#less

Devotion gradually progresses to higher levels. . . . One type goes to God and asks Him to remove his suffering. Another one will ask for money or material things. A third will request liberation or release from his bondage. And the fourth will not ask for anything. He will just enjoy praying and praising his Lord. That is the highest form of prayer. (Beyond Word, 119) ↗

— Swami Satchidananda

#devotion #prayer #suffering #money

One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#literature #change

So you’re the music note, Beckett’s obviously the knife, who’s the cross?” She stroked Blake’s tattoo. “You’re about to find out. We’re headed to church.” Blake leaned in to kiss her forehead. “Of course we are. That makes perfect sense.” From hell to heaven. ↗

— Debra Anastasia

#love #poughkeepsie #love

I believe that the greatest truths of the universe don't lie outside, in the study of the stars and the planets. They lie deep within us, in the magnificence of our heart, mind, and soul. Until we understand what is within, we can't understand what is without. ↗

— Anita Moorjani

#fearless #love #near-death-experience #self-improvement #spiritual

Life and death- what paltry words, what tarnished bookends,what unjust summation for drawing breath one moment and failing to release it the next. ↗

— Rebecca Rasmussen

#life #life-lessons #death

Only in hindsight can we see the moments where our lives skewed off-course, where we traveled down the wrong path, where the worst lies we told were the ones we told ourselves. ↗

— Emma Shane

#life-lessons #relationships #romance #relationship

In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#helplessness #loss #religion #religion

Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free. ↗

— Sheldon B. Kopp

#psychology #design

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#accurate #best #common #common sense #fallacy

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it'. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#wonder