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Spirituality Quotes
Alice Bailey, Marianne Williamson, Helena Blavatsky and Eckhart Tolle account for most of the top entries, so the page leans toward modern and esoteric writing. The best-sourced pieces are less solemn. Woody Allen says he does not want to achieve immortality through his work but through not dying, and Henry Miller, in Sexus (1949), counts sex among the nine reasons for reincarnation.
Two flags. “Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology” is credited to Larry Niven and marked misattributed. “Corporations have neither bodies to kick nor souls to damn” is credited to Andrew Jackson and disputed, which says more about how the topic tag was applied than about spirituality.
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Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.
Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.
A miracle worker is an artist of the soul. There’s no higher art than living a good life.
Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.
As ravens rejoice over carrion, so infernal spirits exult over the soul that is dead in sin.
Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul.
It is our souls which are the everlastingness of God's purpose in this earth.
Let a disciple live as Christ lived, and he will easily believe in living again as Christ does.
Any sufficiently advanced form of magick will appear indistinguishable from science.
Your spirituality is what you do with the fires that burn within.
“That’s the problem with immortality,” mused Jack. “You never live long enough to get there.”
There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care.