An acquaintance of mine has recently experienced a sort of spiritual awakening.

A spiritual awakening sounds better than breakdown, but I assure you it was a breakdown.

Wakeup

Reviving the Animal Spirits

And I'm so worn out at this point in my life, I look at her and I actually say, It was a frickin' spiritual awakening.

The Middle East Awakening

Waking up is the opposite of going to sleep.

Waking up is the opposite of going to sleep.

How do you assess the current spiritual status of the Old Believers?

The medieval church despised the body and exalted the spirit.

The University of Pereslavl is also based in the town.

The Middle East is undergoing a tectonic shift the Shia awakening.

The rude awakening came when property values began to decline.

Confucians believe that spiritual upbringing is more important than looks.

Should this awakening fail, the result will be a radicalization throughout the region.

Diverse collectives and activists look to preserve our material and immaterial heritage.

Cutting to the present is a rude awakening, like snapping out of a dream.

The Muslim Religious Board (MRB) of Tatarstan renounces the use the Russian language in mosques.

This February, the Kyrgyz Spiritual Directorate issued a fatwa against homosexuals in Kyrgyzstan.

The 99 and 1 , and it's wakening in different people in different ways.

But Egypt s internal divisions reveal a deeper awakening in the region that has its own significance.

And it has muddied the Jewish moral legacy demanding the active pursuit of both justice and peace.

By detaining thousands of sect followers the Party may unwittingly transform an errant spiritual movement into a dangerous political force.

Religion in the modern world is a much more personal and spiritual experience than ever before.

Beyond economics, China must reassure others that its awakening will not make the world tremble. Thus, in formulating its policies, China must also sell those policies to a global audience.

Beyond economics, China must reassure others that its awakening will not make the world tremble.

For example, the group Awakening has been posting messages on Facebook that criticize the government's settlement program by demonizing refugees

In this view, national identity, is a spiritual concept based on a common history and set of values.

The fall of the Berlin Wall confirmed the Pope in his mission to reunify and spiritually regenerate Christian Europe.

Recently, women's magazine Rastan (Awakening) was created to bridge the gap between different groups of women.

Each day is a little life every waking and rising a little birth every fresh morning a little youth every going to rest and sleep a little death.

And I have come to find that a more appropriate metaphor for aging is a staircase the upward ascension of the human spirit, bringing us into wisdom, wholeness and authenticity.

I invented a thousand stories to make some sense of our economic poverty and turn it to spiritual richness.

The Lal Masjid head cleric, a former student of my university in Islamabad, added the following chilling message for our women students

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.

I mean that we evolved to see sacredness all around us and to join with others into teams and circle around sacred objects, people and ideas.

When Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his followers hijacked the Iranian revolution in 1979, democracy became impossible the cleric had become a dictator.

With the blessing of his Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Archpriest Andrei Vladimirovich Alexeev will perform spiritual care for the athletes of the Russian Olympic Team.

At the heart of globalization has been the emergence of fast growing economies, most notably Brazil, India, and, above all, China.

As events over the past two weeks in Egypt have demonstrated all too vividly, the Arab awakening is still only in its first act in many countries.

Sefr al Hawali, a prominent Saudi Wahhabi cleric, warned of the dangers of the Shia arc following the Shia intifada in Iraq in 1991.

One side effect of the American British occupation of Iraq is that it sparked public debate on a dark secret of international finance the debts taken on by odious regimes.

And obviously, technology had existed before then, but we weren't aware of it, and so it was sort of an awakening of this force in our life.

In her new memoir, Daring to Drive A Saudi Woman's Awakening, al Sharif describes growing up in Mecca as a firm believer in conservative Islam.

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.