#ritual

I must admit, that I have learned more from my negative experiences than I have ever learned from my positive one. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#central-christian-church #church #inspirational #john-paul #john-paul-warren

If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#soul #spirituality #experience

Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A child, for whom every object is new, experiences the world in this way: it sees light, is attracted by it, wants to grasp it, burns its finger in the process, and thus learns fear and respect for the flame. ↗

— Wassily Kandinsky

#learning #spirituality #experience

It has been my experience that those who claim to be the most spiritual are usually the least so. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#claim #experience #non-spiritual #religious #spiritual

It’s not enough to hear or think about the truth, we must experience it for ourselves if we are to truly know it. ↗

— Eliza Mada Dalian

#spiritual #experience

To the non-initiate, whose experience of sexuality and bodily pleasure may be distorted by negative cultural conditioning, the introduction of sexuality into a sacred context is often mistakenly misconstrued as the ordinary pursuit of sex for recreation. ↗

— Zeena Schreck

#initiation #materialism-versus-spiritualism #sexuality #shamanism #tantra

We must remember balance and moderation. Patience can be spiritually enriching and virtuous… but when taken in excess, it turns to procrastination, the poison of inaction. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#excess #inaction #moderation #patience #poison

The human experience of weakness is God's blueprint for calling attention to the supremacy of his Son. When miserably failing people continue to belong to, believe in, and worship Jesus, God is happy. ↗

— Michael Spencer

#jesus #spirituality #supremacy-of-christ #weakness #experience

But I could tell thee of other things, Inglés, and do not doubt what thou simply cannot see nor cannot hear. Thou canst not hear what a dog hears. Nor canst thou smell what a dog smells. But already thou hast experienced a little of what can happen to man. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#gypsy #human-experience #spirituality #experience

. . .fasting gives me singularly happy afternoons. ↗

— Adalbert de Vogüé

#christianity #fasting #spiritual-disciplines #experience