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Thomas Merton Writer, Monk
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"It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the effect of this more abundant reception."

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Robert A. Heinlein Science Fiction Author
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"An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the best he can do for his breed is to crawl off and die, and not pass on his defective genes."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"I was there in the beginning and I was the spirit of love."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"Whomsoever you follow, howsoever great, see to it that you follow the spirit of the master and not imitate him mechanically."

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"At the end of the day we're all spirits having a physical experience. That really comes from my relationship with Islam because it just makes me really conscious of my action."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"The earth I tread on is not a dead inert mass. It is a body, has a spirit; is organic and fluid to the influence of its spirit and to whatever particle of the spirit is in me."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"Though my life is low, if my spirit looks upward habitually at an elevated angle, it is as if it were redeemed. When the desire to be better than we are is really sincere we are instantly elevated, and so far better already."

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