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“The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.”

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Author:Thomas Moore

“To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.”

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Book:The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms

Source: The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms

“To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.”

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Book:The Painters of Modern Life

Source: The Painters of Modern Life

“Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.”

Knows Men God Spirit Religion Spirituality Literature Study Psychology Mankind Self Knowledge Thyself Know Thyself Sceptic Presuming Scanning Knowing Myself

Author:Alexander Pope

“I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.”

“The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'”

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Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.”

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Book:The Death Of The Heart

Source: The Death Of The Heart

“Because most of the girls were still in mourning and all of them had lost their textbooks, even pencils and pens, Shaukat Ali began the first classes by reading to them from poetry and religious texts. "Reading, literature, and spirituality are good for the soul," he told them. "So we will start with these studies.”

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Book:Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Source: Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan

“Coincidences are spiritual puns.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim to believe that, but very few people actually live as if that were true.”

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Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.”

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Author:Cyril Connolly

“Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.”

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Book:Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

Source: Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

“The new spirituality will bring about what I'm calling the 'end of better.' And that is in fact what is called for in the next of the series of books that I've been writing.”

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Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“A missionary should never permit himself to see a movie or (read) cheap literature, or hear music that tends to interfere with or which dampens the spirit of missionary work. There is ample evidence that rock music is offensive to the Spirit and affects adversely the spirituality of the missionaries and thus the success of the proselyting work.”

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Author:Ezra Taft Benson