This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride namely that none should account himself better before God than others though perhaps adorned with greater gifts and endowments.
But the hour cometh and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
I left in love in laughter and in truth and wherever truth love and laughter abide I am there in spirit.
The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
For my part whatever anguish of spirit it may cost I am willing to know the whole truth to know the worst and provide for it.
If we really want to be full and generous in spirit we have no choice but to trust at some level.
Spirit of place! It is for this we travel to surprise its subtlety and where it is a strong and dominant angel that place seen once abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents its habits its breath its name.
I have found adventure in flying in world travel in business and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit.
Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.
I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world but as animals they inhabit time.
I remember the first time I saw the 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' video. I will never forget that day. I just wanted to see Kurt Cobain's face. I had a feeling he was very cute. But I couldn't see his face. When I finally did see him he was even cuter than I imagined!
I have reviewed literally hundreds of dotcoms in my drive to bring Boomer Esiason Foundation onto the Internet and have selected ClickThings as a partner because of the advanced technology it offers small business and its understanding of the entrepreneurial spirit of the small business community.
We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.
Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine but has also hurt it in many ways making it more impersonal expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.
What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you since that is already enlightened and has no need to seek. No it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.
One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.
They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.
The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
Took us a great amount of strength to get them into the world and for them to be in the world. I think that their little spirits you know just said well we're going to be there. So it makes it very special because of it.
Both now and for always I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.