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“If I had to pick a hero, it would be Charles Darwin--the size of his mind, which included all that scientific curiosity and knowledge seeking, and the ability to put it all together. There is a genuine spirituality about Darwin's thinking.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Would Be Together Spirituality Ability Hero Picks Curiosity Size Seeking Genuine

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“Many people meditate in order that a third eye may open. For that they feel they should close their two physical eyes. They thereby become blind to the world. But the fact is that the third eye will never open. We can never close our eyes to the world in the name of spirituality. Self-realization is the ability to see ourselves in all beings. This is the third eye through which you see, even while your two eyes are open. We should be able to love and serve others, seeing ourselves in them. This is the fulfillment of spiritual practice.”

“What I would argue is that real spirituality is the ability to keep encountering two opposite thoughts at the same time and still maintain some kind of morality and perspective in the world. It is not the elimination of one side of the equation or the elimination of what you don't like; it is the investigation of everything.”

World Kind Stills Two Real Spirituality Sides Ability Perspective Morality Opposites Arguing Investigation Equations Elimination Two Opposites

Author:Eve Ensler

“It's always been you know, religion that has been the primary impediment to actual relationship with God, because it creates a mythology about performance -- that you can perform your way into the appeasement of the deity. And you know, when you're born inside the cultural framework that I was, and you're born inside the religious traditions that I was, that becomes your understanding of spirituality: That it's about trying to please God. So, it's really not about God at all; it's about our ability to perform according to whatever the expectations are.”

“Spirituality lies not in the power to heal others, to perform miracles, or to astound the world with our wisdom, but in the ability to endure with right attitude whatever crosses we have to face in our daily lives, and thus to rise above them.”

World Wisdom Faces Lying Spirituality Ability Healing Attitude Power Crosses Miracle Endure Heal Daily Life Rise Above

Author:Daya Mata

“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.”

Character Spirituality Realizing Ability Audience Meditation Personality Historical

Author:Giancarlo Esposito

“Our actions in this world, and our ability to rise above the limits of our own self-interest, live on far beyond us and play their humble part in shaping a world of spirituality and peace.”

World Self Play Action Spirituality Interest Ability This World Limits Humble Our Actions Rise Above Self Interest

Author:Kent Nerburn

“By observing natural scientific discoveries through a perception deepened by meditation, we can develop a new awareness of reality. This awareness could become the bedrock of a spirituality that is not based on the dogmas of a given religion, but on insights into a higher and deeper meaning. I am referring to the ability to recognize, to read, and to understand the firsthand revelations.”

“Inward spiritual practices such as meditation, breathing techniques and self-analysis generate insights and enhance abilities, but none are so useful as learning to live harmoniously in a committed relationship, being a skillful parent, or juggling the demands of daily life.”

“Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.”

Love Spirituality Ability Sacred Greatest Gifts Spiritual Awareness

Book:Real Moments: Discover the Secret for True Happiness

Source: Real Moments: Discover the Secret for True Happiness

“Spiritual life is absolute reality. Krishna is real but we have lost the ability to realize him.”

Real Reality Spiritual Life Is Spirituality Lost Realizing Ability Absolutes Spiritual Life Krishna

Author:Bhakti Charu Swami

“Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it.”

Soul God Use Spirituality Given Ability Architect Smarter Spectacular Toolbox

Author:Barry Schuler

“Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to pull the sensitive viewer out of him or herself and into the garden, so completely that the separate self-sense disappears entirely, and at least for a brief moment one is ushered into a nondual and timeless awareness. A great garden, in other words, is mystical no matter what its actual content.”

“The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.”

Thinking Men Spirituality Speak Ability Tests Tongue Ability To Speak

Author:R. Kent Hughes

“Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche has a remarkable ability to present the wisdom of the Buddha's teachings in a manner that is as fresh and accessible as it is profound. With Rebel Buddha, he goes straight to the core of the spiritual path, showing how the Buddha's liberating insights transcend race, religion, and culture. This book is sure to provoke, inspire, and move us one step closer to creating a thoroughly modern approach to spirituality.”

“Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power or of spirituality. To rise in an elevator, balloon, or airplane is to experience being liberated from weight, sublimated, invested with superhuman abilities. In addition, to rise from the earth is to approach the realm of light and overview. Therefore the negative overcoming of weight is at the same time the positive achievement of enlightenment and an unobstructed outlook.”

Source: The Dynamics of Architectural Form

“In the century now dawning, spirituality, visionary consciousness, and the ability to build and mend human relationships will be more important for the fate and safety of this nation than our capacity to forcefully subdue an enemy. Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.”

Source: Healing the Soul of America: Reclaiming Our Voices as Spiritual Citizens

“Every skill, every talent, every capacity, and every ability of the mind are really the Soul-action made visibly tangible.”

Mind Made Soul Action Spirituality Ability Talent Skills Capacity Tangible

Book:The Infinite Way

Source: The Infinite Way