#spiritual

Honor your desire for a new life. Say yes to the small inklings of interest and curiosity that present themselves each day. ↗

— Lynn A. Robinson

#divine-intuition #intuition #manifestation #spirituality #life

For there is not a single human being, not even the primitive Negro, not even the idiot, who is so conveniently simple that his being can be explained as the sum of two or three principal elements; and to explain so complex a man as Harry by the artless division into wolf and man is a hopelessly childish attempt. Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two. His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousand and thousands. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#philosophy #soul #spirituality #truth #life

Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#love #personal-growth #spirituality #life

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#spirituality #love

So I stood up and did a handstand on my Guru's roof, to celebrate the notion of liberation. I felt the dusty tiles under my hands. I felt my own strength and balance. I felt the easy night breeze on the palms of my bare feet. This kind of thing -- a spontaneous handstand--isn't something a disembodied cool blue soul can do, but a human being can do it. We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal body. And that's why God needs us. Because God loves to feel things through our hands. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#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

Love transforms pleasure into pain. ↗

— Imam Al-Busiri

#love

Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature. ↗

— Marsilio Ficino

#love #magic #philosophy #renaissance #spirituality

When nations resort to arms, the human spirit is like a bird that cannot stand to hear its own song. ↗

— Phoenix Desmond

#love #nature #peace #spiritual #spirituality

It is the rub that polishes the jewel,” Enso Roshi says. “Nobody ever gets to nirvana without going through samsara. Nobody ever gets to heaven, without going through hell. The center of all things, the truth, is surrounded by demons. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#enlightenment #love #meditation #peace #spiritual-journey