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spiritual

If something or someone is spiritual, it is of or about God; they are sacred. If something is spiritual, it is of or about the spirit or soul. If something is spiritual, it is of or about spirits or the supernatural. If something or someone is spiritual, they are made up of spirit; it is not material. If something is spiritual, it is about the mind; it is about intellect. If something is spiritual, it is not about time; it is related to sacred things.

spiritual

A spiritual is a job, office, or matter that is sacred in nature. A spiritual is a Christian folk song.

spiritual

(= religious) concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church religious texts a member of a religious order lords temporal and spiritual spiritual leaders spiritual songs a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States (= unearthly) concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul a spiritual approach to life spiritual fulfillment spiritual values unearthly love lacking material body or form or substance spiritual beings the vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm — Lewis Mumford (= ghostly, phantasmal, spectral) resembling or characteristic of a phantom a ghostly face at the window a phantasmal presence in the room spectral emanations spiritual tappings at a seance

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Not material, but spiritual things determine our live.
Biodynamic agriculture is based on anthroposophy, a philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner, which postulates the existence of a spiritual world.
They gave him both material and spiritual support.
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and eight times out of nine I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Today the society of Russia clearly lacks spiritual ties.
An acquaintance of mine has recently experienced a sort of spiritual awakening.
I once knew a guy who claimed to feel a spiritual bond with stoats. Weirdo.
I have a collection of spiritual songs of the Russian mystical sectarians, mainly of the Khlysts and Skoptsy, published at the beginning of the twentieth century.
The journey of the people of Israel through the wilderness is a prototype of the journey of God's people through the spiritual wilderness.
The Lord does not completely destroy the Canaanite tribes in order to maintain spiritual wakefulness in his people.

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The witch madness, like a spiritual plague, ravages wherever these judges go.
There was nothing spiritual in your eyes when you looked at that girl.
The great personal and spiritual meeting. of the old fighters and comrades in struggle.
I live in the forest with good fellows.. who've everything in life save spiritual guidance.
Your business is spiritual.
But claims to be spiritual.
When Mrs. Glendenning, one of your best parishioners. whom naturally cannot help her extreme stoutness. came to you for spiritual guidance, you looked at her and said.
My imaginings are less spiritual, Father.
I decline to believe that you are on such an exalted spiritual plane.
My dear, meeting Dudley has been the greatest spiritual experience of my life.
This is our scriptorium. where we study and do most of our spiritual work.
The Lord mercifully with his favor look upon you and fill you with spiritual benediction and grace that ye may so live together in this life that in the world to come, ye may have life everlasting.
Mr. Landowner, I'm a spiritual person.
Kodytek is a spiritual person.
Let's all swear to unite the East's spiritual values with the material ones of the West.
This isn't quite the spiritual union our Saint-Simonian brothers had in mind.
I live in the forest with good fellows who've everything in life save spiritual guidance.
I find you very spiritual.
Jardinet's opening number. will be Beethoven's somber and spiritual first movement. of his second concerto, album three, opus four.
He subdues their will using symbolic gestures, and through magical help, spiritual daggers, thunderbolts and magic bells.
With reverence and amazement, the pilgrims look at and bow to the monumental walls the Potala that was erected by the Dalai Lamas to honor the Gods and as a visible sign of spiritual and all conquering power.
What right has a layman to intervene in spiritual affairs?
Oh, Casilda, I do wish you were a little more spiritual.
I tried to give you all the spiritual aid that I could.
I could sure do with a little spiritual comfort, myself.
Colonel Lepping informs me that you have been awarded the Academic Palms In a spiritual, but not in a political sense.
You are being paid handsomely for that spiritual discomfort.
It's spiritual.
Very spiritual type, huh?
On the contrary, General. Iove is a state of confusion in which the victim cannot distinguish. between spiritual aspiration, carnal desire, and pride of ownership.
The spiritual man seems to be more material than the material one.
For centuries, we have been the spiritual heart and unconditional supporters of the Imperial Throne!
Because they have a different spiritual culture.
In marriage, the corporal act is as sacred as the spiritual one.

News and current affairs

If football and its culminating moment, the World Cup, has become the universal religion of the global age, this is above all because it fulfills, in a non-spiritual way, contradictory instincts in human nature.
Even Western bosses keen on China, it appears, are finding it hard nowadays to praise Jiang, as he crushes the Falun Gong spiritual movement by imprisoning or confining its members to psychiatric hospitals.
Our globalized world brings us not only economic opportunities but also cultural and spiritual challenges.
For now, there is no reason to hope that Mailat will find through his crime a new start towards salvation through suffering and spiritual renewal.
Europe deserves to prove that it is a real community, one diverse, democratic, spiritual, free, and prosperous.
At a time of reconciliation between Christianity and Judaism, a less Christian Europe has been more reluctant to consider the spiritual specificity of Israel.
It was also the birthplace of a spiritual heritage, of thinkers and artists, of a specific mode of creativity and search for meaning beyond pragmatic negotiations with daily life.
Ultimately, the spiritual gloom and existential dread that we have come to associate with Eastern Europe are merely an extension of our own.
Contemporary adherents insist more on personal faith and individual spiritual experience.
With communism discredited and Catholicism waning, the connection - mental, psychological, even spiritual - of the land with defense of the fatherland, appears to be Poland's last political certainty.
One could also argue that the consequences of reform would not be as organizationally disastrous as feared - in the same way that cleaning up backwaters like the Vatican Bank would restore credibility to the Church's spiritual message.
As such, economics is rather more like engineering than physics, more practical than spiritual.
Ensuring victory against organized hatred requires a very different approach, one that attracts the support of those whose material and spiritual conditions leave them most susceptible to religious extremism.
It is not a mark of a superpower's quiet, self-confident authority to beat up Buddhist monks and attack their spiritual leader.
Moreover, secular spiritual leaders like Gandhi, Schweitzer, and King have vanished, annihilated it seems by our new fetishes--success, expediency, gain, and special interests.
Culture is a necessary pause from the daily rat race, from our chaotic and often vulgar political surroundings, and it is a chance to recover our spiritual energy.
Indeed, this could be the best contribution they can make to the common spiritual, moral, and political foundations of a united Europe.
Indeed, its realistic use of profanity and its depiction of the spiritual vacuum that grips China got it banished from one of Beijing's TV channels.
Prayer and spiritual devotion were important components of Cory's daily endeavors - and a major influence in her decision-making and personal relations. Her inner reserves of faith, indeed, kept her going through every hardship.
Her spiritual strength arose out of her deep and abiding reliance on the grace and boundless mercy of the god she believed in.
Maybe it is the experience of inhabiting a country in the center of Europe, a place which has for centuries been a crossroads of Europe's spiritual currents, geopolitical interests, and confrontations.
It is also happening at a time when both parts of Europe are in search of a new geopolitical, or even spiritual, identity.
St. Thomas More is regarded as the patron saint of politicians, which is rather flattering to many of those over whose spiritual interests he presumably presides.
The personal charm of the Dalai Lama, combined with the Himalayan air of superior spiritual wisdom, has promoted a caricature of a mystical, wise, and peace-loving people being crushed by a brutal empire.
He is simultaneously the most visible spiritual leader of a worldwide community of believers, a role that India honors, and a political leader, a role that India permits but rejects in its own dealings with him.

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