“When you approach spirituality as an adventure of being alive, you start as you would any adventure--with a sense of mystery and not-knowing. Instead of searching for answers that make you feel safe, you set out into the vastness of life and death, with a willingness to continually grow. You open up to the possibility that your ordinary life is an extraordinary adventure, and that your joys and sorrows have meaning. Spiritual practice becomes your rudder, offering direction and insight and discretion as you venture into the unknown.” FeelsSpiritualLife IsJoySpiritualityGrowsAnswersPracticeKnowingAliveMysteryPossibilityAdventureSorrowSafeApproachOrdinaryExtraordinaryInsightLife And DeathWillingnessOfferingNot KnowingVentureDiscretionOrdinary LifeVastnessSpiritual PracticeJoys And SorrowsRudders Book:The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure Source: The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure
“As you go into light for longer and longer periods, as you progress in your meditation practice, you transform, you become illumined, you overcome all limitation, all sorrow, and all pain. You learn not to be bound by desire, and eventually you transcend death itself.” LightPainDesirePracticeMeditationProgressBuddhismPeriodsSorrowOvercomingBoundsLimitationMeditation Practice Author:Frederick Lenz
“People knew there were two ways of coming at truth. One was science, or what the Greeks called Logos, reason, logic. And that was essential that the discourse of science or logic related directed to the external world. The other was mythos, what the Greeks called myth, which didn't mean a fantasy story, but it was a narrative associated with ritual and ethical practice but it helped us to address problems for which there were no easy answers, like mortality, cruelty, the sorrow that overtakes us all that's part of the human condition. And these two were not in opposition, we needed both.” PeopleWorldWayHumansMeanTwoReasonStoriesProblemEasyAnswersPracticeFantasyConditionsNeededSorrowEssentialsLogicMythCrueltyNarrativeGreekRelatedAddressesOppositionMortalityEthicalRitualHuman ConditionDiscourseTwo WaysLogosEasy AnswersFantasy Stories Author:Karen Armstrong
“The practice of lovingkindness can uplift us & relieve sorrow & unhappiness.” PracticeMeditationSorrowUpliftingUnhappinessLovingkindness Author:Allan Lokos
“The principles of gain through loss, of joy through sorrow, of getting by giving, of fulfillment by laying down, of life out of death is what the Bible teaches, and the people who have believed it enough to live it out in simple, humble, day-by-day practice are people who have found the gain, the joy, the getting, the fulfillment, the life.” PeopleGivingEnoughJoyFoundLossSimplePrinciplesTeachPracticeSorrowGainsHumbleFulfillmentLaying Down Author:Elisabeth Elliot
“I will practice coming back to the present moment...not letting regrets and sorrow drag me back into the past or letting anxieties, fears, or cravings pull me out.” MomentsPastPracticeRegretSorrowAnxietyPresent MomentDragComing BackCraving Author:Nhat Hanh
“Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.” KnowsArtEndsPracticeProduceExerciseSorrowDelightSeedsRepentanceLazinessShut UpSloth Book:The works Source: The works