Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.
Interpretation
Share your spiritual insights with others and appreciate what they give back to you.
This quote emphasizes the importance of sharing your spiritual knowledge and emotional experiences with others who are on a similar journey. It encourages open communication and the idea that relationships are enriched by both giving and receiving, making the connection between individuals a precious part of the collective journey.
In practice
This quote is perfect for a group therapy session focused on sharing collective experiences.
I do not want to frighten you by telling you about the temptations life will bring. Anyone who is healthy in spirit will overcome them. But there is something I want you to realize. It does not matter so much what you do. What matters is whether your soul is harmed by what you do. If your soul is harmed, something irreparable happens, the extent of which you won't realize until it will be too late.
Within every patient there resides a doctor, and we as physicians are at our best when we we put our patients in touch with the doctor inside themselves.
By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.
No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense of something higher than ourselves, something that stirs in us thoughts, hopes, and aspirations which go out to the world of goodness, truth and beauty. The soul is a burning desire to breathe in this world of light and never to lose it--to remain children of light.
The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious value with which they have to deal. All spiritual life meets us within natural life. Reverence for life, therefore, is applied to natural life and spiritual life alike. In the parable of Jesus, the shepherd saves not merely the soul of the lost sheep but the whole animal. The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.
Vices are their own punishment
The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.
If tomorrow, women woke up and decided they really liked their bodies, just think how many industries would go out of business.
Other men may preach the gospel better than I, but no man can preach a better gospel.
Effortlessness is the ability to slow down and listen for the spaces between the joints... Deep within all things there is a natural rhythm, a music of opening and closing, expansion and contraction.
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