#ritual

It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day. ↗

— Brad Henry

#day #democracy #election #election day #far

Come from the heart, the true heart, not the head. When in doubt, choose the heart. This does not mean to deny your own experiences and that which you have empirically learned through the years. It means to trust your self to integrate intuition and experience. There is a balance, a harmony to be nurtured, between the head and the heart. When the intuition rings clear and true, loving impulses are favored. ↗

— Brian L. Weiss

#spirituality #experience

Faith is spiritualized imagination. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#imagination #spiritualized

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#defect #either #genius #given #gods

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#life #mediator #music #sensual #spiritual

New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#go #goat #i #least #likely

... the first few minutes of a person's death are the most vitally important minutes of opportunity for a necromancer, [so] Cabal added, "Look, I have to go. Without the necessary chemicals, we'll lose whatever wits are still floating around his cooling brain. The only more immediate alternative that I can think of is a Tantric ritual involving necrophiliac sodomy and, frankly, I don't think my back is up to it. So, if you will excuse me? ↗

— Jonathan L. Howard

#ritual #science #death

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality. ↗

— Sandra Bernhard

#i #jewish #really #spirituality #studying

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#decay #life #pickle #preserving #spiritual

I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#connected #i #knew #me #messing