#ritual

You have a unique body and mind, with a particular history and conditioning. No one can offer you a formula for navigating all situations and all states of mind. Only by listening inwardly in a fresh and open way will you discern at any given time what most serves your healing and freedom. ↗

— Tara Brach

#meditation #peace #spirituality #freedom

When a person eats shortly before going to bed, digestion accompanies sleep. The two great physiological functions are completed together, leaving the maximum of freedom to the mind during the day. ↗

— Adalbert de Vogüé

#christianity #fasting #spiritual-disciplines #experience

Spiritual yearning is the homesickness of the soul. ↗

— Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

#meditation #self-help #soul #spiritual-hunger #spirituality

Just suppose that the dead do revisit the living. That something approximately to be described as Jim can return to see how George is making out. Would this be at all satisfactory? Would it even be worthwhile? At best, surely, it would be like the brief visit of an observer from another country who is permitted to peep in for a moment from the vast outdoors of his freedom and see, at a distance, through glass, this figure who sits solitary at the small table in the narrow room, eating his poached eggs humbly and dully, a prisoner for life. ↗

— Christopher Isherwood

#freedom

Some journeys lead nowhere, but they set the spirit free ↗

— Jocelyn Murray

#journey #life #soul #spirit #spiritual-growth

The degree of Spiritual growth is directly proportionate to the degree of personal freedom; your very own individuality." www.booksonspirituality.com ↗

— Gian Kumar

#freedom

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart. ↗

— Aberjhani

#artists #beauty #creativity #national-poetry-month #poem-in-your-pocket-day

With a truly tragic delusion,” Carl Jung noted, “these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the light, but of blind people who do not know that their eyes could see. It is high time we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to teach people the art of seeing. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#religion-meaning #spirituality #art

You are at my side, dear friends, and God is everywhere. Yet ultimately we are alone, making our way home by the candle of the heart. The light is steady and sure but extends only far enough to see the next step. Many times the light seems to go out. But another light, one held by a stranger or friend, a book or a song, a blackbird or a wild flower, comes close enough so that we can see our path by its light. And in time we realize that the light we have borrowed was always our own. ↗

— Joan Borysenko

#solitude #sprituality #home

Wisdom is not guaranteed with age but is realized through one's sensitivity to humanity and the universe ↗

— I. Alan Appt

#philosophy #psychology #self-help #spirituality #age