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I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization.

I think there are strands in all of our lives that can be seen if we step back to recognize them. Coincidence is probably as close as I'll get to having spirituality. I do see patterns in my life sometimes, and I am thrilled by what I see. I don't think I'm going to have any further shot at it after death, and I don't think there's anybody upstairs orchestrating it for me, but I do think it happens. If there are miracles in my life, they are rooted in the fact of coincidence.

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

I thought that coming out was going to be the end of my religious life but actually it was the beginning. Because it only afterwards that I could be honest about who I was, what I wanted, how I understood spirituality.

It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history.

It is the inner life that is to spark the change in consciousness that will permit us to advance

I've always thought that we have to bring our spirituality into our everyday life such as even brushing our teeth with God.

It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are.

It's tragic that extremists co-opt the notion of God, and that hipsters and artists reject spirituality out of hand. I don't have a fixed idea of God. But I feel that it's us - the messed-up, the half-crazy, the burning, the questing - that need God, a lot more than the goody-two-shoes do.

Jesus and spirituality can easily become therapies that merely help us cope with life. They can serve us if we chose Him over other service providers. We even talk about "making Jesus my personal Lord and Savior," as if we could make Him anything!

I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church wanted me to structure it.

Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality.

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance.

Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

Life is not at the mercy of matter.

Life without balance can cost you your relationships. Life without balance can cost you your health. Life without balance can cost you your spirituality. Life without balance can cost you your wealth and your happiness. So find things to motivate you from all areas of life. Your success depends on it.

Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality.

Maybe It's not the biggest blockbuster film, but there will be some people that will see it, that will be debating it, that will be questioning their own sense of spirituality. If the film resonates, then I have succeeded in what I set out to do.

Mind can come. All this world is minds. But something is not concerned with the calculating, interpreting tendency of the mind.

Most of the myths that we carry about spirituality are because we have been dominated by this hyper-masculine trance.

Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.

My family inspires me, because they push me to be the best version of myself that I can be, and spirituality, because it brings more love into your life.

My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

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.

My spirituality has always been linked to my feminism. Feminism is about challenging unequal power structures.

One can become as intellectually arrogant about spirituality as about empirical science.

Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells.

None live so easily, so pleasantly, as those that live by faith.

Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India

One thing I noticed after being down in Mississippi for the shoot was that words like "God" and "Jesus" are used all the time, but they're not specifically referring to Jesus. It's sort of this accepted phraseology for love, or spirituality, or whatever it is you personally believe in.

Our lack of compassion stems from our inability to see deeply into the nature of things.

Only humans are judgmental, and because you are, you assume that I must be. Yet I am not, and that is the great truth you cannot accept.

On this basic - being right and doing right the whole world can unite.

Our lives as we lead them as passed on to others, whether in physical or mental forms, tingeing all future lives together. This should be enough for one who lives for truth and service to his fellow passengers on the way.

Religion is a bridge to the spiritual, but the spiritual lies beyond religion.

Our spirituality lies in wholeness.

Over time I just realised the world is a very complicated place, and there is not a single structured belief system that adequately and comprehensively describes every aspect of our existence. So that is my new approach to life and spirituality - I don't know anything, except on a very naive and subjective level.

People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.

Poetry absolves spirituality from the dividedness of religions and provides us with a sanctuary that excludes no one.

Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie.

Religion keeps society divided. Spirituality unites it.

Religion to me is when man gets ahold of spirituality: "My god is right, yours is wrong." Religion to me is the human condition. "If you're a Muslim, you can't be a Christian." That to me is religion.

Pay attention to the timeless core of your being.

Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.

Religion asks you to learn from the experience of others. Spirituality urges you to seek your own.

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

So often these days eating Indian food passes for spirituality. I don't meditate, I don't pray, but I eat two samosa's every day.

Souls are made of dawn-stuff and starshine.