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n every culture, the sky and the religious impulse are intertwined. I lie back in an open field and ...

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Carl SaganPale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad...

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The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a c...

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The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far rem...

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When poor people get involved in a long conflict, such as a strike or a civil rights drive, and the ...

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The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not a...

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Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show yo...

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Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring f...

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The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one...

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Who is it who decides that one man should live and another should die? My life wasn't worth any more...

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

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Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilizatio...

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whoever approaches his goal dances

I think commercialism helps Christmas and I think that the more capitalism we can inject into the Ch...

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Its easier to feel a little more spiritual with a couple of bucks in your pocket.

To get rid of a spiritual problem, we need to pull it up by its spiritual root. To pull up roots, we...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

It seemed to him that life's true tragedy was to lift up one's voice among the living and be met wit...

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Leonardo believed his research had thepotential to convert millions to a more spiritual life. Last y...

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Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldv...

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Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demons...

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We needn't be saddened with the impossible weight of managing the entire biosphere, but we must meet...

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David SuzukiThe Legacy: An Elder's Vision for Our Sustainable Future

The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or ...

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If you pay attention to those aspects of God that demonstrate love, truth, beauty, intelligence, ord...

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Deepak ChopraWhy Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism

When the pain of being the same becomes greater than the pain of being different, you change.

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Deepak ChopraWhy Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism

He (God) is right and always has been, because in reality God is only love.

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Deepak ChopraWhy Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism

Commit yourself to the possibility that everything you see around you is far less real than God. You...

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Deepak ChopraWhy Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism

It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful action...

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We ogle plants and animals up close on television, the Internet and in the movies. We may not worshi...

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There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life p...

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First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my ma...

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

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Treading along in this dreamlike, illusory realm,Without looking for the traces I may have left;A cu...

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The subject dropped, and we sat on in the dusk that was rapidly deepening into night. The door into ...

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E. F. BensonThe Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and d...

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

Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean. Every...

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Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of cons...

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You realize your true identity as consciousness itself, rather than what consciousness has identifie...

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With stillness comes the benediction of Peace.

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the sp...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the mag...

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Eckhart TolleThe Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

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Eckhart TolleThe Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore...

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Then, O King! the God, so saying,Stood, to Pritha's Son displayingAll the splendour, wonder, dreadOf...

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It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live whi...

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Imagine that the universe is a great spinning engine. You want to stay near the core of the thing - ...

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The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any ...

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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

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Elizabeth GilbertEat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy

Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian id...

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There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is...

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Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe r...

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I have never felt the need to invent a world beyond this world, for this world has always seemed lar...

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It is labor that keeps the strong man strong. And spiritual labor, toil and burden-bearing, is what ...

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The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, which separates us from God and produces so many s...

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Man, when he is re-born, passes through the ages as he who is born; and the preceding state is alway...

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To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual l...

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This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death ...

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Erich Maria RemarqueAll Quiet on the Western Front

From the earth, from the air, sustaining forces pour into us--mostly from the earth. To no man does ...

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Three deep cravings of the self, three great expressions of man's restlessness, which only mystic tr...

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Evelyn UnderhillMysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness

My young sisters, we have such hope for you. We have such great expectations for you. Don't settle f...

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When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.

Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the ...

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While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard...

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

Life is not a fairground, but a school. -- Franz Bardon

The wind of God is always blowing... but you must hoist your sail.

Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less...

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Frederick BuechnerNow and Then: A Memoir of Vocation

A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equ...

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The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practi...

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When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to le...

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Mirror mirror on the wall, show the real me or naught at all.

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spirit...

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He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opp...

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Excellence encourages one about life generally it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

I would never speak about faith, but speak about the Lord himself - not theologically, as to the why...

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Seeing is not believing, it is only seeing,”George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin

Poverty is spiritual halitosis.

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

No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillionShine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall,...

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Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the bas...

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Gloria SteinemRevolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

Believe in yourselves as sons and daughters of God, men and women with unlimited potential to do goo...

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The things of God are understood by the Spirit of God. That Spirit is real. To those who have experi...

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Believe in God our Eternal Father, He who is greatest of all, who stands ever ready to help us and w...

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Do not despair. Do not give up. Look for the sunlight through the clouds.

Believe in the sacred word of God, the Holy Bible, with its treasury of inspiration and sacred truth...

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As you walk your various paths, walk with faith. Speak affirmatively and cultivate an attitude of co...

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No matter the circumstances, I encourage you to go forward with faith and prayer, calling on the Lor...

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She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code ...

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Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that some...

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Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.

Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering...

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This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the mea...

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In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta...

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They never opened the door which leads to the soul.

Liberation from ego is what we shramanas are seeking, O Exalted One. If I were your disciple, O Vene...

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