#ritual

What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake... spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture. ↗

— William Albert Allard

#assignment #constitutes #contribution #core #culture

The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them. ↗

— Roland Allen

#apostles #apprehension #cried #illumination #intellectual

It was your body....that danced at your first drum circle; it was your body that gave birth to your child; it was your body that got down and dirty in the back seat of your dad's station wagon; it was your body that shivered, sweated, clasped its hands, fell to its knees, wept, and laughed the first time you felt the presence of the goddess in your life. ↗

— Dianne Sylvan

#healing #spiritual #life

Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand. ↗

— Aly Khan

#been #christianity #due #extent #great

Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it? ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#assuming #before #body #conditions #die

The nature of life is mess, chaotic, exquisitely beautiful, excruciatingly painful, immensely joy-filled, and unpredictable. ↗

— Debra Moffitt

#happiness #joy #life #non-fiction-books-inspirational #pain

The image of God is your final obstruction to a religious experience. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#spirituality #experience

The brain, which operates on electromagnetic impulses, is as much an activity of the universe as are the electromagnetic storms in the atmosphere or on a distant star. Therefore science is one form of electromagnetism that spends it time studying another form…science is god explaining god through a human nervous system…isn’t spirituality the same thing? ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#science #spirituality #science

To the untutored sage, the concentration of population was the prolific mother of all evils, moral no less than physical. He argued that food is good, while surfeit kills; that love is good, but lust destroys; and not less dreaded than the pestilence following upon crowded and unsanitary dwellings was the loss of spiritual power inseparable from too close contact with one's fellow-men. ↗

— Charles Alexander Eastman

#native-american #philosophy #spirituality #food

The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought. ↗

— Dan Brown

#spirituality #knowledge