#spiritual

Many of the most deeply spiritual moments of my life haven't happened just in my mind or in my soul. They happened while holding my son in the middle of the night, or watching the water break along the shore, or around my table, watching the people I love feel nourished in all sorts of ways. ↗

— Shauna Niequist

#soul #spiritual-life #change

... the worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance. ↗

— D.A. Carson

#parenthood #spirituality #hypocrisy

We are not perfect. We are here to learn. Earth is one big classroom and God is our heavenly guidance counselor and teacher. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#counselor #earth #god #happiness #heaven

I calculated how easy it would be to pull a chair next to the windowsill, climb up, and simply allow my body to fall four stories to the street. Then an inner voice broke in, "There's got to be something more. Go find it. ↗

— Debra Moffitt

#non-fiction-books-inspirational #spiritual-journey #spiritual-life #spirituality #inspirational

I don't believe the inner work ever really ends, and sometimes I'd like to take a vacation. ↗

— Debra Moffitt

#inner-work #life-lessons #non-fiction-books-inspirational #spiritual-work #spirituality

The soul-Self doesn't follow the crowd. It encourages you to speak up when you need to and live by your truth. ↗

— Debra Moffitt

#mindfulness #non-fiction-books-inspirational #soul #spirit #spiritual-journey

عندما تتأمل الوجود من حولك، انظر إليه كأنك تراه لأول مرة. إن الاعتياد على الأشياء التي حولنا يمثل حجابا بيننا وبين حقيقتها، يسمونه «حجاب الاعتياد». ↗

— عمرو شريف

#spiritual #inspirational

Perhaps if we could popularise through the techniques of branding and consumerism, a different idea, a different narrative, perhaps the world can change. After all it changes constantly and incessantly, it's just the perceptions that we have are governed by people with self-interest and are not inalignment with the health and safety of us as individuals or as a planet. ↗

— Russell Brand

#consumerism #love #socialism #spirituality #change

Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#mythology #philosophy #spirituality #art

It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#fight #means #mistake #noble #overcome