#ness

A misleading perception or false belief is increasingly being perpetuated that the unconscious or the intuitive is all that really matters in any spiritual endeavor, and that the conscious, rational, logical, analytical mind is the mortal enemy of spiritual awareness and soul growth. ↗

— Anthon St. Maarten

#consciousness-mind-brain #ego #false-belief #intuition #intuitive

put together all the tenderest love you know of, multiply it by infinity and you will begin to see glimpses of the love and grace of God. ↗

— Hannah Whitall Smith

#life

But struggling with these better feelings was pride,--the vice of the lowest and most debased creatures no less than of the high and self-assured. The miserable companion of thieves and ruffians, the fallen outcast of low haunts, the associate of the scourings of the jails and hulks, living within the shadow of the gallows itself,--even this degraded being felt too proud to betray a feeble gleam of the womanly feeling which she thought a weakness, but which alone conneced her with that humanity, of which her wasting life had obliterated so many, many traces when a very child. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#pride #women #life

...it is often more difficult to remember to be mindful than to be mindful itself. (p. 47) ↗

— Donald Rothberg

#life

What sticks with me now is that this man said he needed to get to a hospital. He probably needed to reach his destination more than anyone else on the bus, yet he lacked the capacity to ride without getting kicked off. Maybe he reached the hospital eventually, and maybe he was connected with social workers and housing specialists who will help him transform his life. But I fear he got on another bus, and another bus after that, without going anywhere at all. ↗

— Susan Nielsen

#going-nowhere #healthcare #hospital #mental-illness #mentally-ill

Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its little care... Hardly one day in a hundred of unbroken joy and sunshine. And you are of that small number who at lucky! As for the other men, stagnant night is upon them. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#life #lucky #misery #life

We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us. ↗

— Os Guinness

#life #mystery #os-guinness #religion #the-call

Superabundant piety/righteousness (and its practices) is that form of life that enhances the individual and the community simultaneously. ↗

— Michael Joseph Brown

#piety #righteousness #life

Who are you if nobody knows your story? ↗

— Thisuri Wanniarachchi

#life #life-lessons-value-of-life-truth #living #soul #south-asia

Stop categorizing and labeling! This is your way to avoid the unknown but brings the risk to avoid the new! ↗