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Mean spirits under disappointment, like small beer in a thunderstorm always turn sour.
Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes on our own initiative. While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.
What she didn't understand, she being spiritual and seeing religion as spirit, was that it took religion to save me from the spirit world, from orbiting the earth like Lucifer and the angels, that it took nothing less than touching the thread off the misty interstates and eating Christ himself to make me mortal man again and let me inhabit my own flesh and love her in the morning.
Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear.
Whether we name divine presence synchronicity, serendipity, or graced moment matters little. What matters is the reality that our hearts have been understood. Nothing is as real as a healthy dose of magic which restores our spirits.
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.
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
As Rosemary is to the spirit, so Lavender is to the soul
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
The festivals are like a map charting our spiritual progress in God.
Conscience is a blushing, shamefaced spirit than mutinies in a man's bosom; it fills one full of obstacles.
Australia and Canada were settled by adventurers, they had to break new ground. I think that is indelibly etched on our cultural spirit.
The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak
The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually
Flying is a lot like playing a musical instrument; you're doing so many things and thinking of so many other things, all at the same time. It becomes a spiritual experience. Something wonderful happens in the pit of your stomach.
It is the nature of the ego to take, and the nature of the spirit to share.
It is the nature of the ego to take, and the nature of the spirit to share.
The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!
Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.
The body is a device to calculate the astronomy of the spirit.
No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring.
The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.
There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms
Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise, for the result is waste of time and general stagnation.
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
If we do not consciously and consistently focus on the spiritual part of ourselves, we will never experience the kind of joy, satisfaction, safety, and connectedness we are all seeking.
When people get married because they think it`s a long-time love affair, they`ll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a
spiritual identity.
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