“Considering the notion that the spiritual battlefield is infinitely greater than the physical, perhaps God is more willing to bless with a sort of divine ecstasy those who see the devil as the enemy rather than those who see other people as the enemies.” PeopleSpiritualEnemyGreaterDivineWillingDevilNotionBlessEcstasyConsideringBattlefields Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“The notion of art as the dearly purchased outcome of an immense spiritual risk, one whose cost goes up with the entry and participation of each new player in the game.” ArtSpiritualGamesPlayerRiskCostNotionOutcomesImmenseParticipationEntry Author:Susan Sontag
“Do not entertain the notion that you ought to advance in your prayer. If you do, you will only find you have put on the brake instead of the acceleration. All real progress in spiritual things comes gently, imperceptibly, and is the work of God. Our crude efforts spoil it. Know yourself for the childish, limited and dependent soul you are. Remember that the only growth which matters happens without our knowledge and that trying to stretch ourselves is both dangerous and silly. Think of the Infinite Goodness, never of your own state.” IfsThinkingKnowsTryingRealSoulMatterStatesGodHappensChristianRememberSpiritualReligionGrowthWorkPrayerEffortChristianityKnowledgeProgressDangerousOughtGoodnessInfinitePersonal GrowthNotionSillyGentleDependentKnow YourselfAdvancementSpoilOur PrayersStretchingCrudeAdvancingBrakeAccelerationChildishness Author:Evelyn Underhill
“The phenomenon of dreaming ... helped to build up the notion of an unreal or spiritual world; and in general, all the conditions of savage dawn-life so strongly conduced toward a feeling of the supernatural, that we need not wonder at the thoroughness with which man's very hereditary essence has become saturated with religion and superstition.” MenWorldNeedsFeelingsDreamSpiritualWonderConditionsEssenceNotionDawnPhenomenonSuperstitionsSavagesUnrealHereditarySaturatedThoroughness Book:Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated)
“The delight of the Torah is ignited by an inner awareness. A man begins to sense the great tapestry of each letter and point. Every concept and content, every notion and idea, of every spiritual movement, of every vibration, intellectual and emotional, from the immediate and general to the distant and detailed, from matters lofty, spiritual, and ethical according to their outward profile, to matters practical, obligatory, seemingly frightening, and forceful, and at the same time complex and full of content and great mental exertion - all together become known by a supernal holy awareness.” MenIdeasMatterTogetherSpiritualKnownAwarenessMovementEmotionalHolyIntellectualConceptsLettersComplexesNotionDelightPracticalsGreat MenEthicalFrighteningVibrationsLoftyProfileExertionTapestryTorah Author:Abraham Isaac Kook
“Those who know in their hearts that they are not really necessary -- and are entirely replaceable-- must inevitably be tempted to misrepresent the nature of their work and build up a false notion of its importance. A further alienation from truth takes place, a further loss of contact with reality. And one thing we can be sure of is that self-deception, whether on the level of the wind and the rain or on that of spiritual reality, must always come up against the real sooner or later, and that its destruction is very painful.” KnowsHeartRealSelfRealitySpiritualLossLevelsOne ThingWindRainDestructionImportanceNotionCome UpPainfulContactDeceptionSooner Or LaterTemptedAlienationSelf Deception Author:Charles le Gai Eaton
“Another problem of fragmentation is that thought divides itself from feeling and from the body. Thought is said to be the mind; we have the notion that it is something abstract or spiritual or immaterial. Then there is the body, which is very physical. And we have emotions, which are perhaps somewhere in between. The idea is that they are all different. That is, we think of them as different. And we experience them as different because we think of them as different.” ThinkingMindSaidIdeasDifferentFeelingsProblemBodySpiritualEmotionNotionAbstractDividesFragmentation Author:David Bohm