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Spiritual Quotes

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.

~ Aldous Huxley Quotes

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Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.

~ Thomas Merton Quotes

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Great men are they who see that spirituality is stronger than any material force; that thoughts rule the world.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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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.

~ Wallace D. Wattles Quotes from The Science of Being Great

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You translate everything--whether physical, mental, or spiritual into muscular tension.

~ FM Alexander Quotes

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Seeing is not believing. Believing is seeing! You see things, not as they are, but as you are.

~ Eric Butterworth Quotes from Spiritual Economics3

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It is consciousness that sets all limits of life, if there are any limits.

~ Eric Butterworth Quotes from Spiritual Economics

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Affluence = abundant flow.

~ Eric Butterworth Quotes from Spiritual Economics

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Problems are spiritual lessons from God--spiritual lessons to be learned.

~ Tony Robbins Quotes

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