Music is what I care about. Not material things.
I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination.
I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak if you try to.
In the soul of a Russian person there is always a drive toward some kind of lofty moral ideal, lofty moral values. That definitely sets us apart, and I'm certain it's in a good way.
In 1993, I retired from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to devote myself full time to Buddhist studies and to the practice of Aikido.
He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?
Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things.
Do you know what I'm going to do when I retire? I hope to become the new face of Scientology.
When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal.
I read world literature and I read French romances in the originals. I had quite a profound knowledge - no, that sounds conceited, but I did have a profound interest in everything spiritual.
Was the Buddha married? His wife would say, "Are you just going to sit around like that all day?"
Weight every purpose in the light of eternity. A trivial pursuit is that which is out side the will of God & detached from the glory of God.
The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion.
We are material creatures who spend much of our lives on material pursuits (even building a cathedral or writing a novel requires stone and mortar or paper and ink).
Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.
