#ritual

I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#few #fiction #hours #i #into

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

#humility #indeed #meekness #powers #spiritual

The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

#extent #inner #measured #progress #real

On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love. ↗

— Edith Stein

#commandment #else #end #every #everything

Count the cost of your calling, find the value of your dream, and most of all find your place in His love. ↗

— Deborah Brodie

#inspirational #poetry-love-spirituality #dreams

The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way. ↗

— Sting

#get #heading #i #into #journey

I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life. ↗

— Sting

#life #lip #lip service #only #paid

Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult. ↗

— Sting

#difficult #life #like #spiritual #spiritual life

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#highest #ideas #moral #music #namely

I wasn't losing my focus but I was getting tired of focusing. What I was focusing on was becoming too routine, too ritual, not something that was interesting, new and exciting. ↗

— Picabo Street

#exciting #focus #focusing #getting #i