#ritual

There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others that receive it less interiorly; the former are called celestial angels, and the latter spiritual angels. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#called #celestial #divine #former #forth

To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#dominion #life #means #men #over

I don't believe I have a mission. Sometimes I really have a spiritual need to say something more general about the world, and sometimes something personal. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

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Sometimes I really have a spiritual need to say something more general about the world, and sometimes something personal. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#general #i #more #need #personal

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life. ↗

— Lou Holtz

#everybody #having #i #i believe #i believe that

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

Ritual is necessary for us to know anything. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#know #necessary #ritual #us

Maybe I'm being philosophical and spiritual, but I believe that if you put negative energy out there that that is what will come back. ↗

— Persis Khambatta

#being #believe #come #energy #i