#spirit

Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them. ↗

— Barbara Deming

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Our spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit. ↗

— Paul Twitchell

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It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. Our responsible concern is with our private destiny, after all. ↗

— William James

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Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit. ↗

— Robert J. Flaherty

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The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them. ↗

— Vincent McNabb

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And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spirit, made one with God, in the solitary darkness of God, who is set above all things, shall surpass them all. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us, and regarding what we see with an open, kind and loving heart, is what I call Radical Acceptance. If we are holding back from any part of our experience, if our heart shuts out any part of who we are and what we feel, we are fueling the fears and feelings of separation that sustain the trance of unworthiness. Radical Acceptance directly dismantles the very foundations of this trance. ↗

— Tara Brach

#lovingkindness #self-confidence #spirituality #experience

I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

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You can't instruct an audience to laugh, but what you can do is read well and understand the spirit and subtleties, if there are any, in the dialogue. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

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