#spiritual

The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can discover spiritual gimmicks and put them to work for themselves usually ignore God's will and his grace. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#prayer #spirituality #imagination

An awake heart is like a sky that pours light. ↗

— Hafiz

#personal-growth #spirituality #transcendence #transformation #personal-growth

For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#heavenly #internal #letter #natural #particular

For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#divine #earth #everywhere #heavens #hence

Moreover, no one is judged from the natural man, thus not so long as he lives in the natural world, for man is then in a natural body; but everyone is judged in the spiritual man, and therefore when he comes into the spiritual world, for man is then in a spiritual body. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#comes #everyone #into #judged #lives

That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#cannot #changed #death #eternity #every

There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others that receive it less interiorly; the former are called celestial angels, and the latter spiritual angels. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#called #celestial #divine #former #forth

To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#dominion #life #means #men #over

But I didn't even see God in the show as being very spiritual, I see him or her, it, as being something that is just relevant and very important in her life. ↗

— Amber Tamblyn

#even #god #her #him #i

Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#cannot #day #even #good #good people