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Ascetic spirituality is a symptom of the very disease which it intends to cure.

As long as one feels that he is the doer, he cannot escape from the wheel of births.

As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion... Although just as in hostage negotiations, it's probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.

A theology without spirituality would be a sterile academic exercise.

Beyond being Jewish, I've always found myself to be very much in tune with spirituality.

Be radical! The reason you feel so miserable is because you put spirituality in a form. You boxed it, franchised it. You decided spirituality was a certain way but then you got stuck in the way.

Can you be still and look inside?If so, then you know the truth is always available, and always responsive.

Bring everything up to the surface. Accept your humanity, your animality. Whatsoever is there, accept it without any condemnation. Acceptance is transformation, because through acceptance awareness becomes possible.

Do you want to know how spirituality works? Breathe.

Developing spirituality is critical to our eternal progress. The fruits of eternal progress are manifest in joy, peace, love, hope, increased confidence in the Lord.

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

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.

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

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

Frenzied activity is no gauge of spirituality

Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.

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

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

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

God is in me or else is not at all.

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

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 accept the universe!

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.