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

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.

Our lack of compassion stems from our inability to see deeply into the nature of things.

On this basic - being right and doing right the whole world can unite.

Our spirituality lies in wholeness.

Over time I just realised the world is a very complicated place, and there is not a single structured belief system that adequately and comprehensively describes every aspect of our existence. So that is my new approach to life and spirituality - I don't know anything, except on a very naive and subjective level.

Our lives as we lead them as passed on to others, whether in physical or mental forms, tingeing all future lives together. This should be enough for one who lives for truth and service to his fellow passengers on the way.

Pay attention to the timeless core of your being.

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.

People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.

Poetry absolves spirituality from the dividedness of religions and provides us with a sanctuary that excludes no one.

Religion asks you to learn from the experience of others. Spirituality urges you to seek your own.

Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie.

Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.

Science has the capacity to show mankind the full development of the mental life. Spirituality has the capacity to show mankind the possibility and inevitability of the life beyond the mind, the supramental life.

Religion keeps society divided. Spirituality unites it.

Religion is a bridge to the spiritual, but the spiritual lies beyond religion.

Some people take drugs in a quest for spirituality.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

Souls are made of dawn-stuff and starshine.

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the thoughtful love of life. [Spirituality for the Skeptic]

Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed.

Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.

Religion to me is when man gets ahold of spirituality: "My god is right, yours is wrong." Religion to me is the human condition. "If you're a Muslim, you can't be a Christian." That to me is religion.

Spirituality is man's conscious longing for God. Spirituality tells us that God, who is unknowable today, will tomorrow become knowable and, the day after, will become totally known.

"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.

Spirituality and the secular world are not that far apart.

Spirituality is that attitude which puts life at the center, and defends and promotes life against all the mechanisms of death, desiccation, or stagnation.

Spirituality is a harmonious blend of outer silence and inner celebration; and also inner silence and outer celebration!

Spirituality is a kind of virgin wisdom, a knowing that comes prior to experience.

Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just

Spirituality has played an amazing part. Its been paramount in my life.

Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.

Spirituality is worthless if it's not practical. Music is my work. I am a musician.

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification.

Spirituality becomes a commodity to be bought and sold. So spirituality has to be disciplined by social justice.

Spirituality is a brave search for the truth about existence, fearlessly peering into the mysterious nature of life.

Spirituality is connected with practicality.

Spirituality is invisible. Never forget that. If you can see it, if it's dressed in funny robes, if it's up there to be looked at, if it's making a big performance of itself, it is not spirituality. It is ego.

Spirituality is that place where the utterly intimate and the vastly infinite meet.

Spirituality tells the seeker not to live in the hoary past, not to live in the remote future, but to live in the immediacy of today, in the eternal Now.

Spirituality, without the Holy Spirit, is demonic.

Spiritual life is contractual.

Spirituality practiced in the state of activity is incomparably superior to that practiced in a state of withdrawel.

Spirituality really lost its way when it became a stick to beat people with: ‘Do this or you’ll burn in hell.

Spirituality: the last refuge of a failed human. Just another way of distracting yourself from who you really are.

Spirituality is your original face; it is the discovery of your intrinsic nature.

Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and become a spirituality of transformation when we find meaning in it.

Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation.