And yet my mother was also one of the most spiritual people that I ever knew.
For example, a Brazilian study published last year in the journal Explore, examined 28 other studies, found that religious and spiritual people had an 18% lower mortality rate, which represented an 18% reduction in mortality over the course of the study.
Many studies have shown that people who have spiritual or religious lives are healthier than people who do not.
For instance, research has demonstrated that spiritual or religious people are less likely to engage in suicidal behavior, for unclear reasons.
"It's apparent in organised religion there has been a decline but that's not to say there is not a spiritual side to people, " he said.
Ironically, the final resting place of Kemal Ataturk in Ankara invests the memory of Turkey's secular founder with more of the awe reserved for people of spiritual significance.
Catherine of Siena Montoya y Upegui, who journeyed with five other women by horseback in 1914 into the forests to be a teacher and spiritual guide to indigenous people.
He was also a co-convener of 2020 vision, the special assembly organised by the Presbyterian Church in 1998, to consider how the church needed to change the way it operated to give people the spiritual support they desire today.
Still, anyone who thinks that Muslims will be discouraged from making the haj is underestimating the appeal of a spiritual journey in which people forget their worldly concerns and share the hazards and joys of voyaging and praying with their co-religionists.
He also discusses, along with the migration, something that is still un-PC in much of the mainstream media--people's spiritual search for meaning in their lives.
He also meets with six people to provide spiritual direction, a practice with roots in the Christian, Buddhist and Jewish traditions that now includes more than 5, 000 U.S. practitioners from a variety of faiths, up from 400 in 1990.
"These people are merely seeking spiritual mooring and social security, " says a qigong master in Beijing.
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The moment war is declared, however, the mass of the people, through some spiritual alchemy, become convinced that they have willed and executed the deed themselves.
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That embrace will be weakened, not strengthened, by silly attacks on religiosity, stimulating the spiritual to question the seriousness of people who profess a concern for civil liberties.
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Covey and Deepak Chopra used the numbering technique for the structure of their respective bestsellers, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success.
In a press statement, she said that what she originally said was that fear of the LRA leader Joseph Kony's alleged spiritual powers was so deep that people were scared to volunteer information to the government security forces lest Kony spiritually identifies and kill them.
"People in Norway have a spiritual relationship with fire, " Mr Moeklebust was quoted as telling Reuters.
The monks wear ritual clothing and use hand gestures and various musical instruments while praying for the spiritual and moral well-being of the people, for purification and peace of mind, to appease the wrath of evil spirits or to invoke the blessing of various Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, deities and rinpoches.
Richard Nixon and Elvis Presley had sought his spiritual counselling, as had millions of other hurting people.
There is to be a designated spiritual area in the heart of Media City for people of any or no faith.
People who've had any genuine spiritual experience always know they don't know.
Paradoxically, the same people who complain about the extravagant lifestyles of their spiritual leaders are the same ones who finance it.
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"Thousands of people come every year to experience the cultural, and spiritual significance of Chimney Rock, " said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.
For many people involved in the charter, it's more a spiritual vision of a better way of life.
Many people attend church for social reasons initially, not to satisfy a spiritual need.
Descendants of the Ancestral Pueblo People return to Chimney Rock to visit their ancestors and for other spiritual and traditional purposes.
The percentage of people who believe we can no longer achieve either a material or spiritual American Dream has jumped by nine and now comprises one in five likely voters.
Churches in Africa are becoming strong social capitals whose values lie not simply in providing spiritual support, but also in strengthening the civil society, creating healthy networks among people and valorizing the agency of Africans to safeguard basic human security for integral and sustainable development.
The local people and transmitters respect and worship the shrine as a source of mental and spiritual comfort.
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