#holy

Melancholy is no bad thing. ↗

— Sting

#bad thing #melancholy #thing

We the Jainists of India say every day in our prayer, I worship all perfected souls, I worship all spiritual masters, I worship all spiritual instructors, I worship all holy men and women in the world. ↗

— Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

#india #jainism #prayer #quotation #quotes

My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#because #confusion #contrary #earlier #enjoys

Talking about pollution, nobody's holy. They who pollute, sinned against nature. ↗

— Toba Beta

#nature #pollution #sin #nature

Meditation is an excellent habit and tool for transformation, however your ‘practice’ should eventually evolve into your natural primary state of being. ↗

— Gary Hopkins

#enlightenment #god #higher-self #holy-spirit #inspirational

One of history's most dangerous games begins with dividing the world into the good guys and the bad guys and ends with using any means necessary to take the villains out. ↗

— Stephen R. Prothero

#religion #religion

Not my will, but thine, be done. ↗

— Anonymous

#jesus #spiritual #the-holy-bible #bible

I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry. Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#rain #sadness #sleep #novel

A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#poets

And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is. ↗

— Mircea Eliade

#wails #roman