Spiritual Community Quotes

• I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Kwanzaa, True Joy, Privilege And Responsibility

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• A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Leadership, Community Living, Preparation

  Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.2145, Delphi Classics

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• We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life; it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.

  Mitsugi Saotome

  Change, Encouragement, Inspirational Love

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• There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

  M. Scott Peck

  Inspirational, Peace, Community

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• We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.

  Mitsugi Saotome

  Real Joy, Challenges, Growth

  Mitsugi Saotome (1993). “Aikido and the Harmony of Nature”, p.340, Shambhala Publications

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• What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• If you're lucky you find your way into a spiritual community and you start to find the great teachers of all the ages who said the same thing. There's only love, you're made of love.

  Anne Lamott

  Spiritual, Teacher, Love You

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• As believers, we are running the race together. We are connected by our faith in God and our love for the world that He sent Christ to save. So if one gets weak, we carry them. We aren't called to stop moving forward. We aren't called to criticize each other. No, we are called to encourage each other, to reach down and carry each other, and to keep moving.

  Jesse Duplantis

  Running, Moving, Race

  FaceBook post by Jesse Duplantis Ministries from May 24, 2015

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• We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Race, Community

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• Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath is not community. A multinational corporation is neither a human nor a community, and in the sweatshops, defiled agribusiness fields, genetic mutation labs, ecological dead zones, the inhumanity is showing. Without genuine spiritual community, life becomes a struggle so lonely and grim that even Hillary Clinton has admitted "it takes a village".

  David James Duncan

  Spiritual, Lonely, Couple

  David James Duncan (2007). “God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right”, p.99, Triad Institute, Inc.

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• Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.

  Dorothy Height

  Inspiring, Strong, Helping Others

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• At their best, religious and spiritual communities help us discover this pure and naked spiritual encounter. At their worst, they simply make us more ashamed, pressuring us to cover up more, pushing us to further enhance our image with the best designer labels and latest spiritual fads, weighing us down with layer upon layer of heavy, uncomfortable, pretentious, well-starched religiosity.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Spiritual, Religious, Community

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• A lot of times in spiritual communities, detachment is considered to be an expression of being spiritually evolved when often, we have want and fear around being in relationship with each other.

  Tara Brach

  Spiritual, Expression, Community

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• When spiritual friends share their stories, the others listen without working. They rest. There’s nothing to fix, nothing to improve. A spiritual community feels undisturbed quiet as they listen, certainly burdened . . . but still resting in the knowledge that the life within, the passion for holiness, is indestructible. It needs only to be nourished and released.

  Larry Crabb

  Spiritual, Passion, Community

  Larry Crabb (2007). “Becoming a True Spiritual Community: A Profound Vision of What the Church Can Be”, p.94, Thomas Nelson

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• Buddhas continue to live on through their teachings as dharma bodies. Their spirits become manifest in the sangha (spiritual community) where their teachings are passed on.

  Shinjo Ito

  Spiritual, Teaching, Community

  Shinjō Itō (2009). “Shinjo: Reflections”, p.133

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• Religious communities have historically been designed to counteract the forces of alienation. That's why so many successful social movements have relied upon the strength of spiritual communities and a large base of their organizing has been through them.

  Tim DeChristopher

  Spiritual, Religious, Successful

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I entered a spiritual community when I was 20, which I was in for 11 year, with very strict meditative practices, with an Eastern teacher. It was very much like a religious order.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Religious

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• We have a spiritual community but everyone lives where they want to. I recommend certain areas to live because of their power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Community

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