Spiritual Quotes - Page 24

• It is only by entering the transcendental, the supernatural, the authentically spiritual order that man rises above the social. Until then, whatever he may do, the social is transcendent in relation to him.

  Simone Weil

  Men, Order, Entering

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.166, Psychology Press

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• The individual needs the return to spiritual values, for he can survive in the present human situation only by reaffirming that man is not just a biological and psychological being but also a spiritual being, that is creature, and existing for the purposes of his Creator and subject to Him.

  Peter Drucker

  Men, Needs, Purpose

  "Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1959.

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• It is good to laugh. Laughter is spiritual relaxation.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Laughter, Laughing, Relaxation

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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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• 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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• 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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• You must continue to go back to the beginning, to the foundation, and question the foundation. Even once you‘ve reached Samadhi you must go back so you can create it at will. Samadhi is the beginning of spiritual growth, not the end. You must always be questioning. Enlightenment comes as an accident at first, then you have to learn to recreate it.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Growth, Enlightenment, Foundation

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Man's earthly existence is but a test as to whether he will concentrate his efforts, his mind, his soul upon things which contribute to the comfort and gratification of his physical instincts and passions, or whether he will make as his life's end and purpose the acquisition of spiritual qualities

  David O. McKay

  Passion, Men, Effort

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• Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research or meditate on the divinities, and stop concentrating and reciting textbooks! Tell me, what is the absolute nature of reality which allows no room for doubt? Listen carefully! Stop holding on to this or that, inhabit your true absolute nature, and peacefully enjoy the essence of what it is to be alive!

  Abhinavagupta

  Life, Faith, Wisdom

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• There is a deep need in the world just now for guidance - almost any sort of spiritual guidance.

  Carl Jung

  Needs, World, Guidance

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• Just as man as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the community, so the individual will never find the real justification for his existence, and his own spiritual and moral autonomy, anywhere except in an extramundane principle capable of relativizing the overpowering influence of external factors.

  Carl Jung

  Running, Real, Men

  Carl Gustav Jung (2013). “The Undiscovered Self”, p.16, Routledge

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• For a woman, the typical danger emanating from the unconscious comes from above, from the "spiritual" sphere personified by the animus, whereas for a man it comes from the chthonic realm of the "world and woman," i.e., the anima projected on to the world.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Typical, World

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.317, Princeton University Press

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• Only what coronation is in an earthly way, baptism is in a heavenly way; God's authoritative declaration in material form of a spiritual reality.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Reality, Baptism, Way

  Frederick William Robertson (1861). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton”, p.58

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• To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.

  Michael Sandel

  Justice, Moral, Arguing

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• The receptive attitude enables one mind to fix itself to another as by spiritual grappling-irons. When you see that every word you utter us taken in, and weighed, and measured by your listener, you cannot free yourself from the influence of his presence. You are compelled to have in your thoughts not only the words you utter, but the man to whom they are spoken. You must not only talk, and talk well, but you must talk to him.

  Charles Dickens

  Attitude, Taken, Men

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• Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.

  Bertrand Russell

  War, Evil, Hatred

  Charles Chatfield, Bertrand Russell, Ralph Barton Perry (1972). “ETHICS OF WAR”, Dissertations-G

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• Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science . And yet, if one were to give oneself the trouble, one could easily find, in certain parts at least of contemporary mathematics... symbols as clear, as beautiful, and as full of spiritual meaning as that of the circle and mediation. From modern thought to ancient wisdom the path would be short and direct, if one cared to take it.

  Simone Weil

  Beautiful, Circles, Giving

  Simone Weil (2002). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.286, Psychology Press

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• During the last quarter of a century all the authority associated with the function of spiritual guidance ... has seeped down into the lowest publications. ... Between a poem by Valéry and an advertisement for a beauty cream promising a rich marriage to anyone who used it there was at no point a breach of continuity. So as a result of literature's spiritual usurpation a beauty cream advertisement possessed, in the eyes of little village girls, the authority that was formerly attached to the words of priests.

  Simone Weil

  Girl, Eye, Literature

  "On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God". Book by Simone Weil. Translated by R. Rees, "Morality and literature," p. 164, 1968.

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• The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Literature

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