#spirit

Sickness is a hindrance to the body, but not to your will, unless itself wills it.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

The spirit of the depths from time immemorial and for all the future possesses a greater power than the spirit of this time.

A life devoted solely to accumulation is a life lived in exile from the spirit.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

No therapy can be truly complete if it treats the human being merely as a biological mechanism rather than a spiritual being capable of transcendence.

To smile in the face of misfortune is to assert the supremacy of the human spirit over external circumstance.

Man has the capacity to rise above his biological, psychological, and sociological conditions—and to defy them.

The defiant power of the human spirit is the ability to turn a tragedy into a personal triumph, an obstacle into an opportunity for moral greatness.

The human spirit is not determined by circumstances; it is revealed by how it confronts them.

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

To be appreciated is the food that sustains the dignity of the spirit.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

Radiate the joy of the Spirit to all who cross your path.

The soul is the eternal traveler in the infinite realms of spirit.

The earth is a sacred stage for the evolution of spirit.

The light of the spirit dissolves the heaviest darkness.

All life is a movement toward the perfection of the spirit.

An indomitable spirit is born when a person works with a clear conscience, pure heart, and unyielding will.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force; that thoughts rule the world.

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Every spirit makes its house, but afterwards the house confines the spirit.

Where there is love there is life.