#spiritual

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views? ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together. ↗

— Edgar Winter

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I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you. ↗

— Mel Gibson

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Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through. ↗

— Germaine Greer

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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

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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

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

— Stanislav Grof

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A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

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Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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