#ritual

What you are, and who you are should provide greater clarity about where you have been and where you are headed. Although one distinguishes spiritual from physical nature, the ultimate unification of the two is the consequence of the struggle for internal, external and eternal – peace. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#consequences #direction #eternal-peace #external-peace #internal-peace

Little faults become great, and even monstrous in our eyes, in proportion as the pure light of God increases in us; just as the sun in rising, reveals the true dimensions of objects which were dimly and confusedly discovered during the night. ↗

— François Fénelon

#self-knowledge #sin #spiritual-growth #self-growth

The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked ↗

— Rumi

#god #life #love #religion #spiritual

My life is my testimony. ↗

— L.M. Fields

#spiritual #truth #inspirational

To find stability within the world, one must first find stability within. ↗

— Tyler J. Hebert

#life #motivational #oneness #society #spirituality

May the life I live speak for me, not my religion or denomination title. ↗

— Dee Dee M. Scott

#life

We work very hard to have what Buddha gave up to become enlightened. Does that mean we are benighted? ↗

— Rohan Perera

#spiritual-growth #spiritual-life #spirituality #life

To commit herself to becoming "an apostle of Joy" when humanly speaking she might have felt at the brink of despair, was heroic indeed. She could do so because her joy was rooted in the certitude of the ultimate goodness of God's loving plan for her. And though her faith in this truth did not touch her soul with consolation, she ventured to meet the challenges of life with a smile. Her one lever was her blind trust in God. ↗

— Brian Kolodiejchuk

#faith

God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts—God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#religion

Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#gig #gut #medium #modern #more