#ritual

The great mistake these people make is that they go to looking after the spiritual welfare of the Indians before securing their physical. ↗

— George Crook

#before #go #great #indians #looking

After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why. ↗

— Ben Stein

#been #black #cannot #levels #man

Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and its ethics stand at our mercy. ↗

— Timothy J. Winter

#law #religion #spirituality #religion

Everything that seemingly happens externally is occurring in order to trigger something within us, to expand us and take us back to who we truly are. ↗

— Anita Moorjani

#death

A lot of times when you go through a very traumatic situation and it's emotionally difficult to deal with you come back spiritually stronger. It changes you in a way. ↗

— Elvis Stojko

#changes #come #deal #difficult #emotionally

I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives. ↗

— David Friedman

#advisor #got #i #kill #letter

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world. ↗

— Mary Garden

#being #buildings #children #evil #hence

If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#lives #look #lot #made #moments

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#acting #commonplace #crowd #each #far

I think the funny thing about acting for me - and I hold it in a very holy, spiritual way - not to be overly fundamentalist about it, but it's that important to me - is that it is an ancient healing art. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#acting #ancient #art #fundamentalist #funny