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"Everything that is observed in the physical world has as its source that which is invisible. This means we must surrender to the Spirit and to the invisible part of ourselves. Then learning to manifest is really nothing more than learning to manifest another aspect of ourselves."
"So, it's really about modeling it and letting people know you are an inspired person, a person who is in spirit, and then those forces that Carl Jung called synchronicity begin to show up and, lo and behold, the universe provides for you."
"If you enter into the spirit of Life, you are really reproducing in yourself the qualities of the Creator of that which allows something to be manifested and created in the first place."
"To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things. What he craves is to be consoled in his very powerlessness, to feel that the spirit of the universe recognizes and secures him, all decaying and failing as he is."
"Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues."
"The spirit of a youth That means to be of note, begins betimes."
"How now, wit! Whither wander you?"
"It is the cowish terror of his spirit that dares not undertake; he'll not feel wrongs which tie him to an answer."
"Conscience is a blushing, shamefaced spirit than mutinies in a man's bosom; it fills one full of obstacles."
"The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders At our quaint spirits."
"Wisdom and spirit of the Universe!"
"Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou soul, that art the eternity of thought, And giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion."
"It's the same thing as a primitive of Africans, Indians, nomads or whatever - when they start getting up and doing their ritual and doing the dance, it's just what's coming through. It's the spirit. Rock 'n' roll is still primitive."
"If the spirit comes through in a Madame George type of song, that's what the spirit says. You have very little to do with it. You're like an instrument for what's coming through."
"When the spirit moves me, I can do many wondrous things."
"All makers must leave room for acts of the spirit."
"I am the type of person who would do something thoroughly if someone said, "I don't think you can do it." I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit."
"[A]ll will be raised by the power of God, having spirit in their bodies, and not blood."
"Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit."
"Worship is an exercise of the Holy Spirit directed primarily to God"
