"You can not understand "Scripture" without seeing through the eyes of the Spiritual Master or Advanced Devotees."
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"Success in spiritual life lies not in being the Best, but doing the Best."
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"Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact."
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"The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation."
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"Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives."
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"The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is 'I'; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self."
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"In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious."
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"Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us."
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"Just as a man cannot live in the flesh unless he is born in the flesh, even so a man cannot have the spiritual life of grace unless he is born again spiritually. This regeneration is effected by Baptism: "Unless a man is born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" (Jn 3:5)"
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"The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is a ritualistic justification of their possessions."
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"I have my own way to walk and for some reason or other Zen is right in the middle of it wherever I go. So there it is, with all its beautiful purposelessness, and it has become very familiar to me though I do not know "what it is." Or even if it is an "it." Not to be foolish and multiply words, I'll say simply that it seems to me that Zen is the very atmosphere of the Gospels, and the Gospels are bursting with it. It is the proper climate for any monk, no matter what kind of monk he may be. If I could not breathe Zen I would probably die of spiritual asphyxiation."
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"Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains."
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"True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques."
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"In my early 40s I started to feel that I had neglected the spiritual side of my life. It had always been there, but I'd neglected it. In fashion, that's really easy because we live in the future, and we can place too much importance on material things."
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"we've produced a generation of spiritual panhandlers, begging for coins of wisdom, banging like bums on every closed door...if an old man moves into a shack or a cave and lets his beard grow, people will flock from miles around just to read his "no trespassing" sign"
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"Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential."
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"But to me the notion that spirituality is separate from the rest of life does not allow for a practical approach to living a life that has extraordinary quality."
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"How could you possibly know that no religion can see the whole truth unless you yourself have the superior, comprehensive knowledge of spiritual reality you just claimed non of the religions have?"
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"This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time."
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"You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self."
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