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• In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make, sustain and are friends.

  James Ishmael Ford

  Friendship, Spiritual, Relate

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• God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

  William Ellery Channing

  God, Spiritual, Reading

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.22

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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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• 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 wildflower.

  William Blake

  Nature, Flower, Eternity Of Life

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

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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 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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• 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 can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.

  Sam Harris

  Spiritual, Teacher, Art

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• A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal.

  Andrew Cohen

  Spiritual, Indulge In, Differences

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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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• The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's life; and until he has realized it, he is not a complete human being, has not entered into possession of all his powers.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Spiritual, Men, Careers

  Evelyn Underhill (1914). “Practical Mysticism: A Little Book for Normal People”

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• A spiritual life means: It is now or never.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Spiritual, Mean, Carpe Diem

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• Patient and regular practice is the whole secret of spiritual realization. Do not be in a hurry in spiritual life. Do your utmost, and leave the rest to God.

  Sivananda

  Life, Spiritual, Practice

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• Reading is at the threshold of spiritual life; it can introduce us to it; it does not constitute it. There are, however, certain cases, certain pathological cases, so to speak, of spiritual depression in which reading can become a sort of curative discipline and assume the task, through repeated stimulation, of continuously reintroducing a lazy mind into the life of the spirit.

  Marcel Proust

  Spiritual, Reading, Discipline

  "On Reading".

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• The essence of spiritual life is simply to use our free will properly.

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Essence, Use

  Radhanath Swami (2014). “Nectar Stream”, p.57, Jaico Publishing House

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• It used to be that Christian institutions and systems of dogma sustained the spiritual life of Christians. Increasingly, spirituality itself is what sustains everything else. Alan Jones is a pioneer in reimagining a Christian faith that emerges from authentic spirituality. His work stimulates and encourages me deeply

  Brian D. McLaren

  Christian, Spiritual, Pioneers

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• Religious people love to hide behind religion. They love the rules of religion more than they love Jesus. With practice, Condemners let rules become more important than the spiritual life.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Spiritual, Religious, Jesus

  Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.36, Harper Collins

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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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• A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

  Penelope Fitzgerald

  Book, Blood, Purpose

  Penelope Fitzgerald (1978). “The Bookshop”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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