DAVID STEINDL-RAST:

Wherever we may come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual.

ALBERT EINSTEIN:

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

ALBERT EINSTEIN:

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. 

Living Philosophies, 1931

ANAIS NIN:

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

ANAIS NIN:

People living deeply have no fear of death.

ANAIS NIN:

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

DAVID STEINDL-RAST:

Sometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate department of life, the penthouse of existence. But rightly understood, it is a vital awareness that pervades all realms of our being.

DENIS WAITLEY:

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

EDWARD ERICSON:

Ethical Humanism is primarily an attitude about human beings, their worth, and the significance of their lives. It is concerned with the nature and quality of living; the character and creativity of our relationships. Because of this concern, humanism spontaneously flowers into a spiritual movement in its own right.

EMILY DICKINSON:

Death is a Dialogue between
The Spirit and the Dust.
"Dissolve" says Death—The Spirit "Sir
I have another Trust"—

Death doubts it—Argues from the Ground—
The Spirit turns away
Just laying off for evidence
An Overcoat of Clay.

FELIX ADLER:

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.

An Ethical Philosophy of Life

FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY:

Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

HH THE DALAI LAMA:

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

HONORE DE BALZAC:

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.