“Spirituality is about being ready. All the spiritual disciplines of your life - prayer, study, meditation or ritual, religious vows - are there so you can break through to the eternal. Spirituality is about awakening the eyes, the ears, the heart so you can see what's always happening right in front of you.” HeartEyeSpiritualSpiritualityReligiousPrayerBreakStudyMeditationFrontsReadyDisciplineEternalHappeningsEarsAwakeningRitualRealismVowBreak ThroughSpiritual Disciplines Author:Richard Rohr
“The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of the sacrifice on Calvary, of the precious blood which alone can wash away sin.” WholeGovernmentSpiritualSinSacrificeBloodIsraelRitualTypicalCalvary Author:Abbott Eliot Kittredge
“What is any religion? A little ritual, a little superstition, and some magic. It's not a strictly spiritual affair; it has psychological roles to fulfill. You might not want it to be a religion based on your own experience but that's like wanting to clean up your dreams” WantLittlesDreamMightSpiritualRolesMagicCleanAffairPsychologicalYour DreamsRitualSuperstitions Author:Gary Snyder
“Ancient worship . . . does truth. All one has to do is to study the ancient liturgies to see that liturgies clearly do truth by their order and in their substance. This is why so many young people today are now adding ancient elements to their worship. . . . This recovery of ancient practices is not the mere restoration of ritual but a deep, profound, and passionate engagement with truth—truth that forms and shapes the spiritual life into a Christlikeness that issues forth in the call to a godly and holy life and into a deep commitment to justice and to the needs of the poor.” PeopleNeedsDoeTodaySpiritualFormYoungOrderJusticePoorPracticeStudyIssuesHolyShapesElementsWorshipCommitmentMereProfoundAncientPassionateRecoverySubstanceRitualEngagementSpiritual LifeGodlyRestorationLiturgyHoly LifeChristlikeness Author:Robert E. Webber
“Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.” ArtIdeasSpiritualTeacherStudentsEmptyClaimsPatternsFakeMartial ArtsRitualSpiritual LifeTested Author:Sam Harris
“Political movements for justice are part of the fuller development of the cosmos, and nature is the matrix in which humans come to their self-awareness of their power to transform. Liberation movements are a fuller development of the cosmos's sense of harmony, balance, justice, and celebration. This is why true spiritual liberation demands rituals of cosmic celebrating and healing, which will in turn culminate in personal transformation and liberation.” HumansSelfSpiritualPoliticalTurnsJusticeHealingAwarenessMovementDevelopmentBalanceDemandTransformationHarmonySelf AwarenessCelebrateLiberationCosmosRitualCosmicCelebrationPersonal TransformationPolitical Movements Author:Matthew Fox
“For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man a ceremony of love.” MenSpiritualDancingTongueRitualTiedSecularCeremonyTongue Tied Book:The Times Are Never So Bad: A Novella and Eight Short Stories Source: The Times Are Never So Bad: A Novella and Eight Short Stories
“An aphorism is a mental exercise, psychical, logical, linguistic, spiritual, ritual, emotional and rational, it is a major conceptual and literary activity, a mixture of prose and poetry that conveys, in addition to ideology, sympathy or antipathy.” SpiritualEmotionalExerciseActivityMajorsRationalIdeologyProseLogicalRitualAphorismMixturesAntipathyProse And Poetry Author:William C. Brown