#spiritual

To the untutored sage, the concentration of population was the prolific mother of all evils, moral no less than physical. He argued that food is good, while surfeit kills; that love is good, but lust destroys; and not less dreaded than the pestilence following upon crowded and unsanitary dwellings was the loss of spiritual power inseparable from too close contact with one's fellow-men. ↗

— Charles Alexander Eastman

#native-american #philosophy #spirituality #food

The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought. ↗

— Dan Brown

#spirituality #knowledge

I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#days #distance #emotional #every #exchanging

So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day. ↗

— Menachem Mendel Schneerson

#alone #boundaries #concentrate #day #during

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#become #deep #enter #good #having

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

#back #being #comes #impart #much

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#firm #happens #history #rests #something

Truth has two beautiful daughters; their names are skepticism and faith. Skepticism to examine the past to make sure it was not full of lies, and faith to believe that the future won't be full of them also. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#choices #commonsense #decisions #faith #investigation

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way. ↗

— Florence Scovel Shinn

#explain #faculty #intuition #points #simply

The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#cog #enormous #form #hands #his