#ritual

Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way. ↗

— Aberjhani

#intimacy #love #spirituality #valentine-s-day #love

He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time. ↗

— Jack London

#time #nature

There is within the human heart a tough fibrous root of fallen life whose nature is to possess, always to possess. It covets `things' with a deep and fierce passion. The pronouns `my' and `mine' look innocent enough in print, but their constant and universal use is significant. They express the real nature of the old Adamic man better than a thousand volumes of theology could do. They are verbal symptoms of our deep disease. The roots of our hearts have grown down into things, and we dare not pull up one rootlet lest we die. Things have become necessary to us, a development never originally intended. God's gifts now take the place of God, and the whole course of nature is upset by the monstrous substitution. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#sin #spiritual-life #life

I move in the university of the waves. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#spiritual #nature

The sea is everything. It covers seven-tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and life-giving. It is an immense desert place where man is never lonely, for he senses the weaving of Creation on every hand. It is the physical embodiment of a supernatural existence... For the sea is itself nothing but love and emotion. It is the Living Infinite, as one of your poets has said. Nature manifests herself in it, with her three kingdoms: mineral, vegetable, and animal. The ocean is the vast reservoir of Nature. ↗

— Jules Verne

#life

It would seem that unless we see through and beyond the physical, we shall not even see the physical as we ought to see it: as the very vehicle for the glory of God ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#nature #spirituality #nature

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility; but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favor'd rage. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#war #nature

It is rare to find an established community of Christians that encourages radical expressions of following Jesus. The natural conservatism of institutions is deeply rooted in the desire to survive, and that desire colors and limits the way they read the Bible and how they see God functioning in the world. ↗

— Michael Spencer

#conservatism #internet-monk #jesus #spirituality #nature

Om (AUM) the Divine song is at the same time Symmetry, Supersymmetry, broken Symmetry, and the unbroken Symmetry of Nature. ↗

— Amit Ray

#om #science #spirituality #nature

Our habits are our friends. Even our bad habits." -- Diary of a Country Priest ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#spirituality #nature