Big Ideas tagged with "Spiritual"
- Eric Butterworth: Prosperity
- Eric Butterworth: Affluence
- Eric Butterworth: Why Be Average?
- Eric Butterworth: Entropy vs. Syntropy
- Eric Butterworth: Take Charge
- Eric Butterworth: Magnets
- Eric Butterworth: Practice! Practice! Practice!
- Eric Butterworth: How's Your Faith?
- Eric Butterworth: To Be
- Eric Butterworth: Spiritual Economics
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: Beautiful Compensations
- Viktor Frankl: Your Potential Is Waiting
- Joseph Campbell: Your Hair & Fire
- Ken Wilber: The Tantric Sage
- Rumi: A Jihad Warrior
- Russell Simmons: Karma Economics
- Vernon Howard: Don’t Try to Be Spiritual
- Dale Carnegie: Be Willing to Have It So
- Krishna: Live Your Dharma
- Krishna: How’s Your Faith?
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I was made a revolutionary in spite of myself… [A]ll creation presupposes as its origin a sort of appetite that is brought on by the foretaste of discovery. This foretaste of the creative art accompanies the intuitive grasp of an unknown entity that will not take definite shape except by the action of a constantly vigilant technique. This appetite that is aroused in me at the mere thought of putting in order musical elements that have attracted my attention is not at all a fortuitous thing like inspiration, but as habitual and periodic, if not constant, as a natural need... The very act of putting my work on paper, of, as we say, kneading the dough, is for me inseperable from the pleasure of creation. So far as I am concerned, I cannot seperate the spiritual effort from the psychological and physical effort; they confront me on the same level and do not present a hierarchy...What concerns us here is not imagination itself, but rather creative imagination: the facultyy that helps us to pass from the level of conception to the level of realization. In the course of my labors I suddenly stumble upon something unexpected. this unexpected element strikes me. I make note of it. At the proper time I put it to profitable use... The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation. And the true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note... The least accident holds his interest and guides his operations. If his finger slips, he will notice it; on occasion, he may draw profit from something unforeseen that a momentary lapse reveals to him. One does not contrive an accident: one observes it to draw inspiration therefrom.
~ Igor Stravinsky quotes from Creators on Creating
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The spiritual journey does not consist in arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning one's self and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one's self.
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Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.
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Great men are they who see that spirituality is stronger than any material force; that thoughts rule the world.
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Nothing was ever in any man that is not in you; no man ever had more spiritual or mental power than you can attain, or did greater things than you can accomplish. You can become what you want to be.
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You translate everything--whether physical, mental, or spiritual into muscular tension.
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Seeing is not believing. Believing is seeing! You see things, not as they are, but as you are.
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It is consciousness that sets all limits of life, if there are any limits.
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Affluence = abundant flow.
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Problems are spiritual lessons from God--spiritual lessons to be learned.
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The yoga we practice is not for ourselves alone, but for the Divine; its aim is to work out the will of the Divine in the world, to effect a spiritual transformation and to bring down a divine nature and a divine life into the mental, vital and physical nature and life of humanity. Its object is not personal Mukti, although Mukti is a necessary condition of the yoga, but the liberation and transformation of the human being. It is not personal Ananda, but the bringing down of the divine Ananda – Christ's kingdom of heaven, our Satyayuga – upon the earth.
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Problems are God’s resistance to create spiritual muscles.
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The spiritual journey does not consist in arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one’s own ignorance concerning one’s self and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one’s self.
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I would like to explain the meaning of compassion, which is often misunderstood. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the rights of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend or an enemy, as long as that person wishes for peace and happiness and wishes to overcome suffering, then on that basis we develop genuine concern for his or her problem. This is genuine compassion. Usually when we are concerned about a close friend, we call this compassion. This is not compassion; it is attachment. Even in marriage, those marriages that last only a short time do so because of attachment – although it is generally present – but because there is also compassion. Marriages that last only a short time do so because of a lack of compassion; there is only emotional attachment based on projection and expectation. When the only bond between close friends is attachment, then even a minor issue may cause one’s projections to change. As soon as our projections change, the attachment disappears – because that attachment was based solely on projection and expectation. It is possible to have compassion without attachment – and similarly, to have anger without hatred. Therefore we need to clarify the distinctions between compassion and attachment, and between anger and hatred. Such clarity is useful in our daily life and in our efforts towards world peace. I consider these to be basic spiritual values for the happiness of all human beings, regardless of whether one is a believer or a nonbeliever.
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Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
~ Vernon Howard quotes from The Power of Your Supermind
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Don’t try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
~ Vernon Howard quotes from Mystic Path to Cosmic Power
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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
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The innermost essence of my being...is fearless; it is immune to criticism; it does not fear any challenge.
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Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.
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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.
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