“Religions are institutions that push you up the mountain and then they have their fantasies about the spirit. I mean they try to make God like the human psyche and it's wrong. I mean it's a projection of the mind, and you can use it to get a start and then you must leave it behind.” TryingMindHumansMeanUseSpiritBehindsFantasyMountainInstitutionsProjectionHuman Psyche Author:Ram Dass
“Number, as it were, lies behind the psychic realm as a dynamic ordering principle, the primal element of which Jung called spirit. As an archetype, number becomes not only a psychic factor, but more generally, a world-structuring factor. In other words, numbers point to a background reality in which psyche and matter are no longer distinguishable.” WorldMatterRealitySpiritLyingNumbersBehindsPrinciplesElementsBackgroundsFactorsRealmsPsychicsPrimalArchetypeJung Author:Marie-Louise von Franz
“Dear God, Please teach me to forgive myself and others. Remove the walls that keep love out, behind which I am a prisoner. Heal my guilt and remove my anger, that I might be reborn. Make gentle my heart and strong my spirit and show me how to love. Please show me how to honor myself. Please teach me how to listen to myself. "Please program my mind to know itself, that I might at last be free. Teach me to appreciate your spirit that lives within me. Show me how to be good to myself, that I might know more fully the goodness of life. Amen” KnowsMindHeartShowsMightLastsSpiritStrongBehindsTeachWallMy HeartHonorPleaseGoodnessProgramAppreciateForgivingGuiltDearBe GoodHealGentleRemovePrisonerShow MeAmenRebornHow To LoveDear GodAppreciate You Author:Marianne Williamson
“Almost any dog thinks almost any human is the Great Spirit, the Primal Creator, and the Universal Force Behind the Sun and Tides. What human can resist?” ThinkingHumansSpiritForceBehindsSunDogUniversalCreatorTidesPrimalGreat Spirit Author:Barbara Holland
“However young, the seeker who sets out upon the way Shines bright over the world. But day and night the person who is awake Shines in the radiance of the spirit. Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work, with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine!” WorldWayPersonsYoungSpiritNightBehindsQuietMoonShiningCloudsAwakeMasterySeekersDay And NightRadianceShine Bright Author:Gautama Buddha
“Human beings have become so afraid of the unknown, themselves, and each other that they deprive themselves of that innate ecstasy and love of life which comes with a human body, mind and spirit, by hiding behind the empty shell of their ego.” MindHumansBodySpiritHuman BeingsBehindsEgoEmptyAnd LoveBuddhistLove LifeHidingEcstasyShellsInnateHuman BodyCosmologyEmpty Shell Author:Frederick Lenz
“Flamboyance and fortitude, femme and butch-not poses, not stereotypes, but a dance between two different kinds of women, one beckoning the other into a full blaze of color, the other strengthening the fragility behind the exuberance. We who love this way are poetry and history, action and theory, flesh and spirit.” WayKindTwoDifferentActionSpiritBehindsColorTheoryFleshDifferent KindsStereotypeFortitudeStrengtheningFragilityFemmeExuberanceBeckoning Author:Joan Nestle
“You have to work out where your place is. And who you are. But we're all spirit. That's all we are, we're just walking dressed up in a suit of skin, and we're going to leave that behind.” SpiritBehindsWalkingSkinsWho You AreWork OutSuitsDressed Up Author:Bob Dylan