"spirituality"タグの名言

A question not asked, remains unanswered

Beneath the gentle gaze of a god turned in stone holding the dreaming wish of safety in our arms

Plus une personne est unie en lui-même et intérieurement simple, plus elle comprend les choses de plus en plus, parce qu'il ou elle reçoit la lumière de la compréhension de l'intérieur.

Learning to live with wounded places is a mission threaded with find¬ing and making beauty. If I’m open to the likelihood of it, I can always find beauty under any circumstances, whether it’s in a kindly gesture from a stranger or the first shoot of greenery shoving up through the waste of a calamitous event. Beauty is the antidote to grief and despair, and it is the one sure thing I can bring to bear when I confront a place that has fallen on hard times.

The notion of freedom could make even peace and order seem oppressive, generate the suspicion of some hidden purpose, some vast deceit, some unspecified crime being perpetrated beyond human ken. That was a generous way of looking at it; the alternative was to acknowledge that humans were intrinsically conflicted, cursed with acquisitive addictions of the spirit.

We cannot long survive spiritually separated in a world that is geographically together.

Become peace, until peace becomes your only reality.

The reason that you cannot feel any progress in yourself is that you cannot feel spiritual. There is no such thing as a person’s feeling spiritual. That is as impossible as feeling that you are honest or feeling that you are moral.

La vraie compréhension est une terre indivisible de libération au-delà de tout jugement et de toutes conclusions.

Acceptance does not mean surrender. It does not mean resignation. Acceptance means I am finally available to the entire spectrum of creative responses.

When you spend any time at all paying attention to the proclivities of the natural world, you realize that nature has no problem including in its sorority the dead, dying, and ailing as fully as the lovely, healthy, and whole.

To see a place as orphaned or wounded is also to reexamine the meaning of living and dying and to allow some curiosity and even a sense of marvel to emerge about the tactics things employ to persevere.

Life is effervescent Consciousness!

The reason that you cannot feel any [spiritual] progress in yourself is that you cannot feel spiritual. There is no such thing as a person’s feeling spiritual. That is as impossible as feeling that you are honest or feeling that you are moral.

God didn't invent monetary system, we, humans did it. As we did the system of injustice. And, yes, we do have a power over our choices. Every time we purchase something made by either a child or a slave we contribute to this system of injustice. And vice versa. We literally change the world.

A radical transition to loving yourself often requires physical separation. It requires physical separation because you must relearn love beyond the physical body.

Your personal development doesn’t end when the relationship begins; everything in life requires consistent care to maintain. A working relationship involves accountability.

God art thou and thy will be done.

Loving yourself is being honest with yourself and then giving yourself the space to heal and transform.

The idea of heartbreak comes from trying to reconcile what we wanted and thought would happen with the reality of what actually happened.