#ritual

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#experience #human #human being #human experience #immersed

I don't want to be daft and say I had some spiritual awakening or something, but I really did come of age in Los Angeles, where we recorded the album. I had my own little house and my own little circle and I really got to feel how the city ticks. ↗

— Melanie Chisholm

#album #angeles #awakening #circle #city

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds. ↗

— John Henrik Clarke

#brought #conquerors #control #framework #hand

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world. ↗

— Mary Garden

#being #buildings #children #evil #hence

The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#autobiography #book #collage #fragments #insane

However, the Bible is called the Word of God because the whole transcript is an inspired, faithful, and infallible record of what God determined essential for us to know about Himself, the cosmos in which we live, our spiritual allies and adversaries, and our fellow man. ↗

— Walter Martin

#adversaries #allies #because #bible #called

I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense. ↗

— Kevin McDonald

#explain #how #i #make #makes

A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#blueprints #commercial #essentially #every #evoking

The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process. ↗

— Arthur Middleton

#distinguishes #evolution #god #incarnation #kingdom

Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#beginning #beings #either #ever #soon