“I was lucky enough to have had great success early on in life; to have had all the things the material world can offer. And yet, I realized that what I had actually neglected was the more spiritual side of myself, which has always been there. But it's easy for us in our culture to become consumed in a sense by materialism. Now materialism is fine. We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.” WorldEnoughBeautifulSpiritualCultureEasySidesOur LivesMaterialsFineOffersLuckyI RealizedMaterialismBeautiful ThingsConsumedNeglectedGreat SuccessMaterial World Author:Tom Ford
“Just because one is spiritual doesn't mean that one doesn't like crocodile, cashmere. We live in a material world. We still experience these things. It doesn't mean to completely disregard them.” WorldMeanStillsSpiritualMaterialsDisregardMaterial WorldCrocodilesCashmere Author:Tom Ford
“I think all of us are living in denial of our spiritual nature as we continue to participate in the material world even though we know we're destroying the planet we live on.” ThinkingKnowsWorldSpiritualPlanetsMaterialsDenialDestroyingMaterial WorldSpiritual Nature Author:Russell Brand
“The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided. The many divisions and polarizations that terrorize a disenchanted world find peaceful accord among mossy rock walls, rough stone paths, and trimmed bushes. Maybe a garden sometimes seems fragile, for all its earth and labor, because it achieves such an extraordinary delicate balance of nature and human life, naturalness and artificiality. It has its own liminality, its point of balance between great extremes.” WorldLifeHumansArtSometimesHardSeemsEarthSpiritualPleasurePracticePathAchieveRocksMaterialsHard WorkWallBalanceGardenLaborStonesExtraordinaryExtremesPeacefulHuman LifeRoughDivisionDividedFragileDelicateAccordReconcileFinding PeaceSpiritual PracticeMaterial WorldPolarizationArtificialityMagical PlacesDisenchanted Author:Thomas Moore
“Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.” WorldChildrenSoulSpiritualReligionEvilParentViewsBuildingTaughtMaterialsSeparationJustifiedKrishnaMaterial World Author:Mary Garden
“There is something about human nature that just doesn't want to face the reality that we live in two worlds. We live in the physical, material world where we have jobs, read books, and go about our business. And we live in a spiritual world - and that is a world at war.” WorldWantHumansTwoBookWarRealityJobsFacesSpiritualHuman NatureMaterialsMaterial WorldTwo Worlds Author:John Eldredge
“To transcend means to "go beyond," but this need not compel us to an ornate dualist view that regards transcendent levels of reality (e.g., the spiritual level) to be not of this world. We can "go beyond" the "ordinary" powers of the material world through the power of patterns. Rather than a materialist, I would prefer to consider myself a "patternist." It's through the emergent powers of the pattern that we transcend.” WorldNeedsMeanRealitySpiritualLevelsViewsThis WorldMaterialsOrdinaryRegardPatternsTranscendentMaterial World Author:Ray Kurzweil
“I have a great belief in spiritual force, but I think we have to realize that spiritual force alone has to have material force with it so long as we live in a material world. The two together make a strong combination.” ThinkingWorldLongTwoTogetherSpiritualBeliefStrongForceRealizingMaterialsCombinationMaterial World Book:My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962 Source: My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962