#ritual

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#awash #bodybuilding #chemistry #defying #mathematics

As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#century #cultural #david #find #historians

I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation. ↗

— Katy Perry

#foundation #i #spiritual #still

I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation. And my conversation with God is very open-ended. I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world. ↗

— Katy Perry

#because #caught #conversation #easy #foundation

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values. ↗

— Bridget Riley

#archaic #depends #i #i think #inevitably

Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#certainty #clear #commitment #ideals #meaning

Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions. ↗

— Matthew Henry

#promotions #sanctified #spiritual

Time exists so that you can experience these flavors as deeply as possible. On the path of devotion, if you can experience even a glimmer of love, its possible to experience a little more love. When you experience that a little more, then the next degree of intensity is possible. Thus, love engenders love until you reach the point of saturation, when you totally merge with the divine love. this is what the mystics mean when they say that they plunge into the ocean of love to drown themselves. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#mystics #spirituality #experience

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them. ↗

— Vincent McNabb

#control #extraordinary #fears #gives #god

Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year's Eve. A lot has happened to me in the last couple of years, personally and spiritually. I wanted to mark it for myself. ↗

— Joan Jett

#couple #eve #happened #head #i