#spirit

Living a spiritual life may not be easy. It demands total authenticity. It brings you to dance to a unique song that only you can hear fully, and sometimes you dance alone because no others can hear the music. ↗

— Debra Moffitt

#debra-moffitt #following-a-unique-path #life-journey #non-fiction-books-inspirational #soul-dance

We trust nature to know what it is doing, but we are not nearly so kind, understanding and trusting of our own rhythms and cycles. It's ridiculous that we are so hard on ourselves. Can we not trust that the very same forces that created the rhythms and cycles of nature created our own? Of course we can. We often don't, but we can, if we remember. ↗

— Jeffrey R. Anderson

#faith #natural-forces #natural-rhythm #nature #remember

When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#body #eyes #fins #fish #flash

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash. ↗

— Joyce Brothers

#communion #just #marriage #out #remembering

Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#best #combines #commodities #develops #economy

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is. ↗

— James Broughton

#me #much #poetry #practice #sexual

But now I'm getting that spiritual motivation to visit Africa. ↗

— Dennis Brown

#getting #i #motivation #now #spiritual

The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#free #free market #grown #independent #into

If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another? ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#body #countless #deaths #find #grain

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time. ↗

— Lord Byron

#any #contest #gives #kind #me