“... it takes several years of serious fishing before a man learns enough to go through a whole season with an unblemished record of physical and spiritual anguish.” MenYearsEnoughWholeSpiritualRecordsSeaSeriousRiversSeasonsFishesBoatLakesFishingAnguish Author:Ed Zern
“A deep, wise, and wonderful exploration of the Vedanta path for relationships both with yourself and with others. In this book, Shubhraji provides everything you need to create healthy, fulfilling relationships, using ancient wisdom, beautiful stories, tools, and exercises. This book is a must read for those on a serious spiritual journey.” NeedsBookStoriesBeautifulSpiritualPathWiseWonderfulJourneySeriousExerciseHealthyToolsAncientExplorationFulfillingSpiritual JourneyVedantaAncient Wisdom Author:Arielle Ford
“People who are meditating every day and involved in a serious spiritual practice don't usually wake up in the morning and want to rush out to eat a bunch of junk food.” PeopleWantSpiritualPracticeMorningSeriousInvolvedWake UpBunchJunkMeditatingSpiritual PracticeJunk Food Author:Marianne Williamson
“I like spiritual songs. They struck me as truthful and serious. They brought me down to earth and they lifted me up all in the same moment.” MomentsEarthSpiritualSongSeriousTruthfulDown To Earth Author:Bob Dylan
“The more serious you are about spiritual life, the more you keep your mind in captivity.” MindSpiritualSeriousSpiritual LifeCaptivity Author:Radhanath Swami
“It's my experience that people don't think of fiction writing as being as intellectually serious as other kinds of writing in academia and so without a career as a critic or essayist you can be treated as something of a spiritual medium - a fraud - for "just" writing fiction.” PeopleThinkingWritingKindSpiritualFictionCareersSeriousCriticsTreatedMediumsFraudAcademiaFiction WritingWriting FictionEssayists Author:Alexander Chee
“My sangha, what I seem to attract, are people who have been practicing a long time, they're teaching, they're more serious about their spiritual journey.” PeopleLongHas BeensSeemsSpiritualJourneyTeachingSeriousLong TimeSpiritual JourneySangha Author:Beryl Bender Birch
“In the field of medicine, if you're sick you need a doctor. A doctor has already studied how to deal with your ailments, and human beings are imperfect. There any many ailments of the psyche and the soul that need to be treated, and the serious murshid, or spiritual master, is also really a doctor of the soul: a person who can heal the wounds of the soul in the same way as a medical doctor takes care of our physical problems.” IfsWayNeedsHumansPersonsSoulProblemCareSpiritualHuman BeingsDealsFieldsSeriousMastersDoctorsSickMedicineTake CareMedicalWoundsHealTreatedImperfectAilmentsSpiritual MastersMedical Doctor Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr
“We don't have to be victims of the spiritual fall-out of the digital age. It does take some serious intentionality to combat the cultural compulsion for connection that surrounds us, but it's worth it.” AgeSpiritualSeriousVictimSurroundWorth It Author:Tricia Rhodes
“Traditional spirituality often made pleasure, joy, good feelings. the things to overcome. It said you couldn't just indulge in your desires; that would be selfish. Anyone who has been in a spiritual community recognizes the dangers of this kind of joyless spirituality, where everything is somber and heavy and serious. We recognize that as kind of a trap, a false path.” KindFeelingsSpiritualJoyDesireSpiritualityCommunityPleasurePathDangerSeriousOvercomingSelfishIndulgeBeing SelfishSomber Author:Charles Eisenstein