“Don't sow your desires in someone else's garden; just cultivate your own as best you can; don't long to be other than what you are, but desire to be thoroughly what you are. Direct your thoughts to being very good at that and to bearing the crosses, little or great, that you will find there. Believe me, this is the most important and least understood point to the spiritual life. We all love according to what is our taste; few people like what is according to their duty or to God's liking. What is the use of building castles in Spain when we have to live in France?” PeopleBelieveLittlesLongImportantUseInspirationSpiritualDesireFaithBuildingDutyTasteUnderstoodGardenCrossesDirectVery GoodChristian InspirationalFranceSpiritual LifeBelieve In MeSpainCastles Author:Saint Francis de Sales
“A true religion will have the humbleness to admit that only a few things are known, much more is unknown, and something will always remain unknowable. That 'something' is the target of the whole spiritual search. You cannot make it an object of knowledge, but you can experience it, you can drink of it, you can have the taste of it - it is existential.” WholeMotivationalSpiritualKnownObjectsDrinkTasteTargetExistentialHumblenessTrue Religion Author:Rajneesh
“I believe that architects should design gardens to be used, as much as the houses they build, to develop a sense of beauty and the taste and inclination toward the fine arts and other spiritual values.” ShouldBelieveArtSpiritualUsedValuesHouseI BelieveDesignFineTasteGardenArchitectInclinationFine ArtsSpiritual Values Author:Luis Barragan
“If it were only that people have diversities of taste, that is reason enough for not attempting to shape them all after one model. But different persons also require different conditions for their spiritual development, and can no more exist healthily in the same moral, than all the varieties of plants can in the same physical, atmosphere and climate.” PeopleIfsPersonsDifferentReasonEnoughSpiritualMoralConditionsDevelopmentTasteShapesDiversityModelsPlantClimateVarietyAtmosphereAttemptingSpiritual Development Book:The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill
“The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.” WorldGivingFacesSpiritualCertainPleasureTastePossessionSmellSicknessArtificialRichness Author:Georges Rouault
“I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects, their free and gentle humor, their agility and breadth of thought, the ease with which they shifted from one engineering field to another, and, for that matter, from technology to social concerns and art. Then, too, they personified good manners and delicacy of taste; well-bred speech that flowed evenly and was free of uncultured words; one of them might play a musical instrument, another dabble in painting; and their faces always bore a spiritual imprint.” WellsArtMatterPlayMightRememberFacesSpiritualSocialTechnologyFieldsPaintingTasteSpeechConcernTwentiesInstrumentsShiningMusicalIntellectMannersEaseGentleGood ManEngineeringEngineersBoresDelicacyGood MannersBreadthAgilityMusical Instruments Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.” WellsBookSpiritualEffectsWallTasteMouthsStandingVoteNewspapersRecognitionAutumnCreamSupremacyPromptsBerriesCrispsRight WordsTarts Author:Mark Twain
“The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest is on another level altogether, Spiritual wine has a subtler taste. The intellect and the senses investigate cause and effect. The spiritual seeker surrenders to the wonder.” SpiritualCausesLevelsWonderEffectsTasteIntellectualWineIntellectSensesSurrenderQuestsPearlsSeekersExquisiteCause And Effect Book:'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian
“The response that comes from chanting is in the form of bliss, or spiritual happiness, which is a much higher taste than any happiness found here in the material world. That's why I say that the more you do it, the more you don't want to stop, because it feels so nice and peaceful.” WorldWantFeelsSpiritualFormFoundNiceMaterialsHigherTasteResponsePeacefulBlissMaterial WorldChantingSpiritual Happiness Author:George Harrison
“Every moment a taste of that beauty in our mouths, another stashed in a pocket. Impossible to say what: no cypress so handsome, no sunlight, a lonely hiddenness. Other pleasure gathers a crowd, starts a fight, lots of noise there. But soul beauty stays quiet..his amazing whereabouts unknown inside my heart.” HeartSoulMomentsSpiritualFightingPleasureImpossibleMy HeartTasteQuietMouthsLonelyCrowdsNoisePocketsSunlightHandsomeCypressesSoul BeautyWhereabouts Author:Rumi
“Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.” WayLifeHeartMomentsPainLastsSpiritualGraceMysteryKeysHolyTasteSmellAnalysisExcitementBoredomGladness Author:Frederick Buechner
“Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life worth living. Love is a little taste of always and a big bite of nothing. And love is everything in between these extremes.” LittlesBigsSpiritualLove IsTasteRootsAnd LoveExtremesPrizeBitesGarbageWorth LivingLife Worth LivingCanalsRoot Canals Author:Robert Fulghum