Quotes Tagged "spiritual-quotes"

We love with all our heart but we also keep our heart light and pliable. It has space. It breathes. It waits on life to give instructions. It sings with sweetness when the winds are soft and warm. It stands with calm patience when the storm is brewing. It lets go when endings have left their irrefutable mark. It moves. It heals. It hopes.

More than nakedness, for there is no cover to take. The fire in your eyes is ringed with water; wide and cool. We are far from the brutal place, but you do not think so. You take my hand and disappear like you were never there, except that I am now somewhere else.

It is warmer here. Can you see the light? Trust it. It is safe. It has lived a long time. It has seen much more than you. You fight a demon that you once knew but the demon is already slain. And from the corner of your eye you will see the scattered, sacred fire reform again. Settle, settle. Peace, peace

We have already said more goodbyes than are necessary. Those were goodbyes that brought about the end of partings. We taught each other that no parting is possible.

When happiness pours out of your heart, good pours out into the world.

We love with all our heart, in every way that we can love but the heart is not burdened. We learn to keep it light and pliable. It has space. It breathes. It waits on Life to give instructions. It sings with sweetness when the winds are soft and warm. It stands with calm patience when the storm is brewing. It lets go when death and seeming endings have left their irrefutable mark. It moves. It heals. It hopes. It allows Life to be lived in the safe, fertile, and still inner space where it grows stronger and more compelling every day.

Much misery in caused in relationships by the expectation that the other person can and should be a personal provider of good for us. This expectation brings an endless array of problems and is one which we need to outgrow as individuals who are seeking freedom from the troubles of the human condition. No person is able to give what only divine Love can give. Relationships, of their own power, cannot give us the love and happiness that really have a Divine, not human, origin. We don’t ask from other people what only God can supply.

Heaven is boundless, and the sea is beneath you.

How wonderful it is those people that we meet by chance and invite us to live again. The memory of them will keep hope alive forever.

Forgiveness is the four leafed clover of life.

Faith changes us - faith in something intrinsically good, something other than ourselves, something bigger than ourselves.

Appreciate each day, one another, and the vessels God may use to acknowledge our individual and collective skill sets.

Regarding spirituality, some have knowledge, some have faith, but many have neither.

Having the ability to recognize and appreciate your blessings is a blessing.

The distance of two breaths is the only moment of life we have.

When you believe, beautiful things will happen if you have the faith of a bird seed, or believe in parrots who talk!

Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what they sincerely practice themselves.

Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.

Dream and dream again for they shall never stop until you make them true.

We see the uniquitarian view of our existence manifested in the fact that we each hold unique entrances into this world and unique exits out of it.