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All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.
Richard Rohr
'All outstanding spirituality is concerning how we grapple with our suffering. If we do not address our anguish, we will propagate it to those in our vicinity.'
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
Soren Kierkegaard
The most prevalent type of despondency is denying one's true identity.
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the deeper one is drawn into God, the more one must 'go out of oneself'; that is, one must go to the world in order to carry the divine life into it.
Edith Stein
The further one embarks on a spiritual journey with God, the more one must transcend their own limits; that is, they must step into the world to transmit the sacred existence within them.
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It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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Whoever knows himself knows God.
Elijah Muhammad
'Realizing one's own identity leads to an understanding of the divine.'
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Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
Anthony de Mello
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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Maybe It's not the biggest blockbuster film, but there will be some people that will see it, that will be debating it, that will be questioning their own sense of spirituality. If the film resonates, then I have succeeded in what I set out to do.
Eriq La Salle
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I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.
Sandra Bernhard
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My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.
Mahatma Gandhi
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What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.
Heraclitus
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The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.
Chogyam Trungpa
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Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.
Gautama Buddha
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All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.
Richard Rohr
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True refinement seeks simplicity.
Bruce Lee
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I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more abstract and not aligned with any recognized religion. For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music. It cannot be manipulated, or politicized, and when it is, that becomes immediately obvious.
Eric Clapton
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Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.
Ram Dass
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
Carl Sagan
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What is material and what is not? When the world is the end and God is the means to attain that end, that is material. When God is the end and the world is only the means to attain that end, spirituality has begun.
Swami Vivekananda
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Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us.
David Wolpe
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A theology without spirituality would be a sterile academic exercise.
John Macquarrie
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It is the inner life that is to spark the change in consciousness that will permit us to advance
Wayne Teasdale
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There's no beauty that you could perceive or create if it were not already within you.
Peter Shepherd
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One of the most difficult things to learn is to render service without bossing, without making a fuss about it, and without any consciousness of high and low. In the world of spirituality, humility counts at least as much as utility.
Meher Baba
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The resource from which God gives is boundless, measureless, unlimited, unending, abundant, almighty, and eternal.
Jack W. Hayford
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When we touch the place in our lives where sexuality and spirituality come together, we touch our wholeness and the fullness of our power, and at the same time our connection with a power larger than ourselves.
Judith Plaskow
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Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown.
Alan Watts
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Saying spirituality cannot exist without religion is like saying hamburgers cannot exist without McDonald's.
Steven Barnes
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I define spirituality as a search for love, beauty, happiness and wisdom. Spirituality is a journey that we never finish.
Akiane Kramarik
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We cannot grow spiritually if we ignore our humanness, just as we cannot become fully human if we ignore our spirituality.
Jean Vanier
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Spirituality isn't about being finished and perfect; spirituality is about trusting God in our unfinishedness.
Mike Yaconelli
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Allah(God) is the greatest friend.
Muhammad
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True spirituality is to be aware that if we are interdependent with everything and everyone else, even our smallest, least significant thought, word and action have real consequences throughout the universe.
Sogyal Rinpoche
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True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.
Louis Nizer
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But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.
Sri Aurobindo
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Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality.
Swami Vivekananda
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The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.
Ram Dass
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If you see the good in others and cover their defects with your love, they will follow you. If you see only weaknesses in others, your spirituality will be ruined.
Sun Myung Moon
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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
John Ortberg
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The greatest tragedy in the history of Christianity was neither the Crusades nor the Reformation nor the Inquisition, but rather the split that opened up between theology and spirituality at the end of the Middle Ages.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Among the most remarkable features characterizing Zen we find these: spirituality, directness of expression, disregard of form or conventionalism, and frequently an almost wanton delight in going astray from respectability.
D.T. Suzuki
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If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.
G. I. Gurdjieff