300 Quotes on Spiritual Ratings & Comments

The dream is not that you're going to sleep forever, but that you'll rise each day a little holier, a little kinder, a little closer to the heart of the world

Author: Clarissa Estes

Gratitude is the currency that keeps us rich in spirit.

Author: Sophia Greene

In the struggle between the heart and the mind, may we find harmony in the dance of our souls.

Author: Harper Sullivan

With faith as your compass, fear will never steer you off course.

Author: Rachel Scott

Life's magic is hidden in every sunrise, inviting us to embrace the unknown.

Author: Sophia Gray

Take a leap of faith and trust in your journey, for all paths lead to growth.

Author: Lily Brooks

In the calm of stillness, the whispers of the universe can be heard.

Author: Miranda Cruz

Though the path may be unknown, embrace the journey and trust the process.

Author: Maria Lopez

Even amidst chaos, find peace within.

Author: Maya Harper

We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.

Author: Clara Zetkin

When we learn new behaviors and break through to higher levels of consciousness and love, we can fulfill the deeper spiritual hunger within.

Author: Judith Wright

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

Author: Frank Wright

I just believe in my Indian, spiritual god and my music.

Author: Link Wray

Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.

Author: Edgar Winter

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.

Author: Oprah Winfrey

We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our daily activities.

Author: William Wilson

Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.

Author: William Wilson

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

Author: E. Wilson

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

Author: E. Wilson

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

Author: Marianne Williamson

What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.

Author: Ken Wilber

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

Author: George Whitefield

You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.

Author: Morris West

Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.

Author: Morris West

I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.

Author: Sela Ward

I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.

Author: Barbara Walters

I personally don't believe in aliens. But, I do believe that there is something out there that is accountable for all these mysterious things that are going on: I think it is a spiritual thing not a material thing.

Author: J. Walsh

The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'

Author: Neale Walsch

I think the new spirituality will be a spirituality that's not based on a particular dogma. And that steps away from the old spiritual paradigm that we have created on this planet, which comes from a thought that there is such a thing as being better.

Author: Neale Walsch

I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

Author: Neale Walsch

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.

Author: Henry Wallace

The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.

Author: Henry Wallace

On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism.

Author: Alfred Wallace

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Author: Swami Vivekananda

For the greater good, I thought I should be a spiritual leader for people for some reason.

Author: Johnny Vegas

God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.

Author: Evelyn Underhill

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

Author: Samuel Ullman

Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.

Author: Morihei Ueshiba

Many things there be in the scripture, which have a carnal fulfilling, even there where they be spoken or done; and yet have another spiritual signification, to be fulfilled long after in Christ and his kingdom, and yet never known till the thing be done.

Author: William Tyndale

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Author: Paul Twitchell

Our spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit.

Author: Paul Twitchell

I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers.

Author: Tina Turner

As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.

Author: Christy Turlington

A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.

Author: Christy Turlington

Yoga has reinforced and grounded my own spiritual beliefs.

Author: Christy Turlington

All four elements were happening in equal measure - the cuisine, the wine, the service, and the overall ambience. It taught me that dining could happen at a spiritual level.

Author: Charlie Trotter

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.

Author: Lionel Trilling

Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel.

Author: Rose Tremain

The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.

Author: Aiden Tozer

My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense.

Author: Polly Toynbee

When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.

Author: Uma Thurman

I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I'm busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been.

Author: John Templeton

Hence the spiritual weariness of the conscientious mother - you're always finding out just one more vital tidbit.

Author: Sonia Taitz

For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine.

Author: Emanuel Swedenborg

For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter.

Author: Emanuel Swedenborg

Moreover, no one is judged from the natural man, thus not so long as he lives in the natural world, for man is then in a natural body; but everyone is judged in the spiritual man, and therefore when he comes into the spiritual world, for man is then in a spiritual body.

Author: Emanuel Swedenborg

There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others that receive it less interiorly; the former are called celestial angels, and the latter spiritual angels.

Author: Emanuel Swedenborg

In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.

Author: Emanuel Swedenborg

Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles.

Author: David Suzuki

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.

Author: Janet Stuart

It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and second, civil liberty.

Author: Josiah Strong

I could not work with a girl who did not have a spiritual quality.

Author: Erich Stroheim

When the late Bishop was appointed, about thirty-two years ago, to diffuse the light of the Gospel through this extensive portion of His Majesty's dominions, it was even a greater spiritual, than a natural wilderness.

Author: John Strachan

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

Author: Harriet Stowe

It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.

Author: Joseph Story

There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.

Author: Adlai Stevenson

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

Author: Cat Stevens

On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.

Author: Edith Stein

A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight.

Author: Charles Stanley

I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.

Author: Rick Springfield

There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience!

Author: John Sousa

Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.

Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn

First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.

Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.

Author: Swami Sivananda

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.

Author: Swami Sivananda

Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

Author: Beverly Sills

Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.

Author: David Shipler

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

Author: Florence Shinn

I guess any time you believe in God you've got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual person. But I don't really know what that means.

Author: Jules Shear

I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.

Author: Ted Shawn

I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.

Author: Garry Shandling

I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.

Author: Andres Serrano

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Author: Lucius Seneca

I was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths.

Author: Steven Seagal

Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity.

Author: Campbell Scott

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Author: Albert Schweitzer

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

Author: Albert Schweitzer

So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day.

Author: Menachem Schneerson

Many years before I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation and I returned to that country six years later to find it fundamentally changed and in a state of upheaval, and in great spiritual and material need.

Author: Fritz Sauckel

When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.

Author: Carlos Santana

Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.

Author: Saint Sales

After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor.

Author: George Russell

I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'

Author: David Russell

That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction.

Author: David Russell

I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.

Author: Ja Rule

I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator.

Author: Galen Rowell

The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.

Author: Georges Rouault

That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.

Author: Mark Rothko

An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church.

Author: Leo Rosten

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

Author: Franklin Roosevelt

We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves.

Author: Smokey Robinson

The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we're all spiritual creatures.

Author: Smokey Robinson

Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness.

Author: Terry Riley

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

Author: Bridget Riley

If there is any one truth from the legacy of the Cayce readings, it would be that there is a spiritual dimension to humans, something beyond time and space.

Author: Henry Reed

It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage - our universal awareness.

Author: Henry Reed

That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.

Author: Herbert Read

I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers.

Author: Harold Ramis

The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.

Author: Salvatore Quasimodo

The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side.

Author: Peace Pilgrim

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

Author: M. Peck

I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.

Author: Mandy Patinkin

The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.

Author: Franz Papen

The spiritual always did exist, always will. It is eternal, it is changeless.

Author: Daniel Palmer

Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.

Author: Daniel Palmer

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

Author: Chuck Palahniuk

As far as spiritual influences in Christian music, I would say Crystal Lewis - a lot of her songs especially. The ministry she has through her songs has really hit me.

Author: Stacie Orrico

Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it?

Author: Albert Nock

I deal with this spiritual issue every day - either shooting or processing or sorting or discussing or having conversations - I'm in constant contact with it.

Author: Leonard Nimoy

My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregation and to the rabbi, who happens to be my wife's cousin and who I admire greatly. I talk to him regularly but I consider myself more spiritual than religious.

Author: Leonard Nimoy

Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.

Author: Nursultan Nazarbayev

We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.

Author: John Naisbitt

The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.

Author: Edvard Munch

The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.

Author: Lewis Mumford

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

Author: John Muir

Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.

Author: Alanis Morissette

At one point, I was just perceived as only being angry, but now I'm being perceived as angry, peaceful, and spiritual.

Author: Alanis Morissette

I like the Beatles. They're at the core of my musicality. And John Lennon's my spiritual father.

Author: Esai Morales

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Author: Claudio Monteverdi

Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever.

Author: Giovanni Mirandola

Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease.

Author: Keith Miller

What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.

Author: Keith Miller

A spiritual person is also in touch with his or her own reality, feelings and thoughts, and the reality of the people around him or her, not projecting on them.

Author: Keith Miller

Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that.

Author: Jonathan Miller

The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process.

Author: Arthur Middleton

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Author: Thomas Merton

The left-leaning thinking that dominates the movie business follows a common liberal instinct to deny the spiritual dimension to every problem, thereby profoundly compounding the difficulties.

Author: Michael Medved

This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.

Author: Michael Medved

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

Author: Vincent McNabb

A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.

Author: Walter Martin

However, the Bible is called the Word of God because the whole transcript is an inspired, faithful, and infallible record of what God determined essential for us to know about Himself, the cosmos in which we live, our spiritual allies and adversaries, and our fellow man.

Author: Walter Martin

I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual inheritance of music and really develop my abilities?

Author: Wynton Marsalis

There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.

Author: Ziggy Marley

In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual.

Author: Ziggy Marley

Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.

Author: Franz Marc

Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two.

Author: Franz Marc

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.

Author: Marilyn Manson

The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.

Author: Ella Maillart

Most analysts would agree that if all the undocumented immigrants in California were deported in one day, our state would experience a severe economic downturn. This does not even consider the many cultural and spiritual gifts these immigrants bring to our state and nation.

Author: Roger Mahony

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

Author: Ramana Maharshi

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

Author: Clare Luce

This is the front edge of the spiritual, psychological movement and is where the tools of psychology have finally come together to create a mass healing. I think spiritual psychology is the next wave.

Author: Kenny Loggins

I know that Julia has been given to me for my spiritual growth, and this moment is perfect for us both. I know that I love her, and I know she's my soul mate.

Author: Kenny Loggins

The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.

Author: Jonathan Lethem

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Author: Vladimir Lenin

The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.

Author: Karl Lehmann

I'm not ashamed of my spiritual beliefs, but I in no way incorporate them into this band.

Author: Amy Lee

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

Author: David Lawrence

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

Author: Christopher Lasch

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

Author: Christian Lange

Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.

Author: Christian Lange

Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.

Author: Hans Kung

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.

Author: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.

Author: Lenny Kravitz

I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity.

Author: David Knopfler

I suppose if I wanted to be the girl next door, I could have been. I think America is confused by someone who appears to be sexual and spiritual at the same time.

Author: Sally Kirkland

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Author: Martin King, Jr.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Author: Martin King, Jr.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

Author: Martin King, Jr.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

Author: Martin King, Jr.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Author: Martin King, Jr.

I always wanted to get married with just candles! I think candlelight is the most beautiful light there is and there's something very spiritual about it.

Author: Nicole Kidman

Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand.

Author: Aly Khan

Maybe I'm being philosophical and spiritual, but I believe that if you put negative energy out there that that is what will come back.

Author: Persis Khambatta

One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?

Author: Anish Kapoor

There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

Author: Franz Kafka

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

Author: Franz Kafka

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

Author: Franz Kafka

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

Author: Carl Jung

We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.

Author: Naomi Judd

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

Author: Joseph Joubert

You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.

Author: Star Jones

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

Author: E. Jones

I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.

Author: Joan Jett

Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.

Author: Eugene Ionesco

All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.

Author: Dean Inge

People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.

Author: Douglas Hurd

I'm a very spiritual person, and proud of my Mormon roots.

Author: Jon Huntsman, Jr.

When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth.

Author: William Hunt

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.

Author: Bell Hooks

The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.

Author: Ernest Holmes

Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.

Author: Hans Hofmann

Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!

Author: Lauryn Hill

Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.

Author: Matthew Henry

I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening.

Author: Mariel Hemingway

It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.

Author: Arthur Helps

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.

Author: Arthur Helps

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

Author: Ben Harper

That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.

Author: Ben Harper

I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time.

Author: Herbie Hancock

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

Author: Marilyn Hacker

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

Author: Walter Gropius

Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.

Author: Stanislav Grof

A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.

Author: Stanislav Grof

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

Author: Stanislav Grof

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.

Author: Germaine Greer

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

Author: Billy Graham

I'm not a religious person. I'm Catholic, so I consider myself more of a spiritual person. I believe in God.

Author: Tracey Gold

I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.

Author: Mel Gibson

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

Author: Shakti Gawain

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.

Author: Mary Garden

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

Author: Jerry Garcia

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

Author: Richard Gallienne

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Author: Margaret Fuller

I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives.

Author: David Friedman

A lot of the people in San Francisco think of themselves as healers - not just as people delivering this base service, but giving their clients spiritual help. It's almost like being an actor, playing a different part for each trick.

Author: James Franco

To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.

Author: Matthew Fox

Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.

Author: Maureen Forrester

I am and have always been a strong proponent of public education. But by the virtue of its very nature - publicly funded schools cannot offer the type of spiritual education that Catholic schools have long provided.

Author: Mark Foley

Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.

Author: Charles Fillmore

Pope John Paul II not only was a powerful spiritual leader for Catholics but also a world leader of extraordinary consequence during the last quarter-century.

Author: Mike Ferguson

They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.

Author: Louis Farrakhan

When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the idea unit.

Author: Jerry Falwell

The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.

Author: Arthur Erickson

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

Author: Arthur Erickson

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

Author: Ralph Emerson

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Author: Ralph Emerson

It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete and inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication.

Author: Herb Elliott

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

Author: Charles Eliot

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

Author: Dwight Eisenhower

The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.

Author: Charles Eastman

The red man divided mind into two parts, - the spiritual mind and the physical mind.

Author: Charles Eastman

More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.

Author: Charles Eastman

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

Author: John Dulles

We're nondenominational. I come from Northern Ireland, and we've had religious wars for years. I didn't want to create an illusion that my God is better than your God. So our show is a spiritual show, not a religious show.

Author: Roma Downey

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

Author: Annie Dillard

I have a spiritual advisor I call up, when I just feel lost. Lately, I've been talking to God. I developed this dialogue in rehab, this dialogue with God, and every day I talk to God.

Author: Andy Dick

Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.

Author: Indra Devi

We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts.

Author: Ruth Denis

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

Author: Margaret Deland

A lot has happened since Dr. King left us. He probably wouldn't recognize the landscape if he saw it, but I still believe he would still have the same spiritual faith and also faith in us as people - not only people in our nation, but people in the world.

Author: Morris Dees

When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us.

Author: Dorothy Day

Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.

Author: Christopher Dawson

The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.

Author: Christopher Dawson

Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.

Author: Robertson Davies

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.

Author: Robertson Davies

What I believe in touches many aspects of religious and spiritual thought. Mainly I'm influenced and inspired by the eastern yogi's aspect of mysticism, Which is, I think, the future.

Author: Dave Davies

Art is spiritual.

Author: John Cusack

Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche.

Author: George Crumb

The great mistake these people make is that they go to looking after the spiritual welfare of the Indians before securing their physical.

Author: George Crook

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

Author: Doug Coupland

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.

Author: Billy Corgan

Only a spiritual being has awareness.

Author: Chick Corea

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

Author: Calvin Coolidge

Mythical consciousness adapts and persists, crafting dreams from ashes and reawakening stories in the folds of time, guiding souls when shadows loom.

Author: Eleanor Avante

One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.

Author: Andrew Cohen

The word spiritual, not the word religious, is the key.

Author: Clarence Clemons

I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.

Author: Julian Clary

My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.

Author: John Clarke

I don't want to be daft and say I had some spiritual awakening or something, but I really did come of age in Los Angeles, where we recorded the album. I had my own little house and my own little circle and I really got to feel how the city ticks.

Author: Melanie Chisholm

Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness.

Author: Sri Chinmoy

It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.

Author: Lydia Child

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

Author: Gilbert Chesterton

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

Author: Teilhard Chardin

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

Author: Teilhard Chardin

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Author: Pierre Chardin

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

Author: William Channing

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.

Author: Oswald Chambers

I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church.

Author: Shaun Cassidy

My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.

Author: Ed Case

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'

Author: Jimmy Carter

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

Author: Alexis Carrel