#iri

How would your life be different if your religion was love, and your spirituality was governed by kindness? How would the world be different if everyone did this? ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#kindness #life #love #religion #spirituality

Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#thanksgiving #salvation

Oh come, ‘though you have broken your promises a hundred times…Come home, stranger and alien, come home to me….Come home, space traveler, lover of leaving for I am here... ↗

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

#love #home

But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#enlightenment #meditation #mind #spirituality #zen

We all have an inner voice, our personal whisper from the universe. All we have to do is listen -- feel and sense it with an open heart. Sometimes it whispers of intuition or precognition. Other times, it whispers an awareness, a remembrance from another plane. Dare to listen. Dare to hear with your heart. ↗

— C.J. Heck

#intuition #listen-with-an-open-heart #precognition #remembrance #spirituality

The soul itself is the center of all that we have come to call 'psychic.' The word itself translates literally to mean "of the soul." When we embrace our psychic potential, we embrace our soul's potential. ↗

— Kim Chestney

#intuition #intuitive-development #kim-chestney #psychic #psychic-workshop

As persons, so Mournier maintained, we possess both a spiritual and temporal dimension; we exist in history, in relationship with others, but open to transcendence and ultimately to God. This concept of the person, he believed, was denied as much by an atheistic totalitarianism of the Left as by the bourgeois materialism of capitalist society. To the extent that Christianity had become infected by the bourgeois spirit, it had become a prop in what he called, 'the established disorder. ↗

— Robert Ellsberg

#totalitarianism

I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#ireland #irish #women #feminism

Unless, of course, there's no such thing as chance;...in which case, we should either-optimistically-get up and cheer, because if everything is planned in advance, then we all have a meaning and are spared the terror of knowing ourselves to be random, without a why; or else, of course, we might-as pessimists-give up right here and now, understanding the futility of thought decision action, since nothing we think makes any difference anyway, things will be as they will. Where, then, is optimism? In fate or in chaos? ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#optimism

The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea. ↗

— James Joyce

#irish #lyrical #sea #lyrics