#ritual

However, if we examine the Canadian scene closely enough, we can see signs of this physical and spiritual rot settling into a number of our Canadian urban centres with a troubling spill-over into many of our more rural areas. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#canadian #centres #closely #enough #examine

Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically. Sometimes depression is simply the result of exhaustion. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#condition #depression #exhaustion #fact #happening

She was very fond of thinking and getting at the truth of things, but was so far from being pedantic, so full of youthful ways that from the first moment one began to love all these originalities in her, and to accept them. [...] This naive combination in her of the child and the thinking woman, this childlike and absolutely genuine thirst for truth and justice, and absolute faith in her impulses--all this lighted up her face with a fine glow of sincerity, giving it a lofty, spiritual beauty, and one began to understand that it was not so easy to gauge the full significance of that beauty which was not all at once apparent to every ordinary unsympathetic eye. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#child #love #sincerity #spirituality #woman

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness, and worship without awareness. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#compassion #learning #politics #relegion #spirituality

Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life. ↗

— David Chalmers

#complete #consciousness #down #except #fact

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there. ↗

— Chanakya

#greedy #happiness #here #moving #peace

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#always #away #corn #destroying #gods

You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters. ↗

— Star Jones

#financial #matters #me #none #professional

I don't want to be daft and say I had some spiritual awakening or something, but I really did come of age in Los Angeles, where we recorded the album. I had my own little house and my own little circle and I really got to feel how the city ticks. ↗

— Melanie Chisholm

#album #angeles #awakening #circle #city

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds. ↗

— John Henrik Clarke

#brought #conquerors #control #framework #hand