A Quote by Albert Schweitzer

Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.

Albert Schweitzer

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Ethical Existence Highest Manifestation Spirituality

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Albert Schweitzer
German - Theologian
January 14, 1875 - September 4, 1965

Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.

Albert Schweitzer

What is the relationship between spirituality and ethical practice? Since love and compassion and similar qualities all, by definition, presume some level of concern for others' well-being, they presume ethical restraint. We cannot be loving and compassionate unless at the same time we curb our own harmful impulses and desires.

Dalai Lama

We live in an ironic society where even play is turned into work. But the highest existence is not work; the highest level of existence is play.

Conrad Hyers

Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the human mind. Creation is eternal, and so also is Ishvara.

Swami Vivekananda

All existence is a manifestation of God.

Sri Aurobindo

The development of our spiritual nature should concern us most. Spirituality is the highest acquisition of the soul, the divine in man; 'the supreme, crowning gift that makes him king of all created things.' It is the consciousness of victory over self and of communion with the infinite. It is spirituality alone which really gives one the best in life.

David O. McKay

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

Swami Vivekananda

[W]omen's magazines know that more than two thirds of women pray each day so they tend to promote "spirituality" which is warm, soft, fuzzy, and "me-centered, " rather than religion, which is definitely not. Shot with a soft-focus lens, spirituality in women's media has morphed into another method of stress reduction. Lulling and inoffensive, spirituality is more about taking long walks and buying $65 Jo Malone scented candles than making ethical decisions or moral judgments. It's another way to calm ourselves, refresh ourselves, or applaud ourselves.

Myrna Blyth

The highest manifestation of true leadership is to identify one’s replacement and to begin mentoring him or her.

Myles Munroe

There’s no way to succeed in business without the highest ethical standards.

Jordan Belfort

It is the highest manifestation of the power of Vairagya when it takes away even our attraction towards the qualities.

Swami Vivekananda

Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the thoughtful love of life. [Spirituality for the Skeptic]

Robert C. Solomon

I am committed to the highest standards of ethical conduct for government officials.

John F. Kerry

The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past.

Corliss Lamont

And so it is that we do not exist until we do; and then it is that we play with our world of existent things, and order and disorder them, and so it shall be that non-existence shall take us back from existence, and that nameless spirituality shall return to Void, like a tired child home from a very wild circus.