Spirituality Quotes - Page 27

• I've always been very spiritual, since I was a very, very young child. The older I get, I'm reading more, I'm experiencing more, and so that's all reflected in all of my music. All of my fans are pretty familiar with me and my beliefs. It's all about connecting to yourself and sticking to your own spirituality.

  Jhene Aiko

  Spiritual, Children, Reading

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I've always hated the word spirituality, but now I accept the word, and I think it's a useful term. It just means so many things. And actually, most of the things it does connote are beautiful things.

  Diego Cortez

  Beautiful, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I believe that beyond the arena of art, the world would be a much better place if centered around a feminine perspective. The world has been really messed up by greedy white men who only work towards an agenda of personal wealth and power. It is this patriarchy of the past couple thousand years that causes so much strife. If the world was female-centered and if the dominant spirituality was based on the feminine and the earth, then human beings would know much more joy, peace, and harmony.

  Mark Ryden

  Art, Couple, Believe

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• I do believe my personal spirituality, which spirituality itself I don't really equate to anything more than my personal connection with nature and the universe. With what is real, not a manmade contrivance. Finding a connection with those things through my music is something I've begun to take more seriously in order to understand why I feel that way.

  Mark McGwire

  Real, Believe, Music Is

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think my philosophy on music is sort of like the difference between religion and spirituality or religion and faith. There's a lot of bullshit in the music industry. It's really tough to get a leg up and navigate around your gender and stereotypes. You feel hopeless, [but] all of that disappears the minute that I start writing a song. Then I record something and have that magical feeling. You have to have the negative and the positive. Trying to own that and go to that place in yourself creatively is the most important thing.

  Haley Bonar

  Song, Philosophy, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think there's some pretty amazing language in the Bible. The thing that's always been interesting to me about religion is that compared to the more modern spirituality, the West Coast pseudo-Buddhist thing that people go for these days, actual Buddhism and Islam have been looking at these philosophical questions, at really hard questions, for a long time. There's a lot of stuff that philosophy doesn't talk about, and in the secular world, a lot of times, people don't talk about these ideas, and that was always really interesting for me.

  Win Butler

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Buddhism

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We all have our issues, no one gets away from facing their own issues, so that we can advance. Nothing is given lightly, and everything has a repercussion, as you're evolving. And, if anything, the sport itself is a great training, not only physically, but the mental discipline that it requires. The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids, and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor. It's amazing the spirituality that you get as a result of practicing and enjoying the sport. That's another plus.

  Djimon Hounsou

  Sports, Kids, Men

  Source: aalbc.com

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• The sexual act - separating that from love itself - is centered solely in the body, whereas spirituality is connected to the whole self. Whether it's a female, a taste, or a sound, all these beautiful things affect our self. We are the perceivers of beauty, and that's why sex doesn't quite go far enough. You can go much further with the spiritual.

  Cat Stevens

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Female

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always work out first thing in the morning, because if I don't, it won't get done. To me, it really comes down to my priorities. Because those are the things that are important to me: my spirituality, centering with the universe and God, and then getting my workout in and putting my health first. That makes everything else feel easy. Anything that comes up, I feel like I can conquer it throughout the day.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Workout, Morning, Work Out

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Now, a lot of people look for answers in spirituality or different texts, but for me this is life. This is what life is: the passage of time. It's not about how to pass the time, but about the acceptance of the time passing. I know people think of my work as spiritual, but really it's just that I consume time. That's all.

  Tehching Hsieh

  Spiritual, Acceptance, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Today, maturity is a word I associate with spirituality. It's one of those words that cause people to change their voice. When your voice gets higher because of what you're saying, there's a problem. To me, the conflict of life is part of the joy of life. There's got to be a recognition of the friction that exists. Maturity seems somehow about getting careful. I don't want to be careful.

  Sean Penn

  Maturity, People, Joy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I see too many people who jump into spirituality as a shelter to hide from reality. It doesn't work that way. The way it works is for the spirit behind you to follow you wherever you go, like a loyal soldier, and show you how to face up to adversity. If you can't face adversity, you will get locked into a new age perception that everything is fine when it isn't. That makes you vulnerable to being exploited by the person who comes along and says, "I am a psychic. I have studied with this guy or that guy, and I know what you should do".

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Adversity, Reality, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I used to teach psychology, and I don't do that anymore. I teach spirituality. And the way that I teach now is just by listening. I listen a lot.

  Wayne Dyer

  Psychology, Listening, Teach

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• There's a way in which all of these grazers at the spirituality buffet are performing a service, because you could argue that grazing leads to a kind of tolerance. People who incorporate teachings from a lot of different traditions into their own belief systems are going to be more tolerant than people who confine themselves within the strict boundaries of one particular religion. Does it contribute to our confusion? I don't know if it contributes to confusion so much as it is evidence of a certain kind of silliness and shallowness.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Teaching, Confusion, People

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• The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

  Minna Antrim

  Women, Lying, Hypocrite

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• Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.

  Karen Armstrong

  Religious, Compassion, Keys

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• The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.

  Karen Armstrong

  Years, Golden, Firsts

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• Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

  Francis Bacon

  Philosophy, Atheism, Small Amounts

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• I feel like some of my baby fat is going away, and that’s not just physically, it’s psychologically. I think that your body is in tune with your mind and your spirituality and your heart. If things are going better, I just think you look better.

  Drew Barrymore

  Baby, Heart, Thinking

  "Drew Barrymore: Sometimes I Look Like Shamu". Harper’s Bazaar, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2010.

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• The future ain't what it used to be.

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Future, Yankees

  Yogi Berra (2010). “What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

  William Blake

  Life, Men, Soul

  William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.75, Oxford University Press, USA

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• All religions have been made by men.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Atheist, Men, Religion

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• Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Art, Feelings, Literature

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Life, Motivational, Spiritual

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• Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Faith, Autumn, Shoes

  'Aurora Leigh' (1857) bk. 7, l. 821

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