“When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.”
Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
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American novelist, short story writer 1925–1964Related quotes
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
Source: The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. V.
“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”
Carl Sagan book The Demon-Haunted World
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Chick Corea (1941) American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer
"Answer #3" at his official website. http://www.chickcorea.com/from_chick.html <br class="br">Context: I believe that any "awareness" of life is "spiritual" since awareness can only be a quality of the spirit not of the material world or of matter and machines. Only a spiritual being has awareness. But if you mean "spiritual" in the sense of a kind of "celebration of Life", then yes, I write music to celebrate life. I think most artists do, no matter how they themselves describe it. It's the joy of creating. It's a way of life.
Anthony de Mello (1931–1987) Indian writer
Source: One Minute Nonsense (1992), p. 96
("Leela" is more commonly spelled "Lila")
Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) artist, author, esotericist
The Ageless Wisdom, An Introduction to Humanity's Spiritual Legacy (1996)
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher
Source: The Spiritual Life (1947), p. 264
Joyce Brothers (1927–2013) Joyce Brothers
10 Keys to a Strong Family (2002)
Context: Religious belief, trust, a sense of connection to the universe — no matter what you call it, there is a spiritual component to strong families. They see their lives as imbued with purpose, reflected in the things they do for one another and the community. Small problems provide a chance to grow; large ones are a lesson in courage. A mother whose son died of a brain tumor bravely returned to the hospital where he had died in order to set up a research fund. When she saw the parents of children who currently were suffering, she told her son’s doctor: "If any research you do produces any advance, my son’s passing won’t have been totally without purpose." It takes a certain type of spiritual grace to see beyond one’s own misery to the needs of others. Strong families try to live so they can look outward — and inward — every single day.
