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• By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.

  Thomas More

  Spiritual, Soul, Vision

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• Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.

  William Hazlitt

  Spiritual, Alive, Speak

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• The indicator of true knowledge is the ability to differentiate what uplifts us from what pulls us down.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Ability

  Twitter post from Feb 15, 2014

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• Every night, contemplate: What good did I do today? How can I do better tomorrow?

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Night, Today

  Twitter post from Mar 03, 2014

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• Surrender and living in the present are one and the same.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Surrender, Live In The Present

  Twitter post from Sep 06, 2015

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• To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Warrior, Needs

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  To see a world in a grain of sand
  And a heaven in a wild flower,
  Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
  And eternity in an hour.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Happiness, Peace

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 1

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• Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn.

  Denis Waitley

  Happy, Gratitude, Grateful

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• To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

  William Blake

  Nature, Flower, Eternity Of Life

  "Auguries of Innocence" l. 1 (ca. 1803)

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• We are not a body with a soul, but a soul with a body. When the body dies the soul returns to the source.

  Wayne Dyer

  Life, Spiritual, Soul

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• Why do people think the spiritual life demands withdrawal from the ordinary? Because they've been taught, at least by implication, that the physical is a block to the spiritual. When we assume that the spiritual, unlike the physical, is impervious to corrosion, then we assume that all things material are not to be honored. But the fact of the matter is, the material is the vehicle of the spiritual.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Spiritual, Block, Thinking

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• If we don’t have the Word of God as the foundation of what we believe, we will have a faulty footing—it will not stand against the elements that will come against us. God has designed both our physical and spiritual lives to be ordered by one key attribute upon which the fruit of the Spirit is based—that foundation is love.

  David Jeremiah

  Spiritual, Believe, Keys

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• If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Prayer, Giving

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart”, p.135, Discovery House

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• Spiritual life is absolute reality. Krishna is real but we have lost the ability to realize him.

  Bhakti Charu Swami

  Spiritual, Real, Life Is

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• Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition with other groups. It is this motive, in the main, which determines the subjects taught, the knowledge offered and the knowledge withheld, and also decides what mental habits the pupils are expected to acquire. Hardly anything is done to foster the inward growth of mind and spirit; in fact, those who have had the most education are very often atrophied in their mental and spiritual life.

  Bertrand Russell

  Spiritual, Religious, Educational

  "The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959".

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• To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual. Life in the spirit is a suffering way, filled with watching and laboring, burdened by weariness and trial, punctuated by heartbreak and conflict. It is a life utterly outpoured for the kingdom of God and lived in complete disregard for one's personal happiness.

  Watchman Nee

  Spiritual, Prayer, Suffering

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.421, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• A humble man who lives a spiritual life, when he reads the Holy Scriptures, while relate all things to himself and not to others.

  Mark the Evangelist

  Inspirational, Christian, Spiritual

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• Physical life is characterized by defensiveness, whereas spiritual life is just the opposite.

  Eben Alexander

  Spiritual, Opposites, Life Is

  Eben Alexander (2012). “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• Spiritual life doesn't make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Doe, Good Person

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• It is the basic principle of spiritual life that we learn the deepest things in unknown territory. Often it is when we feel most confused inwardly and are in the midst of our greatest difficulties that something new will open. We awaken most easily to the mystery of life through our weakest side. The areas of our greatest strength, where we are the most competent and clearest, tend to keep us away from the mystery.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Confused, Principles

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• Spiritual life is not dry, it is also exceuted happily, 'susukham'. The result of that is not just happiness, but bliss, spiritual joy.

  Bhakti Charu Swami

  Spiritual, Joy, Dry

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• I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness of something wider than materialism; in the capacity to live in a world that makes you unselfish because you are not overanxious about your own comic fallibilities; that gives you tranquility without complacency because you believe in something so much larger than yourself.

  Hugh Walpole

  Life, Happiness, Spiritual

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• Spirituality and spiritual life give us the strength to love.

  Bell Hooks

  Love, Spiritual, Giving

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• In the spiritual life the easiest way to conquer ego is to offer gratitude to God for five minutes daily. If you cannot offer gratitude for five minutes, then utter it for one minute. Offer your gratitude to God. Then you will feel that inside you a sweet, fragrant and beautiful flower is growing. That is the flower of humility.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Gratitude

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• Love in fact is the spiritual life, and without it all the other exercises of the spirit, however lofty, are emptied of content and become mere illusions.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Spiritual, Exercise

  "The Wisdom of the Desert".

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