“The life, beauty and meaning of the whole created order, from the tomtit to the Milky Way, refers back to the Absolute Life and Beauty of its Creator: and so lived, every bit has spiritual significance.” WayWholeSpiritualOrderBitsAbsolutesEnvironmentalCreatorSignificanceBeauty Of LifeMilky WayLife And Beauty Book:The Spiritual Life Source: The Spiritual Life
“If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of Michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy.” IfsSpiritualEnergyTechniqueSignificanceSculptureRestless Book:Rodin on Art and Artists Source: Rodin on Art and Artists
“The meditator develops new depths of insight through direct communication with the reality of the phenomenal world... He or she is able to see not only the absence of complexity, the absence of duality, but the stoneness of stone and the waterness of water. One sees things precisely as they are, not merely in the physical sense, but with awareness of their spiritual significance.” WorldRealityAbleSpiritualWaterAwarenessCommunicationStonesDirectDepthInsightAbsenceComplexitySignificanceDualityPhenomenalDirect Communication Author:Chogyam Trungpa
“Divine things are too deep to be expressed by common words. The heavenly teachings are expressed in parable in order to be understood and preserved for ages to come. When the spiritually minded dive deeply into the ocean of their meaning they bring to the surface the pearls of their inner significance. There is no greater pleasure than to study God’s Word with a spiritual mind.” MindAgeSpiritualOrderPleasureCommonStudyGreaterTeachingDivineOceanUnderstoodSurfaceHeavenlySignificancePearlsParablesToo Deep Author:Abdu'l-Bahá
“The fact is that there is a profound spiritual hunger in the western world which, for a variety of reasons, its church is no longer able to assuage. So a book which suggests that there is a spiritual significance to the Christian story but that this has been suppressed by the church undoubtedly appeals to those who are anxious to square this circle.” WorldHas BeensBookReasonFactsStoriesAbleChristianSpiritualReligionChurchMoralityProfoundWesternHungerCirclesVarietyAppealsSignificanceSquaresAnxiousWestern WorldSpiritual HungerProfound Spiritual Author:Melanie Phillips
“And there is also the paradox that the dominating culture imbues the Indian past with great meaning and significance; it is valued more because it is seen as part of the past. And it is the romantic past, not the present, that holds meaning and spiritual significance for so many members of the dominating culture. It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for the land, respects these very things about Indian traditions, without adopting those respected ways themselves.” WayPastSpiritualSpiritCultureLandStrangeMembersTraditionAbsenceIndianSignificanceAttachmentParadoxAdoptingHold MeDominating Author:Linda Hogan
“The progressive growth of the finite consciousness of man towards this Self, towards the universal , the eternal, the infinite, in a word his growth into spiritual consciousness by the development of his ordinary ignorant natural being into an illumined divine nature, this is for Indian thinking the significance of life and the aim of human existance.” ThinkingMenHumansSelfSpiritualGrowthNaturalConsciousnessDivineDevelopmentEternalOrdinaryUniversalInfiniteAimIgnorantIndianSignificanceProgressiveFiniteDivine NatureSignificance Of Life Author:Sri Aurobindo