#ritual

Spiritual matters should be private. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#private #should #spiritual

Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#been #central #compassion #conformity #doctrine

When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then. ↗

— Dennis Banks

#foundation #look #poverty #spiritual #then

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#bacchus #drunken #glorious #i #i am

I still consider myself a very spiritual person but the structure of the church isn't really for me. ↗

— Wes Bentley

#consider #i #me #myself #person

I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy. ↗

— Alban Berg

#any #became #dearest #dearest friend #friend

When she remembers to look at herself in a spiritual light, she sees the deep capacity for love this pain has brought her. The realization fills her with wonder. Now she can rise in the morning and greet the new day with eagerness and grace. ↗

— Harold Kemp

#grace #love #pain #spiritual-dreaming #wonder

If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#attitude

Love one another. Love yourself. Then love will find you whole not half. ↗

— K. Taylor

#romance #spirituality #dating

One of the most freeing discoveries these past few years in my relationship with God is discovering that God is not a belief system or a fixed set of theological propositions. ↗

— Jim Palmer

#god #shedding-religion #spirituality #freedom