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That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.

The art of spirituality is learning to be happy in any condition and in any circumstance. This is the art of love.

The best way to understand another person's religion is to listen to the story of what particular practices helped them to deepen and to embody their religion, especially its spirituality.

The compass represents spirituality, no end and no beginning....the ruler represents 'tangible evidence' ... a measurable event... both coming together shall represent a Human Being...the intersection of life and consciousness.

The greatest tragedy in the history of Christianity was neither the Crusades nor the Reformation nor the Inquisition, but rather the split that opened up between theology and spirituality at the end of the Middle Ages.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality.

The human soul is very much older than the human mind.

The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something.

The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.

The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.

The notebooks of Paul Brunton represent the acme of wisdom on the nature of human spirituality. Every serious student of this subject will profit enormously by becoming acquainted with Brunton's seminal work.

The more you recognize the immense good within you, the more you magnetize immense good around you.

The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.

There is a universal urge to rethink our spirituality in order to give us a new sense of security.

There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex.

There are many concepts of spirituality, among them, various notions of divinity developed in the Judaeo-Christian-Islamic religions. Within these the concepts vary greatly.

There is only one journey. Going inside yourself.

The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

The soul is timeless and nonlocal.

The spirituality of the earth is an invitation to initiation, to the death of what we have been and the birth of something new

There's no beauty that you could perceive or create if it were not already within you.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.

The truly good is he who is one with all those who are deemed bad.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.

The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.

The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.

Throw away sacredness and wisdom and people will be one hundred times happier.

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.

This mystical stream [contemplative prayer] is the Western bridge to Far Eastern spirituality.

Those who know the least obey the best.

Through the lens of spirituality, we see all the commandments of God as invitations to blessings.

Throw false spirituality away like a pair of old shoes.

True spirituality is to be aware that if we are interdependent with everything and everyone else, even our smallest, least significant thought, word and action have real consequences throughout the universe.

To struggle is difficult but to surrender is easy. Surrender is the beginning of devotion.

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

True spirituality consists in living moment to moment by the grace of Jesus Christ.

True spirituality is the acceptance of earth-life. A true seeker is he who accepts life, transforms life and perfects life so that the earth-life can become a conscious instrument of God.

Two attempts have been made in the world to found social life: the one was upon religion, and the other was upon social necessity. The one was founded upon spirituality, the other upon materialism; the one upon transcendentalism, the other upon realism.

Under the skin, intense fires burn.

Unselfish love for all people without exception is the most important point of convergence among all significant spiritualities and religions.

Unless you become alert and aware in life, unless you change the quality of your living, you will not die consciously. And only a conscious death can bring you to a conscious birth; and then a far more conscious life opens its doors.

We are all more or less ill till we find -Self-enquiry our Oneness with everyone else.