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"She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken."
"They hadn't much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going."
"Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him."
"A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber."
"What barrier is there that love cannot break?"
"There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace."
"The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive at the same destination?"
"I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage."
"True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world."
"The path is the goal."
"Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there should be mutual aid between the two as between man and man. They had also brought out the truth that man eats not for enjoyment but to live."
"Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south."
"Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored."
"Ethical religion affirms the continuity of progress toward moral perfection. It affirms that the spiritual development of the human race cannot be prematurely cut off, either gradually or suddenly; that every stone of offence against which we stumble is a stepping-stone to some greater good; that, at the end of days, if we choose to put it so, or, rather, in some sphere beyond the world of space and time, all the rays of progress will be summed and centred in a transcendent focus."
"The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear."
"There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing."
"As an artist, I feel that my father's biggest influence is me realizing that music has a purpose and it's not just for business and that music is spiritual. I get that from him that music is a spiritual thing."
"What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection."
"It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control."
"So, that is my final lesson from the universe - you just do what you need to do, and stay on track."
