Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Spirituality
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We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
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The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
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In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.
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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
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Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.
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The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
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Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.
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Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.
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Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
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