Spiritual Sayings From Various Persons

by allinspiration.com

“Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.”
– Christopher Lasch

“Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.”
– Chuck Palahniuk

“Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.”
– Clare Boothe Luce

“I’m fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes – the finer things of life – would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.”
– Coretta Scott King

“I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.”
– Dalai Lama

“Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It’s because I’m not quite an atheist and it worries me. There’s that little bit that holds on: ‘Well, I’m almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.’”
– David Bowie

“The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.”
– David Herbert Lawrence

“I think any spiritual experience that’s worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, ‘If you’re not laughing, then you’re not getting it.’”
– David O. Russell

“Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.”
– Deepak Chopra

“Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It’s not unique to Christianity.”
– Deepak Chopra

“Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you’re flexible, when you’re spontaneous, when you’re detached, when you’re easy on yourself and easy on others.”
– Deepak Chopra

“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

“When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.”
– Dennis Banks

“If you don’t have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can’t expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.”
– Doug Coupland

“Being a Barrymore didn’t help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me.”
– Drew Barrymore

“California is an unbelievable state. One day I might be in a spiritual place like Joshua Tree, then before I know it, I’m eating groovy sushi in a mini-mall. I’m a Cali girl through and through.”
– Drew Barrymore

“I have always been fond of recognizing the spiritual side of someone’s personality. It’s a very lovely concept.”
– Drew Barrymore

“The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.”
– E. O. Wilson

“The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?”
– E. O. Wilson

“Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.”
– Edgar Winter

“For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.”
– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we’re alive – to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.”
– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“Right before I decided to come out, I went on a spiritual retreat called ‘Changing the Inner Dialogue of Your Subconscious Mind.’ I’d never been to anything like it before, and all my friends were taking bets on how long I’d last with no TV, no radio, no phone. But for me that was the beginning of paying attention to all the little things.”
– Ellen DeGeneres

“The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.”
– Ernest Holmes

“Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.”
– Florence Scovel Shinn

“All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.”
– Francois Fenelon

“Form follows function – that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright

“Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.”
– Franz Kafka

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