#spirit

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. ↗

— William Godwin

#ally #genius #learning #much #proper

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#deeds #desire #great #love #spirit

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#even #high-spirited #makes #mistakes #more

I'm not a religious person. I'm Catholic, so I consider myself more of a spiritual person. I believe in God. ↗

— Tracey Gold

#catholic #consider #god #i #i believe

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#death #fear #freeing #important #non-denominational

A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#cycles #death #describes #determines #incarnation

Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#experienced #feel #many #much #open

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#anybody #been #eliminated #exercise #genre

It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz. ↗

— Herbie Hancock

#inclusive #jazz #spirit #which #whole

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness. ↗

— Herbie Hancock

#openness #spirit