“Service is the highest spiritual discipline. Prayer and meditation, or knowledge of scripture and Vedanta (holy scriptures of India), cannot help you reach the goal as quickly as service can. Service has a double effect, it extinguishes the ego and gives bliss.” GivingHelpingSpiritualGoalPrayerMeditationEffectsDisciplineHolyEgoHighestIndiaScriptureBlissVedantaHoly ScripturesSpiritual Disciplines Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.” WayKindMomentsHomeLeftSpeakCitiesViolenceDisciplineHolyWeaponsAngryNew WaysForbiddenInsectsPilgrimMeccaAngry Words Author:Karen Armstrong
“The disciplines of prayer, silence, and contemplation as practiced by the monastics and mystics are precisely that - stopping the noise, slowing down, and becoming still so that God can break through all our activity and noise to speak to us. Prayer serves to put all parts of our lives in God's presence, reminding us how holy our humanity really is.” StillsHumanitySpeakPrayerSilenceBreakOur LivesBecomingDisciplineHolyActivityDown AndNoiseContemplationStoppingSlow DownRemindingBreak ThroughSlowingGod's Presence Author:Jim Wallis
“Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others while the vast majority live and die as minions, as livestock? The answer is a holy trinity. First: God-given gifts of charisma. Second: the discipline to nurture these gifts to maturity, for though humanity's topsoil is fertile with talent, only one seed in ten thousand will ever flower -- for want of discipline. Third: the will to power.” MenWantFirstsMeanHumanityDiesGivenAbilityAnswersTalentFlowerDisciplineHolyThousandTenThirdsLuckMajorityDetermineSeedsMaturityMasteryNurtureAnother ManWill PowerCharismaFertileTrinityLivestockMinionsHoly TrinityTopsoil Author:David Mitchell
“Discipline enabled Heaven to be filled with light; discipline enabled the angels to be immaculate and holy.” LightHeavenVirtueDisciplineHolyAngelFilledImmaculate Book:The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi