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We are spiritual beings having human and spiritual experiences |
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We are spiritual beings…
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…or souls…
- You are a powerful, unlimited and eternal soul who is here to enjoy the experience of creativity and contribute to humanity’s evolution. Timothy Leary
- Your soul is more magnificent, beautiful, and gigantic than you can possibly imagine. A human mind can only contain a tiny fraction of what you are. Andy Weir
- You experience your soul each time you sense yourself as more than a mind and body, your life as meaningful, or you feel that you have gifts to give and you long to give them. Gary Zukav
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…having a temporary human experience…
- You are an infinite spiritual being having a temporary human experience. Wayne Dyer
- I think what’s important is to give space to the range of human experience. Judy Chicago
- We are Spiritual Beings have a Human Experience. Not the other way around. Oprah Winfrey
- I am a spiritual person living in a human body, not a human body with a spirit. Bob Proctor
- The soul conceives, the mind creates, the body experiences. The circle is complete. Neale Donald Walsch
- You are the Universe expressing itself as a human for a little while. Eckhart Tolle
- I am not a human being with consciousness but consciousness appearing as a human being, experiencing itself to be a human being. Anthony Lambert
- I am not a person with awareness. Awareness I am absorbed in the experience of being a person. Anthony Lambert
- At the end of the day we’re all spirits having a physical experience. Mahershala Ali
- We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow. Erica Jong
- You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- I am not a person but that which experiences being a person. I am not even a human being, but that which is having a human experience. Anthony Lambert
- You’re here as a spiritual being having a temporary human experience. You come to know your essence – that you came from an energy, a vibrational frequency. Everything in the universe is frequencies. Even things that look solid are all frequencies, all movement. Einstein said nothing happens until something moves. This chair I’m sitting in is moving. It may be hard to imagine, but if you took a microscope and really got in there, you’d see the spaces and a lot of particles all in movement. Wayne Dyer
- We all come to this planet as spiritual beings destined to experience a variety of challenges and situation in order to grow and evolve spiritually. James Van Praagh
- We had thought that we were human beings making a spiritual journey; it may be truer to say that we are spiritual beings making a human journey. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Because of an innocent misunderstanding you think that you are a human being in the relative world seeking the experience of oneness, but actually you are the One expressing itself as the experience of being a human being. Adyashanti
- We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and Infinite love is the only truth; everything else is an illusion. Pema Chodron
- We are spiritual beings having an earthly experience, and we have the power to break the cycle of negativity that is fueling a very dangerous world. It’s not only possible, it’s why we are here. Susan L. Taylor
- The essential lesson I’ve learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you’re not here as a human being only. You’re a spiritual being having a human experience. Wayne Dyer
- The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor’s badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully. Deepak Chopra
- Each of us is here to discover our true selves; that essentially we are spiritual beings who have taken manifestation in physical form; that we’re not human beings that have occasional spiritual experiences, that we’re spiritual beings that have occasional human experiences. Deepak Chopra
- You think of yourselves as humans searching for a spiritual awakening, when in fact you are spiritual beings attempting to cope with a human awakening. Seeing yourselves from the perspective of the spirit within will help you to remember why you came here and what you came here to do. Neale Donald Walsch
- The truth of who we are has nothing to do with religion or the type of car that we drive or the color of our skin. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. And the human experience part is very temporary. So, things like the bar, love, magic, dancing, and colors are there to remind us to not take all of this stuff so seriously. RuPaul
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…in a human body
- You are a little soul carrying around a corpse. Epictetus
- Souls and bodies should go on together. Louisa May Alcott
- I am not my body. My body is nothing without me. Tom Stoppard
- Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse. Marcus Aurelius
- You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. S. Lewis
- Your soul isn’t in your body; your body is in your soul! Alan Watts
- The soul and body are joint-sharers in every thing they get. Laurence Sterne
- See yourself as a soul with a body, rather than a body with a soul. Wayne Dyer
- We are not these bodies, just souls having a bodily experience. George Harrison
- Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul. Wayne Dyer
- I’m not a body with a soul, I’m a soul that has a visible part called the body. Paulo Coelho
- One of the most difficult jobs of earthly self is to reconcile soul and body. Terri Guillemets
- The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body. Giordano Bruno
- What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul. Oscar Wilde
- One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. Lord Byron
- The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear. Daniel Defoe
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one. Aristotle
- I began by being perplexed about my body; and I ended by being anxious about my soul. In short, I wished to know what I was. Adolphe Monod
- I see myself wrapped in lies, which do not seem to penetrate my soul, as if they are not really a part of me. They are like costumes. Anaïs Nin
- Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body. Michael Shermer
- In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body. Barbara De Angelis
- Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other. Henry David Thoreau
- Never tell a child, said George Macdonald, you have a soul. Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body. The body is but the temporary clothing of the soul… H.F.A
- The body is some kind of image of you, it’s kind of something that’s just attached to your soul, some kind of outside principle, which doesn’t really represent who you really are. Peter Adamson
- The body is the external coating and the mind is the internal coating of the Atman (soul) who is the real perceiver, the real enjoyer, the being in the body who is working the body by means of the internal organ or the mind. Swami Vivekananda
- Soul and body, I suggest react sympathetically upon each other. A change in the state of the soul produces a change in the shape of the body and conversely, a change in the shape of the body produces a change in the state of the soul. Aristotle
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As spiritual beings, there is immense room for us to grow
- Convince a man that he is an animal, that his own dignity and selfrespect are delusions, that there is no ‘beyond’ to aspire to, no higher potential self to achieve, and you have a slave. Let a man know he is himself, a spiritual being, that he is capable of the power of choice and has the right to aspire to greater wisdom and you have started him up a higher road. L. Ron Hubbard
- Man is spiritual being — a soul, in other words — and that this soul takes on different bodies from life to life on earth to order at last to arrive at such perfect knowledge, through repeated experience, as to enable one to assume a body fit to be the dwelling-place of a Mahatma or perfected soul. Then, they say, that particular soul becomes a spiritual helper to mankind. H. P. Blavatsky
- Material things have closed boundaries; they are not accessible, cannot be penetrated, by things outside themselves. But one’s existence as a spiritual being involves being and remaining oneself and at the same time admitting and transforming into oneself the reality of the world. No other material thing can be present in the space occupied by a house, a tree, or a fountain pen. But where there is mind, the totality of things has room; it is possible that in a single being the comprehensiveness of the whole universe may dwell. Josef Pieper
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Our very purpose for being is to experience…
- The soul – your soul – knows all there is to know all the time. There’s nothing hidden to it, nothing unknown. Yet knowing is not enough. The soul seeks to experience. Neale Donald Walsch
- The journey of Soul… by the lessons gained in the physical experience… it may take (its) place in the realms of soul activity in an infinite world among others that have passed through the various realms… which first called every soul and body into experience. Edgar Cayce
- Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may be able to master and to rule them, and in later ages take his place in the creative and directing hierarchies of the universe. Annie Besant
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…to undergo experience…
- Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. Alan Watts
- Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Soren Kierkegaard
- When you understand that you are your soul, then you will experience Life as an expression of the soul. Neale Donald Walsch
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…to experience a variety and diversity of different experiences…
- There is no normal. I’ve never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are supposed to be, and that can’t possible be true. Human experience is far too varied. Maureen Johnson
- I feel like my soul yearns to experience something new at all times. That may be an encounter with a new place or persons or a song that plays and urges me to dance in a different way. I come alive when there is a chance to learn or do something different. Dash Mihok
- Think of all your experiences as a huge tapestry that can be laid out in whatever pattern you wish. Each day you add a new thread to the weaving. Do you craft a curtain to hide behind, or do you fashion a magic carpet that will care you to unequaled heights? Tony Robbins
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…to have human experiences…
- One must have the humility and the imagination to honor all deep human experiences – not least those one has never come near to sharing. Rosamond Lehmann
- Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience. Lewis Mumford
- I see my work as visual meditations on the human experience and my attempts to capture the thin, otherwordly realm I believe exists between what we see and what we cannot. Kim Hunter
- One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we’ll never meet. Mary Blakely
- The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character. William Matthews
- The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships. Vannevar Bush
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…and to have spiritual experiences…
- Self dedication is a spiritual experience. Cesar Chavez
- Religion–that voice of the deepest human experience. Matthew Arnold
- Do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself. Albert Camus
- Spiritual experiences are like mist, they will evaporate. Jigdral Yeshe Dorje
- Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- For me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me. Sue Monk Kidd
- Science demands objective factual evidence – proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith. Jane Goodall
- When the Soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it. Meister Eckhart
- The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience. Oswald Chambers
- What is spiritual experience? A snowflake melting, a bee sucking honey, a fat man at a traffic light. Trivia. Frederick Franck
- Matter is fun for a while; but ultimately, it is the spiritual experience where we leap beyond what we know- that is the happiness. Frederick Lenz
- There’s a big difference between being able to explain religion intellectually and transforming that knowledge into spiritual experience. Thubten Yesh
- The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human. Abraham Maslow
- Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer’s life with truth. Watchman Nee
- No man who has lived through a temporary spiritual experience is ever likely to forget it. His days will be haunted until he sets out to seek ways and means of repeating it. Paul Brunton
- For me dancing is not just moving your arms and legs but basically it’s a very spiritual experience. It’s part of me and a second nature to me. You can say it is in my blood. Madhuri Dixit
- Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well. Bernard of Clairvaux
- The spiritual experience isn’t one of filling ourselves up— with either religious or intellectual beliefs—but of emptying ourselves so that we can experience what is, directly, unfiltered. Kevin Griffin
- And now, advice for beginning mystics. Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can. Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something. Defend the value of the spiritual experience and if somebody tells you it’s an old fashioned notion, laugh loudly and serenely. Adam Zagajewski
- A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet our religious traditions are intellectually defunct and politically ruinous. While spiritual experience is clearly a natural propensity of the human mind, we need not believe anything on insufficient evidence to actualize it. Sam Harris
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…especially experiences that move us greatly
- I leave shreds of my soul on every experience. Oriana Fallaci
- When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. Rumi
- The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. Emily Dickinson
- Often a single experience will open the young soul to music for a whole lifetime. Zoltan Kodaly
- Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul. Thomas Merton
- Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind. Susan Cheever
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Experience is all that’s truly real
- Atheists maintain that spiritual experience is purely subjective, with no basis in a reality outside of the subject. Robert Todd Carroll
- Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. John Keats
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It is not just humans that undergo experience but all living beings
- Earth allows several levels for Soul to gain experience in life, including the mineral, plant, fish, animal and human stages. Harold Klemp
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…all equally important to the whole
- All experience is of equal value. David R. Hawkins
- My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops? David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
- All experiences are equally relevant and valid; part of the one experience. All experiences are exactly as meant to be for Life to experience what its experiencing. Anthony Lambert
- All humans are equal centers of awareness of the Universe and nature and all deserve a life of equal dignity and mutual respect. World Pantheist Movement creed
- No single experience of life is any more important or valid than another. For they all create the totality; the combined field of experience of life on earth consisting of all its infinitely diverse aspects and forms. Anthony Lambert
- The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. David Hume
- Each time we ascribe a greater value to a certain aspect of life than to another, we nail ourselves more and more to the cross of separation. Peter O. Erbe
- Does energy that organizes into a human have more value than one that organizes into a plant? It’s all one and the same thing behind physical appearances. Ziad Masri
- Each soul has its own note to sing in the divine chorus and no voice is more important than another. Prem Prakash
- We are One consciousness experiencing itself as the seeming many, and this consciousness does not play favorites or hold one path to be truer than any other. Ziad Masri
- You are one of trillions of experiences consciousness is having. No experience is more valued than another. Anthony Lambert
- The whole quilt is much more important than any single square. Rohinton Mistry
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All circumstances in a human life are here for experience and growth
- As you become multi-sensory, you begin to see yourself as a soul first and a personality second. You begin to experience yourself as more than a body and more than a mind. and the circumstances around you as meaningful and designed for your spiritual growth. Gary Zukav
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No experience is to be avoided…
- Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience. Bill Johnson
- When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual’s own spiritual experience is lost. Joseph Campbell
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…or regretted…
- To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul. Oscar Wilde
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…for to embrace experience is to live fully
- Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. Denis Waitley
- The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. Eleanor Roosevelt
- Indeed, it has affirmed my belief that our purpose as spiritual beings is to follow our bliss, seek our passions, and live our lives as inspirations to each other. Aron Ralston
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What spiritual and human experiences are we here to undergo? |
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To find meaning
- All history is an attempt to find pattern and meaning in a section of human experience, and every historian worthy of the name raises questions about man’s ultimate destiny and the meaning of all history to which, as history, he can provide no answers. The answers belong to the realm of theology. G. B. Caird
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To go on a treasure hunt for truth
- The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritual experience does not, or must not, enter into the intelligible texture of philosophy. The pulp of the fruit must consist of nothing but the truth. Jacques Maritain
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To experience wonder and beauty
- The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience. Henryk Skolimowski
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To dream
- What we experience in dreams – assuming that we experience it often – belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced “actually”: we are richer or poorer on account of it. Friedrich Nietzsche
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To feel
- Do not be afraid to experience your emotions; they are the path to your soul. Emotions erupt to remind us we are alive, that we are human. And to let us know we are growing. Trust yourself enough to feel what you feel. Iyanla Vanzant
- All spiritual experiences are sensations in the body. They are simply a graded series of sensations, beginning with the solidity of earth and passing gradually, in full consciousness, through liquidness and the emanation of heat to that of a total vibration before reaching the Void. Sri Anirvan
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To experience paradox
- Human experience is usually paradoxical. George Eliot
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To experience language
- The fact is that if you have not developed language, you simply don’t have access to most of human experience, and if you don’t have access to experience, then you’re not going to be able to think properly. Noam Chomsky
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To experience nature and wilderness
- Wilderness, to me, is a spiritual necessity. The mysterious spiritual experience of being close to natural restored my soul. Clyde Butcher
- We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can’t see the stars at night. Thomas Berry
- Wilderness, to me, is a spiritual necessity. The mysterious spiritual experience of being close to natural restored my soul [after the death of his son]. My experience reinforced by dedication to use the art of photography as an inspiration for others to work together to save nature’s places of spiritual sanctuary for future generations. Clyde Butcher
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To experience humour and laughter
- 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
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To be creative
- Survival is for the human animal; fear the motivation. For the spiritual being survival is irrelevant. Curiosity, compassion and creativity are the name of the game; unconditional love the motivation. Peter Shepherd
- Creativity is the vulnerability to spiritual and physical sensation, and to experience, combined with and acting upon a certain level of skill, combined with the compulsion or longing or need or desire to give. Michael Ventura
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To cross pollinate ideas and experiences
- I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. Barbara Kingsolver
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To innovate
- We seem to forget that innovation doesn’t just come from equations or new kinds of chemicals, it comes from a human place. Innovation in the sciences is always linked in some way, either directly or indirectly, to a human experience. John Maeda
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To turn experience into art
- Art is about the dynamics of the human experience. Danny Glover
- Music is art, and art is an integral part of the human experience. Anne Frasier
- The sensations of colors on the palette can be spiritual experiences. Wassily Kandinsky
- Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist. Anthony Burgess
- Poetry uses language to create a music borne inside human experiences and emotions. Pattiann Rogers
- What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience? Rollo May
- The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art. Claire Messud
- Art that arises out of the inner landscape, and is connected to our lived experience, illuminates the darkness and heals the soul. Daria Halprin
- Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible. Tavares Strachan
- What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no way explain human experience. John Gardner
- Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods? James Agee
- A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience. Joseph Conrad
- Life comes first, an art not rooted in human experience is not worth a damn, but different kinds of minds have different kinds of experience, and all I ask of any man is validity; and there should be place for every type and kind of mind. Katherine Anne Porter
- Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence from seemingly unrelated phenomena; both stand guard for us against chaos. Kenneth Tynan
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To write
- For me writing isn’t a mental exercise, it’s barely even a literary exercise, it feels like a spiritual experience. Ottessa Moshfegh
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To create stories and myths from our experiences
- Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description. D. H. Lawrence
- The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion. Mason Cooley
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To experience choice
- Managing the power of choice, with all its creative and spiritual implications, is the essence of the human experience. All spiritual teachings are directed toward inspiring us to recognize that the power to make choices is the dynamic that converts our spirits into matter, our words into flesh. Choice is the process of creation itself. Caroline Myss
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To experience gratitude and forgiveness
- True forgiveness is when you can say, Thank you for that experience. Oprah Winfrey
- When true forgiveness happens it is one of the most astonishing and liberating of the human experience. Richard Holloway
- Spiritual joy is what you experience when you choose to give thanks to God no matter what happens-even when things go wrong. Jim George
- There is a fundamental spiritual quality to gratitude that transcends religious traditions. Gratitude is a universal human experience that can seem to be either a random occurrence of grace or a chosen attitude to create a better experience of life; in many ways it contains elements of both. Grateful people sense that they are not separated from others or from God; this recognition of unity with all things brings a deep sense of gratefulness, whether we are religious or not. Angeles Arrien
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To have peak experiences or “soul moments”
- We all experience ‘soul moments’ in life-when we see a magnificent sunrise, hear the call of the loon, see the wrinkles in our mother’s hands, or smell the sweetness of a baby. During these moments, our body, as well as our brain, resonates as we experience the glory of being a human being. Marion Woodman
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To embrace mystery
- The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. Albert Einstein
- Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage. Frederick Buechner
- People who’ve had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don’t know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a Love, which is incomprehensible to the mind. Richard Rohr
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To reach inwards
- Man, as a spiritual being, cannot be maintained in strength, uprightness, and peace except if he periodically withdraw himself from the outer world of perishable things and reach inwardly towards the abiding and imperishable realities. James Allen
- The very discovery of these hidden things is in itself a purifying experience! The soul needs to discover what is inside. The self nature needs to see what it really is, and what it is like-right to the very bottom. Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
- Most human beings are completely out of touch with their spiritual nature and with the inner dimensions that exist within themselves. They don’t realize each person has a soul, an inner core of light and intelligence as vast as the ten thousand worlds, whose inner nature is emptiness, ecstasy and happiness. Frederick Lenz
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To gain spiritual sustenance…
- Human beings are of such nature that they should have not only material facilities but spiritual sustenance as well. Without spiritual sustenance, it is difficult to get and maintain peace of mind. Dalai Lama
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…and be soulful
- While everyone has a different experience of what is soulful, these experiences do share similar beginnings. We start by giving ourselves permission to be soulful, to take seriously this aspect of ourselves, our soul and our soul needs. Jean Shinoda Bolen
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To experience stillness
- The waking dreams of life as most people know them are spiritual experiences, but there is another order of spiritual experience and that’s to be in the garden of the heart, in the perfect stillness, where the white light of eternity meets the white light of eternity. Frederick Lenz
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To experience aloneness and solitude
- I am alone and my spiritual journey is my experience.’ This is the real experience of freedom and independence. Then we begin to see that being alone is a very beautiful thing. Nobody is obstructing our vision. We have complete panoramic vision. Chogyam Trungpa
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To grow in attention and awareness
- Only a spiritual being has awareness. Chick Corea
- Most of us have had the experience of sitting by the seashore or on a mountaintop, simply enjoying the beauty of nature, relaxed, content, and present. We’ve probably also had the experience of sitting by the seashore or on a mountaintop and missing it completely. Being present – or not – is a basic human experience. Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
- As a spirit having a human experience, you can choose to not merely exist but to be fully conscious and aware of living in a limited world. When you take a conscious part in life and its multitudes of choices, you won’t let life happen to you – you will make life happen for you. James Van Praagh
- When practiced to its fullest, mindful eating turns a simple meal into a spiritual experience, giving us a deep appreciation of all that went into the meal’s creation as well a deep understanding of the relationship between the food on our table, our own health, and our planet’s health. Nhat Hanh
- When you are soul-centered, you can focus your attention where and when you want to, easily, without distraction. You know to look for what you want to see and experience. You know that what you seek you shall find, and what you focus on in life will be more prominent in your awareness. You know your awareness is powerful and creative. Sarah MacLean
- …there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from the bodily experiences of human life on earth. My life depends on engaging the most ordinary physical activities with the most exquisite attention I can give them. My life depends on ignoring all touted distinctions between the secular and the sacred, the physical and the spiritual, the body and the soul. What is saving my life now is becoming more fully human, trusting that there is no way to God apart from real life in the real world. Barbara Brown Taylor
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To become immersed in the moment
- When you experience peace of soul, with each breath you are present to the fact that this is a divine moment, a moment to shine like you have never shone before, a moment to hold the whole world in your hands with a gentle thought and a kind heart. Debbie Ford
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To transcend attachment…
- The universe is made up of experiences that are designed to burn out your attachment, your clinging, to pleasure, to pain, to fear, to all of it. And as long as there is a place where you’re vulnerable, the universe will find a way to confront you with it. Ram Dass
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…and desire
- One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness. Meher Baba
- My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecilic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul. Robert E. Howard
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To undergo self-discovery and realisation
- Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience. Anna Quindlen
- Do not be afraid to experience your emotions; they are the path to your soul. Iyanla Vanzant
- All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged. What is meant by God-realization is to actually experience this important thing that the soul is eternal. Meher Baba
- The purpose of life is to know yourself, create yourself, experience yourself as Who You Really Are. There is no other reason to do anything. Neale Donald Walsch
- In life, and connecting with who we really are, our spiritual being or our higher self – this is the key to success and fulfilment. Our ‘soul’ purpose is our sole purpose in life. Kristiane Backer
- All mysteries of human experience that are eliminated when we understand that we are a great deal more than our body and when you look very deeply at who and what the soul really is, who and what God really is. Neale Donald Walsch
- If I may take the risk of defining what a spiritual experience is, it is one in which pure awareness reveals itself to you as the maker of reality – where you suddenly discover through insight or meditation or a freak accident that your essential nature is spiritual, non-material. Deepak Chopra
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To transcend ego to get in touch with spiritual being
- Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating – the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to – you have uncovered in yourself your own wise guide. Sogyal Rinpoche
- Man is a spiritual being, a soul, and at some period of his life everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his relationship to the Infinite. . . . There is something within him which urges him to rise above himself, to control his environment, to master the body and all things physical and live in a higher and more beautiful world. David O. McKay
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To allow the divine to know itself through us
- Nothing appears to be something. The human experience is a sensory organ for the divine self. Through these eyes, the divine gets to see itself in form. Adyashanti
- The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc. Franz Kafka
- Our job, our intention as spiritual beings in a body, is to express our true nature – to fully know ourselves as expressions and individuations of the Divine. Neale Donald Walsch
- Your soul is Me, and it knows it. What it is doing, is trying to experience that. And what it is remembering is that the best way to have this experience is by not doing anything. There is nothing to do but to be. Neale Donald Walsch
- The soul has come to the physical realm to have a direct experience of itself as an “individuation of divinity.” Neale Donald Walsch
- Soul, to me, means “embodied essence,” when we experience ourselves and others in our full humanity – part animal, part divine. Marion Woodman
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To allow the divine to experience through us
- The human experience is a temporarily segregated sliver of the experience of God. Bernard Haisch
- Now I will explain to you the ultimate mystery: your exact and true relationship to Me. You are my body. As your body is to your mind and soul, so, too, are you to My mind and soul. Therefore: Everything I experience, I experience through you. Neale Donald Walsch
- The Jesuit paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin wrote: “Surely we are not human beings having a spiritual experience, but spiritual beings having a human experience.” I would modify this to say: We are God having a human experience. Bernard Haisch
- We come to this world of form as form to experience through form what cannot be experienced by formless awareness and oneness. Xenia
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To experience connection with God
- The pinnacle of the fulfillment I can ever experience for my spirit and soul is to hear from the Lord. Nick Vujicic
- See, once you have begun to experience solitude and silence, you discover that you actually have a soul and that there is a God. Dallas Willard
- Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction. Aiden Wilson Tozer
- The true basis of religion is not belief, but intuitive experience. Intuition is the soul’s power of knowing God. To know what religion is really all about, one must know God. Paramahansa Yogananda
- Give God the margin of eternity to justify Himself in, and the more we live and know of our own souls and of spiritual experience generally, the more we shall be convinced that we have to do with one who is good and just. Hugh Reginald Haweis
- From the point of view of meditation, there is nothing that is not God. When we meditate, we are participating in a spiritual experience. We are seeing life is not perhaps as we thought, but a little bit different, vastly different. Frederick Lenz
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To connect to our inner wisdom
- Intuition is the conscious experience – in pure spirit – of a purely spiritual content. Rudolf Steiner
- For the spiritual being, intuition is far more than a hunch. It is viewed as guidance or as God talking, and this inner insight is never taken lightly or ignored. Wayne Dyer
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To experience a sense of what is right and wrong
- The mind is acquired human nature. The conscience is inherent spiritual nature. Ian Gardner
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To contemplate and experience death
- Death can be successfully put out of mind for the simple reason that it is beyond human experience. Death is either the abstract concept of nonexistence or the emotion of fear. Lidiya Ginzburg
- To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man doesn’t know how to be mortal. And when he dies, he doesn’t even know how to be dead. Milan Kundera
- There is one vast human experience that confronts us so formidably that we cannot pretend to overlook it. There is no solution to death. There is no means whatever whereby you or I, by taking thought, can solve this difficulty in such a manner that it no longer exists. Dorothy L. Sayers
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To create memories in the divine mind…
- Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life. Tove Ditlevsen
- All experience is an arch wherethro’ gleams that untraveled world whose margins fade forever and forever as we move. Alfred Lord Tennyson
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…that will exist eternally…
- Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost. William Ellery Channing
- Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed. Henri Bergson
- All creation is patterned according to an inner blueprint or arrangement that carries within it a genetic memory of everything that ever happens. Lawrence Kushner
- Life is like a film screen: pictures come, make an impression, go, and then make a place for new pictures with new impressions which obscure the previous ones. Some of those old pictures fade, but the impressions they leave will never pass away. Diet Eman
- The Knower is all knowledge and there is no place for knowledge to go missing. Scott Owen
- Every thought, action, decision or feeling creates an eddy in the interlocking, interbalancing, ever-moving energy fields of life, leaving a permanent record for all of time. This realization can be intimidating when it first dawns on us, but it becomes a springboard for rapid evolution. David R. Hawkins
- Every word, deed, and intention creates a permanent record. Every thought is known and recorded forever. David R. Hawkins
- Every form, thought, motion that has been exhibited on the screen of time and space is recorded permanently. These cosmic motion pictures—and they were never more than that, portrayed by immortal souls—are preserved in the Infinite Archives. Paramahansa Yogananda
- Everything in the universe constantly gives off an energy pattern of a specific frequency that remains for all time and can be read by those who know how. Every word, deed, and intention creates a permanent record. Every thought is known and recorded forever. David R. Hawkins
- Every single action, feeling, or thought registers permanently beyond time and space in the all-encompassing contextual field of consciousness. Therefore, any event, whether a thought, feeling, or action, is forever identifiable and retrievable. David R. Hawkins
- Upon time and space is written the thoughts, the deeds, the activities of an entity… the record is God’s book of remembrance. Edgar Cayce
- The Akashic Record is a theosophical term referring to a universal filing system which records every occurring thought, word, and action. Zeteticus
- Every single thing is an aspect of One Field of Consciousness. The Whole never loses contact with its parts, they are never lost or forgotten. Deepak Chopra
- He who is dying merges in consciousness, and thus consciousness accompanies him when he departs, along with the impressions of all that he has done, experienced, and known. The Upanishad
- Just as the words and music of a song are preserved on audio tape, or a compact disc, so is the story of your life saved in the Akashic Records. Robert Cheney
- The holographic theory suggests that our past, instead of fading into oblivion, it too remains recorded in the cosmic hologram and can always be accessed once again. Michael Talbot
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To experience joy and happiness
- Joy is the triumph of life; it is the sign that we are living our true life as spiritual beings. William Ralph Inge
- We have much to do together. Let us do it in wisdom and love and joy. Let us make this the human experience. Gary Zukav
- To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It’s joyful, but it’s bittersweet. I just think that’s life. Amy Grant
- What makes us happy is to have a spiritual experience … that experience of ecstasy in the deepest meditation; that’s happiness. Frederick Lenz
- Material objects give rise to physical happiness, while spiritual development gives rise to mental happiness. Since we experience both physical and mental happiness, we need both material and spiritual development. This is why, for our own good and that of society we need to balance material progress with inner development. Dalai Lama
- Assume that your drive to experience pleasure isn’t a barrier to your spiritual growth, but is in fact essential to it. Proceed on the hypothesis that cultivating joy can make you a more ethical and compassionate person. Imagine that feeling good has something important to teach you every day. What might you do differently from what you do now? Rob Brezsny
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To take risks
- It’s only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you’re not expressing the utmost of your human experience. Lupita Nyong’o
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To experience growth and evolution…
- The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation. John Ortberg
- The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. M. Scott Peck
- No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are. Paulo Freire
- In love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we are to the spiritual experience. Paulo Coelho
- People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. Eleanor Roosevelt
- Well, my opinion is that real change occurs through deep interpersonal experiences. Others will also say deep spiritual experiences. Drew Pinsky
- Whatever God there is is slowly eliminating the guts and alimentary system from the human being, to evolve a higher, more spiritual being. D. H. Lawrence
- We have always been involved in spiritual evolution. We are spiritual beings, we have always been spiritual beings and we will always be spiritual beings. Gary Zukav
- We all come to this planet as spiritual beings destined to experience a variety of challenges and situation in order to grow and evolve spiritually. James Van Praagh
- The goal of the human experience is to transform ourselves from beings who long to attain power in the physical world to beings who are empowered from within. Caroline Myss
- The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one. M. Scott Peck
- You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape. Woodrow Wilson
- Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience. Gary Zukav
- Finally, if you still are growing, you reach the highest archetype, the archetype of the spirit. This is the time when you finally realize what Jesus meant when he said, You are in this world, but you are not of this world. You are not here as a human being having a spiritual experience, but the reverse is true: All of us here are spiritual beings having a human experience. Wayne Dyer
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…on behalf of the The All
- Spiritual experiences and their results are not meant for the individual. They are for the evolution of the whole race. Andrew Cohen
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To grow knowledge and wisdom
- The most valuable lessons in life cannot be taught, they must be experienced. Liam Payne
- When emotional intelligence merges with spiritual intelligence, human nature is transformed. Deepak Chopra
- Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. George Bernard Shaw
- Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life. Morris Raphael Cohen
- Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, and selecting, and re-organizing its own materials. Joseph Story
- We live in a world where knowledge is developing at an ever-accelerating rate. Drink deeply from this ever-springing well of wisdom and human experience. Gordon B. Hinckley
- Many spiritual teachers – in Buddhism, in Islam – have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment. Bell Hooks
- The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement. Thomas Carlyle
- Life will not, it will never, make sense to your mind. The secret is to see life from the soul’s perspective; to add to the mind’s experience the soul’s wisdom, awareness, and total knowing. Neale Donald Walsch
- A bulging portfolio of spiritual experiences matters little if it does not have the power to sustain us through the inevitable moments of grief, loss, and change. Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched. Wisdom is alive only as long as it is lived, understanding is liberating only as long as it is applied. Jack Kornfield
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To learn from our experiences
- My soul is my guru; my experience is my guru. Kumar Pallana
- No part of your experience is wasted. Everything you’ve experienced so far is part of what you were meant to learn. Martha Beck
- There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience. Archibald MacLeish
- You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers. The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it. Richard Bach
- Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. Douglas Adams
- May not the inadequacy of much of our spiritual experience be traced back to our habit of skipping through the corridors of the Kingdom like children in the market place, chattering about everything, but pausing to learn the value of nothing. Aiden Wilson Tozer
- We, as spiritual beings, created the physical world as a place to learn. It’s our school, our playground, our artist’s studio. I beleive that we’re here to master the process of creation – to learn how to consciously channel the creative energy of spirit into physical form. Shakti Gawain
- You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don’t turn away from possible futures before you’re certain you don’t have anything to learn from them. You’re always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. Richard Bach
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To experience pain and suffering and the deepening it brings
- All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. Helen Keller
- Most spiritual experiences begin with suffering. They begin with groundlessness. They begin when the rug has been pulled out from under us. Pema Chodron
- The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side. John Steinbeck
- Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. Helen Keller
- Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have. Edwin S. Shneidman
- To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It’s joyful, but it’s bittersweet. I just think that’s life. Amy Grant
- No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable. Orson F. Whitney
- Pain by itself is merely pain, but the experience of pain couples with an understanding that the pain serves a worthy purpose as suffering. Suffering can be endured because there is a reason for it that is worth the effort. What is more worthy of your pain than the evolution of your soul? Gary Zukav
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To experience limitation
- Perfect and bulletproof are seductive, but they don’t exist in the human experience. Brené Brown
- The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation. Flannery O’Connor
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…and to experience transcending that limitation
- Life is the experience of limitation and the joy of transcending it. Anthony Lambert
- Sometimes consciousness devises an obstacle in order to have the experience of transcending it. Mooji
- God clothes itself in limitations. Then unclothes itself and divests itself of limitations. Rupert Spira
- Through living forms, Consciousness experiences the elation of the spirit when the limited form triumphs over challenge and limitation. Anthony Lambert
- True ecstasy is stepping out of the bondage of the time-bound, space-bound world. We long to be free of fear and limitation. We hunger to experience our infinite, unbounded Self. Deepak Chopra
- Everyone I teach is endeavouring to rid themselves of the limiting human condition. They want to BE. They want to return to what somehow they know they are, and have always been, under the limitation. Barry Long
- The motivation for the soul’s departure is open to speculation, but some theorize that the soul leaves to experience something in a more limited existence. Gary Gomes
- Obviously, we are God in a very limited way. Bernard Haisch
- As I saw forever, I came to a realm in which there is a point where we pass all knowledge and begin creating the next fractal, the next level. We have that power to create as we explore. And that is God expanding itself through us. Mellen-Thomas Benedict
- Even as the finite encloses an infinite series And in the unlimited limits appear, So the soul of immensity dwells in minutia And in the narrowest limits no limit in here. What joy to discern the minute in infinity! The vast to perceive in the small, what divinity! Jacob Bernoulli
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To experience darkness as well as the light
- I believe that the dark night of the soul is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and perseverance. It helps to know that others have endured a loss of faith. Julia Cameron
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To overcome difficulties, obstacles and challenges…
- Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process. Sai Baba
- Obstacles become monsters in your head; evil horrible creatures. Obstacles are sometimes good things. Sometimes they just ARE – not characterized as good or bad, but just as things like ancient mossy rocks that are a part of the human experience. Sameer Gadhia
- Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than you were before. It strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become better prepared for the next challenge. Jim Rohn
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…and in so doing, experience freedom and transcendence
- To free our body from fear what we need is the glorious experience of the soul. Sri Chinmoy
- The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. Helen Keller
- It seems to me that one of the most basic human experiences, one that is genuinely universal and unites-or, more precisely, could unite-all of humanity, is the experience of transcendence in the broadest sense of the word. Vaclav Havel
- I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves. Khalil Gibran
- Math . . . music .. . starry nights . . . These are secular ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted into a grand perspective. It’s a sense of being awed by existence that almost obliterates the self. Religious people think of it as an essentially religious experience but it’s not. It’s an essentially human experience. Rebecca Goldstein
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To transcend fear…
- Understanding dissolves fear. When we understand the true nature of our being, fears dissipate. We are spiritual beings, not human beings. Brian Weiss
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…and grow in courage
- Something whose connection with human experience we cannot grasp is bound to be frightening. Kobo Abe
- If the only thing people learned was not to be afraid of their experience, that alone would change the world. Sydney Banks
- We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot. Eleanor Roosevelt
- The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons. Friedrich Nietzsche
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To experience constant change and learn to embrace it
- Change is no modern invention. It is as old as time and as unlikely to disappear. It has always to be counted on as of the essence of human experience. James Rowland Angell
- The capacity to become aware of the givens of our existence – such as change – and to actually welcome those as just part of our human experience releases the struggle. Roger Housden
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To share experience with others
- The commonality in the human experience is the same. We have the same sorrows, and the same triumphs. Joy is joy is joy. Oprah Winfrey
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To serve
- To reach back and help, and expect neither reward nor even thanks. To reach back and help, because that is what spiritual beings do. Brian Weiss
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To inspire each other
- By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them. In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. Albert Schweitzer
- A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Nothing like this archetype has existed before because nothing like this was required before in the human experience. And spiritual partnerships can be created in a biological family, they can be created among friends, they can be created in the workplace, they can be created anywhere that two or more individuals are committed to their own spiritual evolution and are striving to relate to each other as equals. Gary Zukav
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To love and grow in love
- Love is a human experience, not a political statement. Anne Hathaway
- Sustaining a loving heart, even for a moment, makes one a spiritual being. Gautama Buddha
- The spiritual path can only be traveled through the daily experience of love. Paulo Coelho
- The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love. Marianne Williamson
- In love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we are to the spiritual experience. Paulo Coelho
- We have much to do together. Let us do it in wisdom and love and joy. Let us make this the human experience. Gary Zukav
- We must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there are no rules. Paulo Coelho
- When love is accompanied with deep intimacy, it raises us to the highest level of human experience. In this exalted space, we can surrender our egos, become vulnerable and know levels of joy and well-being unique among life experiences. We attain a glimpse of the rapture that can be ours. Boundaries are blurred, there are no limitations and we rejoice in union. We become one and, at the same time, both. Leo Buscaglia
- What is love? From the spiritual and inner point of view, love is self-expansion. Human love binds and is bound. Divine Love expands, enlarges itself. Sri Chinmoy
- When it comes to love as a spiritual manifestation, it is an experience of utter surrender to that which is greater than any concept of love can define. Michael Beckwith
- And then the witness, if you go down into the witness, that has the spiritual being. Down there, in your soul, you’ll get far more love than you ever got out there. Ram Dass
- By the experience of active love. Strive to love your neighbour actively and indefatigably. In as far as you advance in love you will grow surer of the reality of God and of the immortality of your soul. Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance. Viktor E. Frankl
- Traditional religions practices are important.They allow us to share with others the communal experience of adoration and prayer, but we must never forget spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love, and with love,there are no rules some may try to control their emotions and develop strategies for their behavior, others may turn to reading books of advice from experts on relationships but this is all folly.The heart decides and what it decides is all that really matters. Paulo Coelho
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To grow in compassion
- You know, when real trouble comes your humanity is awakened. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion. Joseph Campbell
- Some people find the experience and practice of compassion as a spiritual discipline to be a more direct route to the transformation of the heart than prayer. It is not that prayer does not or should not play a role in their lives, but their way to the opening of the heart lies through deeds of compassion. Just do it summarizes this path of transformation. Marcus Borg
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To grow in kindness
- Humans are powerful spiritual beings meant to create good on earth. This good isn’t usually accomplished in bold actions, but in singular acts of kindness between people. It’s the little things that count, because they are more spontaneous and show who you truly are. Dannion Brinkley
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To grow in trust
- The mess of the human condition is that fundamental trust has not yet been realized. The true value of profound spiritual experience lies in the discovery of that fundamental trust. Andrew Cohen
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To experience equality and connectedness
- Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings. Robert M. Hutchins
- Far from making me feel different and special, my [spiritual] experiences made me feel the same, ordinary, and interconnected. If I felt more spiritual, everyone else felt more spiritual as well. Julia Cameron
- At its most basic, the spiritual is the experience of the connectedness that underlies reality. The depth of that experience depends on the capacity of the individual to set aside considerations of self, thereby gaining access to connection. Arthur J. Deikman
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To experience connection with others
- A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience. Simon Sinek
- Vulnerability is the core, the heart, the center, of meaningful human experience. Brené Brown
- The spiritual life is a reaching out to our innermost self, to our fellow human and to our God. Henri Nouwen
- It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart. Anne Lamott
- Every tragedy of the human experience can be attributed to one human decision – the decision to withdraw from each other. Neale Donald Walsch
- Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what’s common in human experience and turns it into something holy. Eugene H. Peterson
- Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them. Albert Schweitzer
- It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates a bond which nothing seems able to break. Eleanor Roosevelt
- The family is the scene of the most intimate and powerful of human experiences. Family situations are bloodier and more passionate than any others, and the costs are greater. Charlene Weir
- There is something profoundly satisfying about sharing a meal. Eating together, breaking bread together, is one of the oldest and most fundamentally unifying of human experiences. Barbara Coloroso
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To experience unity and oneness with all…
- Sex is a spiritual experience. Deepak Chopra
- To awaken spiritual unity, and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature, is the true goal of human life. Mata Amritanandamayi
- Each soul in entering the material experience does so for those purposes of advancement towards that awareness of being fully conscious of the oneness with the Creative Forces. Edgar Cayce
- The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching ‘We are all one.’ Neale Donald Walsch
- I got to a point where kind of a oneness with everything and a great compassion. It teaches you compassion. It was a great, enlightening experience, a spiritual experience. Not particularly religious, but spiritual. It was great. I can still go there. Larry Hagman
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…and also to embrace our uniqueness
- The essential lesson I’ve learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you’re not here as a human being only. You’re a spiritual being having a human experience. Wayne Dyer
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To grow in patience
- The most trying moments in human experience were those in which there was nothing to be done except to wait. Patricia Wentworth
- In spiritual experience, much depends on a man having the patience to make observations, at first to simply accept them, and to wait with understanding them until the right moment arrives. Rudolf Steiner
