Top 1200 Spiritual Formation Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence, and literature of a whole series of discourses on the species and subspecies of homosexuality, inversion, pederasty, and "psychic hermaphroditism" made possible a strong advance of social controls into this area of "perversity"; but it also made possible the formation of a "reverse" discourse: homosexuality began to speak in its own behalf, to demand that its legitimacy or "naturality" be acknowledged, often in the same vocabulary, using the same categories by which it was medically disqualified.

Facebook and Instagram are spiritual brothers.

Jazz musicians are spiritual by nature.

Strictly speaking, the mass, as a psychological fact, can be defined without waiting for individuals to appear in mass formation. In the presence of one individual we can decide whether he is "mass" or not. The mass is all that which sets no value on itself good or ill based on specific grounds, but which feels itself "just like everybody," and nevertheless is not concerned about it; is, in fact, quite happy to feel itself as one with everybody else.

Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.

I don't have anyone around me that's not spiritual.

There are a lot of people who believe that the individual can't make it himself. And that's why people want to join up in various herds - herd formation. So you become part of a herd, a group. Group power of some kind. There's an awful lot of group power people in our country [the USA] - Black power, Chinese power, Indian power, woman power. Everyone is putting in together.

Self dedication is a spiritual experience.

Endurance is a key indicator of spiritual fitness.

I am more spiritual than religious.

People don't realize I'm a very spiritual person.

Ideas are spiritual, harmonious and eternal

The greatest spiritual blessing comes from helping another.

Spiritual energy brings compassion into the world.

Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.

Blindness enhanced my spiritual life.

The question is, "Are you spiritual or are you not?" The truth is you are. The reality is you don't believe it

The deepest spiritual truths are always unutterable.

Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia

From Spiritual Directions of Diadochus of Photiki

I'm not going to fight in the physical with physical weapons, because it's not a physical fight. I'm going to fight with spiritual weapons, cause it's a spiritual fight.

In spiritual direction there is absolutely no domination or control.

I don't think of myself as a spiritual person.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

The spiritual path is not strewn with roses.

I'm Jewish, not Catholic, but I'm a spiritual person.

After Bruno's death, during the first half of the seventeenth century, Descartes seemed about to take the leadership of human thought... in promoting an evolution doctrine as regards the mechanical formation of the solar system... but his constant dread of persecution, both from Catholics and Protestants, led him steadily to veil his thoughts and even to suppress them. ...Since Roger Bacon, perhaps, no great thinker had been so completely abased and thwarted by theological oppression.

I see poetry as spiritual medicine.

The world is starved for spiritual food.

Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.

My mom was into spiritual stuff and yoga.

Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.

Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.

Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker.

Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.

Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.

Tolerance is a sign of growth on the spiritual path

The world is our school for spiritual discovery.

I'm spiritual but I don't practice any sort of thing.

There are spiritual and physical laws to obey if we are to be happy.

There's biology in everything, even when you're feeling spiritual.

We have to get back to the spiritual law if we are to survive.

Life is not just food, it's something spiritual.

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification.

Spiritual deception is dangerous -and damning.

No separation between the spiritual and the physical. It is all one.

I have not the slightest confidence in 'spiritual manifestations.'

I believe joy is a spiritual practice we have to work at.

'Spiritual' sounds like you worship the grass.

The Spiritual Sun already blazes within.

By spiritual training I mean education of the heart.

Spiritual progress is the changing of the point of view.

Personal change, growth, development, identity formation--these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as part of adult life as well. Gone is the belief that adulthood is, or ought to be, a time of internal peace and comfort, that growing pains belong only to the young; gone the belief that these are marker events--a job, a mate, a child--through which we will pass into a life of relative ease.

The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.

The concept of spiritual healing was something I was raised with.

Only a spiritual being has awareness.

Art is not the spiritual side of business.

I would say, yeah, I'm a spiritual person.

Language is the spiritual exhalation of the nation.

A spiritual life means: It is now or never.