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Do you want to know how spirituality works? Breathe.

Enlightenment is a direct experience with reality.

Faith, spirituality, and obedience produce a prepared and self-reliant people.

Everyone has troubles. Finding yourself in the same boat with everyone else is the first sign of spirituality.

Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.

Everything's a business. Love, truth, beauty. Conversation is a business. Spirituality is not a business, so it's going to go against the grain of people who are trying to exploit other people.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Feminism catches fire when it draws upon its inherent spirituality. When it does not, it is just one more form of politics, and politics never fed our deepest hungers.

God experiences Life through each of us, and we experience Life thanks to God.

Frenzied activity is no gauge of spirituality

For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.

Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.

Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance.

God is in me or else is not at all.

...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures.

Grieve not because thou understand-not life's mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight.

He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

I accept the universe!

I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation.

I dabble in all kinds of spirituality. I studied Kabbalah for over ten years, and you know it's all basically the same.

Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught.

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.

I feel like spirituality definitely comes through in my music, but I don't make any specific efforts to make it that way.

If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.

I met somebody once who said, "I'm a lapsed-atheist" by what he meant was, "I don't believe in God but the older I get the more I realise there is a spirituality in everybody that has to be cherished and nourished." That made a lot of sense to me.

I'm interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.

I'm just into spirituality. I believe that in a previous life I used to be Shirley MacLaine.

I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

Hollywood is a place where if you abide by the rules and laws, you can get depressed. That's why faith and spirituality is a higher law.

I always have kind of underneath feeling of peace of mind that I get from just the basic tenants of spirituality.

I am as vast as God; there is nothing in the world O Miracle: that can shut me up in myself.

I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it.

I believe more in concrete spirituality rather than in a spirituality that is divided from the body and from nature.

I don't believe in God. Just try getting a plumber on the weekend.

If a pickpocket meets a Holy Man, he will see only His pockets.

If there is a time of judgment, instead of theological or institutional litmus tests, the only question asked about our life and spirituality will be "Did you love with abandonment?

I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more abstract and not aligned with any recognized religion. For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music. It cannot be manipulated, or politicized, and when it is, that becomes immediately obvious.

I have tried to integrate the spirituality into the training in a way that meets my need not to destroy the beauty of it through abstract philosophizing.

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.

in my opinion, the Divine is revealed to all men once at least in their lives.

I talk about a Christianity that is enlightened enough to separate spirituality from the rest of life. Not just church and state, but knowledge and church.

In reality there are no others, and -helping yourself you help everybody else.

In spirituality the Americans are very inferior to us. But their society is very superior to ours.

I tell you this: The purpose of life is not to please God. The purpose of life is to know, and to recreate, Who You Are.

I think being really connected to a higher power, of having a spirituality to me, has been really good for me and I pray all the time.

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

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.

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

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