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“Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.”
“Spiritual principles do not change, but we do.”
“There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.”
“The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.”
“Our spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit.”
“Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.”
“The main problem with films is that everybody always thinks of us as a violent people. We are not. We are spiritual. And when you show someone without a sense of humor or families, which is the way...”
“Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.”
“The great are strongest when they stand alone,A God-given might of being is their force.”
“The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.”
“Abandon hope.”
“A person knows when they’re in darkness, even when they can’t see. -Nightblood”
“A moment later Jonathan’s body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. “Don’t let them spread silly rumors about me, or make me a god. O.K., Fletch? I’m a seagull. I like to fl...”
“Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they re...”
“All earthly desires are but streams, but God is the ocean.”
“Please always see the bright side of everything.”
“First conscious thoughts to wake,first guided steps to take. What walk of path not known..... of many moments already born?”
“There rolls the deep where grew the treeO earth, what changes hast thou seen!There where the long street roars hath been.The stillness of the central sea.”
“Only after beggary (bhikh) goes away completely, can one see this world ‘as it is’.”
“The bigger the ‘flat’ [apartment], the harder one has to work. If the ‘flat’ is worth six hundred thousand, then he has to work six times as hard. If it is three hundred thousand, he has to work th...”