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“Our inner guidance comes to us through our feelings and body wisdom first - not through intellectual understanding. The intellect works best in service to our intuition, our inner guidance, soul, God or higher power - whichever term we choose for the spiritual energy that animates life.”

Firsts Soul Feelings Body Spiritual Spirituality Energy Understanding Term Higher Intellectual Intuition Intellect Guidance Higher Power Spiritual Awareness Spiritual Energy

Author:Christiane Northrup

“There are so many intellectual and moral angels battling for rationalism, good citizenship, and pure spirituality; so many and such eminent ones, so very vocal and authoritative! The poor devil in man needs all the support and advocacy he can get. The artist is his natural champion. When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.”

Source: Collected Works: Do what you will

“One of the greatest challenges facing civilization in the twenty-first century is for human beings to learn to speak about their deepest personal concerns-about ethics, spiritual experience, and the inevitability of human suffering-in ways that are not flagrantly irrational. We desperately need a public discourse that encourages critical thinking and intellectual honesty. Nothing stands in the way of this project more that the respect we accord religious faith.”

Source: Letter to a Christian Nation

“Sadly enough, there is a kind of an anti-intellectualism among many Christians: spirituality is falsely pitted against intellectual comprehension as though they stood in a dichotomy. Such anti-intellectualism cuts away at the very heart of the Christian message. Of course, there is a false intellectualism which does destroy the work of the Holy Spirit. But it does not arise when men wrestle honestly with honest questions and then see that the Bible has the answers. This does not oppose true spirituality.”

Men Heart Kind Doe Enough Christian Spirit Spirituality Courses Answers Cutting Honest Holy Messages Intellectual Honestly Arise Holy Spirit Comprehension Intellectualism Dichotomy

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“The problem, once again, as in all sciences is the attitude of the mind that is dealing with whatever field. The problem is not philosophy but the lack of intellectual humility. It is when reason becomes arrogant that we lose track. But intellectual humility with science: this is spirituality - this is the way we are with God. So we should not be scared and we must reconcile ourselves.”

Way Should Mind Reason Philosophy Problem Spirituality Loses Attitude Fields Humility Intellectual Track Scared Arrogant Reconcile Intellectual Humility

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“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.”

“Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.”

Spiritual Spirituality Nature Keys Intellectual Environmental Satisfaction Aesthetic Cognitive Dissonance Cognitive Science Self-satisfaction Cognitive Dissonance

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Spiritual nature is inconceivable and unlimited. Therefore, the activities of that realm will always remain beyond our mental speculation and intellectual concept.”

Spiritual Spirituality Activity Intellectual Concepts Realms Unlimited Speculation Krishna Spiritual Nature

Author:Bhakti Charu Swami

“This chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is enacted from the spiritual platform and thus this sound vibration surpasses all lower strata of consciouness - namely sensual, mental and intellectual.”

Spiritual Spirituality Sound Intellectual Sensual Platforms Vibrations Krishna Mantras Hares Chanting Hare Krishna

Author:A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

“The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.”

Inspiration Faith Spirituality Simple Wonder Shapes Intellectual Standards Bases Independence Definitions Christian Inspirational Sense Of Wonder Shape Of Things

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Feminism without spirituality runs the risk of becoming what it rejects: an elitist ideology, arrogant, superficial and separatist, closed to everything but itself. Without a spiritual base that obligates it beyond itself, calls it out of itself for the sake of others, a pedagogical feminism turned in on itself can become just one more intellectual ghetto that the world doesn’t notice and doesn’t need.”

World Needs Running Spiritual Spirituality Risk Feminism Becoming Intellectual Sake Ideology Just One Rejects Arrogant Superficial Ghetto Elitist

Author:Joan D. Chittister