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a72b055 More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate. authentic-living being-positive blessed compassion hate inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes judgment less-more life life-purpose life-quotes living love mind motivation optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking smile smiles spirituality stress stressed worry worrying Roy T. Bennett
b052031 Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. philosophy science sense-of-wonder spirituality Carl Sagan
6ac92a7 Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself. believe believe-in-yourself confidence empowerment inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-quotes limitations limits living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking potential spiritual-growth spirituality talents Roy T. Bennett
68bb987 Dare to love yoursel angel-poems classic-books classic-quotes creative-vision famous-quotes gold grace haiku haikus inspirational inspirational-quotes inspiring-authors inspiring-words joy love national-poetry-month personal-growth poem-in-your-pocket-day poetry positive-motivation psychotherapy rainbow rainbows self-esteem self-love self-motivation self-respect spirituality Author-Poet Aberjhani
b8bf2a4 It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters, attention compassion happiness happy-life inspirational kindness life love meaning-of-life meditation money oneness peace perspective philosophy positive-attitude positive-living purpose purpose-in-life purpose-of-life purposeful-living respect revelation self-awareness self-discovery spirit spirituality wisdom Amit Ray
4c54acf What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God. catholicism christian-living christianity gift god inspirational philosophy spirituality Hans Urs von Balthasar
9ba2b36 Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. So are our emotions in the presence of great art or music or literature, or acts of exemplary selfless courage such as those of Mohandas Gandhi or Martin Luther King, Jr. The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both. religion science science-vs-religion spirituality Carl Sagan
2531315 It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished. christianity church expectations god happiness lovers marriage philosophy relationship-with-god relationships religion spirituality unhappy-marriage Fulton J. Sheen
1026c43 One of the most spiritual things you can do is embrace your humanity. Connect with those around you today. Say, "I love you", "I'm sorry", "I appreciate you", "I'm proud of you"...whatever you're feeling. Send random texts, write a cute note, embrace your truth and share it...cause a smile today for someone else...and give plenty of hugs. action compassion humanity inspirational kindness life living-now motivational seize-the-day spirituality success Steve Maraboli
29bc0ec The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down. happiness law-of-attraction life-changing manifestation millionaire-mindset mind-power new-age opportunity positivity self-help spirituality stephen-richards success visualization wealth-creation Stephen Richards
bc221ad The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God. faith god jesus spirituality Rob Bell
3e91d5e A quiet conscience makes one strong! integrity morality peace spirituality strength Anne Frank
795a3c7 Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the soul'll be 'morrow? Only Sonmi the east an' the west an' the compass an' the atlas, yay, only the atlas o' clouds. life soul spirituality David Mitchell
90ede3d I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes. After that I liked jazz music. Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way. I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened. inspiration music spirituality Donald Miller
03c62ab Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again. inspirational life-lesson spirituality Joseph Campbell
dc86427 Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul. dismiss inspirational soul spirituality wisdom Walt whitman
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
bcc9601 Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked. christianity criticism judgement philosophy spirituality Fulton J. Sheen
99c5a5a I once listened to an Indian on television say that God was in the wind and the water, and I wondered at how beautiful that was because it meant you could swim in Him or have Him brush your face in a breeze. inspiring spirituality Donald Miller
9f25ccf The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought. spirituality Dan Brown
e30e828 You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone. advaita advaita-vedanta alone aloneness awakening awareness enlightenment eternal eternal-life eternal-truths everyone everyone-belongs global-oneness insights inspirational interconnectedness life life-lessons loneliness motivational non-duality nonduality oneness spiritual-growth spiritual-quotes spirituality unity vedanta wisdom wisdom-quotes Amit Ray
f7fbda7 Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That's where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go. spirituality Rebecca Solnit
a378eef Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself abilities ability believe believe-in-yourself confidence dream dreams empowerment hope inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes limitations limits living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking potential self-doubt spiritual-growth spirituality Roy T. Bennett
d5e8369 Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. Years ago I wrote an essay that began, "Some people think that God is in the details, but I have come to believe that God is in the bathroom. inspirational prayer spirituality Anne Lamott
d647be2 "Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. Years ago I wrote an essay that began, "Some people think that God is in the details, but I have come to believe that God is in the bathroom." prayer spirituality Anne Lamott
78a0bae Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it. fiction inspirational spirituality Paulo Coelho
853f8f6 If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad theology. religion spirituality Karen Armstrong
20471d6 When your back is to the wall and you are facing fear head on, the only way is forward and through it. focus goal-setting happiness law-of-attraction life-changing manifestation mind-power new-age opportunity positivity self-help spirituality stephen-richards success visualization wealth-creation Stephen Richards
cbc8d24 Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave and eats a bread it does not harvest. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. Pity a nation that despises a passion in its dream, yet submits in its awakening. Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block. Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpeting, and farewells him with hooting, only to welcome another with trumpeting again. Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years and whose strongmen are yet in the cradle. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation. religion spirituality Kahlil Gibran
bb94bd0 Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation. eastern-philosophy hindu inspirational religious spirituality A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
0b30374 "Thomas Merton wrote, "there is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues." There is always an enormous temptation in all of life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for itsy-bitsy years on end. It is so self-conscious, so apparently moral, simply to step aside from the gaps where the creeks and winds pour down, saying, I never merited this grace, quite rightly, and then to sulk along the rest of your days on the edge of rage. I won't have it. The world is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous and bitter, more extravagant and bright. We are making hay when we should be making whoopee; we are raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain, or Lazarus. Go up into the gaps. If you can find them; they shift and vanish too. Stalk the gaps. Squeak into a gap in the soil, turn, and unlock-more than a maple- a universe. This is how you spend this afternoon, and tomorrow morning, and tomorrow afternoon. Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you." landscape nature seeing spirituality Annie Dillard
3143e0d Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility. christianity eastern-orthodoxy humility inspirational spirituality suffering Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
65c7c25 We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I'm saying is, you don't have to make stories up, you don't have to exaggerate. There's wonder and awe enough in the real world. Nature's a lot better at inventing wonders than we are. freethinking religion science spirituality Carl Sagan
5aa0350 Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening. Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed. depression growth pain personality spirituality Alice Walker
2739ae9 "The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when god joy life spirituality St. Thomas Aquinas
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
6eccebe And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart? spirituality subjectivity women James Joyce
7049494 The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart. christianity heart inspirational jesus-shock love man marriage philosophy relationships spirituality theology woman woman-s-character woman-s-charm woman-s-strength catholicism Peter Kreeft
7594a7d The more you believed in yourself, the more you could trust yourself. The more you trust yourself, the less you compare yourself to others. authentic-living believe believe-in-yourself inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking spirituality trust-yourself Roy T. Bennett
f475993 "The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. exploration infinite journey meditation spirituality transcendance Jules Verne
2c4d113 You become mature when you become the authority of your own life. mythology philosophy spirituality Joseph Campbell
9ce3504 "Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes." christianity culture culture-critique heroes jesus-shock philosophy spirituality theology Peter Kreeft
b30bf1f We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love. christ christianity cross excess-love god inspirational jesus jesus-shock love philosophy salvation saved saved-souls sin spirituality the-cross theology Peter Kreeft
947f2ff Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light. god mark-of-the-lion-series religion spirituality voice-in-the-wind Francine Rivers
11d734d Anyone who is having troubles should pray. Anyone who is happy should sing praises. Anyone who is sick should call the church's elders. They should pray for and pour oil on the person in the name of the Lord. And the prayer that is said with faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will heal that person. And if the person has sinned, the sins will be forgiven. Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so God can heal you. When a believing person prays, great things happen. (James 5:13-16) faith happy heal healing inspiration miracles pray prayer sin sing spirituality troubles Anonymous
7c2ee03 By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it. apple apple-computer-inc bible catholicism christianity forbidden-fruit garden-of-eden genesis humor jesus-shock laptop mac macintosh old-testament original-sin philosophy sarcasm spirituality steve-jobs theology peter kreeft
d72d234 "I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment..." life spirituality C.S. Lewis
e803ff2 We think that if we just meditated enough or jogged enough or ate perfect food, everything would be perfect. But from the point of view of someone who is awake, that's death. Seeking security or perfection, rejoicing in feeling confirmed and whole, self contained and comfortable, is some kind of death. It doesn't have any fresh air. There's no room for something to come in and interrupt all that. We are killing the moment by controlling our experience. buddhism inspirational spirituality Pema Chödrön
4d5ccc8 This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love. catholicism christianity god jesus-shock love philosophy secret-of-life self-giving spirituality Peter Kreeft
aa29810 The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy may try to negate body and flee earth with its constant heartbeat of death, but Goddess forces us back to embrace them, to take our human life in our arms and clasp it for the divine life it is - the nice, sanitary, harmonious moment as well as the painful, dark, splintered ones. If such a consciousness truly is set loose in the world, nothing will be the same. It will free us to be in a sacred body, on a sacred planet, in sacred communion with all of it. It will infect the universe with holiness. We will discover the Divine deep within the earth and the cells of our bodies, and we will lover her there with all our hearts and all our souls and all our minds. goddess inspirational spirituality Sue Monk Kidd
e534c70 Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed. christianity god jesus-christ perfected-man religion spirituality Fulton J. Sheen
69fff8c Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want. heaven hell spirituality Rob Bell
6ee4415 Searching outside of you is Samsara (the world). Searching within you leads to Nirvana. buddhism inspirational spirituality Amit Ray
3a4f121 Religion is for those who don't want to go to hell, and spirituality is for those who have already been there. spirituality Elizabeth Gilbert
6a6121b Spirituality emerged as a fundamental guidepost in Wholeheartedness. Not religiosity but the deeply held belief that we are inextricably connected to one another by a force greater than ourselves--a force grounded in love and compassion. For some of us that's God, for others it's nature, art, or even human soulfulness. I believe that owning our worthiness is the act of acknowledging that we are sacred. Perhaps embracing vulnerability and overcoming numbing is ultimately about the care and feeding of our spirits. spirituality vulnerability Brené Brown
e6769d4 Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility or relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known. desire psychology relationships sexuality spirituality tantra Mark Epstein
767f8b7 The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing? grief spirituality Philip K. Dick
70ff717 If I am going to be drowned--if I am going to be drowned--if I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and trees? meaning purpose spirituality Stephen Crane
6a83e3a We need myths that will help us to identify with all our fellow-beings, not simply with those who belong to our ethnic, national or ideological tribe. We need myths that help us to realize the importance of compassion, which is not always regarded as sufficiently productive or efficient in our pragmatic, rational world. We need myths that help us to create a spiritual attitude, to see beyond our immediate requirements, and enable us to experience a transcendent value that challenges our solipsistic selfishness. We need myths that help us to venerate the earth as sacred once again, instead of merely using it as a 'resource.' This is crucial, because unless there is some kind of spiritual revolution that is able to keep abreast of our technological genius, we will not save our planet. myths revolution spirituality Karen Armstrong
0d098ce "When her doctor took her bandages off and led her into the garden, the girl who was no longer blind saw "the tree with the lights in it." It was for this tree I searched through the peach orchards of summer, in the forests of fall and down winter and spring for years. Then one day I was walking along Tinker creek and thinking of nothing at all and I saw the tree with the lights in it. I saw the backyard cedar where the mourning doves roost charged and transfigured, each cell buzzing with flame. I stood on the grass with the lights in it, grass that was wholly fire, utterly focused and utterly dreamed. It was less like seeing that like being for the first time see, knocked breathless by a powerful glance. The flood of fire abated, but I'm still spending the power. Gradually the lights went out in the cedar, the colors died, the cells un-flamed and disappeared. I was still ringing. I had been my whole life a bell and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck. I have since only very rarely seen the tree with the lights in it. The vision comes and goes, mostly goes, but I live for it, for the moment the mountains open and a new light roars in spate through the crack, and the mountains slam." landscape mysticism nature seeing spirituality Annie Dillard
f371dc2 "On the first day of November last year, sacred to many religious calendars but especially the Celtic, I went for a walk among bare oaks and birch. Nothing much was going on. Scarlet sumac had passed and the bees were dead. The pond had slicked overnight into that shiny and deceptive glaze of delusion, first ice. It made me remember sakes and conjure a vision of myself skimming backward on one foot, the other extended; the arms become wings. Minnesota girls know that this is not a difficult maneuver if one's limber and practices even a little after school before the boys claim the rink for hockey. I think I can still do it - one thinks many foolish things when November's bright sun skips over the entrancing first freeze. A flock of sparrows reels through the air looking more like a flying net than seventy conscious birds, a black veil thrown on the wind. When one sparrow dodges, the whole net swerves, dips: one mind. Am I part of anything like that? Maybe not. The last few years of my life have been characterized by stripping away, one by one, loves and communities that sustain the soul. A young colleague, new to my English department, recently asked me who I hang around with at school. "Nobody," I had to say, feeling briefly ashamed. This solitude is one of the surprises of middle age, especially if one's youth has been rich in love and friendship and children. If you do your job right, children leave home; few communities can stand an individual's most pitiful, amateur truth telling. So the soul must stand in her own meager feathers and learn to fly - or simply take hopeful jumps into the wind. In the Christian calendar, November 1 is the Feast of All Saints, a day honoring not only those who are known and recognized as enlightened souls, but more especially the unknowns, saints who walk beside us unrecognized down the millennia. In Buddhism, we honor the bodhisattvas - saints - who refuse enlightenment and return willingly to the wheel of karma to help other beings. Similarly, in Judaism, anonymous holy men pray the world from its well-merited destruction. We never know who is walking beside us, who is our spiritual teacher. That one - who annoys you so - pretends for a day that he's the one, your personal Obi Wan Kenobi. The first of November is a splendid, subversive holiday. Imagine a hectic procession of revelers - the half-mad bag lady; a mumbling, scarred janitor whose ravaged face made the children turn away; the austere, unsmiling mother superior who seemed with great focus and clarity to do harm; a haunted music teacher, survivor of Auschwitz. I bring them before my mind's eye, these old firends of my soul, awakening to dance their day. Crazy saints; but who knows what was home in the heart? This is the feast of those who tried to take the path, so clumsily that no one knew or notice, the feast, indeed, of most of us. It's an ugly woods, I was saying to myself, padding along a trail where other walkers had broken ground before me. And then I found an extraordinary bouquet. Someone had bound an offering of dry seed pods, yew, lyme grass, red berries, and brown fern and laid it on the path: "nothing special," as Buddhists say, meaning "everything." Gathered to formality, each dry stalk proclaimed a slant, an attitude, infinite shades of neutral. All contemplative acts, silences, poems, honor the world this way. Brought together by the eye of love, a milkweed pod, a twig, allow us to see how things have been all along. A feast of being." buddhism christianity mysticism nature nature-writing spirituality Mary Rose O'Reilley
9745644 The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. life-lessons spirituality wisdom Annie Dillard
dfc82b0 It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary spirituality suicide John Steinbeck
29e5ccf To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world is almost a palpable movement. To enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary to stand on a hill at a small hour of the night, and, having first expanded with a sense of difference from the mass of civilized mankind, who are diregardful of all such proceedings at this time, long and quietly watch your stately progress through the stars. individuality nature soul spirituality Thomas Hardy
b98fe3f As obvious as it is, then, Jesus is bigger than any one religion. He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or systems or establishments that existed in his day. He will always transcend whatever cages and labels are created to contain him, especially the one called 'Christianity'. jesus religion spirituality Rob Bell
0067b96 [Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways. love marriage spirituality Timothy Keller
3674b05 Love gives you eyes. christianity eyes inspirational jesus-shock love philosophy spirituality theology Peter Kreeft
35941cb When our eyes are graced with wonder, the world reveals its wonders to us. There are people who see only dullness in the world and that is because their eyes have already been dulled. So much depends on how we look at things. The quality of our looking determines what we come to see. religion spirituality John O'Donohue
49c536d The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting. catholicism christianity jesus-shock philosophy pleasure spirituality theology Peter Kreeft
1bf7731 Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me understand it more completely. Perhaps the best way to phrase it is to say that meditation showed me that the other side of anxiety is desire. They exist in relationship to each other, not independently. buddhism desire psychology spirituality Mark Epstein
48df226 Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy. classic-quotes faith grace hope ignorance inspiration marvelousmonday-quotes mercy nanowrimo national-novel-writing-month peace peacism quotes-by-famous-authors quotes-by-famous-poets silver souls spirituality stars survival terrorism the-soul war world-suicide-prevention-day Aberjhani
994b36a When angels speak of love they tell us it is only by loving that we enter an earthly paradise. They tell us paradise is our home and love our true destiny. love spirituality bell hooks
a8f685d In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship. mythology philosophy spirituality Joseph Campbell
1472c02 With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new. inspirational-quotes modern-authors music paranormal parapsychology poetry psychology rebirth resurrection souls spirituality Aberjhani
ae70715 Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy's garden blossomed. americans faith famous-quotes-from-classic-books haiku haikus healing history humanity joy multiculturalism multiculturalismo multiculturalità national-history-day patriotism personal-growth philosophy rebith rejuvenation remembering-september-11 spirituality teaching-diversity world-suicide-prevention-day Aberjhani
d4d1b98 "Some communities don't permit open, honest inquiry about the things that matter most. Lots of people have voiced a concern, expressed a doubt, or raised a question, only to be told by their family, church, friends, or tribe: "We don't discuss those things here." I believe the discussion itself is divine. Abraham does his best to bargain with God, most of the book of Job consists of arguments by Job and his friends about the deepest questions of human suffering, God is practically on trial in the book of Lamentations, and Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question." questions spirituality Rob Bell
eeb9bce "The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think good-friday jesus spirituality T.S. Eliot
d8f9714 What hell condemned, let heaven now heal. faith healing heaven hell hope inspiration inspirational-quotes positive-motivation recovery spirituality Aberjhani
c80573e "Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!" childbirth christianity expectation family-planning happiness joy-of-marriage marriage philosophy pro-life religion spirituality unhappy-marriage Fulton J. Sheen
8f4e666 One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment. mythology philosophy spirituality Joseph Campbell
c93615e When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111) mythology spiritual-experience spirituality translation Joseph Campbell
150c93d In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves. blog-quotes celebrities coaching empowerment famous-authors famous-poets grace gratitude hope inspiration motivation oprah-winfrey personal-growth philanthropy positive-motivation quotes-by-aberjhani rare-personalities spirituality television world-suicide-prevention-day Aberjhani
34d80b4 If we want hell, if we want heaven, they are ours. That's how love works. It can't be forced, manipulated, or coerced. It always leaves room for the other to decide. God says yes, we can have what we want, because love wins. hell religion spirituality Rob Bell
dc53499 Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith. dreams faith inspiration inspirational metaphysics mystical-poetry mystical-powers positive-motivation power spirituality Aberjhani
c912b40 Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts. catholicism christianity god hearts heaven inspirational jesus-shock philosophy spirituality theology Peter Kreeft
6863f18 I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good idea to let him know. After all, if you are a Buddha you should be able to figure it out for yourself. humor self-awareness spirituality Philip K. Dick
e33d581 If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not fundamentalism, that's the law of non-contradiction. christ christianity christlessness christology fundamentalism jesus jesus-christ jesus-shock philosophy spirituality theology Peter Kreeft
52c12f6 Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it. mythology philosophy spirituality Joseph Campbell
913055a Awe is what moves us forward. mythology philosophy spirituality Joseph Campbell
d34d41f There is nothing passive about mindfulness. One might even say that it expresses a specific kind of passion--a passion for discerning what is subjectively real in every moment. It is a mode of cognition that is, above all, undistracted, accepting, and (ultimately) nonconceptual. Being mindful is not a matter of thinking more clearly about experience; it is the act of experiencing more clearly, including the arising of thoughts themselves. Mindfulness is a vivid awareness of whatever is appearing in one's mind or body--thoughts, sensations, moods--without grasping at the pleasant or recoiling from the unpleasant. experience mindfulness spirituality Sam Harris
89c14b6 The Christian life is not about pleasing God the finger-shaker and judge. It is not about believing now or being good now for the sake of heaven later. It is about entering a relationship in the present that begins to change everything now. Spirituality is about this process: the opening of the heart to the God who is already here. god life relationship spirituality Marcus J. Borg
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
bd87d06 The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler. christianity egocentrism philosophy self-perfection self-surrender spirituality Fulton J. Sheen
67dc250 Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand. dan-brown faith religion science spirituality Dan Brown
a192051 Seeds of past karma cannot germinate if they are roasted in the fires of divine wisdom. peace spirituality wisdom yoga Paramahansa Yogananda
6e96820 Praying is talking to God. Meditating is listening. religion spirituality Christopher Moore
8718c3b Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked. christ christianity heaven hell jesus jesus-christ jesus-shock meeting-jesus philosophy shock spirituality theology peter kreeft
f3e78e6 Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia. catholicism christianity jesus-shock philosophy sloth spirituality theology violence Peter Kreeft
e484d22 This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold. classic-poems classic-quotes compassion faith grief healing-grief hope infinity inspiration inspiration-for-the-soul inspirational-quotes newtown-connecticut palaces pearls pearls-of-wisdom quotes-for-easter rebirth recovery recovery-from-grief resurrection roses savannah-authors-and-poets sorrow spiritual-transformation spirituality survival transformation Aberjhani
fee470d Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence are not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength. agape-love american-history black-history-month civil-rights-movement compassion-heals-lives conflict-resolution courage dreams faith famous-authors famous-speeches great-leaders hope human-rights-day humanity i-have-a-dream-speech leadership love martin-luther-king-day martin-luther-king-jr mlk-day mlkdream50 national-history-day nonviolence nonviolent-conflict-resolution police-reform police-shootings spiritual-visions spirituality strength voting-rights-act-of-1965 Aberjhani
3580b5c And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children. And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain. You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His hands in trees. religion spirituality Kahlil Gibran
2718e4a When we pray we admit defeat. motivation spirituality taking-action Anthony Burgess
e75d968 We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art. creativity judgement-of-art religion spirituality Irving Stone
e954e23 Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which He climbs down to us. christianity god jesus-shock protestantism sacraments spirituality theology Peter Kreeft
8555547 Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia fear spirituality Max Lucado
b81adf6 The saviour answered...and said, If you want to be perfect, you will keep these teachings. If not, you deserve to be called ignorant. For a wise person cannot associate with a fool. The wise person is perfect in all wisdom, but to the fool, good and evil are one and the same. For the wise person will be nourished by the truth...Some people have wings but run after what they can see, what is far from the truth. religion spirituality Anonymous
40034f7 "Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons." christianity god jesus-shock ontological-oxymoron ontology oxymoron philosophy spirituality theology Peter Kreeft
e94ac0d ...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart. spirituality Anne Lamott
5fb6888 Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved. bible bible-verse christian faith heaven hell hope salvation saved spirituality Anonymous
8d4f349 The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism I was supposed to transcend. Now I was beginning to understand that a silence that is not clamorous with vexation and worried self-regard can become part of the texture of your mind, can seep into you, moment by moment, and gradually change you. spirituality Karen Armstrong
6129557 "The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the "sigh within the prayer is the same in the heart of the Christian, the Muslim, and the Jew." I have seen this unity with my eyes, heard it with my ears, felt it with all my being." mysticism religion religious-freedom spirituality David James Duncan
0ecf402 It is just as crazy to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else. christ christianity crazy crazy-in-love crazy-love god inspirational jesus jesus-christ jesus-shock philosophy spirituality theology Peter Kreeft
db935bb The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son. catholicism christ christianity god jesus jesus-christ jesus-shock philosophy son-of-god sonlight spirituality sun sunlight theology Peter Kreeft
a530e44 Jesus gave us a model for the work of the church at the Last Supper. While his disciples kept proposing more organization - Hey, let's elect officers, establish hierarchy, set standards of professionalism - Jesus quietly picked up a towel and basin of water and began to wash their feet. church spirituality Philip Yancey
0b2fbd6 "Never during its pilgrimage is the human spirit completely adrift and alone. From start to finish its nucleus is the Atman, the god-within... underlying its whirlpool of transient feelings, emotions, and delusions is the self-luminous, abiding point of the transpersonal god. As the sun lights the world even when cloud-covered, "the Immutable is never seen but is the Witness; it is never heard but is the Hearer; it is never thought but is the Thinker; it is never known but is the Knower. There is no other witness but This, no other knower but This." from the Upanishad" spirituality upanishads Huston Smith
e72601a What I aim to do is not so much learn the names of the shreds of creation that flourish in this valley, but to keep myself open to their meanings, which is to try to impress myself at all times with the fullest possible force of their very reality. I want to have things as multiply and intricately as possible present and visible in my mind. Then I might be able to sit on the hill by the burnt books where the starlings fly over, and see not only the starlings, the grass field, the quarried rock, the viney woods, Hollins pond, and the mountains beyond, but also, and simultaneously, feathers' barbs, springtails in the soil, crystal in rock, chloroplasts streaming, rotifers pulsing, and the shape of the air in the pines. And, if I try to keep my eye on quantum physics, if I try to keep up with astronomy and cosmology, and really believe it all, I might ultimately be able to make out the landscape of the universe. Why not? landscape reality seeing spirituality Annie Dillard
5e281f9 For there is not a single human being, not even the primitive Negro, not even the idiot, who is so conveniently simple that his being can be explained as the sum of two or three principal elements; and to explain so complex a man as Harry by the artless division into wolf and man is a hopelessly childish attempt. Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two. His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousand and thousands. philosophy soul spirituality truth Hermann Hesse
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
e2df4db It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively. absolutism catholicism christianity god jesus-shock love philosophy reasonable relativism spirituality theology Peter Kreeft
6a2b7e3 Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love. beauty catholicism christianity god goodness inspirational jesus-shock love philosophy spirituality theology truth unlimited-beauty unlimited-goodness unlimited-love unlimited-truth Peter Kreeft
150452d The spiritual path can only be traveled through the daily experience of love. spirituality Paulo Coelho
ee34b19 Think of a globe, a revolving globe on a stand. Think of a contour globe, whose mountain ranges cast shadows, whose continents rise in bas-relief above the oceans. But then: think of how it really is. These heights are just suggested; they're there....when I think of walking across a continent I think of all the neighborhood hills, the tiny grades up which children drag their sleds. It is all so sculptured, three-dimensional, casting a shadow. What if you had an enormous globe that was so huge it showed roads and houses- a geological survey globe, a quarter of a mile to an inch- of the whole world, and the ocean floor! Looking at it, you would know what had to be left out: the free-standing sculptural arrangement of furniture in rooms, the jumble of broken rocks in the creek bed, tools in a box, labyrinthine ocean liners, the shape of snapdragons, walrus. Where is the one thing you care about in earth, the molding of one face? The relief globe couldn't begin to show trees, between whose overlapping boughs birds raise broods, or the furrows in bark, where whole creatures, creatures easily visible, live our their lives and call it world enough. What do I make of all this texture? What does it mean about the kind of world in which I have been set down? The texture of the world, its filigree and scrollwork, means that there is a possibility for beauty here, a beauty inexhaustible in its complexity, which opens to my knock, which answers in me a call I do not remember calling, and which trains me to the wild and extravagant nature of the spirit I seek. globe landscape nature spirituality Annie Dillard
e5fdfe9 Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a world to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and light...unless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who?), there seems to be such a thing as beauty, a grace wholly gratuitous...we don't know what's going on here. If these tremendous events are random combinations of matter run amok, the yield of millions of monkeys at millions of typewriters, then what is it in us, hammered out of those same typewriters, that they ignite? We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what's going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise. landscape mystery mysticism spirituality Annie Dillard
ddee995 The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident. spirituality upanishads Elizabeth Gilbert
9f19d53 Some people simply bury their heads in the sand and refuse to think about the sorrow of the world, but this is an unwise course, because, if we are entirely unprepared, the tragedy of life can be devastating. life spirituality Karen Armstrong
7540218 It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable. christianity crazy god jesus-shock philosophy reasonable spirituality theology Peter Kreeft
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
4556c41 This man's spiritual power has been precisely this, that he has distinguished between custom and creed. He has broken the conventions, but he has kept the commandments. creed custom power spirituality G.K. Chesterton
54474e5 There is nowhere you need go to find God, for God is within you. There is no one you need ask if you are good enough, for He has already established He is exceedingly well pleased. spirituality Marianne Williamson
92309b5 "The Bible had been the weapon of choice in the spiritual gladiatorial arena of my youth. I knew how, wielded with intent and precision, the Bible can cut deeply, while on the one holding it can claim with impunity that "this is from God." god spirituality Nadia Bolz-Weber
e91f5d2 I don't know what I believe. I guess that makes me a Christmas Tree Agnostic. agnosticism belief beliefs believe christmas christmas-tree isla-and-the-happily-ever-after isla-martin religion spirituality teen ya Stephanie Perkins
9aaa70e A psychiatrist is the God of our age. But they cost money. psychiatry psychology spirituality Sylvia Plath
2d4e355 I went to the springs while the sun was still up, and sitting on a rocky outcrop above the cave mouth I watched the light grow reddish across the misty pools, and listened to the troubled voice of the water. After a while I moved farther up the hill, where I could hear birds singing near and far in the silence of the trees. The presence of the trees was very strong...The big oaks stood so many, so massive in their other life, in their deep, rooted silence: the awe of them came on me, the religion. religion spirituality trees Ursula K. Le Guin
7c6e7d3 He had never believed that spirituality had to be anemic or aesthetic. christianity spirituality Irving Stone
ad497ac At the lip of a cliff, I look out over Lake Superior, through the bare branches of birches and the snow-covered branches of aspens and pines. A hard wind blows snow up out of a cavern and over my face. I know this place, I know its seasons - I have hiked these mountains in the summer and walked these winding pathways in the explosion of colour that is a northern fall. And now, the temperature drops well below zero and the deadly cold lake rages below, I feel the stirrings of faith that here, in this place, in my heart, spring will come again. But first the winter must be waited out. And that waiting has worth. alcoholic anorexia bulimia eating-disorder mental-illness recovery spirituality Marya Hornbacher
0dcdc78 We're not gods, Julia. We're helpers. That's all. People have called us terrible things in the past. But that was only because they didn't understand us. That understanding is for the future, a time not long from now. You may live to see it. Then perhaps you can work openly, but for now, keep your gifts to yourself. Never flaunt your abilities. Never think you hold the power of life and death. Only God has that power. When it's a person's time, nothing can save them. esoterica healing spirituality Christopher Pike
d9455fd We are game-playing, fun-having creatures, we are the otters of the universe. life spirituality Richard Bach
003e291 God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with. christianity faith god jesus-shock philosophy spirituality theology truth Peter Kreeft
557a834 "You cannot mend the chromosome, quell the earthquake, or stanch the flood. You cannot atone for the dead tyrants' murders and you alone cannot stop living tyrants. As Martin Buber saw it, the world of ordinary days "affords" us that precise association with god that redeems both us and our speck of world. God entrusts and allots to everyone an area to redeem: this creased and feeble life, "the world in which you live, just as it is, and not otherwise." "Insofar as he cultivates and enjoys them in holiness, he frees their souls...he who prays and sings in holiness, eats and speaks in holiness...through him the sparks which have fallen will be uplifted, and the worlds which have fallen will be delivered and renewed." -- spirituality Annie Dillard
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
da36424 I don't want a religion that I put away with my Sunday clothes, and don't take out till the day comes around again; I want something to see and feel and live day by day. preaching religion spirituality sunday Louisa May Alcott
16c5b99 There are a lot of times the heart burrows deeper, goes tunnelling into itself for reasons only the heart itself seems to know.They are times of isolation, of hibernation, sometimes of desolation. There is a bareness that spreads out over the interior landscape of the self, a bareness like tundra, with no sign of life in any direction, no sign of anything beneath the frozen crust of ground, no sign that spring ever intends to come again. eating-disorder god recovery religion spirituality Marya Hornbacher
379a42d But I could tell thee of other things, , and do not doubt what thou simply cannot see nor cannot hear. Thou canst not hear what a dog hears. Nor canst thou smell what a dog smells. But already thou hast experienced a little of what can happen to man. gypsy human-experience spirituality Ernest Hemingway
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