucinich
“Women are concerned about the purity and welfare of the community. ? While the father's love was related to mundane desires, the mother's love was related to spiritual concerns.” SpiritualMotherDesireFatherCommunityConcernConcernedWelfareRelatedPurityMundaneMother's Love Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“Just as in a physical body the operation of one member contributes to the good of the whole body, so it is in a spiritual body such as the Church. And since all the faithful are one body, the good of one member is communicated to another; everyone members, as the Apostle says, of one another [Eph 4:25]. For that reason, among the points of faith handed down by the Apostles, is that there is a community of goods in the Church, and this is expressed in the words Communion of Saints.” ReasonWholeBodySpiritualCommunityChurchMembersSaintFaithfulOperationsGoodsCommunionApostlesPhysical Body Author:Thomas Aquinas
“A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.” FirstsWellsChildrenStatesSpiritualCommunityCaringWell BeingOrganizedPrimitiveProvidingEden Book:Table-talk Source: Table-talk
“Just as man as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the community, so the individual will never find the real justification for his existence, and his own spiritual and moral autonomy, anywhere except in an extramundane principle capable of relativizing the overpowering influence of external factors.” MenLongRealRunningSpiritualIndividualSocialCommunityExistenceMoralPrinciplesInfluenceCapableFactorsTiesJustificationLong RunsAutonomyMemories Dreams ReflectionsOverpoweringSocial Being Book:The Undiscovered Self Source: The Undiscovered Self
“In contrast to the asexual chasteness of official communist art , Nazi art is both prurient and idealizing. A utopian aesthetics (physical perfection; identity as a biological given) implies an ideal eroticism: sexuality converted into the magnetism of leaders and the joy of followers. The fascist ideal is to transform sexual energy into a "spiritual" force, for the benefit of the community.” ArtSpiritualJoyEnergyGivenForceCommunityLeaderIdentityBenefitsArt IsIdealsPerfectionSexualityOfficialsCommunistFollowersContrastNaziAestheticsFascistsUtopianMagnetism Book:A Susan Sontag reader Source: A Susan Sontag reader
“If you're lucky you find your way into a spiritual community and you start to find the great teachers of all the ages who said the same thing. There's only love, you're made of love.” IfsWayMadeSaidAgeSpiritualCommunityTeacherLove YouLuckyOnly LoveGreat TeacherLucky YouSpiritual Community Author:Anne Lamott
“We deeply need the humility to know ourselves as the dependent members of a great community of life, and this can indeed be one of the spiritual benefits of a wilderness experience. ... [T]o know the wilderness is to know a profound humility, to recognize one's littleness, to sense dependence and interdependence, indebtedness and responsibility.” KnowsNeedsSpiritualCommunityResponsibilityHumilityMembersBenefitsProfoundDependentWildernessDependenceInterdependenceIndebtedness Author:Howard Zahniser
“As Eastern thought has begun to interest a significant number of people, and meditation is no longer viewed with ridicule or suspicion, mysticism is being taken seriously even within the scientific community. An increasing number of scientists are aware that mystical thought provides a consistent and relevant philosophical background to the theories of Contemporary science, a conception of the world in which the scientific discoveries of men and women can be in perfect harmony with their spiritual aims and religious beliefs.” PeopleMenWorldSpiritualBeliefInterestCommunityReligiousPerfectNumbersMeditationTheoryMen And WomenDiscoveryScientistHarmonyPhilosophicalAimSignificantContemporaryConsistentMysticismConceptionRelevantSuspicionMysticalEasternRidiculeReligious BeliefTokensScientific DiscoveryPerfect HarmonySignificant Numbers Author:Fritjof Capra
“Let's take back the rainbow for God. Let the homosexual community find a different religious symbol to commandeer... What I want is for the Christian community to wake up, wipe the sleep from their eyes, and realize that they are in a spiritual battle that isn't going away and has no demilitarized zones. The rainbow is a symbol, but it's meaning points to the very character of God. So Christians, use this God-given symbol for His glory. Using it won't make you a homosexual.” WantDifferentCharacterUseEyeChristianSpiritualGivenRealizingCommunityReligiousSleepBattleGloryWake UpSymbolsZoneGoing AwayRainbowHomosexualWipeChristian CommunityCharacter Of God Author:Ken Hutcherson
“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.” YearsSpiritualOrderCommunityReligiousPracticeTeacherStrictEasternRamaSpiritual Community 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.” PersonsDoneWholeSpiritualCertainCommunityHurtTeacherBuddhismAngryKarmaRamaSpiritual TeachersDisbanded 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.” WantSpiritualCertainCommunityBuddhismAreasRamaSpiritual Community Author:Frederick Lenz
“You are an individual, and you came here on your own as a child, and you will die on your own. The fact that you may live in a community or with your family does not change the solitude of your spiritual journey. By cluttering your life with many things, you soon lose sight of who you are and what you came for.” MayChildrenDoeFactsSpiritualDiesSpiritualityIndividualCommunityLosesJourneySolitudeSightWho You AreOur FamilySpiritual Journey Author:Stuart Wilde
“In the mystic traditions of the different religions we have a remarkable unity of spirit. Whatever religion they may profess, they are spiritual kinsmen. While the different religions in their historic forms bind us to limited groups and militate against the development of loyalty to the world community, the mystics have already stood for the fellowship of humanity in harmony with the spirit of the mystics of ages gone by.” WorldMayDifferentAgeSpiritualFormSpiritHumanityCommunityGoneGroupsDevelopmentTraditionHarmonyUnityLoyaltyRemarkableHistoricFellowshipMysticDifferent Religions Author:Haile Selassie
“Religious communities have historically been designed to counteract the forces of alienation. That's why so many successful social movements have relied upon the strength of spiritual communities and a large base of their organizing has been through them.” Has BeensSpiritualForceSocialCommunityReligiousSuccessfulMovementAlienationSocial MovementsReligious CommunitySpiritual Community Author:Tim DeChristopher
“I am interested and deeply curious about our need for a spiritual life, a life of greater meaning, and how we come to a more ethical view of life within our communities that is more inclusive than exclusive, one that is extended even beyond our own species.” NeedsSpiritualCommunityViewsGreaterSpeciesCuriousEthicalSpiritual LifeExclusiveOur Community Author:Terry Tempest Williams
“If we could see ourselves... as we really are, we should see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures, our community which neither began at birth nor will end with the death of the body.” IfsWorldShouldEndsBodySpiritualCommunityBirthReincarnationOur CommunitySpiritual Nature Author:Immanuel Kant
“I consider Otto Rank to be one of the great spiritual giants of the twentieth century, a genius as a psychologist and a saint as a human being. Though vilified by his original community of Freudians, he never became bitter. He died a feminist and deeply committed to social justice, in 1939....His deep understanding of creativity makes him a mentor for all of us living in a postmodern world....I believe that Art and Artist, especially chapters 12 to 14, may well emerge as the most valuable psychoanalysis of the spiritual life in our time.” WorldBelieveHumansWellsMayArtSpiritualArtistI BelieveSocialUnderstandingCommunityJusticeHuman BeingsCreativityCenturyGeniusDiedOriginalsSocial JusticeSaintCommittedFeministValuableBitterOur TimeGiantsSpiritual LifeChaptersMentorTwentieth CenturyPsychologistPsychoanalysisPostmodernGreat SpiritualDeep Understanding Author:Matthew Fox
“Energy always flows either toward hope, community, love, generosity, mutual recognition, and spiritual aliveness or it flows toward despair, cynicism, fear that there is not enough, paranoia about the intentions of others, and a desire to control.” EnoughSpiritualDesireChoicesEnergyFearCommunityDespairFlowIntentionRecognitionGenerosityMutualCynicismFairnessParanoia Author:Michael Lerner
“So long as the great majority of the poor in any country are inert and are laboring without any hope in this world, the whole associated life of that community rests on an equivocal foundation. Its moral and social order is tied to an economic system which starves and mutilates the great majority of the population, and under such conditions its religion necessarily becomes a spiritual drug, administered for the purpose of subduing the popular discontent and relieving the popular misery.” WorldLongCountryWholeSpiritualPurposeOrderSocialCommunityPoorMoralEconomicConditionsThis WorldDrugFoundationMajorityMiseryPopulationTiedDiscontentEconomic SystemsSocial Order Author:Herbert Croly
“I think of myself as a highly spiritual person, but without - I was never really given a religion or a religious experience or a community to sort of subscribe to.” ThinkingPersonsSpiritualGivenCommunityReligiousReligious Experience Author:James Taylor
“The spiritual journey is one that we must take "alone together," in the same way that a good marriage involves a dance between solitude and communion. The life of the spirit entails a continuous alternation between retreating into oneself and going out into the world: it's an inward-outward journey. There is a solitary part to it, but that solitude helps us to develop richer and more in-depth relationships with our friends, our children, our community, and the political world.” WorldWayChildrenHelpingTogetherSpiritualPoliticalSpiritCommunityJourneySolitudeOur ChildrenDepthOneselfSolitaryInwardGoing OutCommunionOur CommunitySpiritual JourneyGood Marriage Author:Sam Keen