#ritual

How I go to the woods Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don’t really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of praying, as you no doubt have yours. Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing. If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#love #nature #poetry #prayer #spirituality

This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#philosophical #romance #spiritual #inspirational

You and your purpose in life are the same thing. Your purpose is to be you. ↗

— George Alexiou

#inspirational #love #self-help #spirituality #the-purpose-of-life

Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you. ↗

— Rashi

#life #spirituality #inspirational

When you find yourself in need of spiritual nourishment, it is in the opportunities to serve others that you will find the abundance you seek. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #inspirational #kindness #life #motivational

A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#goodness #inspirational #spiritual-growth #inspirational

Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility. ↗

— Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

#eastern-orthodoxy #humility #inspirational #spirituality #suffering

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world ↗

— Aristotle

#spirituality #inspirational

The Spirit of God breathes inspiration, while the carnal mind breeds vanity. ↗

— Fred C. White

#inspiration #spiritual-life #inspirational

There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about any more than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks or bring about your own birth. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#inspirational #spirituality #inspirational