In the Modoc's "When Grizzlies Walked Upright," the Sky Spirit compels his daughter to tell the Wind Spirit to "blow more gently.... The Sky Spirit calls his daughter by the dependent term "youngest daughter" that relies on a father. ... In WGWU, the rivers are made from the Sky Spirit's tracks that melt in the snow. ... Readers can sense the godly, holy feeling that is described in these individual sovereignties. ... When the Sky Spirit in WGWU tells his daughter to simply give a message, she is too curious and is steered by her temptations and immaturity to...

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In "Mother Catherine" and "Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit" are similar in there beliefs of childbirth whether it's before or out of a marriage. ... They lived together six months as a holy man and women before the call of the flesh made him elope with one of her followers." ... The differences between "Mother Catherine" and "Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit" is that "Mother Catherine" has more of a religious message to the reader. And "Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit" is more of the beauty within not so much the physical but the intellectual. ... For these qu...

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Francis's relationship to poverty can be defined by these lines, "holy poverty stands high above all the virtues that prepare in us a dwelling place for God..." ... It also states that, "blessed are the poor in spirit," Jesus said, "for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven." As Francis interprets the Bible, God enters your life only when you are poor in spirit, and when this occurs the kingdom of Heaven is made available to you. ...

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For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.... But here, it says not only are you destroying the fetus, but you are destroying the spirit of god that dwindles within the life and very being of the future child. Each and every one of us, regardless of our religious views, has the spirit of the lord within us. ... But when we are in the womb, the spirit of god is inside us, and we are pure. ... They argue that the spirit of god doesn't enter you and your life does not begin until your first breath is taken. ...

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Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on earth. ... They would look at it as a thought that goes against God and all that is holy. ... Their want is different, true; it is holy and pure. ...

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In classical Buddhism that there are four stages which are repeated continuously until the spirit escapes the cycle of rebirth and enters Nirvana. ... After death the spirit wanders to find its "proper place" for forty-nine days, on the other hand, some case where someone had a strong attachment to worldly ambitions, cravings or desires, this period could last up to hundred days. ... Conversely, holy people, sages and monks would be expected to escape rebirth and enter Nirvana, but they very often are reborn because they took an oath to delay Nirvana in order to return to help others reach ...

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The divine to me is Brahman, making all things sacred and holy. ... Weather you choose to seek the path to true peace and a prosperous life to come is up to you, but to know that whatever path you may take you are still divine in spirit means that as long as you are living you can channel that inner good. ... Animals are seen as protectors, they keep the bad spirits away and are seen as very wise and divine, cows, with their gentle face and peaceful spirit are very sacred and influential to most of us here in India. ...

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Many of the world's major religions like Christianity, Islam, and Judaism promise an afterlife in different ways, and their holy books write about the idea. In Islamic religion, the idea of death is engrained in both the Holy Quran and Prophet Mohammed teachings. For example; the Holy Quran explained death and afterlife clearly; Al-Emran verse (185) which say:" every soul shall taste of death", it breaks the controversial issue of death and immortality, because in Islam they believe that death is the inevitable fate for all living creatures. However; immortality exists in another way in I...

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He also wrote, in later years, a number of works centered on Arthurian legends, including The Idylls of the King (1859), The Holy Grail and Other Poems (1870) and Gareth and Lynette (1872). ... His spirit yearns constantly for new experiences that will broaden his horizons; he wishes "to follow knowledge like a sinking star" and forever grow in wisdom and in learning (Arp /31). ...

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Therefore, the Native Americans viewed life evolving around a holy force that holds all things together, which leads to the basic goal of staying in "harmony with all natural and supernatural powers (p.62 Nigosian)." ... She then directs it either to the spirit world, a hazy analog of earthly life where there is an unending supply of buffalo and where people rejoin their kin, or back to earth. ...

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Thus there was a sort of negative karma, a spirit of death that became part of the library due to it being the site of a tragic death, as "The house was boarded up, and held its breath". ... Thus, Quick becomes part of a spiritual occurrence that both symbolises Holy Communion as well as the miracle where Jesus feeds many people with a few loaves and fishes. ...

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And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. ...

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