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• When we learn to deal directly with our complaints and difficulties, romanticized ideas about the spiritual path are no longer meaningful. We see that what is important is to take responsibility for ourselves, and to always be aware of our thoughts, feelings, and actions.

  Tarthang Tulku

  Meaningful, Responsibility, Ideas

  Tarthang Tulku (1977). “Gesture of Balance: A Guide to Awareness, Self-healing, and Meditation”, Dharma Pub

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• Take out the kernel of spiritual truth with any faith, and what is left is dogma.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Dogma, Kernel, Left

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• What is man? ... What a strange union of matter and mind! A machine for converting material into spiritual force.

  Benjamin Peirce

  Men, Mind, Machines

  "The Early Years of the Saturday Club, 1855-1870". Book by Edward Waldo Emerson, 1918.

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• We encounter the grinding wheels that sharpen our mental blades many places in life. Adversity, school, parents, spiritual guides, books, experience are all sharpening teachers. As we grow older, to stay sharp we must find new grindstones to whet and sharpen our potential and keep us at our brightest, most penetrating best.

  Rob Kall

  Teacher, Book, School

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• The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.

  Alan Hirsch

  Culture, Complacency, Problem

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.42, Baker Books

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• We are living in a period of commerical globalization. What we really need is spiritual globalization.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Needs, Ethics, Globalization

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• Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Mean, Truth Is

  Charles Baudelaire (1919). “Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry”

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• What is the spiritual purpose of the arts? It is to learn structure. Once an artist creates a true structure, then divine love can pour into it and make it a living thing of beauty.

  Harold Klemp

  Art, Purpose, Divine

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• Modern art did not just happen. It came as a result of a deep reversal of spiritual values in the Age of Reason, a movement that in the course of a little more than two centuries changed the world.

  Hans Rookmaaker

  Art, Two, Age

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• When we enter the spiritual realm we are always focused on those big, life altering miracles. Here is a truth that isn’t sold to us. Change is a long, gradual process. Yes, you can make things happen immediately, but quite often, amazing things are happening that you can’t see.

  Ruben Papian

  Yes You Can, Long, Miracle

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• The final bridge to cross is to let go of the mind-created 'spiritual' self. Burn that bridge behind you. Stay empty of self-image and cease looking back. Remain in the neutrality of being. That's it!

  Mooji

  Letting Go, Self, Bridges

  Mooji (2017). “White Fire: Spiritual Insights and Teachings of Advaita Zen Master Mooji”, p.382, New Harbinger Publications

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• I wish more of us could understand that our increasing isolation, no matter how much it seems to express pride and self-affirmation, is not the answer to our problems. Rather, the answer is a revival of our ancient commitment to God, who rules over all the peoples of the world and exalts no one over any other, and to the moral and spiritual values which were once legendary in America. We must reach out our hand in friendship both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

  Arthur Ashe

  Commitment, Pride, America

  "Days of Grace: A Memoir". Book by Arnold Rampersad and Arthur Ashe, p. 186, 1993.

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• I'd say that, in addition to actually taking my brother and sister and I camping and hiking and river rafting all our lives and introducing us to the power of natural landscapes, his [my father's] biggest impact on my thinking has been to always argue that the "spiritual case for Nature" was not going to outweigh the needs of 7 billion people and to insist that law, science and economics were the critical frameworks through which we had to defend the value of nature.

  Edward Norton

  Brother, Father, Thinking

  "Dialogues on the Environment: Q&A With Edward Norton". Interview with Mark Tercek, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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• In the spiritual life, as in all organic processes, everyone has their optimum and it is just as harmful to go beyond it as not to attain it.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Process, Spiritual Life, Optimum

  "The Divine Milieu". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1960.

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• the restricting of intellectual and spiritual needs to the mania of progress

  Robert Musil

  Intellectual, Progress, Needs

  Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.23, University of Chicago Press

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• I think there is a spiritual scent in us which feels mischief coming, as they say birds scent storms.

  James Anthony Froude

  Thinking, Bird, Storm

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.59

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• Freedom of mind and mind itself have been most fully developed in regions where trade developed at the same time. In all ages, without exception, every intense production of art, ideas, and spiritual values has occurred in some locality where a remarkable degree of economic activity was also manifest.

  Paul Valery

  Art, Ideas, Mind

  "Reflections on the World Today" by Paul Valery, (pp. 167-168), 1931.

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• When there are no conflicts In you, between material wealth and spiritual life, you have found yourself.

  Ruben Papian

  Conflict, Wealth, Found

  FaceBook post by Ruben Papian from Feb 02, 2016

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• There is a time when every person who encounters Jesus, who believes Jesus is the Son of God, decides that they will spend their life following Him. Some people, like the Apostle Paul, make this decision the minute they meet Him, the minute they become a Christian. Others, like the Apostle Peter, endure years of half-hearted commitment and spiritual confusion before leaping in with all their passion. Still others may enjoy some benefits of God's love and grace without entering into the true joy of a marriage with their maker.

  Donald Miller

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.60, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I am never very forward in offering spiritual consolation to any one in distress or disease. I believe that such resources, to be of any service, must be self-evolved in the first instance. I am something of the Quaker's mind in this, and am inclined to wait for the spirit.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Believe, Offering, Self

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.284

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• I don't know what makes fashion cruel, except I feel nothing but spiritual depletion around it. There's nothing enriching, spiritually.

  Hilton Als

  Fashion, Feels, Enriching

  "Hilton Als, Constructing Genre". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• I think that the environmental movement is wisely moving away from a largely emotion-based argument for the spiritual or intrinsic value of Nature with a capital "N" and evolving toward a very hard-nosed case for the economic value of natural capital, ecosystem services, biodiversity, etc.

  Edward Norton

  Moving, Thinking, Ecosystems

  "Dialogues on the Environment: Q&A With Edward Norton". Interview with Mark Tercek, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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• When I write my music I see all the rivers flowing... sensual, spiritual, religious, animal, intellectual.

  Laura Nyro

  Religious, Writing, Animal

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• In the Middle Ages, the troubadour poets invented the concept of courtly love--a fantasy love, a noble passion, which was also extra-marital and thus inevitably thwarted, illicit, adulterous. One of the medieval terms for it was amour honestus (honest love). I've always wondered why this passionate ideal--masochistic, spiritual-travelled with such wildfire throughout Europe. My poem, a ghazal, takes up the subject.

  Edward Hirsch

  Passion, Europe, Age

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