“Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.”
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American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of t… 1931–2019Related quotes
Beating the drums of hope and faith (2004)
Context: I feel for, and identify with, individuals on their spiritual journeys — whether those journeys are hard or smooth. That is why I write about the young man who parties all night and finds it hard to get along with his parents; I sing about the Muslim girl murdered by her father and step mother; I write about the death of a close relative and the struggle of dealing with that parting; I write about conflict within marriage; difficulties being a good parent; religious hypocrisy; consumerism; sexual abuse; religious narrow-mindedness; these are all struggles that are very real within our community. Even if I have not felt these struggles first hand, seeing others around me experience such tests does effect me… the social repercussions of these struggles effect us all one way or another.
(Author's Note, p. xvii).
Book Sources, Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (2003)
“The poet…is an identifier: everything he sees in nature he identifies with human life.”
"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 3: Giants in Time
Context: The poet... is an identifier: everything he sees in nature he identifies with human life.
Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 4, Is the Market Really A Crowd?, p. 49
"How the West was lost" http://www.melaniephillips.com/how-the-west-was-lost (May 11, 2002)
Source: Silence Speaks, from the chalkboard of Baba Hari Dass, 1977, p.15