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Ram Dass Spiritual Teacher, Author
Spiritual

"The suffering is in the mind. The mind. In the mind. Witness it. From your spiritual heart."

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Ram Dass Spiritual Teacher, Author
Spiritual

"I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being."

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Ram Dass Spiritual Teacher, Author
Spiritual

"And then the witness, if you go down into the witness, that has the spiritual being. Down there, in your soul, you'll get far more love than you ever got out there."

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Vincent de Paul Saint, Priest
Spiritual

". . . [T]hese [ideas] are only suggestions of the evil spirit who, to jeopardize your salvation, suggests to you extraordinary works that are beyond your strength, under the fine pretext of practicing, on your own, the spiritual and corporal works of mercy . . ."

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Vincent de Paul Saint, Priest
Spiritual

"In a word, we owe obedience to the bishops in all things pertaining to our work in the missions, with ordinands, etc., but the spiritual and internal direction belongs to the Superior General."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
Spiritual

"The psychedelic experience is the beginning of the spiritual path. That's why it's not important that yogas' claim that they can deliver you the psychedelic experience, because it begins with the psychedelic experience, and then you go from there."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"The plants are the pipeline into the Gaian intention. It's just not a coincidence that these plants carry this immense spiritual message. They are the pipeline of Gaian intentionality."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
Spiritual

"What good is a theory of how the universe works if it’s a series of tensor equations that, even when understood, come nowhere tangential to experience? The only intellectual or noetic or spiritual path worth following is one that builds on personal experience"

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
Spiritual

"Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs."

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Viola Davis Actress, Producer
Spiritual

"I have a lot of spiritual books that I read that I really, really love - everything from the Bible to Joseph Campbell, who I love. He wrote The Hero of a Thousand Faces. It's about exploring what is heroic in you. It helps me a lot."

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Virchand Gandhi Social Reformer
Spiritual

"Pranayam is the right science of breathing where deep, regulated and rhythmic breathing is done along with mental purification. Its practice plays an important role not only in cure of physical ailments, but also for moral and spiritual progress."

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Virchand Gandhi Social Reformer
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"We the Jainists of India say every day in our prayer, I worship all perfected souls, I worship all spiritual masters, I worship all spiritual instructors, I worship all holy men and women in the world."

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Virginia Woolf Novelist
Spiritual

"Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the more you write the nicer you become."

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Thomas Aquinas Philosopher, Theologian
Spiritual

"Just as in a physical body the operation of one member contributes to the good of the whole body, so it is in a spiritual body such as the Church. And since all the faithful are one body, the good of one member is communicated to another; everyone members, as the Apostle says, of one another [Eph 4:25]. For that reason, among the points of faith handed down by the Apostles, is that there is a community of goods in the Church, and this is expressed in the words Communion of Saints."

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Saul Bellow Novelist
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"It is wrong to turn a man (a subject) into a thing (an object). By means of spiritual dialogue, the I-It relationship becomes an I-Thou relationship. God comes and goes in man's soul. And men come and go in each other's souls. Sometimes they come and go in each other's beds, too."

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