Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

To rely upon conviction devotion and other excellent spiritual qualities that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre and installed instead as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it but anybody can do it.

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

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace let us mobilize the potentialities particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities which we usually reserve for war.

Religion brings to man an inner strength spiritual light and ineffable peace.

Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature a soul why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment his soul might die before his body does or that his soul might die without his knowing it?

Since the nature of people is bad to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment we cannot monitor or define it and yet it's there.

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

When I'm off the road my husband and I recharge our batteries. It's a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual and that can be anything - going for a walk in nature being in silence burning incense.

You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.

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

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic intellectual cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

I'm concentrating on staying healthy having peace being happy remembering what is important taking in nature and animals spending time reading trying to understand the universe where science and the spiritual meet.

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.