#spirit

The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin there, and bring order, and from there move endlessly. But if you are concerned only with making order, then that very order will bring about its own limitation, and the mind will be its prisoner. In all this movement you must somehow begin from the other end, from the other shore, and not always be concerned with this shore or how to cross the river. You must take a plunge into the water, not knowing how to swim. And the beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#meditation #serenity #spirituality #beauty

Art is spiritual. ↗

— John Cusack

#spiritual

America, I like the spirit. Because American people here believe in something. I like that spirit. ↗

— Paz Vega

#american #american people #because #believe #here

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#does #hand #spirit #where #work

I believe that God gives you hopes and dreams in a size that's too large, so you have something to grow into. ↗

— Lynn A. Robinson

#divine-intuition #intuition #manifestation #spirituality #dreams

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality. ↗

— Dave Davies

#between #big #big problem #i #i think

Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#canada #encouraged #large #place #really

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#between #canada #country #desire #extraordinary

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#ashamed #author #belief #boundaries #critics

That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes. ↗

— Mordechai Vanunu

#also #because #feel #five #good