Top 61 Quotes About Spiritualism

#1. A person's mental activities are entirely due to the behavior of nerve cells, glial cells, and the atoms, ions, and molecules that make them up and influence them.

Francis Crick

#2. I believe in Spiritualism; I advocate free love in the highest, purest sense, as the only cure for the damnation by which men corrupt God's most holy institution of sexual relations.

Victoria Woodhull

#3. To the non-initiate, whose experience of sexuality and bodily pleasure may be distorted by negative cultural conditioning, the introduction of sexuality into a sacred context is often mistakenly misconstrued as the ordinary pursuit of sex for recreation.

Zeena Schreck

#4. If you cannot be a sun that illuminates the light, be a moon that never tires of reflecting the light.

Subhan Zein

#5. I like money. You like money. We need the money. But, money is not going to bring humanity and spiritualism into your life.

Bikram Choudhury

#6. To be spiritual is not by praying and going to church. Spiritualism is the understanding of the universe so that it can be a better place to live in.

Fela Kuti

#7. Life is less a burden without an absolute quest for material possessions

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#8. I believe in spiritualism. It's like, when you listen to music or something and then you're sort of primed. If you're an artist, you're sort of primed and inspired, and you start drawing, you sort of have the spirit of what you're listening to, still in you. You just have sort of an inspiration.

Daniel Johnston

#9. When spiritualism dawned, suddenly women who wanted to engage in the civic and religious and political culture were becoming transmediums.

Mitch Horowitz

#10. I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there's an element of that that's either God-given, a talent that you're not necessarily responsible for.

Al Franken

#11. Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.

John Updike

#12. No - the stars are close and dear and I have joined the brotherhood of the worlds. And everything's holy - everything, even me.

John Steinbeck

#13. Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; spiritualism means theaffirmation of an eternal moral order and the letting loose of hope.

William James

#14. I am perfectly convinced that I have both seen, and heard in a manner which should make unbelief impossible, things called spiritual which cannot be taken by a rational being to be capable of explanation by imposture, coincidence, or mistake.

Augustus De Morgan

#15. Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. harmonialism" - a belief that spiritual, physical, and even economic well-being flow from a person's connection with metaphysical forces of the cosmos - manifested itself in such new forms of thought as Spiritualism, Christian Science, New Thought, and Theosophy.

George Pendle

#17. The material world is simply an expression of the mind; that's what so many fail to see. We're so dependent on what is before us that we discount our intuition. Yet if one dismisses instinct, how can one understand or believe in a world that exists beyond one's sight?

Megan Chance

#18. Anthroposophy, spiritualism. Everyone needs to make sense

Kate Atkinson

#19. Spirituality is about oneness - one love, one seeker, one soul, and one spirituality that speaks to all people. No matter a person's fame, fortune, or faith, they are one with you.

Emma Mildon

#20. I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.

Dick Cavett

#21. Angels and Airwaves is a complete, pure reflection of who I am. The philosophy, the spiritualism, the esotericism, the idea of hope and space and the themes about life and grandeur ... that's all me.

Tom DeLonge

#22. I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.

Sufjan Stevens

#23. The reality of our century is technology: the invention, construction and maintenance of machines. To be a user of machines is to be of the spirit of this century. Machines have replaced the transcendental spiritualism of past eras.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#24. The only truth was whatever you could make someone believe.

Megan Chance

#25. Modern materialists and religious extremists alike lack the spiritual animistic reverence for non-human beings that every culture once understood as a given.

Zeena Schreck

#26. Why can't they see that spiritualism and science are one? That bodies evolve and souls evolve and the universe is a fluid place that marries them both in a wonderful package called a human being.

Garth Stein

#27. Once the social and spiritual opening was created for women in the form of spiritualism, suddenly ambitious women who wanted to participate in the culture had a kind of a voice.

Mitch Horowitz

#28. I do believe in the viability of Indian spiritualism.

James Welch

#29. There are two kinds of secrets. The ones we keep from others and the ones we keep from ourselves.

Frank Warren

#30. Trying to justify a world we don't hold all the answers to is what bedevils the best of us. Sometimes it's better just to accept that things are as we see them.

Megan Chance

#31. Beautiful is who you are

Jessica Edouard

#32. My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is that materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity-the absurdity of imagining that we know anything about either spirit or matter.

Thomas Huxley

#33. Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowable.

Megan Chance

#34. As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.

Rudolf Virchow

#35. I expressed just now my mistrust of what is called Spiritualism - ... I owe it a trifle for a message said to come from Voltaire's Ghost. It was asked, Are you not now convinced of another world? and rapped out, There is no other world - Death is only an incident in Life.

William De Morgan

#36. I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism - religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality.

H.P. Lovecraft

#37. The left-hand path adept seeks to liberate him/herself from passive subjection to the illusory nature of Maya, thus freeing the consciousness from the binds of self-created delusion.

Zeena Schreck

#38. A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter.

Susan Sontag

#39. The material world claims, 'I am what I think', whereas spiritualism says, 'I am, therefore I think'.

Gian Kumar

#40. Spiritualism is but a baby now, an unwelcome stranger, whom public opinion, like an unnatural foster mother, tries to crush out of existence.

H. P. Blavatsky

#41. Materialist deny God because they can't smell a rose with a powerful telescope.

Adriano Bulla

#42. Surely, the Lord will save us in any situation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#43. It seems all spirits need theatrics, eh? Even Christ himself requires incense and holy water. We're a skeptical people. We need convincing.

Megan Chance

#44. The sheeted dead
Did squeak and gibber in the streets of Rome.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#45. All people who come to the dark come for power.

Amanda Hudson

#46. You can never have too much money.

Jess C. Scott

#47. There are so many things we can have in this world, but only 10 percent of it changes the condition of someone's heart.

Shannon L. Alder

#48. Many people are not conforming with theism, but they are comfortable with spiritualism.

Debasish Mridha

#49. You may be able
to fly to heaven with my love.
But for real, my love is only
a cheap wine.
Seriously,
Only God's love is the precious wine.
And She even
gives it to everyone.
For free!

Subhan Zein

#50. If there is a void in your life then you will never fill it with cash!

Stephen Richards

#51. Materialists deny God because they can't smell a rose with a telescope.

Adriano Bulla

#52. Spiritualism is based on living, experiencing and realizing the truth, rather than reading or hearing about it from someone else.

Gian Kumar

#53. A fast car can make women 'like' a man; and a man 'like' women ... fast.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#54. I was interested in psychic things and in spiritualism even as a boy. I'd started doing yoga by the early 1970s.

Dave Davies

#55. The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the universe. But the materialist is not allowed to admit into his spotless machine the slightest speck of spiritualism or miracle.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#56. Consciousness is endless, from one incarnation to the next. It simply will and does manifest in other places and times, regardless of what becomes of the human race.

Zeena Schreck

#57. Don't you remember anything?! There is no 'devil.' There is no 'hell.' There is only Unrest. There is no down, only sideways; the transparent beside the opaque, and a thin wall to separate them.

Leanna Renee Hieber

#58. One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

Stephen Covey

#59. Through the experience of meditation itself, the meditator becomes conscious that the practice of meditation is an end in itself rather than a means towards an end.

David Fontana

#60. I think spiritualism, mesmerism, the mental healing movement, provided some people with the most meaningful experiences of their lives.

Mitch Horowitz

#61. [On spiritualism:] I always knew the living talked rot, but it's nothing to the rot the dead talk.

Margot Asquith

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