• Spirituality is not about beliefs - it is about the way we live and conduct our day-to-day lives.

    Satish Kumar
    in his autobiography No Destination.

  • The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.

    Henri J. M. Nouwen

  • Spirit is an invisible force made visible in all life.

    Maya Angelou

  • In its simplest definition, ‘spirituality’ means knowing how to live with meaning and purpose.

    Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University
    http://www.bkwsu.org

  • At the core of spirituality is the need to feel and express love and compassion for everyone, with the understanding that we are all part of a greater reality.

    Amma
    http://www.amma.org.uk/

Art & Music

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Message from Spiritual England: We are looking for artists that could help us to produce some spiritual greetings cards which we can sell to raise funding for our Peaceful Schools campaign. To help or get more info, please email: anna@spiritualengland.org.uk

My hand is entirely the implement of a distant sphere. It is not my head that functions but something else, something higher, something somewhere remote. I must have great friends there, dark as well as bright... They are all very kind to me.

Paul Klee
Painter

I believe music is a very cathartic form of expression. It can lend a voice to people's personal fears, joys and sorrows. It can aid them in reaching out to something sublime or spiritual. It provides a great social focus for many people outside of their day to day work and can be used as a way of meeting new like-minded individuals. Music can be a means for uniting with others or protesting against injustice, sometimes changing history. I believe that anything that enables us to pull ourselves out from the mundane ennui of modern life, escape social isolation and gives an umbrella under which we can ’come together right now’, transcending problems of gender, race and class is a good thing for body, soul and mind.

Tim Benson
Opus Studios

Art seems to me to be, above all, a state of soul. All souls are sacred.

Marc Chagall
Painter

I hid myself deep, very deep in the words, melodies, and emotions of my songs. It is all very therapeutic, and then I stopped hiding from myself due to this, as I feel this has allowed honesty and connection in my life and it also allows me to pass my story on to someone else – the audience.

Bruce, musician