#ritual

You cannot mend the chromosome, quell the earthquake, or stanch the flood. You cannot atone for the dead tyrants’ murders and you alone cannot stop living tyrants. As Martin Buber saw it, the world of ordinary days “affords” us that precise association with god that redeems both us and our speck of world. God entrusts and allots to everyone an area to redeem: this creased and feeble life, “the world in which you live, just as it is, and not otherwise.” “Insofar as he cultivates and enjoys them in holiness, he frees their souls…he who prays and sings in holiness, eats and speaks in holiness…through him the sparks which have fallen will be uplifted, and the worlds which have fallen will be delivered and renewed. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#spirituality #life

Those who speak in spiritual terms routinely refer to God as creator but seldom see "creator" as the literal term for "artist". I am suggesting you take the term "creator" quite literally. You are seeking to forge a creative alliance, artist-to-artist with the Great Creator. Accepting this concept can greatly expand your creative possibilities. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#spirituality #writing-life #life

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#love

I know you're tired but come, this is the way. ↗

— Rumi

#love #poetry #rumi #spiritual #sufi

The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks. (65) ↗

— Stephen Batchelor

#faith #questioning #spirituality #faith

The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#spirituality #love

I want to be a woman who lives totally abandoned to the first commandment: to love my Lord, my God, with all my heart. I don’t want the reputation that I love God, I don’t want to write songs about loving God, I don’t want to talk about loving God. I want to actually love God. When I close my eyes, I want my heart to move. When I close my eyes and I look at Him, I want to feel alive on the inside. I want to look at Him with a fire in my heart and it’s real. ↗

— Misty Edwards

#beauty #belief #charity #christ #christian

And what is the right woman, the right man? Someone who wants to go in the same direction as you do, someone who is compatible with your views and your values-- emotionally, physically, economically, spiritually. ↗

— Miquel Ruiz

#spirituality #love

When your mind is free of the incessant chatter from our inner critics, we are better able to attend to being our most authentic selves and to enjoy life and all it has to offer. ↗

— Laurie J. Beck

#poetry-love-spirituality #inspirational

Shame and blame should have no place in our body, mind, or spirit. ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#freedom #inspirational #motivational #psychology #spirituality