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“The deeper question... is not whether ancient religious forms can reform... but whether new forms of nature-related spirituality might emerge.”

Might Form Religion Spirituality Religious Ancient Deeper Reform Related Nature Related

Author:Robert Bly

“Our lives as we lead them as passed on to others, whether in physical or mental forms, tingeing all future lives together. This should be enough for one who lives for truth and service to his fellow passengers on the way.”

Way Should Enough Together Form Spirituality Our Lives Fellows Passengers Future Life Life Together

Author:Luther Burbank

“I think cosmopolitan spirituality is the best, where we go beyond "My teacher is better than yours" or "My meditation form is better than yours." It's not Ford versus Chevy. But it's rather the transition of our limited awareness into eternity.”

Thinking Form Spirituality Teacher Meditation Awareness Buddhism Eternity Transition Versus Chevy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantra means the avoidance of a set or defined form of spirituality. Tantra is intuitive self-discovery.”

Mean Self Philosophy Form Spirituality Discovery Self Discovery Defined Intuitive Avoidance Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Be radical! The reason you feel so miserable is because you put spirituality in a form. You boxed it, franchised it. You decided spirituality was a certain way but then you got stuck in the way.”

Way Feels Reason Philosophy Form Certain Spirituality Decided Stuck Miserable Radical

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Among the most remarkable features characterizing Zen we find these: spirituality, directness of expression, disregard of form or conventionalism, and frequently an almost wanton delight in going astray from respectability.”

Form Spirituality Expression Delight Features Remarkable Disregard Respectability Wanton

Author:D.T. Suzuki

“Oh, I think it's definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it's maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality.”

Thinking Country Spiritual Form Spirituality Highest Music Is

Author:Willie Nelson

“We must come to understand the deep mutual connection or kinship between the various forms of our spirituality. We must recollect our original spiritual and moral substance, which grew out of the same essential experience of humanity. I believe that this is the only way to achieve a genuine renewal of our sense of responsibility for ourselves and for the world. And at the same time, it is the only way to achieve a deeper understanding among cultures that will enable them to work together in a truly ecumenical way to create a new order for the world.”

“There is a theology to gardening that few of us consider, but to understand this theology means relinquishing much control - our arsenal of books, techniques, tools, chemicals, fertilizers, fancy hybrids, and expectations. Yet, that is exactly what we must do if we are to fully embrace a more spiritual form of gardening. As a part of Nature we must learn to enter our garden as if it were truly sacred, we must learn to enter with humility.”

“Consciousness is, among other things, a spontaneous exercise in creativity. You are learning now, in a three-dimensional context, the ways in which your emotional and psychic existence can create varieties of physical form. You manipulate within the psychic environment, and these manipulations are then automatically impressed upon the physical mold.”

Way Form Spirituality Three Existence Consciousness Creativity Environment Emotional Exercise Variety Manipulation Impressed Spontaneous Psychics Manipulate Mold

Book:Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul

Source: Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul

“I have always been fascinated by structure and by exploring its possibilities. Throughout my life as a designer and maker, my structures have progressively become lighter and lighter, to the point now where I wonder how I can just sell the idea without any physical form. This seems to parallel human development where, as our bodies age, physicality is replaced by conceptualising and spirituality.”

“Feminism catches fire when it draws upon its inherent spirituality. When it does not, it is just one more form of politics, and politics never fed our deepest hungers.”

Doe Form Spirituality Fire Feminism Draws Hunger Just One Feds Inherent

Author:Carol Lee Flinders

“Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.”

Feelings Body Form Spirituality Speak Grace Movement Manners Moderation Garments

Book:Some of the

Source: Some of the

“All of the spiritualities that are now clamoring for attention, from explicit Satanism to what we hear on Oprah, are concerned with the two issues of identity and empowerment. Who am I? How can I have the power to live? Those are the questions everyone has to deal with. If we don't come to terms with these, we lapse into some form of human decadence and failure.”

Ifs Humans Two Form Spirituality Term Deals Attention Issues Identity Concerned Empowerment Decadence Explicit Lapses Satanism

Author:Dallas Willard

“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.”

Littles Art Whole Form Culture Spirituality Names Language Growing Internet Developing Fascinating Dishes Organisms Colony Subculture

Author:Jean Houston

“The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.”

Form Lying Spirituality Greatness Civilization Contemporary True Greatness

Author:Simone Weil

“Whenever we feel lost, or insane, or afraid, all we have to do is ask for His help. The help might not come in the form we expected, or even thought we desired, but it will come, and we will recognize it by how we feel. In spite of everything, we will feel at peace.”

Feels Helping Might Form Spirituality Asks Lost Expected Insane Spite

Book:A return to love: reflections on the principles of

Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of

“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”

Form Spirituality Common Despair Who You Are Authenticity Spiritual Awareness

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow-- it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it”

Source: Creative Visualization - 40th Anniversary Edition: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life

“Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or mastery—in morals, in art or in spirituality—the more you see that you are playing a rarified and lofty form of the old ego-game, and that your attainment of any height is apparent to yourself and to others only by contrast with someone else's depth or failure.”

Kind Art Form Spirituality Games Moral Ego Perfection Strive Depth Height Mastery Contrast Attainment Lofty

Author:Alan Watts

“What makes fantastic declarations believable is, in part, the vehemence with which they're proffered. Again, in the world of spirituality as well as of pop psychology, intensity of personal belief is evidence of truth. It is considered very bad form - even abuse - to challenge the veracity of any personal testimony that might be offered in a twelve-step group or on a talk show, unless the testimony itself is equivocal... Whatever sells, whatever many people believe strongly, must be true.”

“The seeker says, "I do not know." That takes honesty. The master says, "I do not know." That takes a mystic's mind that knows things through non-knowing. The disciple says, "I know." That takes ignorance, in the form of borrowed knowledge.”

Knows Mind Spiritual Form Spirituality Knowing Honesty Ignorance Masters Disciple Seekers Mystic Borrowed

Book:The Song of the Bird

Source: The Song of the Bird

“Don't think of God in terms of forms, because forms are limited and God is unlimited.”

Thinking Spiritual Form Spirituality Term Unlimited

Author:C. S. Lewis

“If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.”

Ifs Should Wells Might Form Life Is Death Spirituality Practice Ought Habit Approach Surprise Eggs Remembrance Life Death Composing Expectancy Insipid Thoughts Of Death

Author:Muriel Spark

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes.... The only people who still call hurricanes acts of God are the people who write insurance forms.”

People Writing Stills Today Form Spirituality Sea Source Atheist Storm Bad Ass Hurricanes Once Upon A Time Mind Blowing Neptune

Book:Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Source: Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

“To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.”

Source: Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now

“If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.”

Ifs Want Needs Children Character Form Spirituality Consciousness Teach Angel Deserve Our Children Admire Admiration Traits Allegiance

Book:The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories

Source: The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories

“Even towards yourself you have to be tremendously loving, because you too are god's form. One has to love oneself, one has to love all. Love is prayer. And the more you love, the more you will feel your consciousness expanding, becoming bigger - because whomsoever we love becomes part of our being, we include him. Mm? A bird on the wing, and we look at the bird with great love - suddenly we are not two: the bird is inside us and we are inside the bird.”

Feels Looks Two Form Spirituality Belief Prayer Love Is Consciousness Becoming Bird Bigger Wings Oneself Manifestation Expanding Great Love Love Oneself Consciousness Expanding

Author:Rajneesh

“My heart has become capable of every form: It is a pasture for gazelles And a monastery for Christian monks, And the pilgrim's Ka'ba, And the tablets of the Torah, And the book of the Koran. I follow the religion of Love: Whatever way love's camel takes, That is my religion, my faith.”

Way Heart Book Christian Spiritual Form Spirituality My Heart Capable Monk Pilgrim Camels Tablets Pastures Monasteries Torah Gazelles

Author:Ibn Arabi

“In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the form that is already there; and in that lies not liberation but alienation, the cutting off from things as they really are.”

World Form Lying Desire Spirituality Lost Our Lives Cutting Capacity Liberation Alienation Spiritual Awareness Cutting Off

Author:Colin Gunton

“I am the life-force power of the universe. I am the life-force power of the 50 trillion beautiful molecular geniuses that make up my form, at one with all that is.”

Soul God Beautiful Form Spirituality Universe Force Genius

Author:Jill Bolte Taylor

“What may be the significance of so many forms of "spirituality" on this planet that are antagonistic to "life" - and Christianity at the head of that list, with its "calumny" against life, its faith that just because nothing in life is eternal therefore life itself contains no value, nothing that makes it worth living, investing our souls in, committing our consciences to?”

Life May Soul Philosophy Form Life Is Values Spirituality Christianity Planets Eternal Conscience Eternity Investing Lists Significance Worth Living Calumny

Author:Kenny Smith

“The brain, which operates on electromagnetic impulses, is as much an activity of the universe as are the electromagnetic storms in the atmosphere or on a distant star. Therefore science is one form of electromagnetism that spends it time studying another formscience is god explaining god through a human nervous systemisn't spirituality the same thing?”

Humans Spiritual Form Spirituality Universe Stars Brain Study Activity Storm Nervous Impulse Atmosphere Explaining Electromagnetism

Author:Deepak Chopra

“The more we try and understand enlightenment the more it will elude us. And that's because enlightenment does not come from the mind. It comes form 'no-mind.' It comes form just being. You are already enlightened. You just have to realize it to allow it into your experience.”

Trying Mind Doe Spiritual Form Spirituality Realizing Enlightenment Enlightened Just Being Elude Just Being You Elude Us

Author:Anita Moorjani

“Our difficulty is that we have become autistic. We no longer listen to what the Earth, its landscape, its atmospheric phenomena and all its living forms, its mountains and valleys, the rain, the wind, and all the flora and fauna of the planet are telling us.”

Earth Form Spirituality Planets Wind Listening Mountain Rain Difficulty Landscape Valleys Autistic Flora Flora And Fauna Mountains And Valleys

Author:Thomas Berry

“I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed in that Catholic mould that I don't think I could adopt any other form of spirituality. I still get feelings of consolation about churches.”

Thinking Feels Stills Use Feelings Form Spirituality Church Catholic Brands Catholicism Consolation Cattle Mould

Author:Rachel Cusk

“The tendrils of a new, deeper form of spirituality are growing. It's the greening under the surface crust of consciousness and social paradigm.”

Form Spirituality Social Consciousness Growing Deeper Surface Paradigm Greening

Author:Jean Houston

“Seen through the eyes of faith, religion's future is secure. As long as there are human beings, there will be religion for the sufficient reason that the self is a theomorphic creature - one whose morphe (form) is theos - God encased within it. Having been created in the imago Dei, the image God, all human beings have a God-shaped vacuum built into their hearts. Since nature abhors a vacuum, people keep trying to fill the one inside them.”

“Only he who bestirs himself can advance spiritually. The fool who uses extraneous aids for this, in the form of the ready-made opinions of others, only walks his path as if on crutches, while ignoring his own healthy limbs.”

Ifs Made Use Form Spirituality Walks Opinion Path Ready Fool Healthy Awakening Aids Limbs Crutches

Book:In the Light of Truth: The Grail Message

Source: In the Light of Truth: The Grail Message

“It is possible that the next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form of a community -a community practicing understanding and loving kindness, a community practicing mindful living. This may be the most important thing we can do for the survival of the earth.”

May Important Earth Form Spirituality Next Individual Understanding Can Do Community Kindness Survival Important Things Mindful Living Loving Kindness

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Through one word, or seven words, or three times five, even if you investigate thoroughly myriad forms, nothing can be depended upon. Night advances, the moon glows and falls into the ocean. The black dragon jewel you have been searching for, is everywhere.”

Ifs Has Beens Form Night Fall Spirituality Three Black Five Moon Ocean Seven Dragons Jewels Three Times One Word

Author:Dogen

“According to Jains the soul in pure form has infiniteness in terms of its knowledge and power. These faculties are obstructed for its exhibition due to Karmic bondage. As the soul progresses in its morality and spirituality it gets certain powers which may look miraculous.”

Looks May Soul Form Certain Spirituality Term Progress Morality Pure Dues Faculty Bondage Miraculous Exhibitions Knowledge And Power

Author:Virchand Gandhi

“The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.”

Hands Form Values Order Spirituality Individual Progress Tears Organization Mere Enormous Objectives Subjective Subjectivity Cogs

Author:Georg Simmel

“Inside each one of us is a beautiful flower garden. This is the garden of the soul. With each lesson we learn, the garden grows. As we learn together, our individual gardens form a tranquil paradise.”

Soul Together Beautiful Form Spirit Religion Spirituality Individual Grows Flower Lessons Garden Paradise Gardening Tranquil Flower Garden Beautiful Flower

Author:Sri Chinmoy

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