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“Name one practical, down-to-earth effect of spirituality," said the skeptic who was ready for an argument. "Here's one," said the Master. "When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.”

“On the first of May, with my comrades of the catechism class, I laid lilac, chamomile and rose before the altar of the Virgin, and returned full of pride to show my blessed posy. My mother laughed her irreverent laugh and, looking at my bunch of flowers, which was bringing the may-bug into the sitting-room right under the lamp, she said: Do you suppose it wasn't already blessed before?”

“I told my students the other day in class, which is about the spirituality and creativity as much as it is about music. I said, 'If you're walking down the street and you see a baby carriage, and there's a baby in the carriage; you look down and your eyes meet the eyes of the baby. The baby looks at you: That's the kind of moment you're in when you're playing.”

Ifs Looks Kind Said Moments Eye Spirituality Class Creativity Streets Students Baby Walking Down And Carriages

Author:Charlie Haden

“As we attend the temple, there can come to us a dimension of spirituality and a feeling of peace which will transcend any other feeling which could come into the human heart. We will grasp the true meaning of the words of the Savior when He said: “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you. … Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.””

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Author:Thomas S. Monson

“When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.”

Said Ends Done Spirituality Travel Said And Done New Roads Different Roads

Author:Charles de Lint

“Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it.”

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Book:The diary of a magus

Source: The diary of a magus

“"I seek the meaning of existence," said the stranger. "You are of course assuming," said the Master, "that existence has a meaning." "Doesn't it?" "When you experience existence as it is - not as you think it is you will discover that your question has no meaning," said the Master.”

Thinking Said Spiritual Spirituality Courses Existence Masters Assuming Stranger

Author:Anthony de Mello

“No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.”

Writing Said Spiritual Spirituality Tree Wind Dimensions Solitary Say Anything Pine Trees

Book:Charter, Customs, and Constitutions of the Cistercians: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 7

Source: Charter, Customs, and Constitutions of the Cistercians: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 7

“The master never seemed to have his fill of gazing at his firstborn child. "What do you want him to be when he grows up?" someone asked. "Outrageously happy," said the master.”

Want Children Said Spiritual Spirituality Grows Growing Up Masters Want Him Gazing

Author:Anthony de Mello

“Said the monk: "All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from?" Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"”

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Book:The Song of the Bird

Source: The Song of the Bird

“"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."”

Said Spiritual Spirituality Secret Masters Inevitable Cooperation Serenity

Author:Anthony de Mello

“"Why is everyone here so happy except me?" "Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere," said the Master. "Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?" "Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside."”

Said Spiritual Spirituality Failing Masters Goodness Beauty Everywhere

Book:One Minute Wisdom

Source: One Minute Wisdom

“Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had a world where everybody said, 'We don't know?' The fact is that you're surrounded -God and you don't see God, because you KNOW ABOUT God. The final barrier to the vision of God is your God concept. You miss God because you think you know. The highest knowledge of God is to know God as unknowable. All revelations, however divine, are never any more than a finger pointing at the moon. As we say in the East, 'When the sage points to the moon, all the idiot sees is the finger'.”

“It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and highly improbable. G.K.Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don't. This feeling of universal oddity includes a basic and intense wondering about the sense of things.”

Source: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

“No, My son, the evolutionists are not right. I created all of this-all of this-in the blink of an eye; in one holy instant-just as the creationists have said. And...it came about through a process of evolution taking billions and billions of what you call years, just as the evolutionists claim. They are both "right." As the cosmonauts discovered, it all depends on how you look at it.”

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Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Hudson Taylor said, "The Lord's work done in the Lord's way will never fail to have the Lord's provision." ...The Lord's work done in human energy is not the Lord's work any longer. It is something, but it is not the Lord's work.”

Way Humans Said Done God Spirituality Energy Lord Failing Provision Work Done

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

“At times of writing I never think what I have said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.”

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Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“[The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were tired of all the inconveniences of the Sioux. So they brought out their cannons. 'You want to be an Indian now?' they said, finger on the trigger.”

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Author:Aaron Huey

“When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?'”

“Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught.”

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Book:The Trouble with Being Born

Source: The Trouble with Being Born

“When, as President Joseph F. Smith said, we "catch a spark from the awakened memories of the immortal soul, "let us be quietly grateful. When of great truths we can say "I know," that powerful spiritual witness may also carry with it the sense of our having known before. With rediscovery, we are really saying "I know - again!"”

Knows May Said Soul Spiritual Spirituality President Memories Powerful Known Grateful Witness Immortal Sparks Awakened Immortal Soul Rediscovery

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“I’m not religious but I’m definitely very spiritual person. I’ve always said that religion is for people who are scared of ending up in hell. Spirituality is for those who’ve already been there.”

People Persons Said Spiritual Spirituality Religious Hell Scared

Author:Brian Molko

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