CURATED COLLECTION

Living a Spiritual Life

Spirituality is not a set of beliefs — it is a quality of attention brought to the whole of your existence.

50 quotes found

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Poetry is a kind of spiritual exercise, a way of living, not just writing.

—Nadezhda MandelstamMemoirist

Post-War ERA • Eastern Europe

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On this land, there is what makes life worth living.

—Mahmoud DarwishPoet

Contemporary ERA • MENA

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Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter it take with you your all.

—Kahlil GibranPoet & Writer

Early Modern ERA • Middle East

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I am the living Light, who gives health to every living thing, who crowns with joy everything.

—Hildegard of BingenComposer, Philosopher & Mystic

Medieval ERA • Western Europe

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My faith is such a cornerstone in my life. It's the most important thing.

—StormzyArtist

Digital Age ERA • Western Europe

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The earth is a living organism. Its spirit is the soul of mankind, and its flesh is our flesh.

—Hildegard of BingenComposer, Philosopher & Mystic

Medieval ERA • Western Europe

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The breath of the ancestors is in the breath of the living.

—Birago DiopPoet & Writer

Post-War ERA • West Africa

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Dust as we are, the immortal spirit warms us into life.

—William WordsworthPoet

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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All religion has relation to life, and the life of religion is to do good.

—Emanuel SwedenborgScientist, Philosopher & Mystic

Enlightenment ERA • Nordic

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There's magic and juju inherent in everyday life, especially in Africa. I just write it.

—Nnedi OkoforAuthor

Digital Age ERA • West Africa

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The land is a living thing, breathing, feeling.

—Hone TuwharePoet

Post-War ERA • Oceania

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Every being is a book containing the secrets of God.

—Tierno BokarMystic, Scholar & Sage

Early Modern ERA • West Africa

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The sea carries the dead, the living, and those not yet born.

—Witi IhimaeraNovelist & Writer

Late Modern ERA • Oceania

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Death with dignity is better than life with humiliation.

—Al-Hussain ibn AliProphet & Caliph

Medieval ERA • MENA

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No living being should be slaughtered or offered in sacrifice.

—AshokaEmperor & Buddhist Patron

Ancient World ERA • South Asia

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

—Hans Christian AndersenAuthor & Poet

Industrial Age ERA • Nordic

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Love is the only language I know. Love is the only path I walk.

—Yunus EmrePoet

Medieval ERA • MENA

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I cannot live, dear Lord, if I do not love Thee.

—Mechthild of MagdeburgMystic, Writer & Author

Medieval ERA • Western Europe

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I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

—Bob MarleyMusician

Post-War ERA • Caribbean

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He has given you this world so you may seek the Hereafter.

—Ibn Ata Allah al-IskandariScholar & Author

Medieval ERA • North Africa

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