Spirituality Insights
Anais Nin:
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There
is always more mystery.
Denis Waitley:
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is
the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Felix Adler:
The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I
search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself
spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For
it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the
god hidden in me, will consent to appear. [An Ethical Philosophy of Life]
Fyodor Dostoyevsky:
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.
John Dietrich:
Energy conveys to us the idea of motion and activity. Inside a living organism
we see a source of power, which by some manner is released in terms of
movement.... Life is energy... it is the creator or initiator of movement
change, development. We are different from moment to moment because the life
principle is at work with us.... The spirit of humanity, like the forces of
nature, and like the physical life, is at bottom energy.... Spiritual life,
therefore, is just as much a development out of what has gone before in the
evolutionary process as physical life is; which means that the origin of
spiritual life is from within.
M. Scott Peck:
Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of
nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the
distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved
Med Yones:
What's ironic is that many mystics become attached to detachment [President of International Institute
of Management]
Thomas Moore:
Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health,
success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of
characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these
felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to
imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.
Willa Cather:
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices
or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our
perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears
can hear what is there about us always. [Death Comes for the Archbishop, 1927]
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