“The prophetic word was never meant to be a trophy. It was meant to be a weapon.”
Spiritual feeling
Spiritual Quotes — page 166 of 1176
“Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.”
“Nothing that goes on in anyone else's mind can harm you.”
“The only help I need to live, is unprofessional. The only wealth I have to give, is not material. And if you need much more than that, I'm not available.”
“Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.”
“Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios.”
“Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a 'cosmic' or 'greater' meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience.”
“Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.”
“I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.”
“I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.”
“Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.”
“Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.”
“[T]he truth is that drug addicts have a disease. It only takes a short time in the streets to realize that out-of-control addiction is a medical problem, not a form of recreational or criminal behavior. And the more society treats drug addiction as a crime, the more money drug dealers will make "relieving" the suffering of the addicts.”
“Pause and remember - No one is coming to rescue you from yourself; your inner demons, your lack of confidence, your dissatisfaction with yourself and life. Only self-love and good decisions will rescue you.”
“I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.”
“Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.”
“Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you.”
“The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.”
“To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this is possible without positive and specific formulation in words.”
“We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governments. But there is great danger that those governments will not make us happy. God grant they may. But I fear that in every assembly, members will obtain an influence by noise, not sense. By meanness, not greatness. By ignorance, not learning. By contracted hearts, not large souls.”