#ali

Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light. ↗

— Imam 'Abdallah ibn 'Alawi al-Haddad

#religion #spirituality #sufism #religion

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. ↗

— Black Elk

#mind #peace #spirit #spirituality #wisdom

We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think. ↗

— Rod Serling

#twilight-zone #development

I can no longer stay quiet in this world, I have a voice and I feel it reverberate off my internal walls, making its slow climb upward until its melody can be heard all around. ↗

— Elin Stebbins Waldal

#healing-the-past #strength #abuse

Yes, it's vital to make lifestyle choices to mitigate damage caused by being a member of industrialized civilization, but to assign primary responsibility to oneself, and to focus primarily on making oneself better, is an immense copout, an abrogation of responsibility. ↗

— Derrick Jensen

#civilization #industrialization #mitigate #responsibility #lifestyle

Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest, and by doing so come to a deeper sense of self and our place in the universe. Silence is not an absence but a presence. Not an emptiness but repletion A filling up. ↗

— Anne D. LeClaire

#spirituality #yoga #yoga

Why they always look so serious in Yoga? You make serious face like this, you scare away good energy. To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy. Even smile in your liver. Practice tonight at hotel. Not to hurry, not to try too hard. Too serious, you make you sick. You can calling the good energy with a smile. (From Ketut Liyer, the Balinese healer) ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#spirituality #yoga #yoga

Truth is the same always. Whoever ponders it will get the same answer. Buddha got it. Patanjali got it. Jesus got it. Mohammed got it. The answer is the same, but the method of working it out may vary this way or that. (115) ↗

— Swami Satchidananda

#jesus #mohammed #patanjali #truth #yoga

PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions. ↗

— Susan Pease Banitt

#healing #mental-health #psychology #ptsd #spirituality

There’s no value in digging shallow wells in a hundred places. Decide on one place and dig deep. Even if you encounter a rock, use dynamite and keep going down. If you leave that to dig another well, all the first effort is wasted and there is no proof you won’t hit rock again. (52) ↗

— Swami Satchidananda

#spirituality #yoga