#ritual

As Gill says, "every man is called to give love to the work of his hands. Every man is called to be an artist." The small family farm is one of the last places - they are getting rarer every day - where men and women (and girls and boys, too) can answer that call to be an artist, to learn to give love to the work of their hands. It is one of the last places where the maker - and some farmers still do talk about "making the crops" - is responsible, from start to finish, for the thing made. This certainly is a spiritual value, but it is not for that reason an impractical or uneconomic one. In fact, from the exercise of this responsibility, this giving of love to the work of the hands, the farmer, the farm, the consumer, and the nation all stand to gain in the most practical ways: They gain the means of life, the goodness of food, and the longevity and dependability of the sources of food, both natural and cultural. The proper answer to the spiritual calling becomes, in turn, the proper fulfillment of physical need. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#farming #love #spirituality #work #family

You can speak with spiritual eloquence, pray in public, and maintain a holy appearance, but it is your behavior that will reveal your true character. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#behavior #character #holy #inspirational #spiritual

I keep hearing about a spiritual awakening, but I feel what we need instead is a human one. It would be wonderful and empowering to become free from the disillusionment and nonsense being sold to us from gurus for centuries. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#humanity #life #nonsense #spirituality #experience

The Spirituality and Self-Help industry wants you to be empowered enough to buy their products, but disempowered enough to still think you need them. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#products #self-help-industry #spirituality #experience

As soon as you start feeding yourself better emotionally, spiritually, and physically, everything responds in the positive. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#feed #life #spiritually #experience

To express yourself in a creative way you don't need structure you need an empty mind. ↗

— E'yen A. Gardner

#inspirational-life #spiritual-life #inspirational

Throw your arms around the world and hold on tight. But not through fear ...but because of your love. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#fear #inspirational #life-lessons-spiritual-wonder #love #motivational-quotes

Don't play with others, or at one day, you will be played by others. ↗

— Usama Ejaz

#benefit-others #classics #inspirational #kindness #life

La llegada del desorden a la vida de una persona con el consiguiente colapso del significado definido por la mente, puede constituir la puerta a un orden superior. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#life

To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality. It is not even to come up with a solution, a sort of formula to control reality. Rather, it is an experience of release from all compulsions and sufferings, combined with a precise awareness of any relevent subject of knowledge. Having attained enlightenment one knows everything that matters, and the precise nature of all that is. ↗

— Robert Thurman

#spirituality #experience