#ritual

It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. Our responsible concern is with our private destiny, after all. ↗

— William James

#religion #spirituality #experience

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate. ↗

— George William Russell

#allow #defeat #fight #hate #insure

So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#consider #develop #full #give #habit

Many years before I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation and I returned to that country six years later to find it fundamentally changed and in a state of upheaval, and in great spiritual and material need. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#beautiful country #before #changed #country #find

I was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths. ↗

— Steven Seagal

#consciousness #different #i #i was born #many

Aikido is not merely about fighting and the development of the physical self but the perfection of the spiritual man at the same time. It has very harmonious movements, very beautiful to watch and beautiful for your body to feel. ↗

— Steven Seagal

#beautiful #body #development #feel #fighting

Truth has two beautiful daughters; their names are skepticism and faith. Skepticism to examine the past to make sure it was not full of lies, and faith to believe that the future won't be full of them also. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#choices #commonsense #decisions #faith #investigation

I do love the idea of ritual. ↗

— Sarah Silverman

#i do #idea #love #ritual

The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#cog #enormous #form #hands #his

I'm spiritual. ↗

— Jessica Simpson

#spiritual