#spirit

In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other’s blood, we relished our taste of hell and strangled heaven’s love. ↗

— Aberjhani

#fear #heaven #human-nature #love #spirituality

To reach back and help, and expect neither reward nor even thanks. To reach back and help, because that is what spiritual beings do. ↗

— Brian L. Weiss

#love

A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken-hearted love. The desires of the saints, however earnest, are humble desires. Their hope is a humble hope; and their joy, even when it is unspeakable and full of glory, is a humble broken-hearted joy, and leaves the Christian more poor in spirit, and more like a little child, and more disposed to a universal lowliness of behaviour. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#humility #joy #love #poor-in-spirit #love

Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry. ↗

— Rumi

#spirit #love

The power of God is with you at all times; through the activities of mind, senses, breathing, and emotions; and is constantly doing all the work using you as a mere instrument. ↗

— Anonymous

#god #human #life #spiritual #life

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#woman #life

A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving. ↗

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

#life

The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. ↗

— Chief Seattle

#man-earth #spirituality #life

Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionally been called "God." As soon as you turn away from it, God ceases to be a reality in your life, and all you are left with is the mental concept of God, which some people believe in and others deny. Even belief in God is only a poor substitute for the living reality of God manifesting every moment of your life. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#life

To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent, self-sufficient entity that does not exist for the sake of any other person. A person who exists only for the sake of his loved one is not an independent entity, but a spiritual parasite. The love of a parasite is worth nothing. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#love #spiritual #truth #life