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a059b76 Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being. inspirational life spiritual uplifting Albert Schweitzer
f76b713 Time doesn't heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go. heal inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes learning let-go letting-go letting-go-of-the-past life life-quotes pain spiritual time Roy T. Bennett
0ff945a I've been fighting to be who I am all my life. What's the point of being who I am, if I can't have the person who was worth all the fighting for? fighting funny humour husband inspirational love lover relationships romance spiritual sweet wife Stephanie Lennox
00cac3e Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions. life spiritual Elizabeth Gilbert
7cca878 It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates. inspirational spiritual truth Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
2c40fd1 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matthew 6:34 scripture spiritual truth Anonymous
84e6d98 That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. inspirational love spiritual Rumi
6e7d9b6 Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant it. "I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other." To the children and the innocent it's all the same. god inspirational love spiritual Jack Kerouac
18b0ef3 "Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant it. "I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other." To the children and the innocent it's all the same." inspirational love spiritual Jack Kerouac
81001bc I've come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power. confidence inspirational life music power spiritual truth work Jason Mraz
956ad74 Until you step into the unknown, you don't know what you're made of. adventure courage inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-quotes living spiritual step-into-the-unknown Roy T. Bennett
58298f2 Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do. bruce-lee determined inspirational spiritual Bruce Lee
f9d4269 In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if that philosophy is not to be referred to a previous state of existence, so remote is its sublimity from our conceptions. I lay down the book and go to my well for water, and lo! there I meet the servant of the Bramin, priest of Brahma and Vishnu and Indra, who still sits in his temple on the Ganges reading the Vedas, or dwells at the root of a tree with his crust and water jug. I meet his servant come to draw water for his master, and our buckets as it were grate together in the same well. The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges. brahma ganges gods hinduism indra intellect philosophy priest respect reverence sacred spiritual vishnu Henry David Thoreau
5fde740 You will never follow your own inner voice until you clear up the doubts in your mind. awareness follow-your-heart follow-your-inner-voice follow-your-intuition gut-feeling inner-voice inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring intuition life life-quotes listen-your-inner-voice living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking soul spiritual Roy T. Bennett
575bd5d "I don't profess any religion; I don't think it's possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by the words 'spiritual' or 'spirituality.' atheist difficulty possibility sarcasm spiritual spirituality understanding writing Philip Pullman
9a4e9d7 It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living. inspirational spiritual Eckhart Tolle
25ff46a I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears. inspirational psychology spiritual Carl Jung
dadaf85 The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be. inspirational spiritual Neale Donald Walsch
9bc0192 Frustration and Love can't exist in the same place at the same time, so get real and start doing what you would rather be doing in life. Love your life. All of it. Even the heavy shit that happened to you when you were 8. All of it was and IS perfect. healing inspirational life love past spiritual truth Jason Mraz
30f4d42 Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace. inspirational spiritual Frederick Buechner
08dcf64 Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. balance control inspirational spiritual Thomas à Kempis
f049995 Many of us are slaves to our minds. Our own mind is our worst enemy. We try to focus, and our mind wanders off. We try to keep stress at bay, but anxiety keeps us awake at night. We try to be good to the people we love, but then we forget them and put ourselves first. And when we want to change our life, we dive into spiritual practice and expect quick results, only to lose focus after the honeymoon has worn off. We return to our state of bewilderment. We're left feeling helpless and discouraged. It seems we all agree that training the body through exercise, diet, and relaxation is a good idea, but why don't we think about training our minds? inspirational spiritual Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
ded47cb Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours. inspirational spiritual Richard Bach
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724bbb8 "I was giving up. I would have given up - if a voice hadn't made itself heard in my heart. The voice said "I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare. I will beat the odds, as great as they are. I have survived so far, miraculously. Now I will turn miracle into routine. The amazing will be seen everyday. I will put in all the hard work necessary. Yes, so long as God is with me, I will not die. Amen." inspirational life religion spiritual Yann Martel
42f3830 Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world. awakening awareness enlightenment giving inspirational know-thyself self-realization service spiritual wisdom-quotes Ramana Maharshi
b61ba9a Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that travels, it is the spirit that is experienced. That is why there exist contemplative souls who have lived more intensely, more widely, more tumultuously than others who have lived their lives purely externally. life spiritual thinking Fernando Pessoa
128b035 Hanya orang-orang dengan hati damailah yang boleh menerima kejadian buruk dengan lega. inspirational life spiritual Tere Liye
b228240 Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender spiritual Elizabeth Gilbert
7b86a4f We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. cultural inspirational spiritual Martin Luther King Jr.
b8994e7 In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me. inspirational spiritual St. Augustine
dbc3ebd Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? love motivational self-empowerment self-esteem self-realization spiritual truth inspirational Marianne Williamson
bfb6bf3 God will answer you prayers better than you think. Of course, one will not always get exactly what he has asked for....We all have sorrows and disappointments, but one must never forget that, if commended to God, they will issue in good....His own solution is far better than any we could conceive. christian inspirational prayer spiritual Fanny J. Crosby
09b55b2 God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves. You were speaking of the Last Judgement. Allow me to laugh respectfully. I shall wait for it resolutely, for I have known what is worse, the judgement of men. For them, no extenuating circumstances; even the good intention is ascribed to crime. Have you at least heard of the spitting cell, which a nation recently thought up to prove itself the greatest on earth? A walled-up box in which the prisoner can stand without moving. The solid door that locks him in the cement shell stops at chin level. Hence only his face is visible, and every passing jailer spits copiously on it. The prisoner, wedged into his cell, cannot wipe his face, though he is allowed, it is true. to close his eyes. Well, that, mon cher, is a human invention. They didn't need God for that little masterpiece. humanity spiritual Albert Camus
7ef9202 "Warriors of light always have a certain gleam in their eyes. They are of this world, they are part of the lives of others, and they set out on their journey with no saddlebags and no sandals. They are often cowardly. They do not always make the right decisions. They suffer over the most trivial things, they have mean thoughts, and sometimes believe that they are incapable of growing. They frequently deem themselves unworthy of any blessing or miracle. spiritual Paulo Coelho / پائولو کوئیلو
b1f9c80 Warriors of light always have a certain gleam in their eyes inspirational spiritual Paulo Coelho / ?????? ??????
4778864 God is whispering in your heart, in the whole existence, just tune your ears. god inspirational mediation meditations motivational silence spiritual spiritual-growth spirituality Amit Ray
ba650d0 The power of God is with you at all times; through the activities of mind, senses, breathing, and emotions; and is constantly doing all the work using you as a mere instrument. god human life spiritual Anonymous
142046e Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you. happiness-quotes inner-peace inner-strength inspirational lifestyle meditation self-awareness self-discovery spiritual wisdom Amit Ray
268babc Perform all thy actions with mind concentrated on the Divine, renouncing attachment and looking upon success and failure with an equal eye. Spirituality implies equanimity. [Trans. Purohit Swami] hinduism spiritual Anonymous
de450d3 This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown. philosophical romance spiritual inspirational Victor Hugo
bc5db03 Tuhan kan nggak mungkin langsung sedekah ke orang-orang, ya kalianlah sedekah duit kalau punya duit, sedekah ilmu, sedekah senyum inspirational spiritual Sujiwo Tejo
bf1d393 My young sisters, we have such hope for you. We have such great expectations for you. Don't settle for less than what the Lord wants you to be.. inspirational spiritual Ezra Taft Benson
ec48fb6 "Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness." life spiritual Jon Kabat-Zinn
ebe3dc8 If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders. inspirational spiritual Andrew Harvey
09467f5 This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down. We all need such places of ritual safekeeping. And I do believe that if your culture or tradition doesn't have the specific ritual you are craving, then you are absolutely permitted to make up a ceremony of your own devising, fixing your own broken-down emotional systems with all the do-it-yourself resourcefulness of a generous plumber/poet. spiritual Elizabeth Gilbert
f412f22 No other success can compensate for failure in the home. home inspirational spiritual success J. E. McCulloch
81325b9 Who is it who decides that one man should live and another should die? My life wasn't worth any more than his, but he's the one who's buried, while I get to enjoy at least a few more hours above the ground. Is it chance, random and cruel, or is there some purpose or pattern to all this, even if it lies beyond our ken? eragon inheritance inheritance-cycle inspirational life spiritual young-adult Christopher Paolini
d81ec55 The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. heavens inspirational nature spiritual wisdom Anne Frank
97e83da The battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart. spiritual Ted Dekker
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c11776e For your past, for your flaws, and ultimately for your stress; I judge no one whom I've met along the way because in a sense we were all wounded in our own ways. inspirational motivational peace philosophy spiritual wisdom zen Forrest Curran
54c955c A great tree develops over time and can tell stories not only those of happiness, but also those that contain pain from what it has seen over the years, and as a result is the wise ancient tree that it is today. As the seasons change, the tree naturally goes through changes as well: where the leaves turn yellow and orange in the fall, falling by the Winter, returning in the Spring, and with full set of new leafs by the Summer. Love is no different in that there will be times when we are fully naked in the Winter, and left to wonder about Spring when it seemed so easy to love, yet the wise tree knows that no winter will last forever no matter how cold it may be. inspirational motivational peace philosophy spiritual wisdom zen Forrest Curran
58e6745 And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change. Change is freedom, change is life spiritual work Ursula K. Le Guin
7e6164b As I naturally go through a full range of emotions in my life, I mustn't feel ashamed for feeling lost, for it is honest and human to feel such. inspirational motivational peace philosophy spiritual wisdom zen Forrest Curran
0791f78 We become so absorbed in our flaws and faults that we forget that it is better to be a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. To have flaws is beauty in itself, a fact so frightening that we hurry to hide them from sight and tarnish the whole in the process of comparing ourselves to others. inspirational motivational peace philosophy spiritual wisdom zen Forrest Curran
9fc3819 One day in my shoes and a day for me in your shoes, the beauty of travel lies in the ease and willingness to be more open. inspirational motivational peace philosophy spiritual wisdom zen Forrest Curran
cc9f7b6 Some we proudly display on our arms, while others we shyly conceal. Tattoo the moments of sorrow as well as the moments of splendor and beauty. Tattoo in an acknowledgment and tribute to home, and tattooing your beliefs that define who you are. Whether we intended to or not, every moment of our lives are tattooed to our heart. inspirational motivational peace philosophy spiritual wisdom zen Forrest Curran
615ecdb "I am the lover's gift; I am the wedding wreath; I am the memory of a moment of happiness; beauty flower inspiration spiritual Gibran Kahlil Gibran
1493e1f You can lose your MONEY. You can lose your FRIENDS. You can lose your JOB and you can lose your MARRIAGE...and still recover...as long as there is HOPE. Never lose HOPE. bible central-christian-church church inspirational john-paul john-paul-warren john-warren leadership motivational pastor-john-paul-warren pastors religious speakers spiritual voice-of-the-nations John Paul Warren
cec2b1c Everything is within your power change change-life change-quotes change-the-world change-your-life change-your-mind empowered empowerment encourae-yourself encourage-yourself encouragement encouragement-and-attitude encouragement-quotes encouraging encouraging-quotes innate-wisdom inner-strength inspirational inspiring inspiring-quote inspiring-quotes law-of-attraction motivating motivational motivational-quotes personal-development positive positive-quote positive-thinking positivity power power-of-the-subconscious-mind power-of-thoughts power-of-will power-of-women powerful powerful-quotes powerful-women powerful-words self-empowered self-empowerment self-healing self-help self-help-inspiration self-help-motivator self-help-quote self-help-quotes self-improvement spiritual spiritual-quote spiritual-wisdom strength strength-of-mind strength-of-spirit strong strong-will strong-willed strong-woman strong-women subconscious uplifting Janice Trachtman
c33d468 There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it? faith spiritual Robert A. Heinlein
869906c Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the goal of all your work, the final accomplishment for which you are most highly congratulated. The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. You don't necessarily need to be rich in order to experience this, either. spiritual values-in-life Elizabeth Gilbert
61203f7 Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a little bit distorted, a little foolish...It is perfectly fine with me that what for one man is precious wisdom for another sounds like foolery. spiritual truth wisdom Hermann Hesse
5817451 Keep watch and pray, so that you will not give in to temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak. spiritual Anonymous
b0b3bf7 We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can walk, they used to say. In that case, where are all the souls? Left behind. They wander here and there, slowly, dim lights flickering in the marshes at night, looking for us. But they're not nearly fast enough, not for us, we're way ahead of them, they'll never catch up. That's why we can go so fast: our souls don't weigh us down. life spiritual Margaret Atwood
9aa003f Give sustenance, Allah. Give sustenance to me. sad sorrow spiritual sustenance Khaled Hosseini
3d5abbb It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos. spiritual Anne Lamott
3be7db6 "Enjoy life with the woman whom you love all the days of your fleeting life which He has given to you under the sun; for this is your reward"... Ecclesiastes 9:9 (NASB)" biblical ecclesiastes enjoy-life scripture spiritual Anonymous
bb6127d Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty, Baruch names thee Immensity, the Psalms name thee Wisdom and Truth, John names thee Light, the Book of Kings names thee Lord, Exodus names thee Providence, Leviticus Sanctity, Esdras Justice, creation names thee God, man names thee Father; but Solomon names thee Compassion, which is the most beautiful of all thy names. god les-misérables spiritual Victor Hugo
fb47191 many women do noble things, but you surpass them all. charm is deceptive, beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised proverbs scripture spiritual Anonymous
786c106 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. jesus spiritual the-holy-bible Anonymous
bd039e6 "The last scud of day holds back for me, It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow'd wilds, It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk. I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags. I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles. You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to your nevertheless, And filter and fibre your blood. Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, mystic spiritual Walt Whitman
309d56c "Forget your voice, sing! Forget your feet, dance! awareness awareness-quotes be become beloved conscious consciousness consciousness-quotes dance enjoy feet forget hafez hafiz harmony inspirational kamand kamand-kojouri khayyam kojouri let-go letting-go-quotes life live living-in-the-now love lover moment music present rumi saadi sing song spiritual spirituality sufi surrender voice yourself Kamand Kojouri
5c8a1cb We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface. inspirational portobello spiritual transformation witch Paulo Coelho
1dcaf24 For where thy treasure is, there also will thy heart be. goal holy-grail inspirational journey spiritual treasure Anonymous
24958dc You don't have to place your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and all the other things we need to get through life. You can place it right here on your own heart. Your own heart. spiritual Sue Monk Kidd
64bca71 One guy, seeing that I was hungry, insisted on buying me a huge lunch and when I thanked him for his kindness, he simply said, 'Pass it on.' I liked this selfless concept - repay me by rewarding someone else entirely with a generous dollop of goodwill. spiritual Tony Hawks
6c07286 At the core of her senseless actions, she vaguely perceived that she yearned for something. A something that would provide her with a sure sense of fulfillment. But she could not fathom what that something might be. life purpose spiritual yearning Shūsaku Endō
7ae85e1 "I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard." religous spiritual Frank Herbert
4de9e34 churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply. gospel parishioners spiritual Stephen R. Covey
7b53c1a "Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, " I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely." -- inspirational spiritual Jimmy Carter
10ecde4 Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. jesus spiritual the-holy-bible Anonymous
15a631b Woman must come of age by herself -- she must find her true center alone. inspirational love spiritual woman Anne Morrow Lindbergh
e019054 You can't expect anyone to trust revelation if he hasn't experienced it himself. Those who haven't only know reason. And since revelation is a thing apart, and cannot be accounted for reasonably, they never will believe you. This is the great division of the world and always has been. When reason and revelation run together, why, then you have something great, a great age. knowledge numinous seek-and-you-shall-find solace spiritual wisdom Mark Helprin
0d1572e "How can you be a lover of love faith god hafez hafiz impossible in-love kamand kamand-kojouri kojouri love love-movement love-poems love-quotes love-revolution love-wins lover religion rumi spiritual spirituality sufi sufism Kamand Kojouri
d4c5590 "You know how it goes: at some point in your life, you fell in love with someone and had a glimpse of God. Then you abandoned life and lover beloved celebrate celebrating celebration christ divine divinity glimpse god goes hafez hafiz in-love jesus kamand kamand-kojouri know kojouri life love love-is-love love-movement love-revolution love-wins lover point religion rumi someone spiritual spirituality sufi sufism universe worship worshipping Kamand Kojouri
65be97a A person has all sorts of lags built into him, Kesey is saying. One, the most basic, is the sensory lag, the lag between the time your senses receive something and you are able to react. One-thirtieth of a second is the time it takes, if you are the most alert person alive, and most people are a lot slower than that. Now Cassady is right up against that 1/30th of a second barrier. He is going as fast as a human can go, but even he can't overcome it. He is a living example of how close you can come, but it can't be done. You can't go any faster than that. You can't through sheer speed overcome the lag. We are all of us doomed to spend the rest of our lives watching a movie of our lives - we are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we are in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past, and we will really never be able to control the present through ordinary means. That lag has to be overcome some other way, through some kind of total breakthrough. 70-s acid enlightenment growth lsd psychedelics spiritual spirituality tripping Tom Wolfe
4b2b90c Harry Potter is one boy in a long line of mythical heroes who have reminded the human race that we are so much more than we think we are, so much more powerful than we seem to know. Jesus said that we would someday do even greater works than He; should we not take Him at His word? And should not 'someday' be today? It's time for us to start working miracles, if indeed we have the capacity within us to do so. spiritual Marianne Williamson
8b6029a "Thou art a man God is no more spiritual William Blake
5954d4e ?LE GUSTA ESTE JARDIN QUE ES SUYO? !EVITE QUE SUS HIJOS LO DESTRUYAN! spanish spiritual Malcolm Lowry
33d309a Do you want to know the closest thing to feeling the most powerful you can feel ? Flying alone at night.Risky.Nothing but you and the wind soaring way above everything , Slicing through the air like a Sword. Up and up until you feel like you can grab a star and hold it to your chest like a burning, Spiky thing spiritual James Patterson
6f6304a I believe the experiences reported in this book are reproducible by anyone who wishes to try. I went to Africa. You can go to Africa. You may have trouble arranging the time or the money, but everybody has trouble arranging something. I believe you can travel anywhere if you want to badly enough. And I believe the same is true of inner travel. You don't have to take my word about chakras or healing energy or auras. You can find about them for yourself if you want to. Don't take my word for it. Be as skeptical as you like. Find out for yourself. psychic skepticism spiritual spirituality travel Michael Crichton
aee6170 I have never felt the need to invent a world beyond this world, for this world has always seemed large and beautiful enough for me. I have wondered why it is not large and beautiful enough for others. nature spiritual world Elizabeth Gilbert
9790e52 When we understand love as the will to nurture our own and another's spiritual growth, it becomes clear that we cannot claim to love if we are hurtful and abusive. Love and abusive cannot coexist. Abuse and neglect are, by definition, the opposites of nurturance and care. bell-hooks feminism feminist love love-quotes men nurturance nurturing quotes-about-love spiritual spiritual-growth women bell hooks
42a9b13 "The ocean was back in the pond, and the only knowledge I was left with, as if I had woken from a dream on a summer's day, was that it had not been long ago since I had known everything. I looked at Lettie in the moonlight. "Is that how it is for you? I asked. "Is what how it is for me?" "Do you still know everything, all the time?" ...She wrinkled her nose. "Everybody did. I told you. It's nothing special, knowing how things work. And you really do have to give it all up if you want to play." "To play what?" "This," she said. She waved at the house and the sky and the impossible full moon and the skeins and the shawls and clusters of bright stars." reality spiritual universe Neil Gaiman
9e8a83c Perhaps her faults and follies, the unhappiness she had suffered, were not entirely vain if she could follow the path that now she dimly discerned before her, not the path that kind funny old Waddington had spoken of that led nowhither, but the path those dear nuns at the convent followed so humbly, the path that led to peace. spiritual W. Somerset Maugham
0305507 Living as human being and as a divinity. moving from tension into relaxation, from relaxation into trance, from trance into a more intense contact with other people. from that contact back into tension and so on, Like The Serpent swallowing its own tail. philosophy spiritual Paulo Coelho
a347a34 whoever approaches his goal dances rhetoric spiritual Cormac McCarthy
38c6b2b At times it may seem worse - harder, at least - to live through the despair of this loss without the temporary comfort of our addictive behaviour. We cannot drown our sorrows. We must face the fact that we don't know, really, where we are, how we got here, how long the pain will last, or how to move past it. That uncertainty may be the most painful part of not knowing a God: no one is there to reassure us that a God will take the pain and confusion away. We simply don't know. And we have no way to numb ourselves or to forget the condition we're in. religion spiritual Marya Hornbacher
c638206 Your ultimate goal for marriage is that both of you--as husband and wife--commit to keep growing spiritually. christian faithfulness goal god grow husband life love marriage married spiritual ultimate wife Elizabeth George
a9fc4b6 Usually, fundamentalists, be they Christian, Muslim, or any faith, shape and interpret religious thought to make it conform to and legitimize a conservative status quo. Fundamentalist thinkers use religion to justify supporting imperialism, militarism, sexism, racism, homophobia. They deny the unifying message of love that is at the heart of every major religious tradition. christianity-faith fundamentalism fundamentalists muslim religion religious spiritual spirituality bell hooks
20b358a *You are not yet in the Emerald Dream. First, you must remove your earthly shell...* the voice in his head instructed. *As you reach the state of sleep, you will slip your body off as you would a coat. Start from your heart and mind, for they are the links that most bind you to the mortal plane. See? This is how it is done...* - Chapter 4 fantasy other-worldly spiritual Richard A. Knaak
faa1425 Every now and then we enter the presence of the numinous and deduce for an instant how we're formed, in what detail the force that infuses every petal might specifically run through us, wishing only to lure us into our full potential. great-insight spiritual Mary Karr
8a311c5 Another part or piece,' said Diabolus, 'of mine excellent armour, is a dumb and prayerless spirit, a spirit that scorns to cry for mercy, let the danger be ever so great; therefore be you, my Mansoul, sure that you make use of this. bunyan prayer sin sin-nature spiritual spiritual-quotes spiritual-warfare war weapons John Bunyan
4507c87 All right, all right, you go right on thinking you an act of God created in his image, and I'll go right on thinking I'm descended from an ape. When you look in the mirror I should think you'd feel pretty discouraged; I wouldn't be happy to look at myself and think that my faces is an Imago Dei. It wouldn't make me feel I'd done very well by God. But when I look in the mirror and that I'm descended from an ape, I feel I've done remarkably well. perspective spiritual Madeleine L'Engle
4e1b18a An intelligence completely dissociated from the physical, or at least an impression of it, was a strange, curiously limited and almost perverse thing, and the precise form that your physicality took had a profound, in some ways defining influence on your personality. intelligence personality physical spiritual Iain M. Banks
5e0d471 "Leonardo believed his research had the potential to convert millions to a more spiritual life. Last year he categorically proved the existence of an energy force that unites us all. He actually demonstrated that we are all physically connected... that the molecules in your body are intertwined with the molecules in mine... that there is a single force moving within all of us." Langdon felt disconcerted. And the power of God shall unite us all. "Mr. Vetra actually found a way to demonstrate that particles are connected?" "Conclusive evidence. A recent Scientific American article hailed New Physics as a surer path to God than religion itself." categorically connected energy energy-force evidence exist existence molecules particles physical physics religion science scientific spiritual spirituality within Dan Brown
9577535 ...you don't fully appreciate what you've got until something threatens to take it away. inspirational religious-faith spiritual Melody Carlson
8496e9f What the soul is after is - the highest feeling of love you can imagine. This is the soul's desire. This is its purpose. The soul is after the feeling. Not the knowledge, but the feeling. It already has the knowledge, but knowledge is conceptual. Feeling is experiential. The soul wants to feel itself, and thus to know itself in its own experience. The highest feeling is the experience of unity with All That Is. This is the great return to Truth for which the soul yearns. This is the feeling of perfect love. meaning-of-life purple purpose-of-life soul spiritual spirituality why-am-i-here why-we-are-alive why-we-are-here Neale Donald Walsch
5e3060f Understand something people, we will be hated by many in the name of Christ, ridiculed, mocked, stoned, slaughtered. We will be fined, jailed and killed for our love for Christ. You are supposed to see better with your eyes today, how close this is happening, just prepare your heart and soul to be braver than Peter and not deny Christ in the moment your life might be in jeopardy for Him and what you believe. Apostle Pauls says to live is Christ to die is gain. depression destiny dream dreams earning endtime family fantasy feminism fiction-food-for-though forgiveness freedom friends friendship future grief heart history humanity-humour imagination inspirational-quotes intelligence-is-attractive joy leadership life-and-living-life-philosophy life-quotes literature living loss love-quotes magic-spirit marriage meditation-men mind money motivation motivational motivational-quotes music nature pain passion-peace patience patience-johnson pentecost people politics positive-thinking power prayer psychology purpose quote quotes reading reality-relationship repentance sadness self-help self-improvement society soul spiritual strength time trust-war wisdom-quotes women words work world Patience Johnson
68e3ac2 You're in love with your image of Linda. Mr. Green is in love with his image of Jesus. Both of your images have little to do with reality. Both of you are making yourselves miserable.' 'That's not fair, comparing me to him. You don't see me hammering nails in people.' 'You prefer to hammer them through your own hands. jesus spiritual Christopher Pike
ac9ef1d Viewed in this light, life itself appears as a dynamics of integration that is equipped with auto-therapeutic or 'endo-clinical' competencies and refers to a species-specific space of surprise. It has an equally innate and - in higher organisms - adaptively acquired responsibility for the injuries and invasions it regularly encounters in its permanently allocated environment or conquered surroundings. Such immune systems could equally be described as organismic early forms of a feeling for transcendence: thanks to the efficiency of these devices, which are constantly at the ready, the organism actively confronts the potential bringers of its death, opposing them with its endogenous capacity to overcome the lethal. Such functions have earned immune systems of this type comparisons to a 'body police' or border patrol. But as the concern, already at this level, is to work out a modus vivendi with foreign and invisible powers - and, in so far as these can bring death, 'higher' and 'supernatural' ones - this is a preliminary stage to the behaviour one is accustomed to terming religious or spiritual in human contexts. For every organism, its environment is its transcendence, and the more abstract and unknown the danger from that environment, the more transcendent it appears. immune-system practising religious spiritual transcendence Peter Sloterdijk
1407b8e I'm tired of being a skeptic, I'm irritated by spiritual prudence and I feel bored and parched by empirical debate. I don't want to hear it anymore. I couldn't care less about evidence and proof and assurances. I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water. spiritual Elizabeth Gilbert
3b736a0 Can we listen to each other the way veins listen to blood? listening spiritual Mark Nepo
c3f6acb Most human characteristics that are genuinely universal are easily accounted for in evolutionary terms, and the arguments are widely known. For example, we all live in families and societies because to do so aids our survival and the propagation of our genes. We all have the capacity for love because it is an emotion that promotes family and social life. We all have laws of one kind or another because these, too, reinforce family and social ties and thus make us stronger and more competitive. We all eat food and drink water because we will soon die if we don't. We all use the unique human gift of language to preserve knowledge handed down from previous generations, and to create culture - thus further sharpening our competitive edge. paranormal spiritual supernatural Graham Hancock
2a8d618 "Your Life is always a result of your thoughts. [...] Events, occurrences, happenings, conditions, circumstances - all are created out of consciousness. [...] "Fate" can be an acronym for "From All Thoughts Everywhere." In other words, the consciousness of the planet. The "collective consciousness"." fate focus how-the-world-works mass-consciousness new-age power-of-thought powerful-thinking powerful-thoughts spiritual Neale Donald Walsch
64acbc8 I'd learned more about her in that exhausted, murmuring hour than in all the many months before it. Lovers find their way by such insights and confidences: they're the stars we use to navigate the ocean of desire. And the brightest of those stars are the heartbreaks and sorrows. The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering. So I took each sadness she confessed to me, and pinned it to the sky. happiness inspirational love spiritual Gregory David Roberts
b985de4 "So perhaps spiritual experience is simply what happens in the space that opens up in the mind when "all mean egotism vanishes." Wonders (and terrors) we're ordinarily defended against flow into our awareness; the far ends of the sensory spectrum, which are normally invisible to us, our senses can suddenly admit. While the ego sleeps, the mind plays, proposing unexpected patterns of thought and new rays of relation. The gulf between self and world, that no-man's-land which in ordinary hours the ego so vigilantly patrols, closes down, allowing us to feel less separate and more connected, "part and particle" of some larger entity. Whether we call that entity Nature, the Mind at Large, or God hardly matters. But it seems to be in the crucible of that merging that death loses some of its sting." psychology science spiritual Michael Pollan
7cfb885 Sounds like you're trying to say that creation of new alternate worlds is a conscious decision.' 'I'm not trying to say it - I just said it. alternate-worlds create-your-future create-your-life creation deliberate-creation manifestation reality spiritual spirituality Neil Gaiman & Michael Reaves
10cdd07 As much as you long for it, it longs for you more. Take one step toward the Big Person and it will take a hundred steps toward you. spiritual Christopher Pike
3526b3c All the weapons of hate and cruelty cannot stand against God's love. The spiritually blind and intentionally evil try to oppose it, but they cannot ultimately win. That's because all creation was formed and is sustained by God love quotes spiritual strength Stormie Omartian
2b19acc It takes courage to throw off unproductive methods and approaches that the majority of scholars in your field have unquestioningly yoked themselves to for decades. paranormal spiritual supernatural Graham Hancock
e75ab8f On the left side of the balcony, at the rear just outside the open doorway through which I'm looking, I suddenly become aware of the presence of a figure. It is an imposing statue, about six feet high and apparently carved in one piece from some green stone - perhaps jade. The sculptor provided excellent detailing of fine robes, and a belt, and something - possibly a sword? - suspended from the belt. At first this stunning piece of sculpture seems just that - a harmless, inanimate statue. I'm curious to see more of it and move my point of view a little closer to get to look at its face. To my surprise, the statue is half animal, half human. It has the body of a powerful and well-muscled man but the head of a crocodile, like Sobek, the ancient Egyptian crocodile god. And now I suddenly realise it is alive - a living being, a supernatural guardian. At this moment its eyes swivel sideways and it is looking at me, taking note of me. The look is intelligent, appraising somehow sly, but yet not threatening. What is this living statue, this being of jade? The vision fades... paranormal spiritual supernatural Graham Hancock
319bce1 We might feel very sure that there is no more to reality that the material world in which we live, but we cannot prove that this is the case. Theoretically there could be other realms, other dimensions, as all religious traditions and quantum physics alike maintain. Theoretically, the brain could be as much a receiver as a generator of consciousness and thus might be fine-tuned in altered states to pick up wavelengths that are normally not accessible to us. paranormal spiritual supernatural Graham Hancock
847d7d0 ...at root, what unites us are our unproven irrational beliefs of one kind or another in non-material dimensions of reality, inhabited by incorporeal beings that interact with us and frame our destiny in mysterious ways. paranormal spiritual supernatural Graham Hancock
12d8b3a ...at root, what unites us are our unproven irrational beliefs of one kind or another of non-material dimensions of reality, inhabited by incorporeal beings that interact with us and frame our destiny in mysterious ways paranormal spiritual supernatural Graham Hancock
ad75303 My life of conversation leads me to reimagine the very meaning of hope. I define hope as distinct from optimism or idealism. It has nothing to do with wishing. It references reality at every turn and reveres truth. It lives open eyed and wholeheartedly with the darkness that is woven ineluctably into the light of life and sometimes seems to overcome it. Hope, like every virtue, is a choice that becomes a habit that becomes spiritual muscle memory. enoughness faith habit hope on-being religion spirit spiritual truth virtue wholeheartedness Krista Tippett