And God is always calling me to open myself to all kinds of people that I’ve never thought about before and also calling me on this inward spiritual journey.
I have to tell you that J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There’s a spiritual depth to his music. You can listen to it and it’s like meditation.
To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.
Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline.
Supremely, spiritual directors/mentors/pastors are persons who have a sense of being ‘established’ in God. Otherwise they are too dangerous to be allowed into the soul space of others.
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force – that thoughts rule the world.
My mom is very liberal. She has never been religious… spiritual but not religious.
In my 20s, I railed against anything ‘spiritual’; I thought it was all crap.
I took that time off – I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.
The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre.
I call myself a meditation teacher rather than a spiritual teacher.
Keeping the Sabbath day holy is much more than just physical rest. It involves spiritual renewal and worship.
The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.
In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It’s subliminal, spiritual.
We use the vocabulary of light to describe a spiritual experience.
My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.
We take what we think are the tools of spiritual transformation into our own hands and try to sculpt ourselves into robust Christlike specimens. But spiritual transformation is primarily the work of the Holy Spirit. He is the Master Sculptor.
A sincere seeker knows what his goal is: the highest Truth. He will not delay his journey. In spiritual life, we aspire for the highest Truth, for God, nothing else.
Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face.
My religious point of view is something I can’t talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my own spiritual beliefs.
Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of ‘spirituality’ or ‘mysticism’ to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued elsewhere that this is a problem – because millions of people have had experiences for which ‘spiritual’ and ‘mystical’ seem the only terms available.
Writing is a spiritual practice in that people that have no spiritual path can undertake it and, as they write, they begin to wake up to a larger connection. After a while, people tend to find that there is some muse that they are connecting to.
I have a strong belief in God… I find religion to be a very personal thing… I am also very spiritual.
If you think of feelings you have when you are awed by something – for example, knowing that elements in your body trace to exploded stars – I call that a spiritual reaction, speaking of awe and majesty, where words fail you.
From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.
One has a sort of spiritual obligation to go back to the source material of the literature, to make contact with one of the seminal plays of the modern theater.
I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music – should there be any left – would go mad with joy.
The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
Harry Potter represents a much larger wave of cultural revolution that we’re all immersed in, and I believe it’s a spiritual revolution as well – a negative spiritual revolution.
There is no ‘ultimate goal of therapy.’ Thinking there is some ultimate or universal goal of therapy is one of the most fundamental errors of our field. To me, that concept is rather arrogant, as if therapists were some kind of spiritual experts who knew what human beings are supposed to be like.
I solemnly declare that this spiritual kingdom of faith will move forward with or without each of us individually. No unhallowed hand can stay the growth of the Church nor prevent fulfillment of its mission. Any of us can be left behind, drawn away by the seductive voices of secularism and materialism.
When I’m near a native community, I visit it. If I hear there’s a spiritual person in the neighborhood, I’ll seek them out.
Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
I think I can be spiritual, and I can feel that I want to live well, I want to do things that I’m proud of, and I think that’s important. Now, do I need a church to tell me that? Actually, no, I don’t.
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
But the first differentiation of its reflection in the manifested World is purely Spiritual, and the Beings generated in it are not endowed with a consciousness that has any relation to the one we conceive of.
Being transgender is more than just medical books and everything, procedures. It’s something spiritual in which you’re finding yourself and really discovering who you are and learning to love yourself.
If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.
This much I have learned: human beings come with very different sets of wiring, different interests, different temperaments, different learning styles, different gifts, different temptations. These differences are tremendously important in the spiritual formation of human beings.
As God commands us men to teach your wife, to teach your children – to be the spiritual leader of your family – you’re acting as a priest. Now, unfortunately, unfortunately, in too many Christian homes, the role of the priest is assumed by the wife.
I am spiritual but not massively religious, and I don’t go to church. If someone said ‘What religion are you?’ I would say ‘Christian.’ But I don’t practice.
It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
For a long time, I was shy about recording gospel music, because I didn’t necessarily want to show the inside of my soul, Milsap revealed. But now, the spiritual side of me is really shining through.
I just believe in my Indian, spiritual god and my music.
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.
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
Wherever and whenever I sing, if there is only one spiritual on a program, people will talk about two things afterward, and one of them will be the spiritual. What I bring to this is the best of my classical training – not all of it. I apply what is appropriate.
I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose – although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.
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.
As far as I’m concerned, I’m now in the business of making spiritual records and using my voice for that purpose. I’m not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation of Sinead O’Connor.
Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.
When I get intimate with my paintings, it’s a real good spiritual thing to get off my chest. Same as playing the instruments is a great release.
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
I would support a mass civil disobedience where we take medicine to tell the state that they have absolutely no right to control our consciousness and to define our spiritual practice.
Almost every morning I write in my journal. I’ve been keeping it for a long time – I’ve filled more than 50 books. I write about what’s going on in my personal and spiritual life or what’s going on at work. It helps me keep things in perspective, especially when things get crazy or I get stressed or we have obstacles.
