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"Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and where we can respond freely to God's guidance."
"Solitude is an essential element for the spiritual health of a child. If we only stimulate our children - keep them busy with endless stories with no space to be alone - that's not good."
"It is not that the university as such is against spiritual formation. It is just that often the university does not know how to integrate spiritual formation within its academic disciplines."
"I still believe that the university is a place where people can develop their minds and learn skills, but also they can develop their personalities and their spiritual life."
"Poverty is spiritual halitosis."
"All spiritual interests are supported by animal life."
"[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a sense in which that sublime despair is the only alternative to that divine audacity. It is even true that the truly spiritual and intellectual man sees it as sort of dilemma; a very hard and terrible choice. There is little else on earth that can compare with these for completeness. And he who does not climb the mountain of Christ does indeed fall into the abyss of Buddha."
"Coincidence is a spiritual pun."
"It is a strange thing that many truly spiritual men, such as General Gordon, have actually spent some hours in speculating upon the precise location of the Garden of Eden. Most probably we are in Eden still. It is only our eyes that have changed."
"All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable."
"Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter."
"It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds condemned as complex have something like the secret of sex; they can breed thoughts."
"When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea."
"The philosophy of this world may be founded on facts, but its business is run on spiritual impressions and atmospheres."
"I thank God for his many blessings he has given me, but money and prestige are not what it's about. I seek spiritual progression."
"The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty."
"I think that all the spiritual training is just to be able to allow you to experience this from a slightly different perspective - one that's a little more stabilized."
"This particular school of Zen has always considered itself the Marines of the spiritual world, so it has a kind of bias against conceptual thinking in favor of a very rigorous physical life."
"I try to make those references. I try to make sure that they're not too obscure. But outside of that, I dare not claim anything in the spiritual realm for my own."
"He listens equally to the prayers of the believer and the unbeliever."
