Spirituality Quotes - Page 34

• My notion of spirituality was different than it is now, but even if I'd been the most fundamentalist of believers, I would have assumed that God had better things to do than arbitrarily smite me with shaking palsy.

  Michael J. Fox

  Different, Notion, Things To Do

  Michael J. Fox (2011). “Lucky Man: A Memoir”, p.179, Random House

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• Because most of the girls were still in mourning and all of them had lost their textbooks, even pencils and pens, Shaukat Ali began the first classes by reading to them from poetry and religious texts. "Reading, literature, and spirituality are good for the soul," he told them. "So we will start with these studies.

  Greg Mortenson

  Girl, Religious, Reading

  Greg Mortenson (2009). “Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan”, p.149, Penguin

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• The idea that each of us can be directly spiritual is radical. Most religions are based not on teaching adherents to be directly spiritual, but in persuading them to trust in the intercession of ministers or priests. The problem with this approach is that we cannot gain access to spirituality except through the medium of a fallible human being. If we want to see Tao, we need only open our eyes and trust what we see.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Spiritual, Teaching, Eye

  Ming-Dao Deng (2013). “Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of one’s place in the cosmos, a relationship to that which extends beyond oneself. . . . Does scientific explanation of the world diminish its spiritual beauty? I think not. Science and spirituality are complementary, not conflicting; additive, not detractive. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades. (158-159)

  Michael Shermer

  Spiritual, Thinking, Doe

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• The highest goal of spirituality is Self-realization, but what does that mean? It means to feel your Self as a living reality in this moment, and there is always only this moment. (10)

  Gay Hendricks

  Mean, Reality, Self

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• One of the greatest difficulties the left faces in reaching out to masses of people in America is its profound disrespect of spirituality and religious life…people on the left need to acknowledge – we need to grapple with – the question of religion.

  Bell Hooks

  Religious, America, People

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• By observing natural scientific discoveries through a perception deepened by meditation, we can develop a new awareness of reality. This awareness could become the bedrock of a spirituality that is not based on the dogmas of a given religion, but on insights into a higher and deeper meaning. I am referring to the ability to recognize, to read, and to understand the firsthand revelations.

  Albert Hofmann

  Reality, Discovery, Meditation

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• There is a wellspring of life within you where you can go for cleansing and transformation.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Cleansing, Transformation

  "The Way Of The Wizard: 20 Lessons for Living a Magical Life". Book by Deepak Chopra, 1995.

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• I think that every living person, every person who is awake to the functioning principles within his reality has a moment where he stops blaming the problems in the world on group thinking, on humanity and authority, and starts to face himself. I hate this more than anything. This is the hardest principle within christian spirituality for me to deal with. The problem is not out there, the problem is the needy beast of a thing living in my chest.

  Donald Miller

  Christian, Hate, Reality

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• ...churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply.

  Stephen Covey

  Believe, People, Church

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance. Made for relationship, we insist on our own way. Made for beauty, we are satisfied with sentiment. But new creation has already begun. The sun has begun to rise. Christians are called to leave behind, in the tomb of Jesus Christ, all that belongs to the brokenness and incompleteness of the present world ... That, quite simply, is what it means to be Christian: to follow Jesus Christ into the new world, God's new world, which he has thrown open before us.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Jesus, Mean

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• Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

  George Lucas

  Change, War, Growth

  The Empire Strikes Back (motion picture) (1980).

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• Worrying doesn't make any difference, but working does and spirituality gives one the strength to work

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Differences, Giving, Worry

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• I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

  M. Scott Peck

  Love, Relationship, Spiritual

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• I didn't have to go all the way to India for spiritual enlightenment. The blue-collar spirituality of everyday life was right in front of me, it was in every nook and cranny if I wanted to seek it, but I had chosen to ignore it.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Spiritual, Blue, Everyday

  Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman (2004). “Scar Tissue”, p.278, Hachette UK

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• Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

  Henri Nouwen

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Spiritual

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming”, p.85, Image

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• Spiritual emptiness is a universal disease.

  Rick Warren

  God, Spiritual, Soul

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• Spirituality emerged as a fundamental guidepost in Wholeheartedness. Not religiosity but the deeply held belief that we are inextricably connected to one another by a force greater than ourselves--a force grounded in love and compassion. For some of us that's God, for others it's nature, art, or even human soulfulness. I believe that owning our worthiness is the act of acknowledging that we are sacred. Perhaps embracing vulnerability and overcoming numbing is ultimately about the care and feeding of our spirits.

  Brené Brown

  Art, Believe, Compassion

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• My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.

  Muhammad Ali

  Self, Wealth, Self Love

  Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali (2013). “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.

  Dan Brown

  Gaps, Demon, Has Beens

  Dan Brown (2009). “Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.

  Louis Nizer

  Positive, Insightful, Spiritual Healing

  Louis Nizer (1978). “Reflections Without Mirrors: An Autobiography of the Mind”, Doubleday Books

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• The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.

  Thomas Dreier

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

  James Oppenheim

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  James Oppenheim (1916). “War and Laughter”

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• We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a
  consequence of what we have become.

  David Hawkins

  Motivational, Positive, Spiritual

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• It's just such a freeing thing to set these great challenges for yourself, to travel, to learn more about the world, to just go out there and get crazy and get free and get strong.

  Angelina Jolie

  Inspirational, Strong, Business

  "Angelina Jolie Misses Being Lara" By Paul Davidson, www.ign.com. June 5, 2001.

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