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"You
are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience.
You are
a spiritual being immersed in a human experience."
--Teilhard de Chardin
"Religion is a set of social and political
institutions and spirituality
is a private pursuit which may or may not take place in
a
church setting."
--D. Patrick
Miller
- "Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and
temporal."
--Mary Baker
Eddy
- "My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire
to commune with the spirit of the universe, to be
intoxicated with the fumes, call it, of that divine
nectar,
to bear my head through atmospheres and over
heights unknown to my feet, is perennial and
constant."
--Henry David
Thoreau
- "Happiness cannot
be traveled to, owned, earned,
worn or consumed. Happiness is the
spiritual experience of living every minute with love,
grace and gratitude."
--Denis
Waitley
- "Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever
come
to you without coming away better and happier.
Be the living expression of God's kindness."
--Mother
Teresa
- "For what doth it
profit a man, if he gain the whole world,
and suffer the loss of his own soul?"
--Matthew
16:26
- "Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has;
it never comes to the aid of spiritual things,
but - more frequently than not - struggles
against the divine Word, treating with contempt
all that emanates from
God."
--Martin
Luther
- "Love the animals, love the plants, love everything.
If you love everything, you will perceive the
divine
mystery in things.
Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend
it
better every day. And you will come at last to love
the whole world with an all-embracing
love."
--Fyodor
Dostoyevsky
- "One who abandons all desires and becomes free from
longing and the feeling of 'I' and 'my' attains peace."
- --The Bhagavad
Gita
- "All that we are is the result of what we have thought."
--The Buddha
"You are never upset for the reason you think"
-Jeshua from A course in
Miracles
- About Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
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