#ritual

First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#current #first #literary #necessity #philosophical

There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience! ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#chill #cold #deadliest #freezes #more

The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does. ↗

— Ernest Holmes

#does #idea #intellect #intellectual #manner

I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for? ↗

— Stephanie Lennox

#funny #humour #husband #inspirational #love

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#force #impact #never #permanently #physical

For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#became #enough #even #flaming #going

We lack rituals in this modern world. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

#modern #modern world #rituals #world

Coming to the END of MYSELF and all SELF effort...seems to be the very point that God steps in and shows HIMSELF to be more than ENOUGH. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#church #inspirational #john-paul #john-paul-warren #john-warren

We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our daily activities. ↗

— William Griffith Wilson

#alcoholism #carry #condition #contingent #cured

Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that travels, it is the spirit that is experienced. That is why there exist contemplative souls who have lived more intensely, more widely, more tumultuously than others who have lived their lives purely externally. The end result is what matters. What one felt was what one experienced. One retires to bed as wearily from having dreamed as from having done hard physical labor. One never lives so intensely as when one has been thinking hard. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#life #spiritual #thinking #dreams