#ritual

…the work of the (Muslim Sufi) dervish community was to open the heart, explore the mystery of union, to fiercely search for and try to say the truth, and to celebrate the glory and difficulty in being in human incarnation. ↗

— Coleman Barks

#rumi #spirituality #life

Healing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish line. ↗

— Alice McCall

#health #journey #life #motivational #self-help

May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them. ↗

— Scott Cairns

#life #spiritual #suffering #life

The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence: Human life is very deep, and our modern dominant lifestyle is not. ↗

— Bo Lozoff

#life

It is one of the gifts of great spiritual teachers to make things simple. It is one of the gifts of their followers to complicate them again. Often we need to scrape away the accumulated complications of a master’s message in order to hear the kernel of what they said. (24) ↗

— Julia Cameron

#spiritual-life #spiritual-message #spiritual-teachers #life

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal. -- from The Sexual Side of Spirituality ↗

— Aberjhani

#metaphysics #passion #sexuality #spirituality #life

He broke me down past the flesh, past the muscle, past the bone, down to my soul and in a loud provocation, he asked, “What are you made of?” After I gathered the broken bits and pieces of my life together, I shouted at the top of my lungs, “HOPE! Unbreakable, undeniable, irrevocable hope! ↗

— Jay Grewal

#enlightenment #god #hope #inspirational #motivational

I was all the time tugging and carrying water. But now I have a river that carries me. ↗

— D.L. Moody

#river-of-life #spirituality #life

Love is what creates the freedom and relaxation to be who we really are. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#freedom #life #love #relazation #spirituality

Intuition is a capacity of our heart. Our heart is the door to allowing Existence to guide us, instead of being directed by our ideas, desires and expectations. Since the days of Aristotle’s, we have been taught that logic is the only way to reach a solution. But while logic works in a step-by-step-process to reach a solution, intuition simply takes a quantum leap to a solution without any intermediate steps. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#awareness #existence #intuition #life #love