We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts.

The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.

Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe.

Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.

You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.

We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.

It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.

We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts.

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us.

We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.

But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe.

I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop.

As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love.

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships.

Maybe I'm being philosophical and spiritual, but I believe that if you put negative energy out there that that is what will come back.

It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage - our universal awareness.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight.

When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.

This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.

Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.

In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual.

The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness.

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.

Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche.

With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity.

I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'

Our spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit.

The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

I really think that's the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.