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.
You must in all Airs follow the strength spirit and disposition of the horse and do nothing against nature for art is but to set nature in order and nothing else.
You can have financial strength professional strength emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.
Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based.
Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till by the strength of prayer and sacrifice the spirit of love shall have overcome .
There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test total concentration a spirit of togetherness and strength.
Elves have this superhuman strength yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
I know now what this meant that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength but we should lose them and from the same good spirit we must find another strength.
A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.