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Daily Inspiration Quote by Linda Blair

"To ignore one's spiritual self is unsettling, to say the least. That's a very profound outlook on it"

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There is a quiet, almost confessional friction in Linda Blair's line: it starts as a warning and ends as a compliment, like someone catching herself mid-thought and deciding not to sound too intense. "To ignore one's spiritual self is unsettling" isn’t preachy; it’s diagnostic. The verb "ignore" frames spirituality less as religion and more as self-neglect, the way you ignore a check-engine light until the car starts shaking. "Unsettling, to say the least" adds a conversational shrug that actually sharpens the claim: the understatement signals she’s hinting at something darker (anxiety, emptiness, a creeping sense of disconnection) without turning it into a sermon.

Then the pivot: "That's a very profound outlook on it". The second sentence reads like Blair responding to someone else, not delivering a polished mantra. That matters. It suggests a context of interview-talk or reflective conversation where she’s co-signing an idea rather than branding it as her own. The subtext is social: spiritual language can make people roll their eyes, so she softens the landing by framing it as admiration for an "outlook" - an opinion you can try on, not a doctrine you must obey.

Coming from an actress whose cultural shadow is inseparable from The Exorcist, the line also plays against expectation. "Spiritual self" isn’t code for sensational possession; it’s the mundane aftermath - what happens when you’ve lived through fame, typecasting, and public projection. Blair’s intent feels less like evangelism and more like boundary-setting: a reminder that if you let the world define you, the cost shows up internally, first as unease, then as absence.

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Blair, Linda. (2026, January 16). To ignore one's spiritual self is unsettling, to say the least. That's a very profound outlook on it. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/to-ignore-ones-spiritual-self-is-unsettling-to-102262/

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Blair, Linda. "To ignore one's spiritual self is unsettling, to say the least. That's a very profound outlook on it." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/to-ignore-ones-spiritual-self-is-unsettling-to-102262/.

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"To ignore one's spiritual self is unsettling, to say the least. That's a very profound outlook on it." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/to-ignore-ones-spiritual-self-is-unsettling-to-102262/. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.

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Linda Blair (born January 22, 1959) is a Actress from USA.

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