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The mechanism by which spirituality becomes passionate is metaphor. An ineffable God requires metaph...

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George LakoffPhilosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought

If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want ...

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Yin and yang are the left and right hands of the Infinite — creator, destroyer, and reproducer of ev...

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I sailed up to the cold stars but they were cold no longer, and I grew bigger and bigger until I was...

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The world the Citadel is building has no place in it for sorcery or prophecy or glass candles, much ...

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Satan is too hard a master. He would never command as did the Other with divine simplicity: 'Do like...

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Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways...

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Gloria SteinemRevolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.

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Gloria SteinemRevolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

Like the spider spinning its web, we create much of the outer world from within ourselves. The unive...

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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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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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I have said so many times to many people on the spiritual path, 'You must be strong in yourself to h...

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She wasn’t religious. She didn’t believe in heaven or hell, only in ghosts, Ouija boards, tables whi...

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If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual i...

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Grant MorrisonSupergods: What Masked Vigilantes

In the end idealism annoyed Bouvard. ‘I don’t want any more of it: the famous cogito is a bore. The ...

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The unqualified affirmation of the univeral will of salvation has radically changed the way of conce...

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Gustavo GutiérrezA Theology of Liberation: History

What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.

God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be pr...

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Gazing around, looking up at the lofty pinnacles above, which seemed to pierce the sky, looking down...

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Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, ...

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For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the wi...

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I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our sol...

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I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge I...

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Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

As the sun went down, I saw a solitary boatman disporting on the smooth lake. The falling dews seeme...

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The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going and going in that way t...

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He had in his Bronx apartment a lodger less learned than himself, and much fiercer in piety. One day...

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Herman WoukThis is My God: A Guidebook to Judaism

...your tranquil yes to the changing over into the formless void of the unlimited.

Never again!" commanded his will. "Again! Tomorrow!" begged his heart.

How deaf and stupid I have been, he thought, walking on quickly. When anyone reads anything which he...

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For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribe...

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Hermann HesseBäume. Betrachtungen und Gedichte

Seeking nothing, emulating nothing, breathing gently, he moved in an atmosphere of imperishable calm...

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For there is not a single human being, not even the primitive Negro, not even the idiot, who is so c...

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And many years later, as an adult student of history, Knecht was to perceive more distinctly that hi...

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I suspect you're thinking of Pascal,' Finkler said, finally.'Only he said the opposite. He said you ...

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Never during its pilgrimage is the human spirit completely adrift and alone. From start to finish it...

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Huston SmithThe World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions

The disciples of Jesus “found themselves thinking that if divine goodness were to manifest itself in...

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Huston SmithThe World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions

The only power that can effect transformations of the order (of Jesus) is love. It remained for the ...

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Huston SmithThe World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions

I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necess...

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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

He said that knowledge was of little use without wisdom, and that there was no wisdom without spirit...

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Oh Woman, come before us, before our eyes longing for beauty, and tired of the ugliness of civilizat...

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I never went to bed in my life and I never ate a meal in my life without saying a prayer. I know my ...

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One afternoon as I just gazed at the topmost branches of those immensely tall trees I began to notic...

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If it happens that the human race doesn't make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be ...

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James Howard KunstlerThe Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century

And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and str...

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James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

I don't have any idea of who or what God is. But I do believe in some great spiritual power. I feel ...

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It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.

The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, ...

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Sirs, if you are listening and are not acting, it is like a man who is always tilling but never sowi...

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So if you understand that where there is a search for pleasure there must be pain, live that way if ...

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So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colo...

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To understand ourselves needs no authority either of yesterday or of a thousand years because we are...

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In order to observe the movement of your own mind and heart, of your whole being, you must have a fr...

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It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world w...

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We need a tremendous amount of energy and we dissipate it through fear but when there is this energy...

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But there's a sacredness which is not of thought, nor of a feeling resuscitated by thought. It is no...

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Energy is what I believe all of us are. We're just conscious awareness dancing for itself for no oth...

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God answers all our prayers. Sometimes the answer is yes. Sometimes the answer is no. Sometimes the ...

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O my Mansoul, I have lived, I have died, I live, and I will die no more for thee. I live that thou m...

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I am moonlighting for the Buddha.

I am not my opinion of myself, I am not anything I can describe to me. I am only a part of a large s...

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John C. LillyThe Center of the Cyclone: Looking into Inner Space

Here on earth God's work must surely be our own.

I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it.It's just getting out of one car, and into ano...

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I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal...

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Celestial light, shine inward...that I may see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight

All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent

It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviola...

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And now they were weary and frightened because they had gone against a system they did not understan...

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It is not good for man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species. A world from...

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In all your course, walk with God and follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless child, taking hold o...

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Jonathan Edwards (theologian)Jonathan Edwards' Resolutions: And Advice to Young Converts

Material things have closed boundaries; they are not accessible, cannot be penetrated, by things out...

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Josef PieperHappiness and Contemplation

The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through...

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Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented ...

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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.

Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.

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Joseph CampbellA Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to th...

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Joseph CampbellA Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

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Joseph CampbellA Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to th...

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Joseph CampbellA Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the...

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Joseph CampbellA Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

Awe is what moves us forward.

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Joseph CampbellA Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a c...

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We don’t ask any people to throw away any good they have got; we only ask them to come and get more....

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The sea is only the embodiment of asupernatural and wonderful existence.It is nothing but love and e...

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And why are we supposed to be serious about God? Did God show up and crack the whip? “You there, Ann...

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Julia CameronGod is No Laughing Matter

Far from making me feel different and special, my [spiritual] experiences made me feel the same, ord...

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Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness

Those who speak in spiritual terms routinely refer to God as creator but seldom see "creator" as the...

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But, the true reason for the success of such new expositions [translated Eastern religious texts] is...

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We need myths that will help us to identify with all our fellow-beings, not simply with those who be...

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Unless there is some kind of spiritual revolution that can keep abreast of our technological genius,...

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Karen ArmstrongThe Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions

The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid ...

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Karen ArmstrongThe Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness

If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sy...

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Karen ArmstrongThe Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness

Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosi...

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Karen ArmstrongThe Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness

Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, tea...

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Karl RahnerThe Need and the Blessing of Prayer