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I understand you well. Now we have no need to dispute: you are awake, and so you have seen the difference between us, the difference between men akin to their father and those who take their destiny from a woman; the difference between spirit and intellect.
— Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
My spirit is stronger.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Our strong spirit will survived every situation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You are a dust with beautiful spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The spirit of a man can survive a sick body.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You don't drown because you can't breathe. You drown because you try to breathe what is not breathable.
— Katherine Catmull, The Radiant Road
Ever since I was young I enjoyed solving puzzles and having the pleasure to see the bigger picture afterwards. But even after all that, I found that life could be the most challenging puzzle we have to face. It's one of those things that even if you have all the pieces and could see the whole picture, it still takes time and patience to solve it. At times, we feel more at ease not knowing the whole picture, not knowing the whole level of difficulty or number of pieces that we're missing, but just building up one piece at a time. The problem with this approach is that the only clues that we have for matching two pieces are the shape and a small glimpse of the image. We so often find comfort in building up the corners and the borders but very rarely do we adventure in the middle of the puzzle. We'd rather work little by little holding on to our safe border and only move towards the center when the pieces are still in touch with our borders or roots. On the other hand, you could be one of those people that just jumps in the middle and builds up on every piece you have in order to get small portions of the truth of the bigger picture every now and then. Not having your borders or corners in place might mean that you don't need to know your limits in order to realize that the puzzle will one day come to an end. Nevertheless, every piece is equally important and it gets handed to you at a time where you have at least some matching piece. That doesn't mean you should only focus on one point or piece and limit your possible connections. Spread out and you will find even more connections. The truth of the puzzle information comes in different shapes and colors but in the end it's all connected. Information might be divided, spread out in different areas, different people, different experiences. What's important to remember is that every piece is meant for you. You might throw it on the side now and use it later, but it will forever remain a part of your bigger picture. Work on your puzzle, with patience and care in moving forward and with a hopeful spirit that it will all work out in the end for your highest good!
— Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache
He knew that prejudice was a necessary part of the weak spirit of some men.
— Dan Groat, A Punctual Paymaster
On one of the right-side-up pages show wrote, with some difficulty, Know what roots know: there is only one tree.
— Katherine Catmull, The Radiant Road
They say that it is always poets that die in wars, and I never got over a sense of being in the trenches.
— Salena Godden, Springfield Road
Then he had looked on his spirit as his I; now, it was his healthy strong animal I that he looked upon as himself. And all this terrible change has come about because he had ceased to believe himself and had taken to believing others. This he had done because it was too difficult to live believing one's self: believing one's self, one had to decide every question, not in favour of one's animal I, which was always seeking for easy gratification, but in almost every case against it. Believing others, there was nothing to decide; everything had been decided already, and always in favor of the animal I and against the spiritual. Nor was this all. Believing in his own self, he was always exposing himself to the censure of those around him; believing others, he had their approval.
— Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection
Any self-defense situation has the potential to quickly become A 'life and death' situation, therefore your practice of martial arts should be undertaken, as if your very life depends on it . . .
— Soke Behzad Ahmadi, Legacy of A Sensei
When I thought everything was impossible to achieve, my spirit defied my thoughts and did the impossible. My ego sees limitations, but my spirit sees opportunities.
— Karen A. Baquiran
The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child in repressing his spirits and courage, paralyzing the understanding, and that without producing indignation, but only fear and obedience, and even much sympathy with his tyranny, - is a familiar fact explained to the child when he becomes a man, only by seeing that the oppressor of his youth is himself a child tyrannized over by those names and words and forma, of whose influence he was merely the organ to the youth.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
True faith in God through Jesus Christ, must be manifested with fearless spirit and obedience to God's law. Joshua 1:1-11
— Felix Wantang, God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible: Volume 2
Oh! Science! Everything has been revised. For the body and for the soul,--the viaticum,—there are medicine and philosophy,—old wives' remedies and popular songs rearranged. And the pastimes of princes and games they proscribed! Geography, cosmography, mechanics, chemistry!...Science, the new nobility! Progress. The world marches on! Why shouldn’t it turn?It is the vision of numbers. We are going toward the Spirit. There’s no doubt about it, an oracle, I tell you. I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
— Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat
But why do spirits walk the earth, and why do they come to me?""It is required of every man," the Ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. It is doomed to wander through the world--oh, woe is me!--and witness what it cannot share, but might have shared on earth, and turned to happiness!...I cannot rest, I cannot stay, I cannot linger anywhere. My spirit never roved beyond the narrow limits of our money-changing hole; and weary journeys lie before me!
— Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
The Indians were inside their bodies, he decided, in a way that the British were not. His own flesh impeded his spirit.
— Damon Galgut, Arctic Summer
Love is sacred state of mind, body and soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The purpose of Karate is to guide you out of trouble by any means necessary, both in actual combat and in life
— Soke Behzad Ahmadi
You must know, my own love, that in each element there exists a race of beings, whose form scarcely differs from yours, but who very seldom appear to mortal sight … you now see before you, my love, an undine.
— Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte Fouqué, Undine, The Water Sprite: Spring
We cam leave the rat race to rodents... but I suspect that even they wouldn't like it.
— Adriano Bulla, New Age Spirit
For a cheerful spirit, a dark street is just another bright street!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Where there are no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank.
— Christina Rossetti
Divine spirit dwells in the soul of every man.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Spirit? Who is that fellow? And where do you know him from? Is he perhaps not merely an arbitrary and convenient hypostasis that you have not even defined, let alone deduced or proved? Do you think you have an audience of old women in front of you?
— Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena
Black hawk down.Black eagle up.
— Cass van Krah
If you are there for the Lord, He will be there for you. If you love Him and keep His commandments, you will have His Spirit to be with you and guide you.
— Robert D. Hales
it will make sense the moment you come Home. I could see it all so clearly. I could see what it is that we are waiting for. I knew in one solitary moment why I had learned obedience and why I valued nothing on the earth but love. It’s all that matters. It is all there is.
— Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master
Adversity is awakening of spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Love is sacred.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
By acknowledging spirit with gratitude, you bring it joy and give it more strength to do its work.
— Russell Eric Dobda
The body cannot take chronic terror
—  it must defend itself by refusing to harbor the spirit that wants to soar through it and experience life to the fullest.
You professors, what do you teach your students? Do you instill in them the spirit of possession?
— Sunday Adelaja
Pluck up a spirit, and do not be all the time sighing and murmuring!
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
One’s life is short, but the life of the spirit is long.
— Sook Nyul Choi
You professors, what do you teach your students? Do you instil in them the spirit of possession?
— Sunday Adelaja
I am hearing a more resounding voice in the spirit saying,God is changing the guard in the Nigerian church.
— Sunday Adelaja
Follow the urge of the spirit of God into the next destination in our journey of faith as a Nation.
— Sunday Adelaja
As we balance and become more and more identified with our spiritual nature, and the ego returns to its designated place, we again are led by the Spirit, but now in a conscious way.
— Gerry  Boylan
This was what my spirit longed to do, to wander in strange lands. It couldn't stand being trapped in one body all the time. It had wanderlust.
— Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season
The body is a dwelling of the spirit.
— Sunday Adelaja
Having a strong spirit, we can control the desires of the flesh.
— Sunday Adelaja
The spirit of pessimism inside of her was purely organic.
— S.A. Tawks, The Spirit of Pessimism
Broken hearts show us we’ve grown out of one stage, by ripping us wide open for the next.We’re forced to choose what we do with all that pain: turn it against ourselves, aim it at someone else, or tap all that power and reach higher.
— Edward Fahey, Entertaining Naked People
Life changes as seasons change. And with each season, we, like the farmer, have a job to do in the cultivation of our Don't Die® spirit.
— Andrea Goeglein
When you use life's curve balls to create positive energy, you cultivate a Don't Die® spirit that powers you through moment by moment so that you live your life to the fullest until the very end.
— Andrea Goeglein
Fruits of the spirit in the man attract others to him.
— Sunday Adelaja
If You Don't Believe the Numbers and Believe in Your Spirit, then You're Ageless.
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
When a person comes to know God, the Spirit of God revives his spirit and his essence.
— Sunday Adelaja
Life is about trying to find our ways back to our one shared soul. When we’re looking out at the stars, we’re looking into ourselves.
— Edward Fahey, The Gardens of Ailana
The world suddenly opened up, and she was coming to new realizations and a greater awareness, concerning the nature of reality, and the world, which her mortal mind had previously been unable to conceive. She smiled her radiant goddess smile and began to laugh. Her omnipresent peals of mirth resonated through the forest, seeming to echo to the edges of the universe and back. She was getting her first glimpses of the world, seen through the eyes of a goddess; the first sweet tastes of a consciousness empowered beyond all human levels of comprehension, and her spirit was in exultant bliss.
— Alexei Maxim Russell, Forgotten Lore: Volume II
The condition of our soul is usually the source of many sicknesses.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
I find American girls have a spirit and honesty about them that is most refreshing.
— Ann Rinaldi, Time Enough for Drums
The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear.
— Charles Baudelaire
Ancient philosophers and spiritual teachers were explorers. They wanted us to be as well. They thought we should understand this physical world, but not get stuck here. For thousands of years we have shared their insights, over-analyzed and repeated their words; quoting and re-translating until all meaning has been lost. These great minds, great souls, great beings sought to be jumping off points, not merely the originators of emptied out and desiccated clichés. They wanted to be doorways, not doorstops.
— Edward Fahey, The Gardens of Ailana
The spirit of fornication and adultery robs a man of his authority in the spiritual realm.
— Sunday Adelaja
Real patriotism embraces the wholly immovable belief that without freedom, the essence of the human soul and the life-breath of the human spirit is doomed to perish for lack of space and absence of light.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, A View from the Front Porch: Encounters with Life and Jesus
The prophecy Revelations tells three stories1) God's plan to use mankind to transform a darker spirit and soul into light2) To use the Law of Creation and its processes to facilitate this plan3) To guide the collective spirit and consciousness of mankind from dark to light and then then God. As we grow the spirit of business systems that were created over the past several thousand of years will evolve too.
— Phoenix
We did a Tarotcard reading. She told me different things, most of them depressing andworth forgetting. But what I'll always remember is her prediction of mydeath, and how I'd become a kind of ghost, ‘wandering’ she said, with a‘spiritual restlessness’.
— Keith Steinbaum, The Poe Consequence
God’s secrets are revealed to us through the inter-communication of the spirit of man withthe Spirit of God.
— Sunday Adelaja
For many people the way to success is long and hard, because they do not understand Biblicalprinciples and the laws of the spirit.
— Sunday Adelaja
The spirit of counsel enables a person to look for something new and to search further anddeeper.
— Sunday Adelaja
Religions differ only in the form
—  religions differ only in their methodology.
The leadings of the Holy Spirit will help you to achieve your goals in the quickest way.
— Sunday Adelaja
Paulette had never been flush with self-confidence. People took that as humility, but humility isn’t painful and crippling. She hadn’t yet learned that humble and self-destructive aren’t the same thing at all. They’re not even on the same team. - From "The Gardens of Ailana" handbook for healers & mystics
— Edward Fahey, The Gardens of Ailana
God calls each person individually. He said that a man and his wife were one flesh, but not one spirit
— Sunday Adelaja
Get close to only those who renew our spirit and sense of purpose in life.
— Aditya Ajmera
i have known yousince the beginningof timethe one i have loved alwaysin spirit.only just discoveredin person.
— Sanober  Khan
The idea in our culture of body solely as sculpture is wrong. Body is not marble. That is not its purpose. Its purpose is to protect, contain, support and fire the spirit and soul within it, to be a repository for memory, to fill us with feeling - that is the supreme psychic nourishment. It is to lift us and propel us, to fill us with feeling to prove that we exist, that we are here, to give us grounding, heft, weight. It is wrong to think of it as a place we leave in order to soar to the spirit. The body is the launcher of those experiences. Without body there would be no sensations of crossing thresholds, there would be no sense of lifting, no sense of height, weightlessness. All that comes from the body. The body is the rocket launcher. In its nose capsule, the soul looks out the window into the mysterious starry night and is dazzled.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Identical twins do not possess identical souls.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
When life throws you curve balls, become a curve ball hitter.
— C.L. Swinney
Better a spirit that does not quite fit in this world than one that is broken.
— Donna Gillespie, The Light Bearer
When what one does, reps, or 'spits', repetitively, is foul or beastly - one summons spiritual undertakers to dine on fleshly parasites. In various forms, nature's law purges all that becomes wasteful. Change your game, or the game will change you.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
[W]e, being who and what we are, cannot know unless we are taught by that which is other than we, and that means by the Spirit of God, albeit in diverse mediations. Though nature is relatively passive under our enquiry… it remains true that knowledge of her comes as fit, and is therefore a species of revelation…. If there is revelation of the truth of the world, it is because the Spirit of truth enables it to take place. To put it another way, the creator Spirit brings it about that human rationality is able, within the limits set to it, to encompass the truth of creation. We therefore neither control nor create our knowledge, even though the concepts by which we express it are in part the free creations of our minds. Does it not then follow that all knowledge depends on disclosure or revelation?
— Colin E. Gunton, A Brief Theology of Revelation
The Spirit, and your soul are not the same things. The Spirit is God - the source. Your soul is God's imagination - the subject.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
I'm not here to win the rat race of materialism. I am here to experience the depths of my soul in form.
— Erin Fall Haskell
To love life is to love all of it.
— Erin Fall Haskell
Scripture, empowered by God’s Spirit, is the instrument that brings people to salvation.
— Jim George, The Bare Bones Bible® Handbook for Teens: Getting to Know Every Book in the Bible
All of my works are steps on my journey, a struggle for truth that I have waged with pen, canvas, and materials. Overhead is a distant, radiant star, and the more I stretch to reach it, the further it recedes. But by the power of my spirit and my single-hearted pursuit of the path, I have clawed my way through the labyrinthine confusion of the world of people in an unstinting effort to approach even one step closer to the realm of the soul.
— Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama
Birthday, Birthday, Birthday! Celebrate your day of birth, no matter the circumstances of your birth. Be thankful and joyful for the gift of life on this divine day.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Never once, did Christ ever utter, "I came here to start a religion"Early Christians did not worship items, relics, wars, or governments.
— Justin Kyle McFarlane Beau
If we recognize that Spirit is all powerful, and cannot be hurt, and that only Spirit exists, then nothing that happens here matters. And we see everyone and everything from the point of wholeness. Even the ‘deceitful’ thing that happened is probably to teach us a lesson not to value anything of this world, including the body. Miracles bring conviction for they demonstrate what you have just written – the valuelessness of the body and world and the value of the Spirit, which is unchanging.
— David Hoffmeister
The believer caught between the flesh and Spirit is also caught between death and life. That is what happens when God intervenes in a human life. That intervention does not necessarily bring tranquility. In fact, it is more likely to bring tension and conflict. It is the life surrendered to the flesh which lacks inner conflict, for the decline through sin to death can be so easy. It is when the Spirit enters a life to contest the sway of sin and counter the weakness of the flesh that conflict ensues. The presence of moral conflict is a sign of the Spirit presence, not the Spirit's absence.
— James D.G. Dunn, Romans: A Bible Commentary for Every Day
So age after age — will it be soon, O Lord? —Beneath the scalpel of nature and art,Our spirit screams, our flesh depletes itself,Giving birth to an organ for the sixth sense.("The Sixth Sense")
— Nikolay S. Gumilev, The Silver Age of Russian Culture: An Anthology
A present reality, experienced in this life that begins in you, is known as; the kingdom of God.
— Stacy Snapp-Killian aka StacyK
Some call it energy, some say it’s spirit, but I believe it’s the love that people share that keeps them connected, even after death.
— Tallulah Grace, Cliffs of Starsdale
But as in the degrees of sickness thou art to submit to God, so in the kind of it (supposing equal degrees) thou art to be altogether indifferent whether God call thee by a consumption or an asthma, by a dropsy or palsy, by a fever in thy humours, or a fever in your spirits; because all such nicety of choice is nothing but a colour to a legitimate impatience, and to make an excuse to murmur privately, and for circumstances, when in the sum of affairs we durst not own impatience.”Jeremy Taylor’s “Holy Dying”, extract from chapter IV.I (The Practice of Patience) para 5.
— Jeremey Taylor
Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride, bridles the tongue.
— George Horne
The best beauty treatment of all is time spent quietly before the Lord.
— Elizabeth George, A Woman's Walk with God: Growing in the Fruit of the Spirit
Humans are actually spirit beings who each possess a mind and a body and what we do with them is entirely up to us.
— Vaughan  Jones, Spirituality - Gathered Inspirational Thoughts
Submission is not in the bowing of heads or knees but in the humbling of your whole being (spirit, soul and body)
— Ikechukwu Izuakor
To access your subconscious, is to access your 'higher-self.
— Kevin Michel, Moving Through Parallel Worlds To Achieve Your Dreams
Value those who give you constructive criticism, because without them doing so, you will never reach the peak of what you are do.
— Unarine Ramaru
When you love yourself, you love your spirit, so everyone can feel it, because everyone is a spiritual being.
— Debasish Mridha
Choose criticism wisely, it might help you improve some elements of what you do.
— Unarine Ramaru
It was no wonder that they thus questioned one another's actual and bodily existence, and even doubted of their own. So strangely did they meet in the dim wood that it was like the first encounter in the world beyond the grave of two spirits who had been intimately connected in their former life, but now stood coldly shuddering in mutual dread, as not yet familiar with their state, nor wonted to the companionship of disembodied beings. Each a ghost, and awe-stricken at the other ghost.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
The answers to your problems lie all around you. The keys to your self-discovery are waiting to be found in each sunset, each pair of eyes, each breath of fresh air. Listen to the symphony of life and you will hear yourself. Find the beauty of nature and you have found your soul.
— Vironika Tugaleva
My funeral," the Blue Man said. "Look at the mourners. Some did not even know me well, yet they came. Why? Did you ever wonder? Why people gather when others die? Why people feel they should?"It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed."You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me, too. It happens every day. When lightning strikes a minute after you are gone, or an airplane crashes that you might have been on. When your colleague falls ill and you do not. We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole."It is why we are drawn to babies . . ." He turned to the mourners. "And to funerals.
— Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Your spirit nourishes from your old God and prophet, but mine nourishes from wisdom and conscience.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
If you want to find a way, you have to go
— Tagor Manroo
May our spirit fill us with understanding of victory and defeat, the gift of collaboration, the wisdom to choose the right path, and opportunities that inspire hope.
— Celeste Cooper, WINTER DEVOTIONS (Broken Body, Wounded Spirit: Balancing the See-Saw of Chronic Pain
BE REALBring it on-And let truth be my existence.Value my life-And tell me like it is.Bark at me when I'm wrong-And hug me when I'm right.Praise me if I succeed-And tell me if I fail.Laugh at me if you think I'm funny-And wink at me if you think I'm cute.Yell at me if I ever hurt you-And scold me if I'm ever bad.Keep things real with me, Because I want to be alive,I want my world to be real-And I want to see your spirit.I want to hear you breathe- And I want to know how you feel.Don’t waste my time with insincerities.Keep my world real.
— Giorge Leedy, Uninhibited From Lust To Love
When words are too heavy for the mouth, the soul weeps in agony
— Ikechukwu Izuakor
I think most of us are looking for a calling, not a job. Most of us, like the assembly-line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.
— Studs Terkel, Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
I am Shakti, as well as Shiva. I am everything male and female, light and dark, flesh and spirit. Perfectly balanced in one single moment lasting an eternity...
— Robin Rumi, Naked Morsels: Short Stories of Spiritual Erotica
You are a cosmic traveler; your body is temporary, but its essence is eternal...
— Dave Zebian
Illumination is remembering your identity as the eternal spirit and energy that animates all that is.
— Raphael Zernoff, I Am
I have come to differentiate not at all between what is spiritual and the rest of life. There is only Life, all of it is good and the more I am aware of this in every moment, the more my spirit comes alive.
— Jacob Nordby
Chasing something external to satisfy the internal is a hollow practice. The only thing you can chase is yourself and you are already here!
— Tresh An, Mindful Motion: 33 Flames of Burning Desire
True biblical love is a selfless commitment of one’s body, soul, and spirit to the betterment of the other person.
— Jim George, A Husband After God's Own Heart
Anything allowed in the heart which is contrary to the will of God, let it seem ever so insignificant, or be ever so deeply hidden, will cause us to fall before our enemies. Any root of bitterness cherished towards another, any self-seeking, any harsh judgments indulged in, any slackness in obeying the voice of the Lord, any doubtful habits or surroundings, any one of these things will effectually cripple and paralyze our spiritual life. I believe our blessed Guide, the indwelling Holy Spirit, is always secretly discovering these things to us by continual little twinges and pangs of conscience, so that we are left without excuse.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
God’s Word is the tool the Holy Spirit uses to change our worldly thinking to heavenly thinking.
— Elizabeth George
Do not let your conscience be clouded by unknown storms. Trust in the atmosphere of spirit that breathes so calmly deep within you at all times.
— Sean Patrick Brennan, The Papal Visitor
Why can't one live a life of disappearing?An invisible man- the real superman.
— Aporva Kala, Life... Love... Kumbh...
When you are obedient to God, He fills you with His Spirit and empowers you to do all He asks of you.
— Jim George, One-Minute Insights for Men
The waves of love roll throughout the Universe, and overflow in our hearts..Everything is ONE!
— Dave Zebian
For aeons past, there were many gods who descended to be humans, yet there were not many humans who ascended back to their divinity.
— Raphael Zernoff
I heard death had a name, but I forgot what it was.
— Anthony Liccione
Life is a series of awakenings.
— Swami Mukerji
True, the body's easily maimed, and the spirit can be crippled - yet there's that in a man that is never destroyed.
— Diana Gabaldon, An Echo in the Bone
Souls’ may be subjugated and regulated – for a time – but never terminated. They live!
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Be specific in your prayers. Carefully craft what you speak. What you say should be in accordance with the word of God and the guidance of the Holy Spirit. You will find that this will resolve attacks or issues that arise.
— Dr. Glen A. Staples
The power of such a mountain is so great and yet so subtle that, without compulsion, people are drawn to it from near and far, as if by the force of some invisible magnet…this worshipful or religious attitude is not impressed by scientific facts, like figures of altitude, which are foremost in the mind of modern man. Nor is it motivated by the urge to ‘conquer’ the mountain.
— Anagarika Govinda, Way of the White Clouds
God’s supernatural self-control is available to us when we walk by the Spirit.
— Elizabeth George
It is as if I have entered what the Tibetans call the Bardo-literally, between-two-existences- a dreamlike hallucination that precedes reincarnation, not necessarily in human form…In case I should need them, instructions for passage through the Bardo are contained in the Tibetan book of the dead- a guide for the living since it teaches that a man’s last thoughts will determine the quality of his reincarnation.
— Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard
When a photo of a person looks deep into your spirit and tells you thousand stories….. Stories from your past even before you existed, then the photo is way above any description.
— Sameh Elsayed
The child is taught form earliest consciousness that she has these four brothers with her in the world wherever she goes, and that they will always look after her. The brothers inhabit the four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and poetry. The brothers can be called upon in any critical situation for rescue and assistance. When you die, your four spirit brothers collet your soul and bring you to heaven.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
As the hand held before the eye conceals the greatest mountain, so the little earthly life hides from the glance the enormous lights and mysteries of which the world is full, and he who can draw it away from before his eyes, as one draws away a hand, beholds the great shining of the inner worlds.
— Rabbi Nachman de Bratslav
My distant but always a close friend, the loss of a mother is always painful for her children, I am beside you in this hour of grief. Life can be a stepmother , really severe! but in return also too short. soon will come the time you will say the words that you didn't said , you will do what you did not have time to do, to forgive you own for what you did not want to sayd .... Time exists in our soul, only the spirit is eternal.
— Nuno Rosa
When the organization called soul is free, moving and operative, initial as well as terminal, it is spirit. Qualities are both static, substantial, and transitive. Spirit quickens; it is not only alive, but spirit gives life. Animals are spirited, but man is a living spirit. He lives in his works and his works do follow him. Soul is form, spirit informs. It is the moving function of that of which soul is the substance. Perhaps the words soul and spirit are so heavily laden with traditional mythology and sophisticated doctrine that they must be surrendered; it may be impossible to recover for them in science and philosophy the realities designated in idiomatic speech. But the realities are there, by whatever names they be called.
— John Dewey, Experience and Nature
My spirit will rise from the grave and the world will see i was right.
— Adolf Hitler
Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath.
— Eve Glicksman
The child will leave the nest. The best paint job will crack. The best play will become boring. The best work will grow tedious. The best art will lose meaning. The greatest creation will decay. Behind all this, lies my true self.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
In love, there is no need to choose between self and other, because self is other.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
People are unaware that spirits even exist, let alone that angels are present with them.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
I move onward, through the colors and cheers and music, floating into my future, and it is a clear, open space that stretches wider that the sky and higher than the Andes.
— Laura Resau, The Queen of Water
When there is no tension between the inner beingness and that which is being expressed, there is grace.
— Donna Goddard, The Love of Devotion
I am not gamesome: I do lack some partof that quick spirit that is in Antony.
— William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is around us, for it is everywhere.
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Then all the winds of Heaven ran to join hands and bend a shoulder, to bring down to me the sound of a noble hymn that was heavy with the perfume of Time That Has Gone.The glittering multitudes were singing most mightily, and my heart was in blood to hear a Voice that I knew.The Men of the Valley were marching again.My Fathers were singing up there.Loud, triumphant, the anthem rose, and I knew, in some deep place within, that in the royal music was a prayer to lift up my spirit, to be of good cheer, to keep the faith, that Death was only an end to the things that are made of clay, and to fight, without heed of wounds, all that brings death to the Spirit, with Glory to the Eternal Father, forever, Amen.
— Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
Food for the ego is poison for the soul.
— Donna Goddard, The Love of Devotion
Religion is boring and alien to me and relates no more than a chimera to what is to me the reality of the spirit.
— Vladimir Nabokov, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
Inspired action comes from the guidance of Spirit, not ego. When in doubt, don’t. Inspired action is responsive, not reactive.
— Annette Vaillancourt, How to Manifest Your Soulmate with Eft: Relationship as a Spiritual Path
He’d need the woman’s help to set things right
—  he just didn’t like having to wake the dead.
Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook,The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.
— Hildegard of Bingen
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?
— Michelangelo Buonarroti
A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return.
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
To explain this a little further: Only the soul and the body are the natural constituent parts of men and women. The SPIRIT is not in the fundamental nature of humans but is the supernatural gift of God, TO BE FOUND IN CHRISTIANS ONLY.
— John Wesley, How To Pray: The Best of John Wesley on Prayer
The only side God chooses is one of commonsense. If it doesn’t make sense
—  it is not God.
I can see better when i close my eyes; don't make much ado, that's my latest style of view.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
I used to walk out, at night, to the breakwater which divides the end of the harbor form the broad moor of the salt marsh. There was nothing to block the wind that had picked up speed and vigor from its Atlantic crossing. I’d study the stars in their brilliant blazing, the diaphanous swath of the milk Way, the distant glow of Boston backlighting the clouds on the horizon as if they’d been drawn there in smudgy charcoal. I felt, perhaps for the first time, particularly American, embedded in American history, here at the nation’s slender tip. Here our westering impulse, having flooded the continent and turned back, finds itself face to face with the originating Atlantic, November’s chill, salt expanses, what Hart Crane called the “unfettered leewardings,” here at the end of the world.
— Mark Doty, Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
For wisdom: read your Bible repeatedly and apply its truths often.
— Jim George
In the museums we used to visit on family vacations when I was a kid, I used to love those rooms which displayed collections of minerals in a kind of closet or chamber which would, at the push of a button, darken. Then ultraviolet lights would begin to glow and the minerals would seem to come alive, new colors, new possibilities, and architectures revealed. Plain stones became fantastic, “futuristic…” Of course there wasn’t any black light in the center of the earth, in the caves where they were quarried; how strange that these stones should have to be brought here, bathed with this unnatural light in order for their transcendent characters to emerge. Irradiation revealed a secret aspect of the world.Imagine illness as this light; demanding, torturous, punitive, it nonetheless reveals more of what things are. A certain glow of being appears. I think this is what is meant when we speculate that death is what makes love possible.
— Mark Doty, Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
Spiritual warfare is the unseen battle God wages on your behalf.
— Jim George
When I picked him up originally, the boy's spirit was soft and cold, like ice-cream. He started melting in my arms. Then warming up completely. Healing.
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
The spirit never leaves, never goes away.
— Aporva Kala, Life... Love... Kumbh...
You haven't seen a thing until you've seen this man fight. My sword is sharp. My heart strong. My spirit ferocious - and I am going to live. Let the swords clash. Let the fight begin.
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
There is a spirit greater than you, always within reach of you, but he only comes to take charge when your own spirit is lost, and cries out in his own tongue, which you cannot know but only feel, and it is in feeling that you will have orders. Yet not even in feeling, for I felt nothing, only surprise that I was going forward.
— Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
A human being is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation; the self is not the relation but is the relation's relating itself to itself. A human being is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity, in short, a synthesis. A synthesis is a relation between two. Considered in this way a human being is still not a self.... In the relation between two, the relation is the third as a negative unity, and the two relate to the relation and in the relation to the relation; thus under the qualification of the psychical the relation between the psychical and the physical is a relation. If, however, the relation relates itself to itself, this relation is the positive third, and this is the self.
— Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening
I admire some people for their brilliance and I respect others for their strength. But I am indebted to those who can rekindle my spirit.
— Steve Goodier
When something seems unbalanced and out of rhythm, just a song can tune things up in a moment. The power of music is therapy.
— Anthony Liccione
There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo, and then there was the one that was connected to all the other forests, with no consideration of distance, or time. The forest primeval, remembered through the collective memory of every tree in the same way that people remembered myth- through the collective subconscious that Jung mapped, the shared mythic resonance that lay buried in every human mind. Legend and myth, all tangled in an alphabet of trees remembered, not always with understanding, but with wonder. With awe.
— Charles de Lint, Spiritwalk
I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand.
— Mary  Stewart, Thornyhold
Work filled with inspiration is worship. A heart filled with courage is unbreakable. A life filled with gratitude is fulfilled.
— G.G. Renee Hill
We Are Always Scared of Wild Beasts, Yet We Are Unaware About The Wildest Beast Within Us Which Does More Harm Than The Ordinary One....
— Muhammad Imran Hasan
True biblical love is a selfless commitment of one's body, soul, and spirit to the betterment of the other person.
— Jim George, A Husband After God's Own Heart
Just because you do not know how they look like, doesn’t mean you cannot see them.
— A.D.Y. Howle
If she wanted you, her eyes would buy you out - and you won’t even know it. Shewas three parts devil, and two parts human; and what remained - unchainedspirit.
— Prashant Chopra, The Eyes that drowned Uyuni
Our true spirit can never become diseased or distressed.
— Marcey Shapiro, Freedom From Anxiety: A Holistic Approach to Emotional Well-Being
Your Heart will lead the way.....follow it!!!
— Amanda LaDue
I moved from the holy land (Israel) to the land of opportunities (USA)
— Batya Maman - Sabag
We see what we need to see,but we must remain open to new ideas and new ways of doing things.Progression of the spirit is the key to happiness,no matter where we are in the universe.One must develop one's soul and the spirit must grow,but we must seek growth.No one is going to force it upon us.A soul can remain a seed for as long as it wishes.It is entirely up to you.
— Sheri Meshal, Swallowtail
The act of accumulating knowledge about the transcendent concepts and the ability to actually experience the inner essence that these concepts signify are two very different things.
— Rajeev Kurapati, Unbound Intelligence: A Personal Guide to Self-Discovery
Mirabelle always ate her lunch on Brighton beach if the weather was in any way passable, but out of sheer principle she never paid tuppence for a chair. We did not win the war to have to pay to sit down, she frequently found herself thinking.
— Sara Sheridan, Brighton Belle
In life, you have 3 choices. Give up, give in, or give it your all.
— Charleston Parker, ONE Soul Many FACES - REVEALING THE HIDDEN TRUTH
~Remember this always:Your body and mind can be broken, but your Spirit, is unbreakable, and unchangeable~When we talk about people or circumstances breaking our spirit, what we mean is that a person has been affected emotionally to the point of feeling broken; however, NOTHING in this world has the capacity to break or change our Spirit!Our Spirit is what gives us the ability to overcome the misery and suffering experienced by our body and mind. Our spirit is what drives prisoners of war come out unbroken; our spirit is what drives the victims of rape and abuse to overcome the emotional burdens of their mind. Believe this! NOTHING can break or change your Spirit, because your spirit is above all things!
— Martin Suarez
I needed to protect her from this - and from herself.
— Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy
Trapped, cutting herself against the jagged edges of her emotions, she was a prisoner of her own spirit.
— Leigh Hershkovich, Shattered Illusions
Stand strong, firm and rooted like a solid tree. Though distractions may cause you to waver, remain balanced and calm. Otherwise, you will surely snap in half and fall to the ground at the slightest hint of difficulty. Be a filter, not a sponge. Learn to remove unnecessary junk from your life before it becomes a part of who you are. Stand tall, stand proud, keep your eyes and your body focused. Otherwise, you will blow away with the slightest gust of wind.
— Leigh Hershkovich
The time will come that humans will be able to grasp the true essence of matter, so they will no longer need their physical bodies in order to live and to exist in this universe.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Every great man is an idol, an oracle of inquiry. Don't aspire to know the former, but aspire to know the diety in his soul.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
She realized that her undiluted love had also given him the power to hurt her but she decided that spirit of the soul can always transcend the pain of the ego.
— Madhu Vajpayee, Seeking Redemption
A man after God's own heart is...a man who yearns to please God,a man who desires to grow spiritually,a man who had a heart that obeys.
— Jim George, A Young Man After God's Own Heart
To not be optimistic about the human race, would be a disregard of the power of the Spirit who created All
— Martin Suarez
Each one of us is longing only for health and happiness, in search of a way of living in the world that will let us appreciate our bodies, make good use of our minds, and fulfill our spirits. To treat my patients well, I needed to treat them as souls rather than symptoms. I needed to help them learn how to live and live well.
— Woodson Merrell, The Detox Prescription: Supercharge Your Health, Strip Away Pounds, and Eliminate the Toxins Within
Do not try to understand. What I feel for you cannot be limited to words. I know that you have moved on with your life, yet I stand here, frozen in the midst of your spirit.
— Leigh Hershkovich, Shattered Illusions
Being a poet one confronts the limitation of language, how can the spirit be revealed under any restrictions.
— Mohit.K.Misra
I’ve always had a lifelong interest in spirit. I was an 8-year-old boy – an 8-year-old adorable little boy. I just understood my grandfather had a ‘knowingness.’ I didn’t know the word psychic then.” (during interview with Sam Liebowitz on the Conscious Consultant Hour)
— John B. Muciaccia
In the matter of spirit follow the Gods, in the matter of work follow the heroes.
— Amit Kalantri
Some people when they have taken too much and have been driven beyond the point of endurance, simply crumble and give up. There are others, though they are not many, who will for some reason always be unconquerable. You meet them in time of war and also in time of peace. They have an indomitable spirit and nothing, neither pain nor torture nor threat of death, will cause them to give up.
— Roald Dahl, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More
I cannot be broken. I cannot be killed. I cannot fail. This is my identity. This is my core. I am infinite. I am permanent. I am unbreakable.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone, is kin in the radiant tapestry of being.
— Elizabeth A. Johnson, Women, Earth, and Creator Spirit
A spiritual journey is becoming what one has always meant to be-come and always was. One with God's Spirit.
— Jazz Feylynn
Ma? I think you have the spirit of husband-repelling. You are too hard, ma, you will not find a husband. But my pastor can destroy that spirit.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
Those who love, truly love, can be coerced into nothing.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
Remember who you really are. You cannot be destroyed or hurt. You cannot be harmed or killed. You, the real you, will always be present and powerful.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
We all dream of being exactly what we are – powerful, beautiful, and worthy.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
Fear is just a misunderstanding of your immortality.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
Each form is inadequate, like a graft to be rejected by its intractable and unrelenting host and thus can only serve a brief and momentary purpose coherent to a context rooted in contiguous reason. This unbridled brash Spirit is, to itself, burdensome, yet dynamic, for it sees no flaw in working within the confines of a closed system to achieve ends that extend beyond it. This Spirit is, in fact, self-deceptive for to achieve such ends, it becomes necessary to bound manipulable fragments of the Self with a twine by which these parts can be joined indissolubly and maneuvered adroitly with the skill of a marionettist.
— Ashim Shanker, Don't Forget to Breathe