#spirit

How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of one’s place in the cosmos, a relationship to that which extends beyond oneself. . . . Does scientific explanation of the world diminish its spiritual beauty? I think not. Science and spirituality are complementary, not conflicting; additive, not detractive. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades. (158-159) ↗

— Michael Shermer

#darwinism #evolution #intelligent-design #science #spirituality

The spiritual is the parent of the practical. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#practical #spiritual

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. ↗

— Jules Verne

#am #believe #cat #cats #cloud

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#born #fact #faith #in fact #must

I don't want to be daft and say I had some spiritual awakening or something, but I really did come of age in Los Angeles, where we recorded the album. I had my own little house and my own little circle and I really got to feel how the city ticks. ↗

— Melanie Chisholm

#album #angeles #awakening #circle #city

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#any #being #change #death #eternal

In the mental calmness of a spiritual life, I have found that the answers to the whys in our lives are able to come to you. In my music I find the same thing. ↗

— Clarence Clemons

#answers #calmness #come #find #found

The word spiritual, not the word religious, is the key. ↗

— Clarence Clemons

#religious #spiritual #word

We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek. ↗

— Jones Very

#bequeathed #converse #even #feel #greatness

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty. ↗

— William Cobbett

#buoy #empty #falsehoods #last #long