#spirit

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

Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest. ↗

— Spike Lee

#because #haven #heard #here #hungry

Up there in that room, as I see it, is the reading and the thinking-through, a theory of rivers, of trees moving, of falling light. Here on the river, as I lurch against a freshening of the current, is the practice of rivers. In navigating by the glow of the Milky Way, the practice of light. In steadying with a staff, the practice of wood. ↗

— Barry Lopez

#meditation #nature #practice #spirit #thought

Smartass Disciple: Master, where will you go after your soul leaves your body? Master of Stupidity: What makes you think a soul will go elsewhere physically? ↗

— Toba Beta

#body #law-of-physics #soul #spirit #life

It was after I first began to uplift my thoughts a bit that my cravings for junk food started to dissipate. I did not connect the two at that time. First, I simply noticed that I didn’t need to sleep so much. It took a while before I realized that in addition to my improved energy level, there was a direct correlation between chewing on mental garbage and putting garbage in my mouth. ↗

— Holly Mosier

#purpose #stress #uplifting #weight-loss #food

The big uncookable sections of who we are, they’re the ones I love to taste the most.
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— Jarod Kintz

#cook #cooking #eat #food #identity

I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#saints #spirit #spiritual-life #unregenerate #worth

The Lord does not require us to wear a [cassock] — He wants us to be good and kind. ↗

— Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

#eastern-orthodoxy #jesus-christ #kindness #monasticism #spirituality

When it's all over and the dust from our Ancestors bodies and our own settle from the four winds only then will we see that we were here! ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#belief #metaphysics #reincarnation #religion #spirituality

Today's my birthday On mans scale 53 is a life more than 1/2 over. On the infinite scale of an eternal being I am just a cell of life that has forever to go! ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#life