Spirituality Quotes - Page 17

• The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Soul, Foundation

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• If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  God, Spiritual, Jobs

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• The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

  Honore de Balzac

  Spiritual, Flower, Intuition

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• Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Spiritual, Animal

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.484, First Avenue Editions

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• We are more than what we do... much more than what we accomplish... far more than what we possess.

  William Arthur Ward

  Accomplishment, Accomplish, Spiritual Awareness

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• I want to be connecting with the subconscious, if I can call it that, because there are not to many words to describe the real deep inner part of a human beingI want to be at that place where everything is blotted out and where creativity happens, and to get there I practice, you know I'm a prolific practicer, I still practice every dayYou have to have the skills, then you want to not think when you're playing, that's when you let whatever deep level of creativity, spirituality, I mean, you know these words are so inadequate these days but you want to get to this place where they exist.

  Sonny Rollins

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Real

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• My years as a mystic have made me question almost all my assumptions. They've made me a proud I-don't-know-it-all.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  God, Years, Soul

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• Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

  Lydia M. Child

  Wise, Doe, Spirit

  "Philothea: A Grecian Romance". Book by Lydia Maria Child, 1836.

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• Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

  Shakti Gawain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

  Shakti Gawain (2011). “Living in the Light, 25th Anniversary Edition: Follow Your Inner Guidance to Create a New Life and a New World”, p.59, New World Library

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• My Body, My Soul and I.
  
  
  My body is mine, but my body is not me,
  My body is an expression of my soul.
  My soul is mine, but my soul is not me,
  My soul is an expression of me -
  for I am.

  Ian Gardner

  Expression, Soul, Body

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• The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

  Simone Weil

  Lying, Greatness, Civilization

  "The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind".

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• Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Soul, Gardening

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “Nature, Addresses and Lectures”, p.32, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

  Margaret Fuller

  Spiritual, Women, Believe

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.78, Courier Corporation

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• To struggle is difficult but to surrender is easy. Surrender is the beginning of devotion.

  Bhakti Charu Swami

  Struggle, Surrender, Devotion

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  Change your thoughts and you change your world.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Norman Vincent Peale (1970). “Norman Vincent Peale's treasury of courage and confidence”

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• To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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• Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.

  Margaret Laurence

  Unique, Diversity, Brotherhood

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• Spirituality lies not in the power to heal others, to perform miracles, or to astound the world with our wisdom, but in the ability to endure with right attitude whatever crosses we have to face in our daily lives, and thus to rise above them.

  Daya Mata

  Wisdom, Attitude, Lying

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• Enlightenment is just another word for feeling comfortable with being a completely ordinary person.

  Veronique Vienne

  Feelings, Gardening, Enlightenment

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• What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Adversity, Hard Times

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• Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown.

  Alan Watts

  Openness

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• Sometimes river flows very strong, sometimes it flows very small, but it makes no difference to the ocean because it is satisfied in itself with its own quantity of water. Similarly, when our heart is cleansed with spirituality, we find pleasure and ecstasy with our own selves that is so sweet, so wonderful and so satisfying, that the so-called pleasures of this world no longer have any values, no appeal at all.

  Radhanath Swami

  Sweet, Strong, Ocean

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• It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Spiritual, Flesh, Ifs

  Radio Broadcast to the Nation Following the USS Missouri Surrender Ceremony, delivered 2 September 1945, USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan

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• Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Art

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2630, Delphi Classics

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• What should we "do" with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Meditation, Mind

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