“There are so many intellectual and moral angels battling for rationalism, good citizenship, and pure spirituality; so many and such eminent ones, so very vocal and authoritative! The poor devil in man needs all the support and advocacy he can get. The artist is his natural champion. When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.” MenNeedsArtistSpiritualitySidesNaturalPoorMoralSupportPureIntellectualDevilAngelDesertChampionCitizenshipVocalAdvocacyRationalismGood CitizenGood Citizenship Book:Collected Works: Do what you will Source: Collected Works: Do what you will
“The spiritual world is not unlike the natural world: only diversity will save it.” WorldSpiritualSpiritualityNaturalDiversityNatural World Author:Margot Adler
“The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a simple and individual response to reality, and even a tendency to moments of thoughtful silence and absorption. All these tendencies, however, are soon destroyed by the dominant culture. The child becomes a yelling, brash, false little monster, brandishing a toy gun or dressed up like some character he has seen on television.” MayChildrenLittlesMomentsCharacterRealityCultureSpiritualityIndividualImaginationNaturalSimpleExistenceSilenceModernTelevisionGunResponseMonstersTendenciesDestroyedThoughtfulOriginalityToysConsumerismDominantInclinationYellingOverconsumptionDressed UpAbsorptionBrashDominant CultureToy Guns Author:Thomas Merton
“All of my experience of studying religion, studying spirituality, studying natural healing, traditional medicine, has kind of enriched my vision of the world. Not only seeing reality as this moment, but as a culmination of all of the history behind us, and all of the fruit that hopefully we will be able to grow from the seeds that we are trying to plant, of goodness and peace and beauty and equality.” WorldTryingKindMomentsRealityAbleSpiritualityGrowsNaturalHealingBehindsVisionStudySeeingGoodnessMedicinePlantFruitSeedsTraditionalHopefullyCulminationNatural Healing Author:Assata Shakur