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Quotes About Spirit

The way to solve the conflict between human values and technological needs is not to run away from technology. That's impossible. The way to resolve the conflict is to break down the barriers of dualistic thought that prevent a real understanding of what technology is—not an exploitation of nature, but a fusion of nature and the human spirit into a new kind of creation that transcends both.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
the art of the work is just as dependent upon your own mind and spirit as it is upon the material of the machine. That's why you need the peace of mind.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
The way to resolve the conflict is to break down the barriers of dualistic thought that prevent a real understanding of what technology is—not an exploitation of nature, but a fusion of nature and the human spirit into a new kind of creation that transcends both. When
~ Robert M. Pirsig
What's wrong with technology is that it's not connected in any real way with matters of the spirit and of the heart.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
The title of this Chautauqua is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, not Zen and the Art of Mountain Climbing, and there are no motorcycles on the tops of mountains, and in my opinion very little Zen. Zen is the spirit of the valley, not the mountaintop. The only Zen you fin on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
Purpose to develop an agreeable spirit. I'm not suggesting that you have to agree with everything everyone says. I'm simply saying that you're not obligated to correct them! No one has appointed you Earth's guardian of truth and accuracy. One
~ Robert Morris
And so the mind or spirit is the great opportunist, itself impossible to pin down, take hold of, anywhere; one is tempted to believe that of all its influence nothing is left but decay. Every advance is a gain in particular and a separation in general; it is an increase in power leading only to a progressive increase in impotence, but there is no way to quit.
~ Robert Musil
I'd be (...) lying there on my back with my clothes on and looking up at the ceiling and watching the cigarette smoke flow up slow and splash against the ceiling like the upside-down slow-motion moving picture of the ghost of a waterfall or like the pale uncertain spirit rising up out of your mouth on the last exhalation, the way the Egyptians figured it, to leave the horizontal tenement of clay in its ill-fitting pants and vest.
~ Robert Penn Warren
The primary role of sex is to [help you] remember that you are Spirits, to share an ever-increasing experience of creation itself. Human love is only a small part of All There Is, and All There Is is Love. There's nothing else. So, when you're in the body
~ Robert Schwartz
Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world.
~ Robert Silverberg
Social welfare is destroying the soul of America. Social programs are cancers growing within the spirit of the people they were created to serve. Social programs do not make people stronger. They keep people weak, depending on the government to solve their problems.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
El espíritu humano es muy, muy poderoso. Él sabe que puede lograr cualquier cosa.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
1.?Find a reason greater than reality: the power of spirit
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
knew that every individual also had a part of their soul that was resilient and could never be bought.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
The human spirit is very, very powerful," he would say. "It knows it can do anything.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods…for their glory terrestrial had departed and their glory celestial of spirit and purity and whiteness had not yet come upon them.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Love you! Girl, you're in the very core of my heart. I hold you there like a jewel. Didn't I promise you I'd never tell you a lie? Love you! I love you with all there is of me to love. Heart, soul, brain. Every fibre of body and spirit thrilling to the sweetness of you. There's nobody in the world for me but you, Valancy.
~ L.M. Montgomery
I am well in body although considerably rumpled up in spirit, thank you, ma'am,' said Anne gravely. Then aside to Marilla in an audible whisper, 'There wasn't anything startling in that, was there, Marilla?
~ L.M. Montgomery
I am well in body though considerably rumpled up in spirit.
~ L.M. Montgomery
I doubted God last Sunday said Rilla but I don't doubt Him today. Evil cannot win. Spirit is on our side and it is bound to outlast flesh.
~ L.M. Montgomery
The eastern sky above the firs was flushed faintly pink from the reflection of the west, and Anne was wondering dreamily if the spirit of color looked like that…
~ L.M. Montgomery
He was a cat of double personality - or else, as Susan vowed, he was possessed by the devil.
~ L.M. Montgomery
She felt a wonderful lightness of spirit, a soul-stirring joy in mere existence.
~ L.M. Montgomery
she drank in the beauty of the summer dusk, sweet-scented with flower breaths from the garden below and sibilant and rustling from the stir of poplars. The eastern sky above the firs was flushed faintly pink from the reflection of the west, and Anne was wondering dreamily if the spirit of color looked like that
~ L.M. Montgomery