#ritual

The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us. ↗

— St. Thomas Aquinas

#god #joy #life #spirituality #life

No human being is illegal. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#spiritual #life

Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

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A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been wailing a tender agony of parting, never mentioning the skill that gave it life as a flute ↗

— Rumi

#spirituality #sufi #wisdom #life

People don’t realize, he said, how important it is to wake up every morning with a song in your heart.” J. Krishnamurti. “The song stands for a sense of joy in existence, a joy that is free of any good or bad choices. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#music #spirituality #life

I'm the least spiritual person in the world. I can't even abide a smelly candle. I know it's meant to make me relax, and that immediately makes my hackles rise. ↗

— Jenny Eclair

#candle #even #i #immediately #know

The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body isn't below the mind and the spirit; from the point of view it's between them. if you reside too much in the mind, then you get too abstract and cut off from the world. You long for the spiritual life, but you can't get to it, and you fall into despair. The exercise of the senses frees you from abstraction and opens the way to transcendence. ↗

— Jane Smiley

#balance #humor #spirituality #life

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness ↗

— Julia Cameron

#writing #life

The whole banquet is in the first spoonful. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#life

There is a wellspring of life within you where you can go for cleansing and transformation. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#spirituality #life