One's spirituality is about one's deepest personal understanding of and interactions with Life and God. . . whatever those may be.
There is no experience like having children. . . If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.
My art teacher had said that if you breathed deeply and imagined something, you could be there. You could see it, feel it. During our standoffs with the NKVD, I learned to do that. I clung to my rusted dreams during the times of silence. It was at gunpoint that I fell into every hope and allowed myself to wish from the deepest part of my heart. Komorov thought he was torturing us. But we were escaping into a stillness within ourselves. We found strength there.
Keep the deepest feelings of your heart to yourself. They tend to stay more pure if you do. There is a wisdom to that.
One should be always on the trail of one's own deepest nature. For it is the fearless living out of your own essential nature that connects you to the Divine.
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.
The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.
Outside, you don't hear a single bird, and a deathly, oppressive silence hangs over the house and clings to me as if it were going to drag me into the deepest regions of the underworld. . . . I wander from room to room, climb up and down the stairs and feel like a songbird whose wings have been ripped off and who keeps hurling itself against the bars of its dark cage.
If you go to YouTube and look up 'grief' you can find them and it's just an unbelievable tool for an actor to be able to access, without being unethical. It's like accessing the deepest, most painful parts of a person.
Sometimes to find the light, you have to go through the deepest darkness.
The profound political changes we need in order to heal our planet will not come about through fragmented problem solving or intellectual analyses that overlook the deepest yearnings and intuitions of the heart. . . . As we begin to cultivate a rich inner life and experience our connection with all life, we realize how little of what society tells us we need is actually important for our well-being. . . . Green politics must address the spiritual vacuum of industrial society.
We can never know the origins of the universe. The deepest secrets are the ones that keep themselves.
To offer our hearts in faith means recognizing that our hearts are worth something, that we ourselves, in our deepest and truest nature, are of value.
If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.
Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.
Surrender to the deepest level within that you're aware of.
Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.
Faith is not a commodity we either have or don't have-it is an inner quality that unfolds as we learn to trust our own deepest experience.
The deepest mystery comes not when we don't know somebody well, but when we do.