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“It is the death of present art when it returns again and again to the model. Use of the model is only an intermediate stage in artistic development. Create out of a living spirituality to overcome everything naturalistic.”

Art Use Spirituality Stage Development Return Models Overcoming Artistic Again And Again

Book:Art: An Introductory Reader

Source: Art: An Introductory Reader

“As the reflections of our pride upon our defects are bitter, disheartening, and vexatious, so the return of the soul towards God is peaceful and sustained by confidence. You will find by experience how much more your progress will be aided by this simple, peaceful turning towards God, than by all your chagrin and spite at .the faults that exist in you.”

Soul Spirituality Simple Progress Pride Return Reflection Faults Bitter Peaceful Spite Defects Chagrin Disheartening

Author:Francois Fenelon

“At that moment of realization (that union with God is always present), that's when God let me go, let me slide through His fingers with this last compassionate, unspoken message: You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.”

May Moments Lasts Spirituality Return Messages Let Me Unions Fingers Realization That Moment Compassionate Slides Unspoken Let Me Go

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.”

“Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.”

“Things flourish, then each returns to its root. Returning to the root is called stillness: Stillness is called return to life, return to life is called the constant; knowing the constant is called enlightenment.”

Spiritual Life Is Spirituality Knowing Return Enlightenment Roots Constant Stillness

Author:Laozi

“Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.”

Long Spiritual Spirituality Universe Silence Return

Book:The Art Of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness And Peace

Source: The Art Of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness And Peace

“How wide are the horizons of the spinning earth! The moonlight leads the tides and the sun's light will not be confined within the net of heaven. But in the end all things return to the One. The deaf and the dumb, the crippled and deformed are all restored to One's perfection.”

Ends Light Earth Spiritual Spirituality Heaven Sun Return All Things Perfection Wide Dumb Horizon Tides Deaf Moonlight Confined Spinning Crippled

Author:Hsu Yun

“We are completely unaware of our true nature because we identify ourselves with our body, our emotions and our thoughts, thus losing sight of our unchanging centre, which is pure consciousness. When we return to our true nature, our thoughts and perceptions no longer appear as modifications of a single substance, they come into being and subside like waves of the ocean.”

Body Spiritual Spirituality Emotion Consciousness Return Pure Ocean Perception Losing Sight Wave Substance Our Thoughts Centre True Nature Unchanging Modification

Book:Be Who You Are

Source: Be Who You Are

“I find that when I get casual in my relationships with divinity and when it seems that no divine ear is listening and no divine voice is speaking, that I am far, far away. If I immerse myself in the scriptures the distance narrows and the spirituality returns. I find myself loving more intensely those whom I must love with all my heart and mind and strength, and loving them more, I find it easier to abide their counsel.”

Ifs Should Mind Heart Seems Spirituality Voice Divine Listening Return My Heart Ears Distance Scripture Divinity Missionary Far Away Casual

Author:Spencer W. Kimball

“And so it is that we do not exist until we do; and then it is that we play with our world of existent things, and order and disorder them, and so it shall be that non-existence shall take us back from existence, and that nameless spirituality shall return to Void, like a tired child home from a very wild circus.”

World Children Play Home Order Spirituality Existence Return Tired Our World Disorder Void Circus Nameless Non Existence Order And Disorder

Book:Discordia: Hail the Goddess of Chaos and Confusion

Source: Discordia: Hail the Goddess of Chaos and Confusion