Spiritual Nature Quotes - Page 2

• And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Running, Nature

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 12

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• When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.128, Harvard University Press

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• Most human beings are completely out of touch with their spiritual nature and with the inner dimensions that exist within themselves. They don't realize each person has a soul, an inner core of light and intelligence as vast as the ten thousand worlds, whose inner nature is emptiness, ecstasy and happiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Buddhism

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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  A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual

  Letter of 1950, as quoted in "The New York Times", March 29, 1972.

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• Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Nature

  Albert Camus (2012). “Caligula and Three Other Plays”, p.104, Vintage

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• The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Gratitude, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.403, Harvard University Press

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• All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Moral, All Things

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1081, Delphi Classics

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• A wee child toddling in a wonder world, I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan.

  Zitkala-Sa

  Inspirational, Life, Sweet

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• Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.

  John Muir

  Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

  John Muir (2001). “The Yosemite”, p.177, Library of Alexandria

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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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• Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

  John Burroughs

  Nature, Educational, Garden

  John Burroughs (1913). “The Writings of John Burroughs”

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• Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.

  William Blake

  Nature, Flower, Eternity Of Life

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

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• The development of our spiritual nature should concern us most. Spirituality is the highest acquisition of the soul, the divine in man; 'the supreme, crowning gift that makes him king of all created things.' It is the consciousness of victory over self and of communion with the infinite. It is spirituality alone which really gives one the best in life.

  David O. McKay

  Spiritual, Kings, Men

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• Nothing but the cross of Christ can so startle the spiritual nature from its torpor, as to make it an effectual counterpoise to the debasing and sensual tendencies of the race. Favored by temperament and education, individuals may measurably escape; but if the race is to triumph in the conflict between the flesh and the spirit, between the lower propensities and the higher nature, they must, as Constantine is said to have done, see the cross, and on it the motto, "In hoc signo vinces." By this sign we conquer.

  Mark Hopkins

  Spiritual, Race, Sensual

  MARK HOPKINS (1862). “BACCALAUREATE SERMONS, AND OCCASIONAL DISCOURSES”, p.189

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• I strive to express the spiritual nature of the universe.

  Richard Pousette-Dart

  Spiritual, Strive, Transcending

  Richard Pousette-Dart, Judith Higgins, Paul Kruty (1986). “Transcending Abstraction: Richard Pousette-Dart, Paintings 1939-1985”

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• One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.

  George MacDonald

  Spiritual, Passion, Selfishness

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.2664, Delphi Classics

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• If we want sincere harmony, peace and joy in our lives, we can have them, but we must be willing to do the work. We must make maintaining an awareness of our spiritual natures first in our lives. Our inner world is the architect of our external world. We don't lose faith in the goodness of life because we become angry and depressed. We become angry and depressed because we lose faith in the goodness of life.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Spiritual, Joy, World

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• There are many levels of life which we cannot see and know, yet which certainly exist. There is a larger world, vast enough to include immortality.... Our spiritual natures belong to this larger world ... If death is apparently an outward fact, immortality is an inner certainty.

  Manly Hall

  Spiritual, Dying, World

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• I think all of us are living in denial of our spiritual nature as we continue to participate in the material world even though we know we're destroying the planet we live on.

  Russell Brand

  Spiritual, Thinking, Denial

  "Russell Brand On Set Interview GET HIM TO THE GREEK – Read or Listen Here". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 15, 2010.

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• Monarchy can easily be "debunked," but watch the faces, mark well the debunkers. These are the men whose taproot in Eden has been cut: whom no rumour of the polyphony, the dance, can reach - men to whom pebbles laid in a row are more beautiful than an arch. Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes or film stars instead: For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

  C. S. Lewis

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Stars

  "Equality". The Spectator, Volume CLXXI, archive.spectator.co.uk. August 27, 1943.

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• ...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God. Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures no man ever got above, but they tower over us, and most in the moment when our interests tempt us to wound them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Wall, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.140, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The Bhagavad Gita deals essentially with the spiritual foundation of human existence. It is a call of action to meet the obligations and duties of life; yet keeping in view the spiritual nature and grander purpose of the universe.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Spiritual, Views, Foundation

  "A Tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and Wisdom Spanning Continents and Time about India and Her Culture". Book by Sushama Londhe, 2008.

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• The more I started going through my own things in life, my faith got put to the test, and I had to believe that God is real in my heart, my lord and savior Jesus Christ, and I can't run from that. I'll always put that in my music or it just wouldn't be right. People can take it or leave it, I really don't care, because it's for me to put it on records. And I will continue to put more of a spiritual nature in my music.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Running, Spiritual, Jesus

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I was looking for something within Judaism that had a spiritual nature and not just a religious nature. So my trainer at the time was the one who took me to the Kabbalah center on my 40th birthday. I was like, "Oh, this is so cool." I was just ready for it. I was ready for something different.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Spiritual, Religious, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.

  Wilkie Collins

  Spiritual, Light, Giving

  Wilkie Collins (1873). “The Woman in White: A Novel”, p.48

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