#spirit

Your life is your practice. Your spiritual practice does not occur someplace other than in your life right now, and your life is nowhere other than where you are. You are looking for answers, insight, and wisdom that you already possess. Live the life in front of you, be the life you are, and see what you find out for yourself. ↗

— Karen Maezen Miller

#spirituality #zen #life

As soon as you stop making everyone else responsible for your happiness, the happier you’ll be. ↗

— Nina Guilbeau

#peace #self-esteem #spiritual-growth #life

When we stop judging others and ourselves, our heart begins to open. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#heart #joy #judgement #love #meditation

... If the dead can come back to this earth and move unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; in the garish day and in the darkest night—amidst your happiest scenes and gloomiest hours—always, always; and if there be a soft breeze upon your cheek, it shall be my breath; or if the cool air fans your throbbing temple, it shall be my spirit passing by. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#always #arbell #around #breath #breeze

The willingness to reach inside every part of yourself opens the door to total understanding. You place your entire identity on the line, not just an isolated part. This may sound daunting, but actually it’s the most natural way to approach any situation. When you hold some part of yourself in reserve you deny it exposure to life; you repress its energy and keep it form understanding what it needs to know. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#integrity #spirituality #life

When angels speak of love they tell us it is only by loving that we enter an earthly paradise. They tell us paradise is our home and love our true destiny. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#love #spirituality #life

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

What mattered to her was that she loved God, whether or not He granted her the consolation and joy of His felt presence. ↗

— Brian Kolodiejchuk

#love