Many of the lyrics seem to reflect on Cave's personal relationships and spiritual yearnings.

The signs of spiritual yearning are rendered with particular beauty.

How can we speak to Americans' moral and spiritual yearnings?

For a while, the rebbe's physical absence made her spiritual yearning for him that much greater.

They act as a catalyst for stirring up the interest and spiritual yearnings of the rest of the college.

For Bilgrami spiritual yearnings are not only understandable but also supremely human.

Increased participation in community service may also reflect spiritual yearning of students.

Many said they came for the same principal reason: the support and encouragement of other men who shared their spiritual yearnings and religious ideals.

But the movement alone did not yet satisfy his spiritual yearning.

Sometimes this work tries to express complex ideas about sexual desire, the interplay of nature and culture, or spiritual yearnings.