#spiritual

For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I've never really dealt with religious things. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#dealt #i #never #people #really

Spiritual matters should be private. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#private #should #spiritual

Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#been #central #compassion #conformity #doctrine

When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then. ↗

— Dennis Banks

#foundation #look #poverty #spiritual #then

When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to this nightingale sing, your body would drop into a chair, your head would tilt up, a small smile would creep across your face, and inside you knew that there was a higher power somewhere: gifted, beautiful, spiritual. ↗

— James Belushi

#across #beautiful #body #chair #collective

When she remembers to look at herself in a spiritual light, she sees the deep capacity for love this pain has brought her. The realization fills her with wonder. Now she can rise in the morning and greet the new day with eagerness and grace. ↗

— Harold Kemp

#grace #love #pain #spiritual-dreaming #wonder

If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#attitude

Love one another. Love yourself. Then love will find you whole not half. ↗

— K. Taylor

#romance #spirituality #dating

One of the most freeing discoveries these past few years in my relationship with God is discovering that God is not a belief system or a fixed set of theological propositions. ↗

— Jim Palmer

#god #shedding-religion #spirituality #freedom

You can easily tell when someone has been hit by a spear. he turns a deep shade of bitter. David never got hit. Gradually, he learned a very well-kept secret... One, never learn anything about the fashionable, easily mastered art of spear throwing. Two, stay out of the company of all spear throwers. And three, keep your mouth tightly closed. In this way, spears will never touch you, even when they pierce your heart. ↗

— Gene Edwards A Tale of Three Kings

#spiritual #art