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I accept the universe!

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

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 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 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 not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

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.

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!

Life is not at the mercy of matter.

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

Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

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

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.

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

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.

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

My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.

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