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“... for our sake loosing within Himself the bonds of bodily birth, He granted us through spiritual birth, according to our own volition, power to become children of God instead of children of flesh and blood if we have faith in His Name (cf. Jn. 1:12-13). For the Savior the sequence was, first of all, incarnation and bodily birth for my sake; and so thereupon the birth in the Spirit through baptism, originally spurned by Adam, for the sake of my salvation and restoration by grace, or, to describe it even more vividly, my very remaking.”

“Survival is for the human animal; fear the motivation. For the spiritual being survival is irrelevant. Curiosity, compassion and creativity are the name of the game; unconditional love the motivation.”

Humans Spiritual Motivation Spirituality Games Names Animal Compassion Creativity Survival Curiosity Unconditional Love Irrelevant Unconditional Human Animal Spiritual Awareness Spiritual Beings

Author:Peter Shepherd

“I wouldn't even like to begin to define God - I have absolutely no idea. But what I feel, and what touches me, is a great spiritual power, which I don't even want to name. If I had to, I would say God, because I don't know any other.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Ideas Spiritual Names No Idea Touch Me Spiritual Power Great Spiritual

Author:Jane Goodall

“Christianity exhorted man to set himself up against Nature, but did so in the name of his spiritual and disinterested attributes. Pragmatism exhorts him to do so in the name of his practical attributes. Formerly man was divine because he had been able to acquire the concept of justice, the idea of law, the sense of God; today he is divine because he has been able to create equipment which makes him the master of matter.”

Men Has Beens Ideas Matter Today Able Spiritual Law Names Justice Christianity Divine Masters Concepts Practicals Acquire Attributes Equipment Pragmatism Disinterested

Book:The Treason of the Intellectuals

Source: The Treason of the Intellectuals

“Many people meditate in order that a third eye may open. For that they feel they should close their two physical eyes. They thereby become blind to the world. But the fact is that the third eye will never open. We can never close our eyes to the world in the name of spirituality. Self-realization is the ability to see ourselves in all beings. This is the third eye through which you see, even while your two eyes are open. We should be able to love and serve others, seeing ourselves in them. This is the fulfillment of spiritual practice.”

“Faith in the continuance and enhancement of the intrinsic values--faith in truth, in beauty, in friendship, in love and harmony of life--in short, faith in reason and the worth of spiritual life--such faith is only another name for faith in the persistence of spiritual individuality. For, I repeat, these values are real only as functions of personal experience and deed. To have faith in the permanence of intrinsic values is to assume the enduring reality of selves who know truth, feel beauty, who love and win spiritual harmony.”

“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

“No education deserves the name unless it develops thought, unless it pierces down to the mysterious spiritual principle of mind, and starts that into activity and growth.”

Mind Spiritual Names Growth Education Principles Activity Deserve Mysterious Pierce

Book:Literature and life, lects

Source: Literature and life, lects

“Our spiritual life is a venture in the dark, between the soul and God, and no spiritual life is worth the name unless it is so.”

Soul Spiritual Life Is Names Dark Spiritual Life Venture

Author:Janet Erskine Stuart

“This naming of things is so crucial to possession - a spiritual padlock with the key thrown irretrievably away - that it is a murder, an erasing, and it is not surprising that when people have felt themselves prey to it (conquest), among their first acts of liberation is to change their names.”

People Firsts Spiritual Names Felt Keys Murder Possession Liberation Thrown Crucial Surprising Conquest Prey Padlocks

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“I believe the message in the hymn "Rise Up, O Men of God" (Hymns, no. 324) is a plea, a call, a divine invitation for us to rise above the telestial tinsel of our time; to deny ourselves of ungodliness and clothe ourselves in the mantle of holiness; to reach and stretch and grasp for that spiritual direction and sacred empowerment promised to the Lord's agents, to those charged to act in the name of our Principal, Jesus Christ; and to point the way to salvation and deliverance and peace in a world that finds itself enshrouded in darkness, a world that yearns for spiritual leadership.”

“Rather than being any longer a threat to the established androcratic order, Christianity became what practically all this earth's religions, launched in the name of spiritual enlightenment and freedom, have also become: a powerful way of perpetuating that order.”

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Author:Riane Eisler

“It is abnormal for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible. It has been written into our spiritual DNA to hunger for the impossibilities around us to bow at the name of Jesus.”

Has Beens Christian Spiritual Jesus Names Impossible Written Hunger Appetite Bows Dna Impossibility Abnormal

Book:When Heaven Invades Earth Expanded Edition: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles

Source: When Heaven Invades Earth Expanded Edition: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles

“As names that can mean things, I prefer spiritual to a lot of other things.”

Mean Spiritual Names

Author:David Duchovny

“A life without love is a waste. 'Should I look for spiritual love, or material, or physical love?', don't ask yourself this question. Discrimination leads to discrimination. Love doesn't need any name, category or definition. Love is a world itself. Either you are in, at the center... either you are out, yearning.”

World Needs Should Looks Spiritual Asks Names Love Is Materials Waste Definitions Discrimination Categories Yearning Should I Without Love Spiritual Love Life Without Love

Author:Shams Tabrizi

“Over time, years of meditation gave me glimpses of the interconnectedness and interdependence of all life. I experienced that on one level we are alone, separate, apart from everyone and everything; on another level, we are the Self in different disguises, different names and forms, a part of everyone and everything. This experience of interconnectedness is part of spiritual traditions and the perennial wisdom in virtually all religions and cultures.”

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Book:Love & Survival: The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy

Source: Love & Survival: The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy

“The spiritual desire for poetry can be overwhelming, so much do I need it to experience and name my own perilous depths and vast spaces, my own well-being.”

Needs Wells Spiritual Desire Names My Own Space Depth Well Being Overwhelming

Book:How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry

Source: How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry

“When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.”

Men Made Christian Spiritual Names Loses Peers Surnames

Book:The Select Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing the Whole of His Poetical Works, the Tale of a Tab, Battle of the Books, Gulliver's Travels, Directions to Servants, Art of Punning, Etc

Source: The Select Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing the Whole of His Poetical Works, the Tale of a Tab, Battle of the Books, Gulliver's Travels, Directions to Servants, Art of Punning, Etc

“We lump together all things that are beyond the capacity of all of us collectively to understand-and one name we give to all those things together is God. Therefore, God is the creative force, the sustaining power, that which motivates toward constant change, the overall intelligence which governs the universe by physical and spiritual law, truth, love, goodness, kindness, beauty, the ever-present, all-pervading essence or spirit, which binds everything in the universe together and gives to everything in the universe.”

Giving Together Spiritual Law Spirit Universe Names Force Kindness Creative Goodness Capacity All Things Essence Constant Lumps Sustaining Truth Love

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words