“Religion is not something I like to talk about publicly. One reason is the politics, but also I think spirituality is deeply personal.” ThinkingReasonSpirituality Author:Mohsin Hamid
“Politics is a part of life and art is about life. It doesn't mean that all the art has to be about politics - in fact, heaven forbid. But politics is a totally legitimate area of focus for any art, whether it's painting or songwriting or anything else, as much as sex is, as much as spirituality is, as much as any other behavior of people is.” PeopleMeanArtFactsSpiritualityHeavenSexFocusPaintingBehaviorArt IsAreasSongwritingParts Of Life Author:Bruce Cockburn
“Right now, culturally, we're seeing a really interesting evolution in ideas about spirituality and the world, right? The number of people who consider themselves to be religious and going to services is dropping, and the number of people who consider themselves to be spiritual but not religious is increasing.” PeopleWorldIdeasSpiritualSpiritualityReligiousInterestingNumbersSeeingEvolutionRight NowDroppingReally Interesting Author:Adam Frank
“The time is coming when we will go beyond narrow religious confines and embrace a spirituality that will include the best of all religions and transcend narrow boundaries.” SpiritualityReligiousEmbraceBoundaries Author:Deepak Chopra
“One thing I noticed after being down in Mississippi for the shoot was that words like "God" and "Jesus" are used all the time, but they're not specifically referring to Jesus. It's sort of this accepted phraseology for love, or spirituality, or whatever it is you personally believe in.” BelieveUsedSpiritualityJesusOne ThingAcceptedMississippiReferring Author:Christina Ricci
“I grew up in a religious family and, like, that was a very big part of my life, and still, very much, is even though I don't affiliate with any specific religion. It's just, for me, you know, the spirituality of being able to own up to your sins, as they're called, and take responsibility for your actions really hit me this time around.” KnowsStillsBigsAbleActionSpiritualityReligiousSinResponsibilityGrewGrew UpTaking ResponsibilityReligious FamilyTake Responsibility For Your Actions Author:Brendon Urie
“With movement, families get split. With the politicization of religion, spirituality gets diluted. With people intermarrying and falling in love outside of pre-existing defined groups, the tribe is disappearing. I'm not in favor of going back to those things, but you can't take those things away without putting something new in its place. So finding a way to make transience more acceptable, even beautiful is key.” PeopleWayBeautifulFallSpiritualityGroupsMovementKeysFindingsFalling In LoveDisappearFavorsDefinedSomething NewAcceptableSplitsTribesTransience Author:Mohsin Hamid
“Spirituality actually must be above politics. Or some other sort of business.” Spirituality Author:Dalai Lama
“I can do what my energy, my time, to my other sort of commitment. And then also emotional, religious harmony. So in these two field, now that more or less I think the spirituality or human values in these fields, I may consider my only professional field. The political, national struggle, these are not my profession.” ThinkingHumansMayI CanTwoPoliticalValuesSpiritualityEnergyCan DoReligiousStruggleFieldsEmotionalCommitmentHarmonyProfessionMy TimeHuman Values Author:Dalai Lama
“This - where we are now - is where a culture gets to, when it has chosen, for many years, banality over intelligence, the literal over the immaterial or complex, materialism over spirituality. This is the result of many years of disrespecting the intellectual project - of a collective acceptance of the idea that thinking and reasoning and reading deeply in difficult text and being respectful of history are somehow "wimpy" or secondary.” ThinkingYearsIdeasCultureSpiritualityReadingDifficultResultsAcceptanceProjectsIntellectualComplexesChosenReasoningCollectivesMaterialismRespectfulLiteralBanalityBe Respectful Author:George Saunders
“There are many concepts of spirituality, among them, various notions of divinity developed in the Judaeo-Christian-Islamic religions. Within these the concepts vary greatly.” ChristianSpiritualityConceptsNotionVariousIslamicDivinityVary Author:Noam Chomsky
“I actually feel that personal matters, like religion and spirituality, are things that I really discuss only with intimates. I think it's, in a way, like sexuality, something where it touches upon something very private.” ThinkingWayFeelsMatterSpiritualitySexualityPersonal Matter Author:Mohsin Hamid
“Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.” IfsMenDoeTwoWould BeSpiritualSpiritualityInterestOppositesTwo ThingsSelflessProvidenceLots Of MoneyCricketCommentaryEndorsements Author:Imran Khan
“The patriarchal model of spirituality was, I think, a necessary step, as a baby learns to crawl before it walks.” ThinkingSpiritualityWalksStepsBabyModels Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“I think sometimes you can grow up with faith, or if you're just the kind of animal who grabs onto it or doesn't grab onto it. I wasn't a big grabbing-onto-it kind of animal. I found my faith to be more about my belief, my spirituality, about nature.” IfsThinkingKindSometimesBigsSpiritualityFoundBeliefGrowsAnimalGrowing UpGrabbing Author:Terry O'Quinn
“When we start making distinctions between soul and spirit, we're in very, very murky waters. There is the whole issue of the English language, which has a rather limited vocabulary when it comes to psychological descriptions, not to speak of spiritual descriptions. We're good mythically - the English language is superb for myth. But we're not very good for psychology or spirituality.” SoulWholeSpiritualSpiritSpiritualitySpeakLanguageWaterIssuesPsychologyVery GoodMythPsychologicalDistinctionDescriptionVocabularyEnglish LanguageSuperbMurky Water Author:Jean Houston
“What I find on the Internet is fascinating because whole subcultures are developing. And they really are cultures. They have their art forms, their music, and their language. They have their spirituality, they have new names. It's almost like watching colonies of little organisms develop under a petri dish. You can really see these cultures swarming and growing and developing and spawning on the Internet.” LittlesArtWholeFormCultureSpiritualityNamesLanguageGrowingInternetDevelopingFascinatingDishesOrganismsColonySubculture Author:Jean Houston
“I'm the type of spiritual person that doesn't speak openly about their spirituality. Irony is probably my religion.” PersonsSpiritualSpiritualitySpeakTypeIrony Author:Jonathan Raymond
“I don't think religions will merge into a great global faith. But I do believe we're moving toward a global ideology that has a place for religion and recognizes the contributions of the different traditions. Hopefully, it will have an overarching view as to how we can work together for the promotion of human values and spirituality.” ThinkingBelieveHumansDifferentTogetherMovingValuesSpiritualityViewsTraditionIdeologyHopefullyContributionWorking TogetherPromotionHuman Values Author:Ninian Smart
“I definitely believe in spirituality. I like to pray, but I'm not praying to something that I can define; I'm just speaking because I know it does have an effect. I believe there are some great things that I've taken from the Bible in terms of loving the world and trying to be kind. There are a lot of good things to take from the Bible, and I like to think I try to apply them to my life.” ThinkingWorldTryingBelieveKindSpiritualityI BelieveTermTakenPrayingGood ThingsGreat ThingsBe Kind Author:Michaela Coel
“Many times - especially when I'm playing an historical character - I want to be really on target with how I create that character and really nuanced with who that human being might be. But I don't want to lose the likeness of me or the depth of my own personality. So meditation and my spirituality has helped me to realize that, yes, I want to get out of the way but I also want the ability to hold on to what the audience likes of what they see of me.” CharacterSpiritualityRealizingAbilityAudienceMeditationPersonalityHistorical Author:Giancarlo Esposito
“I met somebody once who said, "I'm a lapsed-atheist" by what he meant was, "I don't believe in God but the older I get the more I realise there is a spirituality in everybody that has to be cherished and nourished." That made a lot of sense to me.” BelieveSpiritualityBelieve In GodRealising Author:Tony Benn
“I'm gonna try to talk about this in a secular way, but where's the spirituality of just being a person? I think it contributes to this rise in bad manners and mean comments; people are being driven by seeking something that's just designed to keep them seeking something. I'm not reducing people in this age to phone-addicted dum-dums, but we have to remind ourselves to also study compassion and inner life as well.” PeopleThinkingTryingMeanAgeSpiritualityCompassionStudyDrivenMannersCommentSecularBad Manners Author:Lauren Graham
“Spirituality is when we can't explain everything in life, totally. So, we have a spiritual meaning for it; we don't know why we are here really.” SpiritualSpirituality Author:Femi Kuti
“I'd met so many enlightened spiritual teachers that it became a challenge to select one. I believed in the oneness of spirituality - unconditional love for God, and unconditional compassion for the beings of this world - but I also understood that unless I chose a particular path, I couldn't focus and take blessings from teachers that would allow me to have deep realizations and spiritual experiences.” WorldSpiritualSpiritualityChallengesCompassionPathFocusTeacherBlessingRealizationGod LoveEnlightenedUnconditional LoveUnconditionalSelectSpiritual Experience Author:Radhanath Swami
“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” MenInspirationalSpiritualScienceSpiritualityPeacePowerCivil RightsAfrican AmericanMinistersMissilesBaptistsScience And TechnologyPeace And JusticeScientific MethodMisguidedNatural SciencePeace JusticeScientific DiscoveryPeaceful WorldSpiritual PowerOutrunSpirit And SoulScience LoveScience LifeInspirational Science Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.” MenMotivationalSpiritualSpiritualityPoliticsNationsPlansProduceCivilizationBlack HistoryModern CivilizationSpiritual Death Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The word "spiritual" normally means something that's distinct from the fleshly or the material. It's not of the world. But that version of spirituality is bankrupt today. It had its use when the program of science divested matter from the spiritual qualities - - the qualities of a self, or of a being. When science divested the world of those qualities and made it into just a thing, rather than a self, it gave us license to treat it as just a thing, and not as something sacred, conscious, alive, intelligent. So this is tied into the whole trajectory of our civilization.” WorldMeanTodaySpiritualSpiritualityQualityConsciousProgramIntelligent Author:Charles Eisenstein
“You could conceive spirituality as the study of the immeasurable, of the qualitative. But that's very different from the way we typically use the word. A spiritual person, in the popular conception, is somebody who's kind of aloof from the world, introspective, meditating, communing with non-material beings. That's the spiritual realm, and we elevate it above the material realm. What's more worthy, what's more admirable? Who's the one who has done this hard work on the self, and has done a lot of "practice"? That's the spiritual person.” WorldKindDifferentDoneSpiritualSpiritualityStudyHard WorkWorthyAdmirableIntrospectiveAloof Author:Charles Eisenstein
“Even if we profess to be non-judgmental, there's an inherent judgmentality and hierarchy in which the spiritual person, the conscious person, the mindful person, is more developed than the typical truck driver or waitress or heroin addict. This is a red flag, another problem built into the concept of spirituality. The truth is that every person you meet is in some way more developed than you are, and that the multiple modes of development that a human being can pursue require the whole of humanity to pursue. We're in this together. Enlightenment is a collective effort.” ProblemTogetherSpiritualHumanitySpiritualityEffortTruth IsEnlightenmentConsciousMultipleAddictTruckHeroinWaitressTruck Driver Author:Charles Eisenstein
“Traditional spirituality often made pleasure, joy, good feelings. the things to overcome. It said you couldn't just indulge in your desires; that would be selfish. Anyone who has been in a spiritual community recognizes the dangers of this kind of joyless spirituality, where everything is somber and heavy and serious. We recognize that as kind of a trap, a false path.” KindFeelingsSpiritualJoyDesireSpiritualityCommunityPleasurePathDangerSeriousOvercomingSelfishIndulgeBeing SelfishSomber Author:Charles Eisenstein
“The Catholic church had a huge profound influence on me in that as you get older you realize that you can't blame everything; that there is good and bad, and things get misdirected. So I would call myself a black Catholic. I still have this attraction to it because all religions I'm not a fan of. I'm a fan of sort of belief in spirituality. So I would be into Christ rather than the Catholics.” SpiritualityBeliefBlackChristRealizingChurchInfluenceCatholicBlameProfoundAttractionGood And BadBlack Cat Author:Gavin Friday
“I think there are strands in all of our lives that can be seen if we step back to recognize them. Coincidence is probably as close as I'll get to having spirituality. I do see patterns in my life sometimes, and I am thrilled by what I see. I don't think I'm going to have any further shot at it after death, and I don't think there's anybody upstairs orchestrating it for me, but I do think it happens. If there are miracles in my life, they are rooted in the fact of coincidence.” ThinkingSometimesSpiritualityMiracleCoincidenceAfter Death Author:Armistead Maupin
“I've always been very spiritual, since I was a very, very young child. The older I get, I'm reading more, I'm experiencing more, and so that's all reflected in all of my music. All of my fans are pretty familiar with me and my beliefs. It's all about connecting to yourself and sticking to your own spirituality.” ChildrenSpiritualSpiritualityReadingBeliefFamiliar Author:Jhene Aiko
“I've always hated the word spirituality, but now I accept the word, and I think it's a useful term. It just means so many things. And actually, most of the things it does connote are beautiful things.” ThinkingMeanBeautifulSpiritualityTermAcceptingHatedBeautiful Things Author:Diego Cortez
“I believe that beyond the arena of art, the world would be a much better place if centered around a feminine perspective. The world has been really messed up by greedy white men who only work towards an agenda of personal wealth and power. It is this patriarchy of the past couple thousand years that causes so much strife. If the world was female-centered and if the dominant spirituality was based on the feminine and the earth, then human beings would know much more joy, peace, and harmony.” MenWorldBelieveArtEarthPastJoySpiritualityI BelieveWealthPerspectiveCoupleHarmonyFemininePatriarchyGreedyPeace And Harmony Author:Mark Ryden
“I do believe my personal spirituality, which spirituality itself I don't really equate to anything more than my personal connection with nature and the universe. With what is real, not a manmade contrivance. Finding a connection with those things through my music is something I've begun to take more seriously in order to understand why I feel that way.” BelieveRealSpiritualityUniverseMusic Is Author:Mark McGwire
“I think my philosophy on music is sort of like the difference between religion and spirituality or religion and faith. There's a lot of bullshit in the music industry. It's really tough to get a leg up and navigate around your gender and stereotypes. You feel hopeless, [but] all of that disappears the minute that I start writing a song. Then I record something and have that magical feeling. You have to have the negative and the positive. Trying to own that and go to that place in yourself creatively is the most important thing.” ThinkingWritingTryingImportantPhilosophyFeelingsSongSpiritualityMusic IsToughNegativeGenderDisappearHopelessBullshitStereotypeMusic Industry Author:Haley Bonar
“I think there's some pretty amazing language in the Bible. The thing that's always been interesting to me about religion is that compared to the more modern spirituality, the West Coast pseudo-Buddhist thing that people go for these days, actual Buddhism and Islam have been looking at these philosophical questions, at really hard questions, for a long time. There's a lot of stuff that philosophy doesn't talk about, and in the secular world, a lot of times, people don't talk about these ideas, and that was always really interesting for me.” PeopleThinkingWorldLongPhilosophySpiritualityLanguageInterestingModernBuddhismPhilosophicalIslamSecularReally Interesting Author:Win Butler
“We all have our issues, no one gets away from facing their own issues, so that we can advance. Nothing is given lightly, and everything has a repercussion, as you're evolving. And, if anything, the sport itself is a great training, not only physically, but the mental discipline that it requires. The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids, and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor. It's amazing the spirituality that you get as a result of practicing and enjoying the sport. That's another plus.” MenKidsSpiritualitySportsEnjoyHe ManDisciplineTrainingMen And WomenEmptyEvolveExcellentGet AwayGym Author:Djimon Hounsou
“The sexual act - separating that from love itself - is centered solely in the body, whereas spirituality is connected to the whole self. Whether it's a female, a taste, or a sound, all these beautiful things affect our self. We are the perceivers of beauty, and that's why sex doesn't quite go far enough. You can go much further with the spiritual.” EnoughBeautifulSpiritualSpiritualityFemaleBeautiful Things Author:Cat Stevens
“I always work out first thing in the morning, because if I don't, it won't get done. To me, it really comes down to my priorities. Because those are the things that are important to me: my spirituality, centering with the universe and God, and then getting my workout in and putting my health first. That makes everything else feel easy. Anything that comes up, I feel like I can conquer it throughout the day.” ImportantDoneSpiritualityUniverseEasyMorningWork OutPrioritiesConquerWorkout Author:Barbara Corcoran
“Now, a lot of people look for answers in spirituality or different texts, but for me this is life. This is what life is: the passage of time. It's not about how to pass the time, but about the acceptance of the time passing. I know people think of my work as spiritual, but really it's just that I consume time. That's all.” PeopleThinkingDifferentSpiritualSpiritualityAcceptanceTime PassingTime PassesPassage Of Time Author:Tehching Hsieh
“Today, maturity is a word I associate with spirituality. It's one of those words that cause people to change their voice. When your voice gets higher because of what you're saying, there's a problem. To me, the conflict of life is part of the joy of life. There's got to be a recognition of the friction that exists. Maturity seems somehow about getting careful. I don't want to be careful.” PeopleProblemTodayJoySpiritualityConflictCarefulRecognitionMaturityBe CarefulJoy Of LifeGetting High Author:Sean Penn
“I see too many people who jump into spirituality as a shelter to hide from reality. It doesn't work that way. The way it works is for the spirit behind you to follow you wherever you go, like a loyal soldier, and show you how to face up to adversity. If you can't face adversity, you will get locked into a new age perception that everything is fine when it isn't. That makes you vulnerable to being exploited by the person who comes along and says, "I am a psychic. I have studied with this guy or that guy, and I know what you should do".” PeopleRealityAgeSpiritGuySpiritualityPerceptionAdversitySoldierVulnerableLoyalNew Age Author:Malidoma Patrice Some
“I used to teach psychology, and I don't do that anymore. I teach spirituality. And the way that I teach now is just by listening. I listen a lot.” SpiritualityTeachPsychologyListening Author:Wayne Dyer
“There's a way in which all of these grazers at the spirituality buffet are performing a service, because you could argue that grazing leads to a kind of tolerance. People who incorporate teachings from a lot of different traditions into their own belief systems are going to be more tolerant than people who confine themselves within the strict boundaries of one particular religion. Does it contribute to our confusion? I don't know if it contributes to confusion so much as it is evidence of a certain kind of silliness and shallowness.” PeopleKindDifferentSpiritualityBeliefTeachingEvidenceTraditionArguingToleranceBoundariesConfusionPerformingSillinessShallowness Author:Wendy Kaminer
“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.” LifeWritingLooksLittlesWholeSpiritualSufferingSpiritualityInspiringSkyDanceJust OneJust DanceInspirational DanceMusic And DanceShort DanceDance LifeClassical DanceDance Is LifeConceptual Thinking Book:Think on these things Source: Think on these things
“The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.” PeopleLoveWellsSpiritualSpiritualityLessonsUltimateCaringUnconditional LoveUnconditionalSpiritual AwarenessLesson LearnedLearning To LoveFound LoveUltimate LoveConditional Love Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” InspirationalKindMotivationalSpiritualityPeaceInspiringCompassionKindnessMeditationBuddhismGoodnessMindfulnessHelping OthersOptimisticRealizationBuddhistGenerousHolinessEnlightenedBe KindBeing NiceOptimistMonkLove And KindnessTibetanPeace And HappinessKindness And CompassionPast Present And FuturePast Present FutureGoodness And KindnessInspirational KindnessRandom Acts Of KindnessGenerosity And KindnessKindness GenerosityReligious TraditionsWords Of KindnessSource Of HappinessBe Kind To OthersChallenges We FacePositive OptimisticKind HeartGood HeartedMeditation MindfulnessHuman CompassionKind HeartedKind PeopleBeing GenerousSuffering And PainSuffering PainPeace And ToleranceBuddhist MonkZen LifeKind ThoughtsPower Of KindnessBuddhist MeditationPossible ChangeUltimate HappinessTough World Author:Dalai Lama