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Andrew Cohen Psychologist
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"This is our challenge at the beginning of the twenty-first century - we need to find the courage to see our own spiritual yearnings in the biggest possible context, in such a way that is going to compel us to finally transcend our self-concern. We need to find the heart to come together in such a way that will enable us to face the challenges before us. And to do this, we need a new spirituality. We need a new enlightenment."

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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
Spiritual

"On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel or insight."

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Arthur Conan Doyle Writer, Physician
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"There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?"

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Arthur Miller Playwright, Essayist
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"Life is an endless, truly endless struggle. There's no time when we're going to arrive at a plateau where the whole thing gets sorted. It's a struggle in the way every plant has to find it's own way to stand up straight. A lot of the time it's a failure. And yet it's not a failure if some enlightenment comes from it."

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Walter Russell Artist, Author, Philosopher
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"And that is what radio-activity is, a quick return to the state of rest which underlies the spiritual or invisible universe."

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Wayne Dyer Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Each experience in your lifewas absolutely necessary in order to have gotten you to the next place, and the next place, up to this very moment."

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Wayne Dyer Author, Motivational Speaker
Spiritual

"Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself."

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Woodrow Wilson Politician
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"The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation."

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Vaclav Havel Politician, Playwright
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"I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time build a state that is-regardless of how unscientific this may sound to the ears of a political scientist-humane, moral, intellectual and spiritual, and cultural."

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Rabindranath Tagore Poet, Playwright, Novelist
Spiritual

"I believe in a spiritual world - not as anything separate from this world - but as its innermost truth. With the breath we draw we must always feel this truth, that we are living in God."

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Rachel Carson Biologist, Conservationist, Author
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"I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever we substitute something man-made and artificial for a natural feature of the earth, we have retarded some part of man's spiritual growth."

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Saint Francis de Sales Saint, Bishop
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"Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them for their whole life and thus lose many spiritual benefits and advantages."

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