I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a religious/spiritual leader
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The Pope is the Roman Catholics’ spiritual leader.
a spiritual dimension
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He was interested in the spiritual dimension to art.
emotional/intellectual/spiritual nourishment
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a child starved of emotional nourishment
Negro spiritual
parental/spiritual etc guidance
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Children need moral guidance.
spiritual enlightenment
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the quest for spiritual enlightenment
spiritual guide
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my spiritual guide
spiritual purity
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spiritual purity
spiritual values
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We have replaced our spiritual values with materialism.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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His blindness was more spiritual and endeared him to her.
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And if they are more numerous, then maybe the dead possess more spiritual power as well.
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I mean, I would have expected something a bit more spiritual for a time like this.
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Some are more spiritual in their approach.
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The aspirant towards a more spiritual way of life will be thrown entirely off the scent.
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One group favored commercial entertainment and the other a more spiritual sensibility.
■ NOUN
adviser
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Her role as spiritual adviser , teacher and leader typifies the value of women in the Church.
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Their spiritual adviser , their role model and beau celebre, was Willis In-Your-Face Mack.
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The investigator, bag man and spiritual adviser .
aspect
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The popular health movement also looks at health in a holistic way - the physical, mental and spiritual aspects .
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Be that as it may, I shall attempt to explain the spiritual aspect in my own terms.
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Never under-estimate the power of the mind-body, which can either trap or liberate the spiritual aspect of self.
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Is there a spiritual aspect of life which we usually ignore?
development
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In our own spiritual development , steady, significant long-term life-changes often occur too slowly to notice.
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The mishaps that befall Van Orton seem more random and jarring, though, than cohesively engineered to facilitate his spiritual development .
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Mention this to most clergymen and they will rightly say that spiritual development is far more important than a degree.
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But such a love implies a deeper readiness of understanding, a higher spiritual development than the first.
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Their spiritual development must be the responsibility of the clergy, perhaps with the help of others.
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In the West we have always been clear about our priorities in spiritual development .
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A neutral stance in relation to moral and spiritual development of pupils is not acceptable to the Catholic community especially in the Catholic school.
dimension
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The solution might well be an ecumenical link, or a secular organisation where we could bring a spiritual dimension .
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The same may be said of the renewed attention to the spiritual dimension of life.
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The links between the spiritual dimension and religion are in fact close.
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The spiritual dimension in creative effort comes from that honest pursuit.
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What happens when the spiritual dimension is recognised in treatment and rehabilitation?
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People can immerse themselves in the spiritual dimension without being religious at all.
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Just as there is a material dimension there is a spiritual dimension.
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I mean, what about the spiritual dimension ?
direction
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If anyone wants specific spiritual direction they seek to give it.
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And we always felt we had to have a spiritual foundation, a spiritual direction .
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She does not claim any immediate spiritual direction .
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Thirdly, I hope to indicate ways in which spiritual direction might be developed as a means of nurture within the church.
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At this point we need to say what spiritual direction is not.
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Elizabeth Fry was more explicit about spiritual direction .
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The basic premise of spiritual direction is that in order to grow we need each other.
director
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At times he conceived of his role at Holy Trinity as less a pastor than a communal spiritual director .
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A spiritual director is not a problem-solver to whom we run for infallible answers.
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It was with this spirit that she turned to her spiritual director for guidance and advice.
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But Rolle not only did not have a spiritual director , he had absolutely no intention of getting one.
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Drawing on his background as a spiritual director , Jim had decided that Holy Trinity would discern its way out of trouble.
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Out of this material will emerge some of the items you may want to discuss with a spiritual director .
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When Father Sobierajski had finished, the retreatants broke into smaller groups led by their spiritual directors .
discipline
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Tears and weeping became a recognized part of spiritual discipline for many mystics.
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When he was a young man, Jim thought of Lent as a season of contrition, spiritual discipline and personal purification.
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It may be interpreted as a spiritual discipline necessary to preserve our humanity and to promote the service of others.
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Making the right effort: accepting the need to pursue moral, mental and spiritual disciplines without losing heart. 7.
enlightenment
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Certainly later writers warn against mistaking unusual sense phenomena for genuine spiritual enlightenment .
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I listened to their tales of spiritual enlightenment , past lives, cosmic futures.
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How did these madmen get the reputation in the West for possessing vast spiritual enlightenment ?
experience
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The extent to which the senses actually play a role in Rolle's spiritual experience has been argued.
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For most parents, children are, if not sacred beings, then a source of a kind of spiritual experience .
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Last April, nearly a year ago, I had a most moving spiritual experience .
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They possess the concreteness of imaginative, spiritual experience rather than the concreteness of quotidian reality.
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This was the obedience which remained the foundation of his spiritual experience and of his admonitions to others.
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He returned home and began reading about altered states and spiritual experiences .
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For the nationalist, the voyage of discovery is a profound spiritual experience .
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And their presence at that time had given me almost a spiritual experience of being a father to little people.
gift
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And the same process can be true of the other spiritual gifts .
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Love, then, stands supreme as the more excellent motivation for the manifestation of spiritual gifts .
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The celibacy that is accepted in the New Testament is one that comes as the result of a spiritual gift .
growth
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The sixth step refers to the beginning of a lifelong process of spiritual growth .
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According to the ancient wisdom, spiritual growth involves transcending the limited and short-sighted Ego to make way for the Self.
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For centuries, material wealth and abundance has been seen as incompatible with spiritual growth .
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It is a stepping stone in my spiritual growth .
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Sexuality, likewise, can be a wonderful vehicle for personal and spiritual growth .
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Chances then arise to transfer that energy into another field - work, relationships, or spiritual growth .
guidance
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His purpose was therefore to seek spiritual guidance rather than merely collect some ritual instruments and headgear.
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By looking to the Bible and seeking spiritual guidance , he is taking steps to reconcile our differences.
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The churches also carried out the function of education in spiritual guidance to a population largely illiterate.
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Our president, who has been elected to lead us into the new millennium, needs spiritual guidance like all of us.
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What then of emotional, even spiritual guidance ?
home
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And I knew I had found my spiritual home .
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He probably thinks Lee Chapman's house is his new spiritual home .
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The Dons left their spiritual home because of safety concerns in the wake of the Taylor Report.
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It's my spiritual home , although I don't worship there now.
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Eric attempting to find a new spiritual home ?
journey
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Hundreds of friends found Hugh Bishop a supportive fellow pilgrim on their own spiritual journeys .
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Few seminaries and hardly any universities are equipped to help students enter into a mystical quest or spiritual journey .
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The first part of Pilgrim's Progress is an allegory of the spiritual journey which had been described in Grace Abounding.
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Some would say I was being true to my own spiritual journey .
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They turned their pages in perfect harmony and experienced a decent run through of a difficult text rather than an intense spiritual journey .
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For the rest of this address I will describe its role for me in my spiritual journey .
leader
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Even the medieval church's spiritual leader , St Bernard of Clairvaux, wanted an explanation.
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Just think: The Raiders might be able to get the chemistry-destroying, morale-busting George straight-up for their spiritual leader Hoss.
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But Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the paramount spiritual leader of Shas, is committed to peace.
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The young, the bold, the lowly paid and overworked, acknowledged him as their spiritual leader .
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Payne snorts when Yarbrough suggests he act more the spiritual leader .
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The importance of the Imams as spiritual leaders is at the hearts of Shiite doctrine.
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The Lutherans asked Amsterdam to please send them a new spiritual leader , preferably an unmarried man.
life
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His spiritual life would follow the same unorthodox and aggressively assertive pattern.
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Both sport and the spiritual life grow out of our human urge to express the richness of existence.
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All from personal experience agree that freemasonry brings the end of spiritual life in a church. 3.
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Some have tried to live completely spiritual lives , but the attempt is as far as they get.
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But if the essence of the spiritual life is dying to the self then the religious man must sacrifice.
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Hence the shallowness of their spiritual lives and the weakness of their commitment to prayer.
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We realize that the spiritual life matters infinitely more than all the material possessions or human status we once may have enjoyed.
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I take my spiritual life very seriously, and there were times when I was running on empty.
matter
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The Church was told to concentrate on purely spiritual matters and not to medal in matters to do with politics.
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In the highest rank, the brahmins were the priests, masters of spiritual matters .
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Its jurisdiction was principally on moral and spiritual matters .
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These are no doubt spiritual matters , but they have their analogue in the material world.
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Both Luther and Calvin accepted that secular rulers had no jurisdiction over spiritual matters .
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But these were all in areas circumscribed by the church as spiritual matters .
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Mahfouz was applying the spirit of scientific inquiry to spiritual matters .
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Prior to the middle of this century, the Catholic Church had concerned itself predominantly with spiritual matters .
need
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Unfortunately, just as the emotional needs of mentally disordered people are often ignored, so too are their spiritual needs.
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Because their physical needs were so profound, there was not enough time to take their psychological and spiritual needs seriously.
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Give enough time to yourself and your own physical, mental, emotional and spiritual needs .
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Because of the great spiritual needs of the people, Mrs. Baxter urged the building of another meeting house in Bloomsbury.
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The first two chapters offer a definition of spirituality and a way of identifying spiritual need .
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In his preaching he sought to make the Bible relevant to the spiritual needs of the people.
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She was also deeply concerned for the spiritual needs of her relatives and household servants.
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It was failing to respond to the demand to make religion more accessible was failing to respond to the spiritual needs .
power
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But she has such power , such spiritual power.
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And if they are more numerous, then maybe the dead possess more spiritual power as well.
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We have often a choice: self pity or spiritual power through suffering.
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The important thing about shamans is that they exist in order to bring spiritual power to bear on human pain.
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That is not historic or accurate but it has power , unbelievable spiritual power for Christians.
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Early art, especially the wall art and the figurines, show the spiritual power of the female body.
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So how can these evil spiritual powers affect our lives?
quest
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The spiritual quest is to discover order in our consciousness.
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We should encourage the president in his spiritual quest .
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The mental powers, which made that spiritual quest possible, were the fount of human uniqueness - not a cosmic position.
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Harcourt-Reilly takes her out of her conventional life, and leads her towards a spiritual quest and eventual martyrdom.
reality
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This will help us not to confuse physical pleasure with true happiness or the spiritual reality of joy.
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Can there be any spiritual reality transcending this material existence?
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Our high desires for spiritual reality are transmuted into the sordid quest for consumerism and materialism.
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At the other extreme, light can be thought of as the final and complete revelation of spiritual reality .
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Our task is to relate these spiritual realities to the theme of the biblical mythology of the deep.
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In other words, we see beyond the material world to spiritual reality .
sense
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It has neither Locke's confidence in reason nor Wesley's confidence in his spiritual sense .
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Educate childen with a spiritual sense of service to others and respectful interaction with nature?
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However, like that about poverty, this saying talks about mourning in a spiritual sense .
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Both neighborhoods had a strong spiritual sense , a different musical culture, unique foods, and unappreciated patois.
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The act of blessing and the dawn brought him then to his physical and spiritual senses .
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Not only in a simple financial sense but also in a spiritual sense.
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Mikhail Vologsky was essentially a loner, in both the physical and spiritual sense .
value
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He appears to be offering a total cinema in which technique, story, social setting, and spiritual values came together.
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Ethical or spiritual values are not inherited, they are learned.
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The spiritual values are not part of the intellect.
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At the center of one of these glyphs were the words inner core spiritual values .
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The belt, like my bearskin necklace which I am wearing somewhat uncomfortably under my shirt, has spiritual value .
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We have replaced our spiritual values and wisdom with materialism.
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He told me once that to his mind organized religion destroyed moral and spiritual values .
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Many Eastern cultures put spiritual values before material values.
world
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He did not believe in a spiritual world .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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In the 13th century Jalaludin Rumi wrote poetry about his spiritual life.
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Just as the emotional needs of the mentally disabled are overlooked, so too are their spiritual needs.
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She came seeking spiritual guidance.
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the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people
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The decision was made by the spiritual leaders of the tribe.
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The last sacrament represents the final step in Christ's spiritual journey.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both sport and the spiritual life grow out of our human urge to express the richness of existence.
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Both were seen as sources of disease, bodily or spiritual , moral corruptions which were spreading throughout the land.
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But the spiritual agents were not restricted only to people to do their work.
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He worked to prevent the Jesuits from acquiring land and influence, though he supported their spiritual ministry to the Catholic settlers.
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Just think: The Raiders might be able to get the chemistry-destroying, morale-busting George straight-up for their spiritual leader Hoss.
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Modernist artists increasingly transgressed boundaries and borders in what appears to have been an intellectual, physical and spiritual restlessness.
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That is not historic or accurate but it has power, unbelievable spiritual power for Christians.
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This mapping is spiritual , but also practical, for people need to know the patterns of nature.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Believe it or not, he only had two or three songs he knew other than spirituals.
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If the personal is the spiritual , the spiritual is also the political.
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Or the Morgan State University Choir singing spirituals?
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The spirituals ask no pity-for their words ride on the strongest of melodies, the melody of faith.