There's A Quality We Could Call Vertical Attention, Which Is An Attention Upward Toward Ancestors, Spiritual States, Angels, Gods.
The Secular World Is More Spiritual Than It Thinks, Just As The Ecclesiastical World Is More Materialist Than It Cares To Acknowledge.
The Music Business Is Really A Spiritual Business Whether We Know It Or Not.
No Place Epitomizes The American Experience And The American Spirit More Than New York City.
A Big Part Of What I Wanted To Do With This Character Was Go From When I Was A Boy And Try And Develop Into A Man, Really Try And Play Him As A Man Who Is On This Search, On A Journey Of Personal, Spiritual, Political, Social Discovery.
Americans ... Do Not Naturally Apply The Term "bourgeois" To Themselves, Or To Anyone Else For That Matter. They Do Like To Call Themselves Middle Class, But That Does Not Carry With It Any Determinate Spiritual Content. ... The Term "middle Class" Does Not Have Any Of The Many Opposites That Bourgeois Has, Such As Aristocrat, Saint, Hero, Or Artist - All Good.
The Distinction Between Private And Public Undermines The Unity Of Spiritual Strength, Draining The Public Of The Transcendent Energies While Trivializing Them Because The Merely Private Life Provides No Proper Stage For Their Action.
We Are All Spirits. We Get Depressed. But Music Makes You Want To Live. I Know My Music Has Saved My Life.
As A Child I Always Wanted To Be A Singer. The Music My Mother Played In The House Moved Me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It Was Truly Spiritual. It Made You Understand What God Was. We Are All Spirits. We Get Depressed. But Music Makes You Want To Live. I Know My Music Has Saved My Life.
The Possible Truths, Hazily Perceived In The World Of Abstraction, Like Those Inferred From Observation And Experiment In The World Of Matter, Are Forced Upon The Profane Multitudes, Too Busy To Think For Themselves, Under The Form Of Divine Revelation And Scientific Authority. But The Same Question Stands Open From The Days Of Socrates And Pilate Down To Our Own Age Of Wholesale Negation: Is There Such A Thing As Absolute Truth In The Hands Of Any One Party Or Man?
Nothing Of That Which Is Conducive To Help Man, Collectively Or Individually, To Live Not "happily" But Less Unhappily In This World, Ought To Be Indifferent To The Theosophist-occultist. It Is No Concern Of His Whether His Help Benefits A Man In His Worldly Or Spiritual Progress; His First Duty Is To Be Ever Ready To Help If He Can, Without Stopping To Philosophize.
