#ritual

You can easily tell when someone has been hit by a spear. he turns a deep shade of bitter. David never got hit. Gradually, he learned a very well-kept secret... One, never learn anything about the fashionable, easily mastered art of spear throwing. Two, stay out of the company of all spear throwers. And three, keep your mouth tightly closed. In this way, spears will never touch you, even when they pierce your heart. ↗

— Gene Edwards A Tale of Three Kings

#spiritual #art

I have a spiritual advisor I call up, when I just feel lost. Lately, I've been talking to God. I developed this dialogue in rehab, this dialogue with God, and every day I talk to God. ↗

— Andy Dick

#been #call #day #developed #dialogue

I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then. ↗

— Tony Blair

#began #certain #church #conversion #got

Natural born geniuses, like Mozart or Shakespeare, don’t have anything more than you — they have something less. What they lack are the self-imposed blocks to the outflow of this infinite creative intelligence. ↗

— Derek Rydall

#emergence #law-of-emergence #selfhelp #spirituality #intelligence

But the first differentiation of its reflection in the manifested World is purely Spiritual, and the Beings generated in it are not endowed with a consciousness that has any relation to the one we conceive of. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

#beings #conceive #consciousness #differentiation #endowed

A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#boy #character #develop #discovery #go

I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#i #plusses #problems #really #see

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it. ↗

— Mary Baker Eddy

#born #cannot #exist #happiness #love

It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete and inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication. ↗

— Herb Elliott

#athletic #benefits #bring #compete #dedication

The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire. ↗

— David Brainerd

#comfort #daily #derived #desirable #desire