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| Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
-Pablo Picasso |
| Doctors don't know
everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in
spirit. -William Saroyan |
| There is a wisdom
in this beyond the rules of physic. A man’s own observation, what he finds good
of and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.
-Francis Bacon, English philosopher and statesman |
| A bodily disease
which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a
symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
-Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| The healthy, the
strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has
an abscess on his knee or in his soul. -Rona Barrett |
| The human body is
not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an
energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual
inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it
new. -Norman O. Brown |
| Take care of your
body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if
they are dim, the whole world is clouded. -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| To become a
thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a
sound body. -Francis Bowen |
| Look to your
health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for
health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money
can't buy. -Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683) |
| Great souls are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material force, that
thoughts rule the world. -Emerson |
| The spiritual dimension cannot be ignored for it
is what makes us human. -Viktor E. Frankl |
| Spirituality is the integration of faith, hope and love. Love is incorporated with the faith to uncertain and hope for unseen. - Anonymous |
| Spirit" translates words that in both Hebrew and
Greek mean "wind" and "breath", as well as vital essence. Biblical writers do not normally combine the two terms (spirit and flesh) to designate the totality of human nature. The body/soul dichotomy that so fascinated Greek philosophy is not generally presupposed,
even when the two terms occur in close proximity . – The Oxford Companion to the Bible (1993) |
| A spiritual life is a "life of heart" --a life blessed with
external freedom that is unaffected by the physical state. -Henri Nouwen (1986) |
| "Everyone is on a spiritual path;
most people just don't know it." — Marianne Williamson |
| "There comes a time in the evolution of
every soul when the chief concern is no longer the survival of the
physical body, but the growth of the spirit…" — Neale Donald Walsh |
| "Spirituality really is a deep sense
of belonging to life, of finding it meaningful on every level." -Joan Borysenko, PhD |
| To forgive is to heal: "Holding on to the
negative events of our histories is expensive — prohibitively so." -Caroline Myss, PhD, author of Anatomy of the Spirit and Why People Don't Heal: And How They Can |
| "It is not how much you
do but how much love you put into the doing and sharing with others that is important."
– Mother Theresa in A Simple Path |
| "Compassion arises when you allow your heart to be
touched by the pain and need of another.
Compassionate generosity is the foundation of true s
piritual life because it is the practice of letting go."
-Jack Kornfield in A Path With a Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life. |
| "The decision to become a reverent
person is essentially the decision to become a spiritual person." -Gary Zukov in The Seat of the Soul. |
| "The meaning of the Sabbath is to honor time rather than space.
Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space;
on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in
time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation, from the
world of creation to the creation of the world." -Jewish mystic and scholar Joshua Abraham Heschel |