#ritual

I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you. ↗

— Mel Gibson

#bankrupt #cancer #happens #i #like

My writing practice taught me the important thing is steadfastness. It's not necessarily discipline. Discipline can become a prison. When your spiritual practices become another thing for you to be anxious about, they've lost their usefulness. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#another #anxious #become #discipline #important

I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith. ↗

— Ryan Gosling

#comfortable #faith #had #having #his

A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#connected #emotionally #extension #guitar #i

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk. ↗

— Ben Harper

#folk #grew #i #johnson #listening

That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual. ↗

— Ben Harper

#being #cause #closest #ever #every

I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#come #growth #happening #i #i think

We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling of well being, that life is not too bad after all are required more and more. ↗

— John Hench

#anymore #bad #being #feeling #keep

When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth. ↗

— William H. Hunt

#complete #enough #familiar #heavenly #images

I'm a very spiritual person, and proud of my Mormon roots. ↗

— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

#mormon #person #proud #roots #spiritual