Originally posted by vistesd
[b]Preface

Years and years ago, Ivanhoe started a thread called Spiritual Quotes. What is a “spiritual quote”? It need not be religious; humanistic, philosophical and scientific quotes were fully welcome. Fundamentally, but without a strict definition, it is any quote that might inspire or reflect the human emotion of awe and wonder vis-à-vis some ...[text shortened]... read.php?threadid=20465&page=1.


I thought that perhaps we might have a go at it again . . .[/b]

"Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable".
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Originally posted by vistesd
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Frank Lloyd Wright

"...what is strength without a double-share
Of wisdom, vast, unwieldy, burdensome,
Proudly secure, yet liable to fall
By weakest subtleties, not made to rule,
But to subserve where wisdom bears command."
~John Milton, Samson Agonistes

The true way of progressing through music is to evolve freely, to go forward, not caring what others think, and in this way, together with one’s development in music, to harmonize the life of one’s soul, one’s surroundings and one’s affairs…

If this principle of music were followed, there would be no need for an external religion. Some day music will be the means of expressing universal religion. Time is wanted for this, but there will come a day when music and its philosophy will become the religion of humanity.

—Hazrat Inayat Khan (a Sufi master from the Chishti order)

“There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,'
and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way'" -C.S. Lewis

People don't care how much you know, they want to know that you care...
John C. Maxwell

"The wind blew and the s@#t flew." - author unknown

"Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. When truth is discovered
by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness." -Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

Faith is being sure of what we hope for, and certain of what we do not see.
- Saul of Tarsus

"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie
(deliberate, contrived, and dishonest) but the myth
(persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic)." -John F. Kennedy

When you have correctly worked out which move is best, make sure you pick up the right piece. -Graham Burgess

“The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing;
the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing”
-Tartakover

"To he who believes, no proof is necessary.
To he who doesn't believe, no proof is possible."
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