#ritual

The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of the eyes. We don't have to change what we see. Only the way we see. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#spirituality #change

What people resist the most about spiritual healing is changing their minds. ↗

— S. Kelley Harrell

#mindfulness #soul-healing #spiritual-healing #change

The change most needed in our lives isn't change in our situations and relationships but in us. The thing God is most intent on rescuing us from is ourselves. ↗

— Timothy Lane

#spiritual #change

To see change is at the same time to allow change. ↗

— Donna Quesada

#change

...churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#gospel #parishioners #spiritual #business

Cultivate the understanding that the self is not really an independently existing entity, and begin to view self instead in terms of it's dependent relation to others. Although it is difficult to say that merely reflecting on this will produce a profound spiritual realization, it will at least have some effect. Your mind will be more open. Something will begin to change within you. Therefore, even in the immediate term there is definitely a positive and beneficial effect in reversing these two attitudes and moving from self-centeredness to other-centeredness, from belief in self existence to belief in dependent origination. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#other-centeredness #self #self-centeredness #spiritual-realization #attitude

God can use the jawbone of an ass! ↗

— Winkie Pratney

#humor #spirituality #communication

Often we are identified with either the inner man or woman, while the other side is hidden and unexpressed. Outer relationships are a mirror of the relationship and communication between our own inner man and female side. Sometimes one side is dominant, while the other side is submissive. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#communication #creativity #female #growth #inner-man-and-woman

When we develop the heart chakra, we begin to influence the surroundings with our spiritual presence. When we develop the communication chakra, we begin to influence the country with our spiritual presence. When we develop the seventh chakra, we begin to influence the world with our spiritual presence without doing anything. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#communcation-chakra #consciousness #heart-chakra #meditation #presence

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#continues #death #installment #installment plan #men