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“I was spending too much time thinking about how I was doing, if I was learning everything I was supposed to be learning during this difficult season, whether I was doing it right or not, taking my spiritual pulse, etc - my inner lawyer was working overtime.”

Ifs Thinking Spiritual Difficult Too Much Seasons Spending Lawyer Supposed To Be Etc Pulse Learning Everything

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“I think that spirituality is important for all people to develop. I don't mean there necessarily has to be a religious aspect to spirituality. Some people are spiritual in a religious way, other people are spiritual in their work and in their art and in their treatment of other people.”

People Thinking Way Mean Art Important Spiritual Spirituality Religious Aspect Treatment

Author:Assata Shakur

“There's a difference between mastering something physical and working with an animal. There's a spiritual component to working with a horse. You're dealing with the spirit of a live animal that thinks and makes decisions.”

Thinking Spiritual Spirit Differences Decision Animal Horse Components

Author:Buck Brannaman

“I think that people should give gifts by really recognizing the spiritual worth of the person and their (the givers') own worth. You usually give a present that the other person needs or wants, and I think it just emphasizes wants and needs.”

People Thinking Want Needs Giving Should Persons Spiritual Recognizing Giver Wants And Needs

Author:Ram Dass

“I don't think science is necessarily incompatible with mystical or spiritual sensibilities. I often weigh them equally in my thinking, which sometimes finds itself into the work.”

Thinking Sometimes Spiritual Photography Sensibility Mystical

Author:Keith Carter

“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 think no matter how snarky you try to be, poetry will always find a way to make a spiritual goal out of what you're doing.”

Thinking Way Trying Matter Spiritual Goal

Author:Mike Young

“Consider that the Holy Spirit lives in the spiritual father, and He will tell you what to do. But if you think that the spiritual father live negligently, and that the Holy Spirit can't live in him, you will suffer mightily for such a thought, and the Lord will humble you, and you will straightway fall into delusion.”

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Author:Silouan the Athonite

“Tell everything to your spiritual father, and the Lord will have mercy on you and you will escape delusion. But if you think that you know more about the spiritual life than your spiritual father, and you stop telling him everything about yourself in confession, then you will immediately be allowed to fall into some sort of delusion, in order that you may be corrected.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Inspirational May Christian Spiritual Order Fall Father Religious Lord Mercy Delusion Orthodox About Yourself Spiritual Life Confession

Author:Silouan the Athonite

“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.”

Thinking Knows World Spiritual Planets Materials Denial Destroying Material World Spiritual Nature

Author:Russell Brand

“We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things....but, there are times when we must stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or in its memory. We listen, and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.”

Thinking World Kind Stills Whole Spiritual Moving Energy Loses Memories Surface Our Time Relaxation Breeze Other Worlds Time And Energy Horizontal

Author:James Carroll

“One of the greatest challenges facing civilization in the twenty-first century is for human beings to learn to speak about their deepest personal concerns-about ethics, spiritual experience, and the inevitability of human suffering-in ways that are not flagrantly irrational. We desperately need a public discourse that encourages critical thinking and intellectual honesty. Nothing stands in the way of this project more that the respect we accord religious faith.”

Source: Letter to a Christian Nation

“Faith takes us to deep places, to the ruptures in our self-confidence and our lives. Do not settle for spiritual comfort all the time...Darkness is divine also. Faith is not about positive thinking so much as about what kicks in when we are weak, sick, and short of self-confidence. The via positiva never stands alone. The via negativa is always with us on our faith journey as well.”

Thinking Wells Soul Self Spiritual Darkness Our Lives Journey Positive Thinking Divine Comfort Weak Sick Self Confidence Settling Kicks Stand Alone Rupture

Author:Matthew Fox

“I sometimes fear that we have so redefined conversion in terms of human decisions and have so removed any necessity of the experience of God’s Spirit, that many people think they are saved when in fact they only have Christian ideas in their head not spiritual power in their heart.”

People Thinking Humans Heart Ideas Sometimes Facts Christian Spiritual Spirit Term Decision Saved Conversion Spiritual Power

Author:John Piper

“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.”

Thinking Mind Said Ideas Different Feelings Problem Body Spiritual Emotion Notion Abstract Divides Fragmentation

Author:David Bohm

“I think it's very difficult, and it requires a tremendous amount of spiritual integrity and discipline, to not be a narcissist in a culture that encourages it every step of the way.”

Thinking Way Spiritual Culture Difficult Steps Amount Discipline Integrity Every Step Narcissist Spiritual Integrity

Author:Alan Ball

“I was dealing with a lot of spiritual questions like "Who am I?" "What is God" "What is the meaning of life?" All of these questions that I think we can either face head on or choose to ignore, it's up to us.”

Thinking Faces Spiritual Meaning Of Life What Is The Meaning Of Life What Is The Meaning

Author:John McLaughlin

“I think there's a necessity for some attachment to the spiritual world and, in a way, people really have to have it.”

People Thinking World Way Spiritual Attachment

Author:Robert Stone

“I'm a spiritual musician, I think there has been enough political musicians and I think everything that can be said has been said about political, social things, you know, and there's still some more to be said but not much.”

Thinking Knows Has Beens Said Stills Enough Spiritual Political Social Musician

Author:Ziggy Marley

“I feel that I'm a spiritual person in that I feel like telling stories is a spiritual exercise and I think that it's something that we need as a culture and as humans. We need for people to put stories up in front of us that we recognize ourselves so that we can see - you need to be able to see something in a finite form in order to identify with it sometimes because your life sprawls before you in this kind of way that you can't capture.”

People Thinking Way Needs Feels Humans Kind Persons Sometimes Stories Able Spiritual Form Order Culture Fronts Exercise Capture Finite Telling Stories

Author:Holly Hunter

“I have come to accept that I'm a very spiritual person. However, it's interesting because part of me shies away from admitting that because I think that comes with assumptions. I think, when I was younger, I used to make judgments about people who were super spiritual. And I think it's a very personal subject.”

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Author:Erin Davie

“The spiritual mind is always metaphorical. Spiritual thinking is poetic thinking. It's always trying to put a very diaphanous experience into words, realizing all the while that words are inadequate.”

Thinking Trying Mind Spiritual Realizing Poetic Always Trying Inadequate Metaphorical

Author:Sam Keen

“I've been a musician since I was nine. I think a ghost or goblin visited me in the night. Maybe aliens abducted me, or a divine figure sent me a spiritual memo. Who knows.”

Thinking Knows Spiritual Night Figures Divine Musician Nine Ghost Aliens Goblin Memos

Author:Alan Cohen

“I think spiritual perception comes from natural and healthy relationship to the land and I've had that. I get an easy, automatic sense of myself in nature, a wholeness and I feel nowhere else. I think people should live where praying is most immediate. That`s why I live in New Mexico. The physical terrain, the feeling, the environment and culture improve my life just by waking up there.”

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Author:Val Kilmer

“I think of myself as a highly spiritual person, but without - I was never really given a religion or a religious experience or a community to sort of subscribe to.”

Thinking Persons Spiritual Given Community Religious Religious Experience

Author:James Taylor

“Ego is neither positive nor negative. Those are simply concepts that create more boundaries. Ego is just ego, and the disaster of it all is that you, as a spiritual seeker, have been conditioned to think of the ego as bad, as an enemy, as something to be destroyed. This simply strengthens the ego. In fact, such conclusions arise from the ego itself. Pay no attention to them. Don't go to war with yourself; simply inquire into who you are.”

Thinking Has Beens War Facts Spiritual Pay Attention Enemy Ego Concepts Negative Who You Are Disaster Boundaries Arise Conclusion Destroyed Seekers War With Yourself

Author:Adyashanti

“Materialism is not fundamentally an economic problem, but a cultural one... a spiritual issue. It runs to the depths of our souls, and, for this reason, needs to be understood less in terms of budgets or fiscal cycles and more in terms of where we locate the sacred, of where we search for meaning and transcendence, and of how we think about justice, equality, and the future of our world.”

“The gospel shows us that our spiritual problem lies not only in failing to obey God, but also in relying on our obedience to make us fully acceptable to God, ourselves and others. Every kind of character flaw comes from this natural impulse to be our own saviour through our own performance and achievement. On the one hand, proud and disdainful personalities come from basing your identity on your performance and thinking you are succeeding. But on the other hand, discouraged and self loathing personalities also come from basing your identity on your performance and thinking you are failing.”

“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.”

Thinking World Long Two Together Spiritual Belief Strong Force Realizing Materials Combination Material 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

“I think a lot of times dreams are nothing more than a kind of mental or spiritual flatulence. They're a way of relieving pressure.”

Thinking Way Kind Dream Spiritual Pressure Flatulence

Author:Stephen King

“I think that grief is a profound spiritual, metaphysical, and - oddly - physical reckoning with death, which we don't understand well. It's both the process by which you relearn the world in the absence of someone who was a pillar in it, and the process in which you confront the reality of death.”

Thinking World Wells Reality Spiritual Process Grief Profound Absence Metaphysical Pillars Reckoning Profound Spiritual Reality Of Death

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“Just as a human soul that faces great difficulties also faces great opportunities for spiritual growth, so a human society that faces destruction also faces the opportunity to enter a period of renaissance. I think that, barring an accident, the wish to survive will keep us from a nuclear war.”

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

“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.”

“I sometimes like to think of God as a great symphony and the various spiritual paths as instruments in an orchestra. The gift that you have is like music waiting to be played. You need only to find the instrument that will best bring it out. You alone can never play all the instruments, and your music might not find voice in all the instruments. All you can do is find the instrument that suits you best, play it as well as you can, and add your music to the great symphony of divine creation.”

Thinking Needs Wells Sometimes Play Might Spiritual Waiting Voice Can Do Path Creation Divine Instruments Add Various Suits Orchestra Symphony Spiritual Path Suits You

Author:Kent Nerburn

“I cannot agree that mountain climbing is merely one manifestation of man's spiritual aspirations. I think instead it is a hysterical paroxysm of his infantile vanity.”

Thinking Men Spiritual Mountain Agree Vanity Manifestation Aspiration Climbing Mountain Climbing Hysterical Infantile

Book:Triple Jeopardy

Source: Triple Jeopardy

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