Spirituality Quotes - Page 40

• Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

  David Bowie

  Clever, Fear, Recovery

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• God is in the details.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  God, Educational, Learning

  Quoted in Architectural Forum, May 1958 See Flaubert 3; Modern Proverbs 24; Warburg 1

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• Details are all there are.

  Taizan Maezumi

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

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• True spirituality is the acceptance of earth-life. A true seeker is he who accepts life, transforms life and perfects life so that the earth-life can become a conscious instrument of God.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Acceptance, Earth Life, Transformation

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.146, Aum Publications

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• Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.

  Milan Kundera

  Humility, Exaggeration Is, Together

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• Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to pull the sensitive viewer out of him or herself and into the garden, so completely that the separate self-sense disappears entirely, and at least for a brief moment one is ushered into a nondual and timeless awareness. A great garden, in other words, is mystical no matter what its actual content.

  Ken Wilber

  Garden, Self, Religion

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• Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Work, Garden, Hands

  History of England (1911) "The Glory of the Garden"

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• Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Beauty, Beautiful, Religion

  W. E. B. Du Bois (1980). “Prayers for Dark People”

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• The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience.

  Henryk Skolimowski

  Beauty, Spiritual, Men

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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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• Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise.

  Henry Mitchell

  Confused, Garden, Religion

  Henry Mitchell (2003). “The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.1, Indiana University Press

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• A garden is the best alternative therapy.

  Germaine Greer

  Garden, Religion, Alternatives

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• Your garden will reveal yourself.

  Henry Mitchell

  Garden, Religion, Spirit

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• All things are bound together, all things connect. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls also the children of the earth.

  Oren Lyons

  God, Children, Together

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• Envy is one of the great enemies of active spirituality. It keeps us from loving our neighbours, from functioning with others in community, and from affirming people's unique worth. It also steals contentment from the heart. Is there anything or anyone you are envious of?

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Inspirational, Life, Heart

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• Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.

  Amy Alcott

  Spiritual, Golf, Games

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

  Sri Chinmoy

  Spiritual, Mean, Carpe Diem

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• Spirituality is not for sale. It must be developed.

  Judith Orloff

  Emotional

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• Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Grieving, Order

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Spiritual, Rain, Garden

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2009). “The Business of Reflection: Hawthorne in His Notebooks”

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• That world beyond is a world of sanctity and radiance; therefore, it is necessary that in this world he should acquire these divine attributes. In that world there is need of spirituality, faith, assurance, the knowledge and love of God. These he must attain in this world so that after his ascension from the earthly to the heavenly Kingdom he shall find all that is needful in that eternal life ready for him.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Book, And Love, Needs

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• An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body, for the service of Christendom and of the church.

  Martin Luther

  God, Spiritual, Angel

  "Martin Luther's Table Talk".

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• To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Logic, Surface

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.227

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• Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Sleep, Phantoms, Spirit

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Henry IV”, p.53, Luigi Pirandello

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• Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Long, Mystery, Morbidity

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