#ritual

We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the evening, from his empty mug With gleaming eye glanced towards us: "I seen 'em myself!" he said fiercely. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#spirituality #myth

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#condition #consent #contemplation #cruel #cruelty

Sometimes it happens that you become one, in some rare moment. Watch the ocean, the tremendous wildness of it--and suddenly you forget your split, your schizophrenia; you relax. Or, moving in the Himalayas, seeing the virgin snow on the Himalayan peaks, suddenly a coolness surrounds you and you need not be false because there is no other human being to be false to. You fall together. ↗

— Osho

#life-and-living #nature #peace #relaxation #religion

It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but, whether we use religious language for it or not, the experience of God's presence. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#religion #spirituality #experience

The image of God is your final obstruction to a religious experience. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#spirituality #experience

The brain, which operates on electromagnetic impulses, is as much an activity of the universe as are the electromagnetic storms in the atmosphere or on a distant star. Therefore science is one form of electromagnetism that spends it time studying another form…science is god explaining god through a human nervous system…isn’t spirituality the same thing? ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#science #spirituality #science

To the untutored sage, the concentration of population was the prolific mother of all evils, moral no less than physical. He argued that food is good, while surfeit kills; that love is good, but lust destroys; and not less dreaded than the pestilence following upon crowded and unsanitary dwellings was the loss of spiritual power inseparable from too close contact with one's fellow-men. ↗

— Charles Alexander Eastman

#native-american #philosophy #spirituality #food

The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought. ↗

— Dan Brown

#spirituality #knowledge

Many of us are slaves to our minds. Our own mind is our worst enemy. We try to focus, and our mind wanders off. We try to keep stress at bay, but anxiety keeps us awake at night. We try to be good to the people we love, but then we forget them and put ourselves first. And when we want to change our life, we dive into spiritual practice and expect quick results, only to lose focus after the honeymoon has worn off. We return to our state of bewilderment. We're left feeling helpless and discouraged. It seems we all agree that training the body through exercise, diet, and relaxation is a good idea, but why don't we think about training our minds? ↗

— Sakyong Mipham

#spiritual #change

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#state