Spirit
The soul and the body have been designed to be a functioning team, much the way the conscious and subconscious mind function together. The body knows our oneness with everything because it feels it. The awakened heart longs to explore others, to nurture others, to experience our oneness with others, and this offers a clue to the truths that the hea
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God is spreading grace around in the world like a five-year-old spreads peanut butter; thickly, sloppily, eagerly, and if we are in the back shed trying to stay clean, we won't even get a taste. — Donna Schaper in Stripping Down: The Art of Spiritual Restoration by Donna Schaper
“The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair. Gratitude will act as an elixir that will gradually dissolve the hard shell of your ego–your need to possess and control—and transform you into a generous being. The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanim... See more
The Risen Christ is, as Teilhard de Chardin tried to describe it, the divine lure, a blinking, brilliant light set as the Omega point of time and history that keeps reminding us that love, not death, is the eternal thing.
Richard Rohr - Immortal Diamond
Manic Screaming1
We should make all spiritual talk
Simple today:
God is trying to sell you something,
But you don’t want to buy.
That is what your suffering is:
Your fantastic haggling,
Your manic screaming over the price!
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1Daniel Ladinksy, I Heard God Laughing, Penguin Books, p. 13.
We are not the isolated, conscious minds often assumed in our folk psychology. Rather, we are fundamentally embodied. Any spirituality that ignores how the body influences what we think and do will not be usefully transformative.
The RSA • The Spiritual and the Political: Beyond Russell Brand
If we all carry a little of the burden, it will be lightened. If we share in the suffering of the world, then some will not have to endure so heavy an affliction. It evens out.
— Dorothy Day in Dorothy Day: Selected Writings by Robert Ellsberg, Dorothy Day
Anything down right “good,” anything that shakes you with its “trueness,” and anything that sucks you into its beauty does not just educate you; it transforms you.
Richard Rohr - Immortal Diamond
"Disease can manifest at four different levels: the physical (diarrhea, heart palpitations, facial tics, postural changes, etc.); the emotional (fantasies, illusions, destructive patterns of behavior, etc.); the mental (obsessions, compulsions, schizothymia, paranoia, etc.); and the spiritual (indolence, indifference, bitterness, accidie, loss of m
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