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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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

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.

Life is not at the mercy of matter.

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!

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.