“Various Eastern fathers referred to the practice of married priests in their churches, offering each one of us elements for a further careful evaluation of the choice of the Latin church to connect celibacy to ordained priesthood.” ChoicesFatherChurchPracticeElementsMarriedCarefulVariousPriestsLatinOfferingEasternPriesthoodEvaluationCelibacy Author:Angelo Scola
“The nation as such is not a large subject that has needs, that works, practices economy, and consumes. . . . Thus the phenomena of “national economy” . . . are, rather, the results of all the innumerable individual economic efforts in the nation and . . . must also be theoretically interpreted in this light. . . .Whoever wants to understand theoretically the phenomena of “national economy” . . . must for this reason attempt to go back to their true elements, to the singular economies in the nation, and to investigate the laws by which the former are built up from the latter.” WantNeedsReasonLightLawIndividualNationsResultsEffortPracticeEconomyEconomicSubjectsElementsBuiltFormerLatterNational Economy Author:Ralph Raico
“I realize that many elements of the Buddhist teaching can be found in Christianity, Judaism, Islam. I think if Buddhism can help, it is the concrete methods of practice.” IfsThinkingHelpingFoundRealizingChristianityPracticeTeachingBuddhismElementsMethodIslamBuddhistConcreteJudaism Author:Nhat Hanh
“Ancient worship . . . does truth. All one has to do is to study the ancient liturgies to see that liturgies clearly do truth by their order and in their substance. This is why so many young people today are now adding ancient elements to their worship. . . . This recovery of ancient practices is not the mere restoration of ritual but a deep, profound, and passionate engagement with truth—truth that forms and shapes the spiritual life into a Christlikeness that issues forth in the call to a godly and holy life and into a deep commitment to justice and to the needs of the poor.” PeopleNeedsDoeTodaySpiritualFormYoungOrderJusticePoorPracticeStudyIssuesHolyShapesElementsWorshipCommitmentMereProfoundAncientPassionateRecoverySubstanceRitualEngagementSpiritual LifeGodlyRestorationLiturgyHoly LifeChristlikeness Author:Robert E. Webber
“As the feudal system retained many of the elements of slavery, modified by the traditions, customs, and practices of the primitive communities, so capitalism retained the essential usurpations of feudalism, though professing to guard personal freedom, and to observe equity between the owner and the occupier of the land, the employer and the employed.” CommunityPracticeLandEssentialsElementsCapitalismTraditionSlaveryOwnersCustomsPrimitiveEmployedEquityEmployersPersonal FreedomFeudalismUsurpationFeudal System Author:Joshua K. Ingalls
“If we are at war with our parents, our family, our society, or our church, there is probably a war going on inside us also, so the most basic work for peace is to return to ourselves and create harmony among the elements within us - our feelings, our perceptions, and our mental states. That is why the practice of meditation, looking deeply, is so important.” IfsImportantWarStatesFeelingsPeaceParentChurchWorkFamilyPracticeMeditationSocietyReturnElementsPerceptionHarmonyOur FamilyOur Society Book:Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition Source: Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition
“Through a particular magical practice it is possible to modify the being that has only one element into a being with four elements and to give it an immortal spirit. But a magicial will seldom intervene without good reason, because he is responsible and must justify his actions before Divine Providence.” GivingReasonActionSpiritPracticeFourMagicDivineParticularElementsResponsibleJustifyImmortalMysticismProvidenceDivine ProvidenceFour Elements Author:Franz Bardon
“Shamanism is a kind of universal spiritual practice with indigenous cultures around the world, and one important element of it is taking care of spirits.” WorldKindImportantCareSpiritualSpiritCulturePracticeElementsUniversalAround The WorldIndigenousSpiritual PracticeShamanismIndigenous Culture Author:Daniel Pinchbeck
“A fish swims in the ocean, and no matter how far it swims there is no end to the water. A bird flies in the sky, and no matter how far it flies there is no end to the air. However the fish and the bird have never left their elements. Thus each of them totally covers its full range, and each of them totally experiences its realm... Know that water is life and air is life. The bird is life and the fish is life. Life must be the bird and life must be the fish... practice, enlightenment and people are like this.” PeopleKnowsEndsMatterLeftWaterPracticeAirSkyElementsOceanBirdEnlightenmentFishesRangeRealmsSwimWater Is Life Author:Dogen