“Joining the military is not to be taken lightly. You're putting every part of yourself at risk, not just your body but your moral and spiritual centre.” BodySpiritualMoralTakenRiskMilitaryYour BodyCentreJoiningJoining The Military Author:Kevin Powers
“The fourth paradigm forces us at every point to discern between the creationally valid and the sinfully perverse and thus confronts us with a never-ending task which requires not only competence but also spiritual discernment. Yet this is precisely the task which we must assume, even at the risk of being vague on specifics. The alternative is to compromise basic themes of authentic Christianity.” SpiritualCultureForceChristianityRiskTasksAssumingCompromiseAlternativesThemeFourthVagueCompetenceDiscernmentParadigmNever EndingSpecificsAuthentic Christianity Author:Albert M. Wolters
“Life is the most precious and wondrous thing that any of us have. Along the way, one of the real miracles occurs when we realize that what really matters is to deepen our relationship to ourselves and that to do this we have to enter a spiritual journey. We have to discover anew, or for the first time, our own relationship to the Infinite. We must begin to risk trusting a whole new level of intimacy with ourselves, life and the people whose lives we touch.” PeopleWayFirstsRealMatterWholeSpiritualLife IsSpiritualityRealizingLevelsRiskJourneyFirst TimeMiracleInfiniteIntimacyOur RelationshipWondrousSpiritual Journey Author:Richard Moss
“Spiritual life and secure life do not go together; to save oneself on must struggle and take risks.” TogetherSpiritualStruggleRiskOneselfSecureSpiritual LifeRisk-taking Author:Ignazio Silone
“The notion of art as the dearly purchased outcome of an immense spiritual risk, one whose cost goes up with the entry and participation of each new player in the game.” ArtSpiritualGamesPlayerRiskCostNotionOutcomesImmenseParticipationEntry Author:Susan Sontag
“To seek Truth is automatically a calling for the innate dissident and the subversive; how many are willing to give up safety and security for the perilous life of the spiritual revolutionary? How many are willing to truly learn that their own cherished concepts are wrong? Striking provocative or mysterious poses in the safety of Internet [social media] is far easier than taking the risks involved in the hard work of genuine initiation.” GivingHardSpiritualSocialRiskSecurityMediaWillingHard WorkInternetInvolvedEasierCallingTruth IsGiving UpConceptsSafetySocial MediaGenuineMysteriousRevolutionaryInnateProvocativeSubversiveInitiationDissidentsSafety And Security Author:Zeena Schreck
“If I may take the risk of defining what a spiritual experience is, it is one in which pure awareness reveals itself to you as the maker of reality - where you suddenly discover through insight or meditation or a freak accident that your essential nature is spiritual, non-material.” IfsMayRealitySpiritualMeditationRiskAwarenessMaterialsPureEssentialsInsightAccidentsMakersFreakDefiningSpiritual Experience Author:Deepak Chopra