#iri

To live in a peaceful home is to experience paradise on earth. ↗

— Shri Radhe Maa

#radhe-maa #radhey-guru-maa #radhey-maa #spiritual-quotes #experience

Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#christ #christianity #heaven #hell #jesus

There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret. ↗

— Criss Jami

#counterpart #discovery #empiricism #experience #failures

I have not learned a single lesson, been inspired or impacted by another person’s life void of negative experiences. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#church #inspirational #leadership #motivational #pastors

But some part of him realized, even as he fought to break free from Lupin, that Sirius had never kept him waiting before. . . . Sirius had risked everything, always, to see Harry, to help him. . . . If Sirius was not reappearing out of that archway when Harry was yelling for him as though his life depended on it, the only possible explanation was that he could not come back. . . . That he really was . . . ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#sirius-black #death

The ordinary man is aware of his surroundings, first, by naming and labelling them; second, by linking them with past memory of them; and third, by relating them to his own personal self. The illumined egoless man is simply aware of them, without any of these other added activities. ↗

— Paul Brunton

#spiritual #experience

I thank you, God, who lives always, and Who, as i awaken, has in mercy returned my soul to me; we can ever trust in you. ↗

— Priscilla Warner

#religious #spiritual #faith

Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer's life with truth. ↗

— Watchman Nee

#experience

It’s not enough to hear or think about the truth, we must experience it for ourselves if we are to truly know it. ↗

— Eliza Mada Dalian

#spiritual #experience

To the non-initiate, whose experience of sexuality and bodily pleasure may be distorted by negative cultural conditioning, the introduction of sexuality into a sacred context is often mistakenly misconstrued as the ordinary pursuit of sex for recreation. ↗

— Zeena Schreck

#initiation #materialism-versus-spiritualism #sexuality #shamanism #tantra