#spirituality

Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility. ↗

— Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

#eastern-orthodoxy #humility #inspirational #spirituality #suffering

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world ↗

— Aristotle

#spirituality #inspirational

There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about any more than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks or bring about your own birth. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#inspirational #spirituality #inspirational

Only through Absolution will you reach the Absolute. ↗

— Toni Petrinovich

#enlightenment #forgiveness #god-s-grace #love #metaphysics

They gave thanks that they were permitted to see so much, and begged forgiveness for their desire to see more. ↗

— Ted Chiang

#religion #spirituality #tower-of-babylon #forgiveness

When you are on a spiritual journey, you will go to a lot of dark black mines to discover brilliant diamonds of wisdom. And when you see your life through this diamond, it splits into a spectrum of compassion, knowledge, awareness, content, forgiveness, peace, and, harmony. ↗

— Avantika

#forgiveness

I've never heard anyone say "I wish I hadn't forgiven. ↗

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#generosity #personal-growth #spirituality #forgiveness

A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#faith #freedom #laughter #mysticism #religion

What is given to you is what is needed; what you want, requires giving up what you don't need. ↗

— George Alexiou

#happiness #inspirational #self-help #spirituality #surrender

If only you knew who you really were you would be fearless and love yourself with a grand passion! You are a unique shard of God, the Universe, the whole or whatever label you would like to call it. No one can take your place and without you endless synchronicity and evolution would not happen. You are so powerful that just by walking down the street you can change someone's life forever. ↗

— Michele Knight

#spirituality #synchronicity #change