#ritual

The disciples of Jesus “found themselves thinking that if divine goodness were to manifest itself in human form, this (he) is how it would behave… he invited people to see differently instead of telling them what to do or believe…he located the authority of his teaching in his hearer’s hearts, not in himself or God-as-removed. ↗

— Huston Smith

#spirituality #religion

Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#gig #gut #medium #modern #more

The poet is intimate with truth, while the scientist approaches awkwardly. ↗

— Paramhansa Yogananda

#science #spiritual #science

When has faith ever been about feelings? ↗

— Camy Tang

#faith #inspirational #spirituality #faith

Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow. ↗

— Dennis Banks

#follow #importantly #lays #meaning #meaning of

Mystery, like faith, defies human logic. ↗

— Maureen Moss

#poetry-love-spirituality #faith

I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#barbarous #cruel #i #inhuman #only

The circumstances of our lives are pieces of a larger scheme in the puzzle of life, and in His Perfect Wisdom, the pieces fit. ↗

— Renae Jones

#cancer #circumstances #death #dying #faith

I don't believe that there are no spiritual beings around us. I don't know what to call them, I don't know how they work. But I know they're there. ↗

— Martha Beck

#beings #believe #call #how #i

When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment? ↗

— Muriel Barbery

#ceremony #infinity #ritual #tea #beauty