“Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with your spirit, not just with your body.” NeedsBodyMovingSpiritSportsPracticePathMeditationHealthBuddhismYour BodyAthletics Author:Frederick Lenz
“The immortal silence is there always waiting for you and that spirit is deathless and courageous. Remember, many have trod the path that you are walking on and they succeeded. They were no better than you, no wiser.” InspirationalRememberSpiritWaitingSilencePathBuddhismWalkingImmortalCourageousWiserSilence IsBetter Than YouWaiting For YouDeathlessAlways Waiting Author:Frederick Lenz
“Achilles too staggered a moment. He felt his soul change colour. Blood pooled at his feet, and though he continued to stand upright and triumphant in the sun, his spirit set off on its own downward path and approached the boarders of an unknown region.” SoulMomentsSpiritFeltSunPathBloodFeetColourRegionsTriumphantAchilles Author:David Malouf
“There are many paths through the Ring of Life. They are a constant movement toward self-fulfillment through growth of your mind, expansion of your experiences, widening of your senses and growing your spirit. It's ceaseless and constant throughout one's life.” MindSelfSpiritGrowthPathGrowingMovementTravelConstantRingsSensesFulfillmentExpansionSelf FulfillmentMany Paths Author:Frosty Wooldridge
“As with other movements of the spirit, simplicity can be both a cause and an effect. As a spiritual path develops, so there is a yearning for a simpler life; as we simplify our life, so the inner voice becomes clearer.” SpiritualSpiritPathSimplicityYearningInner VoiceSimplify Book:Simplicity Made Easy Source: Simplicity Made Easy
“Entrance into the Old Ways begins with the pricking of a finger with a rose thorn, which produces a drop of blood. This opens the way into the Thorned Path, a system, which uses five rose thorns to symbolize the five arts of Witchcraft that one should master. These arts are Herbalist, Fortune-Teller, Spirit Medium, Mystic, and Magician. We call mastering these aspects 'the gathered thorns' --thus the Thorned Path.” WayShouldArtUseSpiritPathFiveBloodProduceMastersAspectRoseFortuneFingersMediumsMagicianWitchcraftMysticThornsEntrancesOld WaysFortune Teller Author:Raven Grimassi
“In spite of everything, there is still no more wonderful vocation than to continue to tolerate events and to work on in the name of our mission, in the name of that spirit which lives on in our teaching and in our vision of humanity and art, the spirit which can lead us Jews down the true and just path. But along the way, peoples will spill our blood, and that of others.” WayArtStillsSpiritHumanityNamesVisionPathWonderfulBloodTeachingEventsJewMissionsSpiteTolerateVocationSpills Author:Marc Chagall
“This country of ours has more wealth than any nation, but that's not what makes us rich. We have the most powerful military on Earth, but that's not what makes us strong. Our universities and our culture are the envy of the world, but that's not what keeps the world coming to our shores. Instead, it is that American spirit - that American promise - that pushes us forward even when the path is uncertain; that binds us together in spite of our differences; that makes us fix our eye not on what is seen, but what is unseen, that better place around the bend.” WorldCountryEyeEarthTogetherSpiritCultureStrongNationsDifferencesWealthPowerfulPathRichMilitaryPromiseUniversityEnvySpiteMost PowerfulShoreUncertainUnseenBetter PlaceAmerican SpiritAround The Bend Author:Barack Obama
“There is an utterance of Necessity, an ancient decree of the gods, eternal, sealed fast with broad oaths: whenever any one defiles his body sinfully with bloody gore or perjures himself in regard to wrong-doing, one of those spirits who are heir to long life, thrice ten thousand seasons shall he wander apart from the blessed, being born meantime in all sorts of mortal forms, changing one bitter path of life for another.” LongBodyFormSpiritBornPathThousandTenEternalSeasonsRegardBlessedAncientBitterWanderMortalsBroadsBloodyLong LifeOathGoreHeirsDecreeUtteranceThrice Author:Empedocles
“That thorny path, those stormy skies, have drawn our spirits nearer; and rendered us, by sorrow's ties, each to the other dearer.” SpiritPathSkySorrowAdversityTiesStormy Book:Poems and Letters by Bernard Barton: With a Memoir Source: Poems and Letters by Bernard Barton: With a Memoir
“The Web is cool, but the library is magic. Where else can the spirit of generations of writers stir your soul? So many writers talk about libraries setting them on their magical paths, it's almost a groaner. But we know it's true. Wander through the stacks and you can feel the dreams, the unique worlds bubbling within each volume. The magic enters you as if by osmosis. On the Web, you may feel clever, lucky and driven to download--but rarely inspired to dream and to write.” IfsKnowsWorldFeelsWritingMaySoulDreamSpiritPathGenerationsMagicLuckyUniqueInspiredLibraryDrivenCleverSettingSettingsWanderYour SoulVolumeDownloadsOsmosis Author:Arthur Plotnik
“At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Let us have no fear that the fair towers of former days be sufficiently defended. The least that the most timid among us can do is not to add to the immense dead weight that nature drags along.” MenPastSpiritCan DoPathThousandFairsWeightAddFormerPersistenceProgressiveDragImmenseTowersNo FearHave No Fear Author:Maurice Maeterlinck
“Mary is the sure path to our meeting with Christ. Devotion to the Mother of the Lord, when it is genuine, is always an impetus to a life guided by the spirit and values of the Gospel.” SpiritMotherValuesChristLordPathMeetingsGenuineDevotionMaryImpetus Author:Pope John Paul II
“The scriptures offer us so many doctrinal diamonds. And when the light of the Spirit plays upon their several facets, they sparkle with celestial sense and illuminate the path we are to follow.” PlayLightSpiritPathOffersScriptureDiamondCelestialFacetsSparkle Author:Neal A. Maxwell
“My own lov'd light, That very soft and solemn spirit worships, That lovers love so well--strange joy is thine, Whose influence o'er all tides of soul hath power, Who lend'st thy light to rapture and despair; The glow of hope and wan hue of sick fancy Alike reflect thy rays: alike thou lightest The path of meeting or of parting love-- Alike on mingling or on breaking hearts Thou smil'st in throned beauty!” WellsHeartSoulLightJoySpiritMy OwnPathInfluenceStrangeLoversMoonDespairWorshipSickMeetingsFancyRaysTidesSolemnPartingRaptureHeart BreakHueMinglingLovers Love Author:Charles Robert Maturin
“But maybe prayer is a road to rise, A mountain path leading toward the skies To assist the spirit who truly tries. But it isn't a shibboleth, creed, nor code, It isn't a pack-horse to carry your load, It isn't a wagon, it's only a road. And perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal, but the exercise!” TryingSpiritGoalPrayerPathSkyExerciseMountainHorseRewardsCodeCreedsLoadPacksWagons Author:Edmund Vance Cooke
“Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be? It is the generous spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought: Whose high endeavors are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright: Who, with a natural instinct to discern What knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn; And in himself posses his own desire” MenShouldRealLightHappinessSpiritDesireWishNaturalPathPlansArmsTasksInstinctEvery ManReal LifeWarriorGenerousEndeavorInwardDiligentPosseNatural InstinctBoyishGenerous Spirit Author:William Wordsworth