#spiritual

Thou art a man God is no more Thy own humanity Learn to adore ↗

— William Blake

#spiritual #art

I know that you are wise. When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence…You believe that the story is true, because you responded to it from that sense of truth deep within you. But that sense of truth does not respond to a story's factuality...[rather] to a story's causality - whether it faithfully shows the way the universe functions. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#mythology #religion #spirituality #art

Pure happiness and peace are at their peak when your body is in harmony with itself. ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#freedom #inspirational #motivational #psychology #spirituality

When the late Bishop was appointed, about thirty-two years ago, to diffuse the light of the Gospel through this extensive portion of His Majesty's dominions, it was even a greater spiritual, than a natural wilderness. ↗

— John Strachan

#ago #appointed #bishop #diffuse #dominions

In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#also #appears #body #everyone #face

I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time. ↗

— Herbie Hancock

#i #long #long time #person #religious

The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does. ↗

— Ernest Holmes

#does #idea #intellect #intellectual #manner

I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for? ↗

— Stephanie Lennox

#funny #humour #husband #inspirational #love

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#atheist #believes #catholicism #grandeur #great

The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect. ↗

— Luciano Berio

#between #consciousness #demands #ears #finger