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“You never seem to hear about psychic occult attack in spiritual literature. This knowledge has been conveniently forgotten.”

Has Beens Seems Spiritual Literature Forgotten Psychics Occult

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.”

Knows Littles Seems Spiritual Parent Understanding My Own Generations Fit Fulfillment Search For Meaning

Author:Radhanath Swami

“If you see misery, it's your misery. When you see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be, the misery is only an apparency.”

Ifs Seems Spiritual Perfection Misery Imperfection Seeming

Author:Lester Levenson

“To-day the whole Christian world prostrates itself in adoration around the crib of Bethlehem and rehearses in accents of love a history which precedes all time and will endure throughout eternity. As if by an instinct of our higher, spiritual nature, there well up from the depths of our hearts, emotions which challenge the power of human expression. We seem to be lifted out of the sphere of natural endeavor to put on a new life and to stretch forward in desire to a blessedness which, though not palpable, is eminently real.”

“As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual.”

Seems Spiritual Moving Morality Civilization

Author:Jeff Koons

“Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.”

Knows Long Seems Spiritual Stars Tree Practicals Immortality Glorious Haste Heed True Freedom Sierra Immortal Life

Book:My First Summer in the Sierra (With Original Drawings & Photographs): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Wilderness Studies

Source: My First Summer in the Sierra (With Original Drawings & Photographs): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Wilderness Studies

“People have had to make up for their spiritual impoverishment by accumulating material things. When spiritual blessings come, material blessings seem unimportant. As long as we desire material things this is all we receive, and we remain spiritually impoverished.”

People Long Seems Spiritual Desire Materials Blessing Materialism Unimportant Material Things Spiritual Blessings

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

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

“All wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light.”

Light Seems Spiritual Plans Draws Tricks Wilderness

Book:JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

“In societies where coolness and being cool is a top priority, the religious replace the word 'religious' with 'spiritual' to make their faiths seem less extreme.”

Seems Spiritual Religious Extremes Priorities Being Cool Top Priorities Coolness

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“History does seem to repeat itself hence it's mindboggling to still hear the 'avoid all negative people' speeches from, of all people, supposedly important spiritual teachers. Ironically, their congregations would probably be the ones hiding their faces from the accuracies of truth speakers like Christ. Now, Christ was the complete opposite of negative, however the danger is that truth is often misunderstood as negativity by those who are constantly taught to only seek flattery.”

Source: Killosophy

“I wish more of us could understand that our increasing isolation, no matter how much it seems to express pride and self-affirmation, is not the answer to our problems. Rather, the answer is a revival of our ancient commitment to God, who rules over all the peoples of the world and exalts no one over any other, and to the moral and spiritual values which were once legendary in America. We must reach out our hand in friendship both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.”

“Daniel Day-Lewis is particularly a sort of beacon I've been following for some time. For God's sake, I'm not even in his league but he inspires me because he's not interested in playing himself; he's only interested in playing other people and the whole thing is like an adventure for him, it seems to me. It's some kind of spiritual exploration, which is an amazing, noble thing.”

People Kind Whole Seems Spiritual Inspire Adventure Sake Following Noble League Exploration Not Interested Beacons Daniel Day Lewis

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“Sometimes it seems to me that God 's way of dealing with me is not to let me see much of my friends, those who are most to me in the spiritual life, lest I should forget that the invisible bond is the only reality. That is the only way I can reconcile myself to the inevitable separations of life and death.”

Way Should I Can Sometimes Reality Seems Spiritual Forget My Friends Let Me Separation Invisible Inevitable Life And Death Spiritual Life Reconcile

Author:Lucy Larcom

“Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. Not a deity in concreto, not a superhuman person, but the immanent divinity in things, the essentially spiritual structure of the universe, is the object of the transcendentalist cult. In that address of the graduating class at Divinity College in 1838 which made Emerson famous, the frank expression of this worship of mere abstract laws was what made the scandal of the performance.”

“I write and speak about personal and spiritual growth. One week I write about illness and another week I speak about relationships and another week I write about work and money and another week I speak to people with obesity issues. I write about whatever wounds seem to cry out for more enlightened solutions, and the love that heals them all.”

People Writing Seems Spiritual Speak Growth Issues Week Cry Solutions Illness Wounds Heal Enlightened Spiritual Growth Obesity Work And Money

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Few people today realize just how much faith in oneself (that part of oneself which is spiritual, perfect) has to do with achievement, because the great majority of people never seem to conceive of faith as being a genuine creative force. Yet the truth is that not only is Faith a bona fide power, but it is the greatest one we will ever encounter.”

People Seems Today Spiritual Force Realizing Perfect Creative Truth Is Achievement Majority Oneself Genuine Encounters

Author:Bob Proctor

“I have a horror of tags and labels. I don't understand, for instance, how people can talk about Bergman's "symbolism". Far from being symbolic, be seems to me, through and almost biological naturalism, to arrive at the spiritual truth about human life that is important to him.”

People Humans Important Seems Spiritual Horror Instance Labels Human Life Symbolic Symbolism Tag Naturalism Spiritual Truth Bergman

Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

“If the spiritual values of human existence at its highest term of development and achievement do not endure, amidst all the changes and chances of this mortal universe, there seems to be no stable or coherent meaning in existence. Then the universe is irrational--indeed it is no universe at all.”

Ifs Humans Seems Spiritual Values Universe Term Chance Existence Development Achievement Highest Endure Mortals Stable Irrational Human Existence Spiritual Values

Book:Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.

Source: Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.

“Why is it that the less intelligence people have, the more spiritual they are? They seem to fill all the vacant, ignorant spaces in their heads with soul. Which explains how it is that the less knowledge they have, the more religion.”

People Soul Seems Spiritual Space Atheism Positive Atheism Ignorant Vacant

Author:Lincoln Steffens

“In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as that of heaven.”

Seems Spiritual Heaven Existence Hell Thousand Solitude Utterance

Book:The true and the beautiful in nature, art, morals, and religion

Source: The true and the beautiful in nature, art, morals, and religion

“No distinction seems to be more obvious than that between spiritual and temporal matters. Yet whenever they have been made objects of Legislation, they have clashed and contended with each other, till one or the other has gained the supremacy.”

Has Beens Made Matter Seems Spiritual Religion Objects Obvious Distinction Legislation Supremacy

Author:James Madison

“You know how some people seem to think that their love for classical music makes them spiritual or at least something quite special? And others who think you are a monster if you don't 'love children,' however obnoxious the children may be? Well, I found out that many people who love flowers look down on those who don't.”

Source: How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening

“The world of money, of numbers and stock markets and interest rates and credit cards, seems on the surface about as far as it could be from the world of spirituality, of seeking meaningful answers to the big questions of life. ... But these two worlds must flow in and out of each other, because it takes both money and spiritual understanding to sustain it. Truly speaking, what determines where our money with its awesome power will go, and what it will do for ourselves and others? If we listen, those answers come from the center of our being, from who we really are.”

“The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of spiritual need, the man to whom we have no tie but our common nature, seems nearer to us than mother, brother, or friend. Our daily familiar life is but a hiding of ourselves from each other behind a screen of trivial words and deeds, and those who sit with us at the same hearth, are often the farthest off from the deep human soul within us, full of unspoken evil and unacted good.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“The idea of suicide, understandable as it is, does not seem commendable to me. We live in order to gain the greatest possible amount of spiritual development and self-awareness. As long as life is possible, even if only in a minimal degree, you should hang onto it, in order to scoop it up for the purpose of conscious development. To interrupt life before its time is to bring to a standstill an experiment which we have not set up. We have found ourselves in the midst of it and must carry it through to the end.”

“I have my own way to walk and for some reason or other Zen is right in the middle of it wherever I go. So there it is, with all its beautiful purposelessness, and it has become very familiar to me though I do not know "what it is." Or even if it is an "it." Not to be foolish and multiply words, I'll say simply that it seems to me that Zen is the very atmosphere of the Gospels, and the Gospels are bursting with it. It is the proper climate for any monk, no matter what kind of monk he may be. If I could not breathe Zen I would probably die of spiritual asphyxiation.”

Source: Encounter: Thomas Merton & D.T. Suzuki

“Many people forget that magick is all about change, and the greatest change is the inner, not the outer, landscape. Outer magickal changes - such as immediately getting a new job, lover, or physical healing - seem more impressive at first, but the inner changes last longer. They are the most impressive. Anyone can learn to do some basic spells and have good results, but the practitioners who develop a solid spiritual and magickal practice become more centered, calm, healthy, and truly confident over time are the magicians who impress me.”

People Firsts Seems Jobs Lasts Spiritual Forget Results Healing Practice Lovers Healthy Calm Landscape Spells Impress Magician Impressive New Job Physical Healing

Author:Christopher Penczak

“Won't the awareness God loves us no matter what lead to spiritual laziness and moral laxity? Theoretically, this seems a reasonable fear, but in reality the opposite is true. . . . The more rooted we are in the love of God, the more generously we will live our faith.”

Matter Reality Seems Spiritual Moral Awareness Opposites No Matter What God Love Reasonable Laziness Rooted God Loves Us

Book:The Relentless Tenderness of Jesus

Source: The Relentless Tenderness of Jesus

“Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued elsewhere that this is a problem - because millions of people have had experiences for which 'spiritual' and 'mystical' seem the only terms available.”

People Self Problem Seems Spiritual Spirituality Term Millions Conscious Fellows Atheist Illness Available Mental Illness Deception Mysticism Fraud Elsewhere Mystical Self Deception

Author:Sam Harris

“There seems in most countries to be either one extreme or the other. Truly a paradise could exist wherever material progress and spiritual values could be properly balanced.”

Country Seems Spiritual Values Progress Materials Environmental Extremes Paradise Balanced Stewardship Spiritual Values

Book:The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical component to it and engages the reader on a visceral level and evokes a strong sympathetic reaction. High art is people driving in Volvos and talking a lot. I just don't want to keep those things separate. I think you can use visceral physical experiences to illustrate larger ideas, whether they're emotional or spiritual. I'm trying to not exclude high and low art or separate them.”

“I do not understand how deeply people seem to like my work - but I love that people feel I have helped them through hardships, and also have shared my experience of living a more spiritual and present life. It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back.”

People Feels Self Seems Able Spiritual Laughing Hardship Making People Laugh Present Life

Author:Anne Lamott

“Once the awakening happens, with it comes the realization that suffering is unnecessary now. You have reached the end of suffering because you have transcended the world. It is the place that is free of suffering. This seems to be everybody's path. Perhaps it is not everybody's path in this lifetime, but it seems to be a universal path. Even without a spiritual teaching or a spiritual teacher, I believe that everybody would get there eventually. But that could take time.”

World Believe Ends Seems Happens Spiritual Suffering I Believe Path Teacher Teaching Universal Lifetime Awakening Realization Take Time Unnecessary Spiritual Teachers Spiritual Teaching

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Whether you are aware of them or not, whether you recognize them as spiritual or not, you probably have had the experiences of silence, or transcendence, or the Divine-a few seconds, a few minutes that seem out of time; a moment when the ordinary looks beautiful, glowing; a deep sense of being at peace, feeling happy for no reason. When these experiences come...believe in them. They reflect your true nature.”

“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.”

“He just seems as cool as ever. I can smell him. Even on the other side, there is smell. Like, when babies are born, there's two smells-one is chicken soup, which is the flesh, and the other is lilacs, which is coming from the spiritual garden. The spirit has a lilac smell.”

I Can Two Seems Spiritual Spirit Sides Born Baby Garden Smell Flesh Chickens Soup Lilac Chicken Soup

Author:Carlos Santana

“In general, religious people seem to be happier than non-religious people - under various definitions of "religiosity," such as church attendance or professed spiritual beliefs.”

People Seems Spiritual Belief Church Religious Definitions Various Attendance Non Religious Spiritual Beliefs Church Attendance

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“Sadness of any sort is also seductive, particularly if it seems deep-rooted, even spiritual, rather than needy or pathetic—it makes people come to you.”

People Ifs Seems Spiritual Sadness Rooted Pathetic Needy Seductive

Book:The Art Of Seduction

Source: The Art Of Seduction