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“Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man.”

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“Spirituality is the science of the Soul.”

Soul God Spiritual Spirituality

Book:Lectures from Colombo to Almora

Source: Lectures from Colombo to Almora

“Spirituality dawns when individuality vanishes. When our ego becomes aware of something that is higher than it - the individual Spirit, or Soul; then spirituality dawns.”

Soul God Spirit Spirituality Individual Higher Ego Individuality Dawn

Author:Rama Swami

“Without birth or death, eternal, ever-existing, free, unchangeable and beyond all conditions is this Soul of man - the real Self of Man - the Atman.”

Men Real Soul Self God Spiritual Spirituality Conditions Birth Eternal Real Self Unchangeable Atman

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“All beings exist in an invisible state and then come to a state of visibility. Change occurs only on the surface, for the self-existent glory remains unchanged; changing form does not affect the self-existent Reality. Atman, Soul or the Self, dwells in all that is perishable, yet it remains imperishable.”

Doe Soul Self States God Reality Spiritual Form Spirituality Glory Remains Surface Invisible Visibility Atman

Author:Rama Swami

“Even the lowest of the low have the Atman (Soul) inside, which never dies and never is born, immortal, without beginning or end, the all pure, omnipotent and omnipresent Atman!”

Soul Ends God Spiritual Dies Spirituality Born Pure Lows Immortal Lowest Omnipotent Atman

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is impractical, for everything else will perish.”

Knows Soul God Spiritual Spirit Spirituality Realizing Infinite Practicals Know Yourself True Nature

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“Because the Soul is not made of matter, since it is spiritual, it cannot obey the laws of matter, it cannot be judged by the laws of matter.”

Made Soul Matter God Spiritual Law Spirituality Judged

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Only those of tranquil minds, and none else, can attain abiding joy, by realizing within their souls the Being who manifests one essence in a multiplicity of forms.”

Mind Soul God Form Joy Spirituality Realizing Essence Abiding Tranquil Multiplicity

Book:The English writings of Rabindranath Tagore

Source: The English writings of Rabindranath Tagore

“In every man and in every animal, however weak or wicked, great or small, resides the same omnipresent, omniscient soul. The difference is not in the soul, but in the manifestation. Between me and the smallest animal, the difference is only in manifestation, but as a principle he is the same as I am, he is my brother, he has the same soul as I have. This is the greatest principle that India has preached.”

Men Littles Soul God Spirituality Differences Animal Principles He Man Brother Weak Universal Manifestation My Brother Wicked Brotherhood Smallest Ants Omniscient Brotherhood Of Man

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“Our self (Soul) is maya (an illusion) where it is merely individual and finite, where it considers its separateness as absolute; it is satyam (truth) where it recognizes its essence in the universal and infinite, in the Supreme Self, in paramatman (God). This is what Christ means when he says, "Before Abraham was, I am" (i.e. before Abraham was God, who is the same that is in my soul - I am That.)”

Mean Soul Self God Spirituality Individual Christ Illusion Essence Universal Absolutes Infinite Supreme My Soul Finite Abraham Separateness

Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“Our self (Soul), as a form of God's joy, is deathless. For his joy is amritham, eternal bliss. We know that the life of a Soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realize the infinite.”

Knows Soul Self God Form Joy Spirituality Realizing Principles Journey Expression Eternal Infinite Bliss Finite Portal Deathless

Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“True deliverance of man is the deliverance from Avidya i.e. ignorance. It is not in destroying anything that is positive and real, for that cannot be possible, but that which is negative, which obstructs our vision of truth.”

Men Real Soul God Spirituality Vision Ignorance Negative Destroying Deliverance

Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“Most people assume that meditation is all about stopping thoughts, getting rid of emotions, somehow controlling the mind. But actually it's ... about stepping back, seeing the thought clearly, witnessing it coming and going.”

People Mind Soul God Spirituality Emotion Meditation Seeing Assuming Stopping Stepping Back

Author:Andy Puddicombe

“How women view religion's role in society is shaped more by their own country's culture and context than one monolithic view that religion is simply bad for women.”

Soul Country God Culture Spirituality Views Roles

Author:Dalia Mogahed

“Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.”

Humans Soul God Spirituality Poverty Middle Keys Development Empowerment East Middle East Transforming Human Development

Author:Dalia Mogahed

“It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away.”

Humans Soul Self Sometimes God Facts Seems Spirituality Being Human

Author:Jonathan Haidt

“[The Persian Empire] left a dream of the Middle East as a unit, and a unit where people of different faiths could live together.”

People Different Soul God Dream Together Spirituality Left Middle East Empires Middle East Units Persian Different Faiths

Author:Neil MacGregor

“It's as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you're living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.”

Kind Soul God Spiritual Spirituality Stuff Religious Accepting Nice Doctrine Guidance Rejects Cnn Wasteland Walmart

Author:Alain de Botton

“The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.”

World Soul God Spirituality Holes Secular

Author:Alain de Botton

“We may not agree with what religions are trying to teach us, but we can admire the institutional way in which they're doing it.”

Way Trying May Soul God Spirituality Teach Agree Admire

Author:Alain de Botton

“Religions are so subtle, so complicated, so intelligent in many ways that they're not fit to be abandoned to the religious alone; they're for all of us.”

Way Soul God Spirituality Religious Fit Intelligent Complicated Subtle Abandoned

Author:Alain de Botton

“The universe is large and we are tiny, without the need for further religious superstructure. One can have so-called spiritual moments without belief in the spirit.”

Needs Soul Moments God Spiritual Spirit Spirituality Universe Belief Religious Tiny

Author:Alain de Botton

“The bandstand is an incredible space. It is really a sacred space. One of the things that is really sacred about it is that you have no opportunity to think about the future, or the past.”

Thinking Soul God Past Spirituality Opportunity Space Sacred Incredibles Sacred Space

Author:Stefon Harris

“What does this compassion entail? ... It means understanding one's connection to the whole of creation: understanding that one is part of that creation, that there is a unity that underlies all that we see, all that we hear, all that we feel.”

Feels Mean Doe Soul Whole God Spirituality Understanding Compassion Creation Connections Unity

Author:Jackie Tabick

“[During the second Sudanese Civil War] what was actually killing us wasn't the Muslims, wasn't the Arabs. It was somebody sitting somewhere manipulating the system, and using religion to get what they want to get out of us, which is the oil, the diamond, the gold and the land.”

Want War Soul God Spirituality Land Sitting Gold Killing Oil Civil War Diamond

Author:Emmanuel Jal

“Maybe [artistry] doesn't have to be quite so full of anguish if you never happened to believe, in the first place, that the most extraordinary aspects of your being came from you. But maybe if you just believed that they were on loan to you from some unimaginable source for some exquisite portion of your life to be passed along when you're finished ... it starts to change everything.”

Ifs Firsts Believe Soul God Spirituality Happened Source Aspect Extraordinary Finished Portions Anguish Loan Exquisite Artistry Unimaginable Just Believe

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“As you gain elevation [on the mountain] your IQ goes down - but your emotional affect goes up, which is great for having a mythic experience, whether you want to or not.”

Want Soul God Spirituality Emotional Mountain Gains Elevation

Author:Stewart Brand

“An atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor or Baal or the golden calf. We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”

Way Feels Soul God Christian Humanity Spirituality Atheist Golden Decent Calves Yahweh

Author:Richard Dawkins

“I don't personally have enough faith to be an atheist.”

Soul Enough God Spirituality Atheist

Author:Rick Warren

“The test of your worldview is not how you act in the good times. The test of your worldview is how you act at the funeral. Having been through literally hundreds if not thousands of funerals: ... It makes a difference what you believe.”

Ifs Believe Soul God Spirituality Differences Tests Making A Difference Good Times Funeral Worldview

Author:Rick Warren

“Are science and religion compatible? It's like, are science and plumbing compatible? They're just two different things.”

Two Different Soul God Spirituality Asking Different Things Science And Religion Compatible Two Different Things Plumbing

Author:Michael Shermer

“Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”

“If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled.”

Ifs Looks Spiritual Spirituality Helping Others Fulfillment Fulfilled Tao Te Ching Leadership Million Little Pieces Happy With Yourself Fulfillment And Happiness Being Happy With Yourself

Author:Laozi

“The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.”

World Trying Kind God Spiritual Religion Spirituality Millions Block Spells Infant Kindergarten Bewildered Arlington

Book:Edwin Arlington Robinson's letters to Edith Brower

Source: Edwin Arlington Robinson's letters to Edith Brower

“People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.”

People Spirituality Enjoy Pleasure Findings Peculiar Persuasion

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Those who know the least obey the best.”

Knows Spirituality Obedience Obeying

Book:British Theatre: Sir Harry Wildair

Source: British Theatre: Sir Harry Wildair

“That which you condemn will condemn you, and that which you judge, you will one day become.”

Spirituality Judging One Day

Book:The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.”

People Spirituality Shocked

Author:E. W. Howe

“Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.”

Truth Spirituality Tests Falsehood Duration Truth And Falsehood

Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force.”

World Mind Use Religion Spirituality Force Punishment Another World

Author:Hypatia

“You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up two or three verses that say "God is love" they will claim that you are taking things out of context!”

Ifs Two Shows Religion Spirituality Three Atheism Hundred Bible Claims Tyrants Verses Biblical God Is Love Citing Of Context

Book:Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist

Source: Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist

“To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.”

Men Religion Spirituality Views Hell Atheism Judging Notion Atheist Hypocrisy Theologian Heaven And Hell Religion God Religious Views

Author:Marquis de Sade

“There is no free will if to exercise it in certain ways produces punishment. That makes a mockery of free will and renders it counterfeit.”

Ifs Way Certain Spirituality Produce Exercise Punishment Free Will Mockery Counterfeit

Book:Conversations with God, Book 3: Embracing the Love of the Universe (Anniv)

Source: Conversations with God, Book 3: Embracing the Love of the Universe (Anniv)

“Your happy destiny is unavoidable. You cannot be "saved." There is no hell except not knowing this.”

Spirituality Destiny Hell Knowing Saved Not Knowing

Book:Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation.”

Action Spirituality Individual Influence Creation Creatures Judgment Relativity Religion God Causality Personal Influence

Book:Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

“Only humans are judgmental, and because you are, you assume that I must be. Yet I am not, and that is the great truth you cannot accept.”

Humans Spirituality Accepting Assuming Judgmental

Book:The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“You can't lose the game. You can't go wrong. It's not part of the plan. There is no way not to get where you are going. There's no way to miss your destination. If God is your target, you're in luck, because God is so big, you can't miss.”

Ifs Way Life Inspirational Bigs Spirituality Games Loses Plans Missing Luck Target Destination Where You Are Where You Are Going

Book:The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“Dogmatic religion has been used to fantastic effect over thousands of years to fuel and exploit emotions like fear and guilt, and the feeling of being 'unworthy'. This has encouraged people to hand over their right to think and feel to a Bible and a priest because they have not had the confidence or self-belief to realize that they have a right, and an infinite gift, to make their own decisions”

Source: --and the Truth Shall Set You Free

“You must stop seeing God as separate from you, and you as separate from each other. [...] Nothing exists in the universe that is separate from anything else. Everything is intrinsically connected, irrevocably interdependent, interactive, interwoven into the fabric of all of life.”

Spirituality Universe Seeing Connected Fabric Interactive

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

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