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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith. -- Jane Goodall
There's a big difference between being able to explain religion intellectually and transforming that knowledge into spiritual experience. -- Thubten Yeshe
In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience... -- John Naisbitt
In love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we are to the spiritual experience. -- Paulo Coelho
The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience. -- Henryk Skolimowski
Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel. -- Thomas Keating
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude. -- Denis Waitley
Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer's life with truth. -- Watchman Nee
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and Infinite love is the only truth; everything else is an illusion. -- Pema Chodron
No man who has lived through a temporary spiritual experience is ever likely to forget it. His days will be haunted until he sets out to seek ways and means of repeating it. -- Paul Brunton
Each of us is here to discover our true selves; that essentially we are spiritual beings who have taken manifestation in physical form; that we're not human beings that have occasional spiritual experiences, that we're spiritual beings that have occasional human experiences -- Deepak Chopra
All spiritual experiences are sensations in the body. They are simply a graded series of sensations, beginning with the solidity of earth and passing gradually, in full consciousness, through liquidness and the emanation of heat to that of a total vibration before reaching the Void. -- Sri Anirvan
If you know Christ, you don't need to beg for the Holy Spirit to come into your life; He is already there- whether you "feel" His presence or not. Don't confuse the Holy Spirit with an emotional feeling or a particular type of spiritual experience. -- Billy Graham
If I may take the risk of defining what a spiritual experience is, it is one in which pure awareness reveals itself to you as the maker of reality - where you suddenly discover through insight or meditation or a freak accident that your essential nature is spiritual, non-material. -- Deepak Chopra
I promise you that all who faithfully attend to temple work will be blessed beyond measure. Your families will draw closer to the Lord, unseen angels will watch over your loved ones when satanic forces tempt them, the veil will be thin, and great spiritual experiences will distill upon this people. -- Vaughn J Featherstone
This elaborate Golden Dawn system became part of Crowley's own inner world ... He carried it further than even the Golden Dawn principals had envisaged. I know of nothing within the Order documentary that even hints at the kind of visionary and spiritual experience that Crowley managed to get out of it. -- Israel Regardie
A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet our religious traditions are intellectually defunct and politically ruinous. While spiritual experience is clearly a natural propensity of the human mind, we need not believe anything on insufficient evidence to actualize it. -- Sam Harris
Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. -- Stephen Covey
I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that. -- Patty Griffin
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. -- Denis Waitley
The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience. -- Sally Ride
Bread pudding makes me weak. I have been known to be moved to tears by cookies and ice cream, and ribs are a spiritual experience for me. -- Bill Rancic
I grew up in a little Methodist church that was very rural, very community support-oriented, made up of great people who talked about love and grace and the spiritual experience, but only in rhetorical terms. -- James Redfield
I believe that the 'dark night of the soul' is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and perseverance. It helps to know that others have endured a loss of faith. -- Julia Cameron
I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.' -- David O. Russell
When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match. -- Gael Garcia Bernal
Sex is a spiritual experience. -- Deepak Chopra
Self dedication is a spiritual experience. -- Cesar Chavez
Religious structure often dilutes the spiritual experience. -- Steve Maraboli
To experience spiritual victory, you must depend on God's resources. -- Jim George
You are an infinite spiritual being having a temporary human experience. -- Wayne Dyer
Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The spiritual path can only be traveled through the daily experience of love. -- Paulo Coelho
We are Spiritual Beings have a Human Experience. Not the other way around. -- Oprah Winfrey
One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness. -- Meher Baba
Intuition is the conscious experience - in pure spirit - of a purely spiritual content. -- Rudolf Steiner
Faith and Will' sprang from my personal experience with passing through a dark spiritual time. -- Julia Cameron
For me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me. -- Sue Monk Kidd
In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics. -- Bill W.
...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart. -- Anne Lamott
Atheists maintain that spiritual experience is purely subjective, with no basis in a reality outside of the subject. -- Robert Todd Carroll
Spiritual knowledge is the experience of enlightenment, and requires an understanding of the inner-most workings of the enlightenment cycle. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Managing the power of choice, with all it's creative and spiritual implications, is the essence of the human experience. -- Caroline Myss
I feel connected to a higher power when I'm making music or performing. There's a spiritual experience for me. -- Laura Bell Bundy
What is spiritual experience? A snowflake melting, a bee sucking honey, a fat man at a traffic light. Trivia. -- Frederick Franck
It has been my experience that those who claim to be the most spiritual are usually the least so. -- Steve Maraboli
The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience. -- Oswald Chambers
Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs. -- Terence McKenna
What makes us happy is to have a spiritual experience ... that experience of ecstasy in the deepest meditation; that's happiness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
For individuals to become fully active in the Church, they generally must experience a spiritual conversion and a social integration. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience. -- Frances Parkinson Keyes
My yoga practice was and will always be a spiritual experience. I can honestly say, "Yoga delivered me back to GOD!" -- Faith Hunter
You let the energy go wherever it wants. I have such a rich spiritual life. Most people take drugs to experience that. -- Shirley MacLaine
Spiritual joy is what you experience when you choose to give thanks to God no matter what happens-even when things go wrong. -- Jim George
We must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there are no rules. -- Paulo Coelho
In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body. -- Barbara de Angelis
In any attempt to bridge the domains of experience belonging to the spiritual and physical sides of nature, time occupies the key position. -- Arthur Eddington
Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story form. -- John Granger
Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can't wait to experience that. -- Barry Zito
Matter is fun for a while; but ultimately, it is the spiritual experience where we leap beyond what we know- that is the happiness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport. -- Richard Lerner
When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111) -- Joseph Campbell
Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience. -- Gary Zukav
Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
The Wanderer then leaves behind the spiritual seeker, with all the accumulated knowledge and lofty spiritual experience, and takes the first step on the Journey. -- Frank M. Wanderer
We all come to this planet as spiritual beings destined to experience a variety of challenges and situation in order to grow and evolve spiritually. -- James Van Praagh
The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate to God-fearing men faux spirituality. -- Criss Jami
The venerable teachers, philosophers & spiritual practitioners throughout history have concluded that the greatest happiness we can experience comes from the development of an open, loving heart. -- Allan Lokos
Pure, spiritual, intellectual love shot form their faces like barbedlightning. It was so unlike the love we experience that its expressioncould easily be mistaken for ferocity. -- C. S. Lewis
Do you think it's possible that when we're on something like marijuana or mushrooms and we believe we're having a really spiritual experience that we're just high? -- Bill Maher
The spiritual desire for poetry can be overwhelming, so much do I need it to experience and name my own perilous depths and vast spaces, my own well-being. -- Edward Hirsch
Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment. -- bell hooks
When it comes to love as a spiritual manifestation, it is an experience of utter surrender to that which is greater than any concept of love can define. -- Michael Beckwith
The men with God's 'go' in them have these three characteristics-a saving experience, the evidence of supernatural power at work, and the spiritual efficacy of success in prayer. -- Oswald Chambers
Since one cannot visually experience the presence of the Supersoul, He appears before us as a liberated devotee. Such a spiritual master is none other than Krishna himself. -- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
It's because I do see sex as sacred and potentially spiritual that I believe in commercializing it and making this potentially holy experience more easily available to all. -- Chester Brown
Most important, Christmas should be a spiritual experience....Christmas is not just an event in time; it is a spiritual experience available to every person who hears the Gospel. -- Warren W. Wiersbe
Each tree has its own personality, i chose them by the way I felt at the moment. Sometimes they even change my sentiments. It's kind of a spiritual experience. -- Jacques Lecoq
The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one. -- M. Scott Peck
The jewels of spiritual service are always quarried in the depths of spiritual experience. Never is this more true than in revival. Bend the church and save the people. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.' -- Neale Donald Walsch
The mess of the human condition is that fundamental trust has not yet been realized. The true value of profound spiritual experience lies in the discovery of that fundamental trust. -- Andrew Cohen
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Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well. -- Bernard of Clairvaux
Most of the songs are, in a roundabout way, actually addressed to myself, there's a certain aspect of the songs that's very confessional, very unadulterated...It was a very unfettered, spiritual experience. -- Alanis Morissette
As an athlete, when you are on that field and the fans get really engaged and you can feel their energy and passion and true love of the game, it is absolutely a spiritual experience. -- Tom Brady
To me, theater is a spiritual experience. Probably the reason I do theater is it, I guess, comes the closest to feeling like God, or to feeling a spiritual experience that people can have together. -- Kate Arrington

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