Pastoral Resources

A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?

The Spirit Awards are great too, they'll say anything because they're not televised. Another great drinking night.

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.

Most analysts would agree that if all the undocumented immigrants in California were deported in one day, our state would experience a severe economic downturn. This does not even consider the many cultural and spiritual gifts these immigrants bring to our state and nation.

In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.

Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.

The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.

Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.

Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.

Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two.

Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.

The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual.

There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.