#ritual

A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can. ↗

— Charlie Byrd

#his #however #make #mean #music

The ability to feel and express genuine gratitude for the help given when it is needed most, for the gift or boon that is given at just the right time and under the right circumstances, is a way of surrendering one’s self to benevolent external forces. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#author-stephen-richards #cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #manifestation #manifesting

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#books #dead #distant #god #heirs

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#energy #evolution #like #love #love is

I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things. ↗

— Julian Clary

#i #kind #more #pagan #personal

The fact that religions, which usually have at their core a promotion of tolerance and peace, have been exploited to carry out violence clearly indicates that individuals and groups have not discovered the true "peace message" that is inherent in almost every religion. (by Cilliers, Ch. 3, p. 55) ↗

— David R. Smock

#peacebuilding #religion #spirituality #violence #religion

Only a spiritual being has awareness. ↗

— Chick Corea

#being #only #spiritual

... the effort to discover an authentic self, to strip away layers of alienation and culturally imposed identity and find a soul in a clear, unimpeded communion with the sacred is consonant with spiritual quests throughout the ages. Spiritual feminists, no less than medieval mystics, are searching in the ways made available to them through their culture to separate themselves from everything in their hearts and minds that puts them at odds with the divine plan (and therefore with their own best interests), and to find a true harmony between themselves and the universe. ↗

— Cynthia Eller

#goddess #soul #spirituality #age

I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle! ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#anyone #because #doing #even #evolving

Relinquishing selfish wants, one is free to allow others to travel their own paths under the will of God. (18) ↗

— Prem Prakash

#freedom #god #god-s-will #selfishness #spiritual-paths