I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness – and that can make me laugh. – Anne Lamott
There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level. – Carol Moseley Braun
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. – Calvin Coolidge
Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family. – Clare Boothe Luce
I just hope Americans come to understand that food isn’t something to be manipulated by our teeth and shoved down our gullet, that it’s our spiritual and physical nourishment and important to our well-being as a nation. – Alice Waters
Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us. – Arthur Erickson
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. – Annie Dillard
I’m much calmer as I get older, but I’m still just as capable of getting that strung-out stressed-out feeling of mental and spiritual unwellness. – Anne Lamott
I’ve always been spiritual but I’ve never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It’s hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want… and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God. – Billy Corgan
Running is very spiritual for me. It is therapeutic; it clears my mind and helps me to focus. – Amy Locane
I know that some of the spiritual beliefs that I have are that if I come from a place of love, and I try to get out of my ego and my desire to want more and be selfish in any shape or form, then whatever I’m doing is not good. – Amber Valletta
I consider myself a spiritual atheist. I certainly believe there are forces bigger than ourselves, and that we should be searching, individually, for meaning in our lives. But I don’t believe there’s a supreme being, an intelligence that created everything. – Alan Lightman
Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It’s so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity. – Campbell Scott
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. – Christopher Lasch
When people are facing a severe illness or a major surgery, that may be one of the most significant opportunities for spiritual transformation that they will encounter. – Allan Hamilton
We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers. – Alan Lightman
I like mountains and oceans and stuff, which is where I’ve always felt some sort of power of meaning, but that’s not necessarily spiritual. – Bill Callahan
Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may be able to master and to rule them, and in later ages take his place in the creative and directing hierarchies of the universe. – Annie Besant
I have always considered myself to be spiritual in a way that has less to do with religion and more with an awareness that you have, and the consciousness you have of being alive and the consciousness that you will be dead. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment… a place where you’re least likely to be bitten by a wild goat. – Brendan Behan
Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual. – Bruno Dumont
Down the road, I’ll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor. – Alanis Morissette
I’ve never seen any ghost, but I definitely believe that there’s some sort of something spiritual out there. I mean, there has to be. – Amanda Crew
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. – Ben Carson
Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs. – Abdolkarim Soroush
In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body. – Barbara De Angelis