#ritual

A spirtually illumined soul lives in the world, yet is never contaminated by it. ↗

— Swami Bhaskarananda

#religion #spirituality #religion

The problem I want to talk to you about tonight is the problem of belief. What does it mean to believe? We use this word all the time, and I think behind it lurk some really extraordinary taboos and confusions. What I want to argue tonight is that how we talk about belief- how we fail to criticize or criticize the beliefs of others, has more importance to us personally, more consequence to us personally and to civilization than perhaps anything else that is in our power to influence. ↗

— Sam Harris

#atheism #belief #ethics #humanism #religion

Saying spirituality cannot exist without religion is like saying hamburgers cannot exist without McDonald's. ↗

— Steven Barnes

#religion #spirituality #religion

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'. ↗

— Rob Bell

#jesus #religion #spirituality #love

...religion either produces the very best people or the very worst. ↗

— Richard Rohr

#spirituality #religion

There is one power in the Universe and we can all use it. ↗

— Ernest Holmes

#science

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#love

I know you're tired but come, this is the way. ↗

— Rumi

#love #poetry #rumi #spiritual #sufi

At that moment of realization (that union with God is always present), that's when God let me go, let me slide through His fingers with this last compassionate, unspoken message: You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#love

Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence. ↗

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#love #spirituality #love