#dev

When the stars threw down their spears, and watered heaven with their tears, did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee? ↗

— William Blake

#god #religion #tyger #experience

To the yogi, all experience is seen as one, as a means to help him cultivate devotion. All experiences have equal meaning and value. (154) ↗

— Prem Prakash

#experience #yoga #experience

Human beings have always been an unfinished species, a story in the middle, a succession of families, tribes, and societies in transition to new awarenesses. Although we have always prided ourselves on our willingness to adapt to all habitats, and on our skill at prospering and making ourselves comfortable wherever we are -- in a meadow, in a desert, on the tundra, or out on the ocean -- we don't just adapt to places, or modify them in order to ease our burdens. We're the only species that over and over again has deliberately transformed our surroundings in order to stretch our capacity for understanding and provoke new accomplishments. And our growing and enhanced understanding is our most valuable, and our most vulnerable, inheritance. ↗

— Tony Hiss

#evolution #expansion #growth #humanity #intergenerational

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#life-experience #self-development #experience

Encouraging employees to interact directly with the environment is just an interesting exercise until you debrief their experiences and encourage reflection. ↗

— Julie Winkle Giulioni

#employees #reflection #experience

Love is years of devotion, sacrifice, commitment, loyalty, trust, faith, and friendship all wrapped up in one. True love does more than cause your heart to flutter. It upholds your heart when the infatuation no longer makes it flutter. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#devotion #eena #heart #infatuation #love

God wants you to face the reasons why you separate yourself from Him. He will show you what you fear, what you need, and what you desire. He will inventory your beliefs and values, and help you line them up with His truth. ↗

— Michael Barbarulo: Author God's Healing Hands: Allow God To Reshape Your Soul

#inspirational #motivational #spiritual-development #faith

To think I need a gun to protect against those who'd kill me for being Muslim ... It's too bad they don't know about my true religion of noodling - a reason to get their nuts in a snit. ↗

— Manil Suri

#faith #faith

Let me be cursed, let me be base and vile, but let me also kiss the hem of that garment in which my God is clothed; let me be following the devil at the same time, but still I am also your son, Lord, and I love you, and I feel a joy without which the world cannot stand and be. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#devil #evil #faith #god #joy

Cheap people often are not very happy because they love money more than they love their families ↗

— Celso Cukierkorn

#personal-development #rabbi-celso-celso-cukierkorn #self-help #family