#iri

The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared. Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those which the senses feel and which the resources of expression can realise. The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#light #soul #spiritual #women #beauty

You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage. ↗

— Morris West

#caught #cave #creature #experiences #fact

Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation.” (p.232) ↗

— Torkom Saraydarian

#consciousness #creativity #manifestation #solar-angel #spirituality

I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#child #good #good person #high-spirited #i

In spiritual warfare, faith is the currency that releases your prayer. It is the instrument (or weapon, if you like) that activates and sets loose the answers to your prayers. ↗

— Pedro Okoro

#faith

As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me. ↗

— Forest Whitaker

#always #been #character #characters #connect

I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can't escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of. ↗

— Jack White

#any #base #buddhism #child #completely

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies. ↗

— George Whitefield

#fight #give #god #good #mercies

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#day #defiance #enter #hour #lose

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#battles #day #fall #gain #good