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“Religion and spirituality are very different, but people often confuse the two. Some things cannot be taught, but they can be awakened in the heart.” Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly
“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.” Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
“My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.” Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly
“Equality is to be found only in the spiritual dignity of man, and that will only be understood among us.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise any one who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking...” William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
“In the empty expanses of space, the wandering traders need men like myself to care for the spiritual side of a life so given over to commerce and worldly pursuits.” Isaac Asimov, Foundation
“This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.” John F. Kennedy, State of the Union Address
“There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.” William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
“To merge his life in the common tide of other lives was harder for him than any fasting or prayer and it was his constant failure to do this to his own satisfaction which caused in his soul at last a sensation of spiritual dryness together with a...” James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“Humans are amphibians—half spirit and half animal.” C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
“The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.” Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
“He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret.” A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

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