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“O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.”

Source: St. Francis of Assisi's Prayers

“Jesus Christ does not teach us a spirituality “of closed eyes”, but one of “alertness”, one which entails an absolute duty to take notice of the needs of others and of situations involving those whom the Gospel tells us are our neighbours. The gaze of Jesus, what “his eyes” teach us, leads to human closeness, solidarity, giving time, sharing our gifts and even our material goods.”

“Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. “Neither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality to be reached,” say the Vedas. “Sell all that thou hast and give to poor, and follow me,” says the Christ. So all great saints and prophets have expressed it, and have carried it out in their lives. How can great spirituality come without renunciation?”

Giving Spirituality Christ Wealth Poor Secret Sells Saint Immortality Prophet Purity Follow Me Renunciation Great Spiritual Vedas Progeny

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Modern multiple divorce is rooted in the fact that many are seeking in human relationships what human relationships can never give. Why do they have multiple divorce, instead of merely promiscuous affairs? Because they are seeking more than merely sexual relationship.”

Giving Humans God Facts Spirituality Modern Affair Seeking Divorce Rooted Multiple Human Relations Human Relationships Promiscuous

Book:The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent

Source: The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent

“Omens are a language, it's the alphabet we develop to speak to the world's soul, or the universe's, or God's, whatever name you want to give it. Like an alphabet, it is individual, you only learn it by making mistakes, and that keeps you from globalizing the spiritual quest.”

World Want Giving Soul Spiritual Spirituality Universe Names Individual Speak Language Mistake Making Mistakes Quests Alphabet Omen

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Spirituality yields two fruits. The first in inspiration to know what to do. The second is power, or the capacity to do it. These two capacities come together. That's why Nephi could say, 'I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded' (1 Nephi 3:7). He knew the spiritual laws upon which inspiration and power are based. Yes, God answers prayer and gives us spiritual direction when we live obediently and exercise the required faith in Him.”

Knows Giving Firsts Two Inspiration Together Spiritual Law Spirituality Prayer Answers Lord Exercise Capacity Fruit Yield Spiritual Direction God Answers Prayers

Author:Richard G. Scott

“Spirituality is the master key of the Indian mind. It is this dominant inclination of India which gives character to all the expressions of her culture. In fact, they have grown out of her inborn spiritual tendency of which her religion is a natural out flowering. The Indian mind has always realized that the Supreme is the Infinite and perceived that to the soul in Nature the Infinite must always present itself in an infinite variety of aspects.”

“I strongly believe that nothing is more spiritual than living at our highest potential while serving others. I believe that the more closely aligned we are to "spirit" the more fully we will give ourselves in service to the world. As such, my "spiritual path" is the path that leads me to a more complete manifestation of my unique Bodhisattvic duties.”

World Giving Believe Spiritual Spirit Spirituality I Believe Path Duty Highest Unique Manifestation Serving Serving Others Spiritual Path Leading Me

Author:Brian Johnson

“Materialism, which gives priority to material needs and objects, is obviously the opposite of spirituality”

Needs Giving Spirituality Objects Materials Opposites Priorities Materialism

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness.”

Thinking Knows Giving Spiritual Spirituality Knowing Careful Labels Be Careful Spiritual Life Richness Prerequisites

Author:Olympia Dukakis

“They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.”

Giving Looks Sometimes Faces Suffering Spirituality Asceticism Dissipation

Book:Ship of Fools: A Novel

Source: Ship of Fools: A Novel

“Spirituality and spiritual life give us the strength to love.”

Love Giving Spiritual Spirituality Spiritual Life

Author:Bell Hooks

“If we analyze the operations of scenes of beauty upon the mind, and consider the intimate relation of the mind upon the nervous system and the whole physical economy, the action and reaction which constantly occur between bodily and mental conditions, the reinvigoration which results from such scenes is readily comprehended. . . . The enjoyment of scenery employs the mind without fatigue and yet exercises it; tranquilizes it and yet enlivens it; and thus, through the influence of the mind over the body gives the effect of refreshing rest and reinvigoration to the whole system.”

Source: Yosemite and the Mariposa grove: a preliminary report, 1865

“Always consider the qualifications of anyone who assumes or professes authority, what do they really know? Authorities on spirituality can rarely give a half coherent explanation of what they persuade us to believe they know. They achieve authority by stage management and then exploit audience suggestibility. Same old trick they have pulled for thousands of years.”

Knows Giving Years Believe Spirituality Half Audience Achieve Stage Authority Management Assuming Tricks Explanation Exploits Qualifications

Author:Peter J. Carroll