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"There are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space."
"Say not, I have found the path of the soul Say rather, I have met the soul walking upon my path."
"There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of soft mindedness. A nation or a civilization that continues to produce soft minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan."
"Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life."
"Material progress and a higher standard of living bring us greater comfort and health, but do not lead to a transformation of the mind, which is the only thing capable of providing lasting peace. Profound happiness, unlike fleeting pleasures, is spiritual in nature. It depends on the happiness of others and it is based on love and affection."
"Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God."
"The brain does not create consciousness, but conciousness created the brain, the most complex physical form on earth, for its expression."
"On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do."
"For me, spiritual means love in action. So if you are working for love, then you are a spiritual person."
"The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual."
"Give up being right. Instead radiate peace, harmony, love, and laughter from your heart."
"We don't know the spiritual advancements long-term veganism - over generations - would have for human life. It would be certainly a different civilisation, and the first one in the whole of our history that would truly deserve the title of being a civilisation."
"Having found in many books different methods of going to GOD, and divers practices of the spiritual life, I thought this would serve rather to puzzle me than facilitate what I sought after, which was nothing but how to become wholly GOD'S. This made me resolve to give the all for the all; so after having given myself wholly to GOD, that He might take away my sin, I renounced, for the love of Him, everything that was not He; and I began to live as if there was none but He and I in the world."
"I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality. We can know that reality is good just as it is, because when we argue with it, we experience tension and frustration. We don't feel natural or balanced. When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless."
"It is abnormal for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible. It has been written into our spiritual DNA to hunger for the impossibilities around us to bow at the name of Jesus."
"You have seen that the universe is at root a magical illusion and a fabulous game, and that there is no separate "you" to get something out of it, as if life were a bank to be robbed. The only real "you" is the one that comes and goes, manifests and withdraws itself eternally in and as every conscious being. For "you" is the universe looking at itself from billions of points of view, points that come and go so that the vision is forever new."
"I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action."
"I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived."
"Oh, I think it's definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it's maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality."
"We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required."
