Never let the sun go down upon your anger.
Spirituality practiced in the state of activity is incomparably superior to that practiced in a state of withdrawel.
There is a definite link between gratitude and spirituality.
My spirituality has always been linked to my feminism. Feminism is about challenging unequal power structures.
The whole problem is spirituality-not finances. Spiritually strong = welfare strong.
I met somebody once who said, "I'm a lapsed-atheist" by what he meant was, "I don't believe in God but the older I get the more I realise there is a spirituality in everybody that has to be cherished and nourished. " That made a lot of sense to me.
The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality.
What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.
We cannot grow spiritually if we ignore our humanness, just as we cannot become fully human if we ignore our spirituality.
The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.
Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught.
Tantra means the avoidance of a set or defined form of spirituality. Tantra is intuitive self-discovery.
We must have the faith that things will work out somehow, that God will make a way for us when there seems no way.
Spirituality does not come from religion. It comes from our soul.
Sadly enough, there is a kind of an anti-intellectualism among many Christians: spirituality is falsely pitted against intellectual comprehension as though they stood in a dichotomy. Such anti-intellectualism cuts away at the very heart of the Christian message. Of course, there is a false intellectualism which does destroy the work of the Holy Spirit. But it does not arise when men wrestle honestly with honest questions and then see that the Bible has the answers. This does not oppose true spirituality.
All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.
Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.
It is precisely women’s experience of God that this world lacks. A world that does not nurture its weakest, does not know God the birthing mother. A world that does not preserve the planet, does not know God the creator. A world that does not honor the spirit of compassion, does not know God the spirit. God the lawgiver, God the judge, God the omnipotent being have consumed Western spirituality and, in the end, shriveled its heart.
Religion is not something I like to talk about publicly. One reason is the politics, but also I think spirituality is deeply personal.
They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.