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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

“When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for worship which is nothing more than our frightened refuge into propitiation of a Creator we do not understand? A detective story, the supreme Who-done-it, written in indecipherable hieroglyphics, no Rosetta stone supplied by the consummate Mystifier to tease us poor fumbling unravellers of his plot.”

Source: No Signposts in the Sea

“Bring into play the almighty power within you, so that on the stage of life you can fulfill your high destined role.”

Play Spiritual Spirituality Roles Stage Within You Almighty Destined Stages Of Life

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“The highest happiness is when one reaches the stage of liberation, at which there is no more suffering.”

Spiritual Suffering Spirituality Stage Highest Liberation

Book:The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living

Source: The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living

“In the next 30 years we can destroy our world. With the very same powers - spiritual, social, scientific - we can evolve our world. Our mission is to serve as catalysts for a planetary awakening in our lifetime, to take a non-violent path to the next stage of our evolution.”

World Years God Spiritual Spirituality Next Social Path Stage Evolution Lifetime Missions Awakening Violent Evolve Our World Nonviolence Catalyst Non Violent

Book:The revelation: our crisis is a birth

Source: The revelation: our crisis is a birth

“Most people go on living their everyday life: half-frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragic-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.”

People World Eye Spirituality Half Comedy Stage Goes On Ears Everyday International Tragic Mysticism Frightened Indifferent Everyday Life

Author:Albert Einstein

“Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact by head or heels, the measurement of mass and motion, the calibration of brutal blows, the counting of supplies; and spiritual knowing, invisibly felt by the inside self, who is but a fought-over field of distraction, a stage where we recite the monotonous monologue that is our life, a knowing governed by internal tides, by intimations, motives, resolutions, by temptations, secrecy, shame, and pride.”

Source: Finding a Form: Essays

“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