“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
“Voices of the glorified urge us onward. They who have passed from the semblances of time to the realities of eternity call upon us to advance. The rest that awaits us invites us forward. We do not pine for our rest before God wills it. We long for no inglorious rest. We are thankful rather for the invaluable training of difficulty, the loving discipline of danger and strife. Yet in the midst of it all the prospect of rest invites us heavenward. Through all, and above all, God cries, "Go forward!" "Come up higher!” LongRealitySpiritualityVoiceCryDangerHigherDisciplineTrainingEternityDifficultyCome UpGods WillUrgesMidstInvitesStrifeInvaluableSemblance Author:William James
“Religion is organized, and spirituality is what the individual feels in his relationship with truth and with God. And although spirituality may be expressed in a religion, many people are spiritual and never go to church. They aren't religious in the sense that they practice a certain type of discipline.” PeopleFeelsMaySpiritualCertainSpiritualityIndividualChurchReligiousPracticeTypeDisciplineOrganized Author:Goswami Kriyananda
“When one is total, life flowers - and that flowering is spirituality. Spirituality is not an attitude, it is not a discipline. It is an outcome of a life lived totally, joyfully, delightfully; of a life of no complaint; of a life lived courageously, intensely. Then this flowering happens.” HappensSpiritualityAttitudeFlowerDisciplineOutcomesComplaintsFlowering Author:Rajneesh
“A lot of people talk about the spirituality of Buddhism, and it is a spiritual discipline. But in Shambhala there also is a notion that you have to be synchronized with both heaven and earth.” PeopleEarthSpiritualSpiritualityHeavenBuddhismDisciplineNotionHeaven And EarthSpiritual DisciplinesShambhala Author:Sakyong Mipham
“We all have our issues, no one gets away from facing their own issues, so that we can advance. Nothing is given lightly, and everything has a repercussion, as you're evolving. And, if anything, the sport itself is a great training, not only physically, but the mental discipline that it requires. The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids, and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor. It's amazing the spirituality that you get as a result of practicing and enjoying the sport. That's another plus.” MenKidsSpiritualitySportsEnjoyHe ManDisciplineTrainingMen And WomenEmptyEvolveExcellentGet AwayGym Author:Djimon Hounsou
“Tolerance, a term which we sometimes use in place of the words respect, mercy, generosity, or forbearance, is the most essential element of moral systems; it is a very important source of spiritual discipline and a celestial virtue of perfected people.” PeopleImportantSometimesGodUseSpiritualSpiritualityTermNatureMoralVirtueSourceDisciplineMoralityEssentialsElementsRespectMercyToleranceGenerosityCelestialInterfaithSpiritual DisciplinesForbearanceRespect MeTolerance And Respect Book:Toward Global Civilization Love Tolerance Source: Toward Global Civilization Love Tolerance
“To make the mind obey you is a spiritual discipline.” MindSpiritualSpiritSpiritualityDisciplineSpiritual Disciplines Author:Sivananda
“Well, let's distinguish religion from spirituality. I am Catholic, so religion for me is a way of having discipline and collective worship with persons who share the same mystery.” WayWellsPersonsSpiritualityMysteryShareDisciplineWorshipCatholicCollectives Author:Paulo Coelho
“There's no way to put a limit on what one may accomplish individually if the intent is an impeccable intent. Don Juan's teachings are not spiritual. I repeat this because the question has come to the surface over and over. The idea of spirituality doesn't fit with the iron discipline of a warrior. The most important thing for a shaman like don Juan is the idea of pragmatism.” IfsWayMayImportantIdeasSpiritualSpiritualityTeachingDisciplineFitLimitsImportant ThingsAccomplishSurfaceWarriorAccomplishmentRepeatsIronPragmatismDon JuanImpeccableJuan Author:Carlos Castaneda
“Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all his brothers and sisters to share the find, Richard J. 'Foster has 'found' the spiritual disciplines that the modern world has stored away and forgot, and has excitedly called us to celebrate them. For they are, as he shows us, the instruments of joy, the way into mature Christian spirituality and abundant life.” WorldWayChildrenShowsChristianSpiritualJoySpiritualityFoundHouseShareModernBrotherDisciplineCallingInstrumentsTreasureCelebrateMatureDiscoveringExploringBrothers And SistersModern WorldRainyRainy DayTrunksAbundant LifeSpiritual DisciplinesAtticsOld Houses Author:Eugene H. Peterson
“The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in the future by turning from the nineteenth-century characteristics just mentioned (materialism, selfishness, false values, hypocrisy, and secret vices) and going back to other characteristics that our Western Society has always regarded as virtues: generosity, compassion, cooperation, rationality, and foresight, and finding a increased role in human life for love, spirituality, charity, and self discipline.” MenHumansMadeWarSelfValuesSpiritualitySecretCompassionRolesVirtueCenturyDisciplineFindingsCharityWesternVicesRecognitionGenerositySelfishnessHuman LifeCharacteristicsHypocrisyMaterialismCooperationSelf DisciplineRationalityAvoidedTwentieth CenturyNineteenth CenturyForesightWestern Society Author:Carroll Quigley
“It is my assumption that growth in faith is the root of all spiritual growth and is prior to all disciplines of works. True spirituality is not a superhuman religiosity; it is simply true humanity released from bondage to sin and renewed by the Holy Spirit. This is given to us as we grasp by faith the full content of Christ's redemptive work: freedom from the guilt and power of sin, and newness of life through the indwelling and outpouring of his Spirit.” SpiritualSpiritHumanitySpiritualityGivenGrowthChristSinDisciplineHolyRootsGuiltHoly SpiritAssumptionSpiritual GrowthBondageSuperhumanNewnessNewness Of Life Author:Richard Lovelace
“"Integrative" simply means that this approach attempts to include as many important truths from as many disciplines as possible-from East as well as the West, from premodern and modern and postmodern, from the hard sciences of physics to the tender sciences of spirituality.” WellsMeanImportantHardTruthSpiritualityModernDisciplineApproachWestEastPhysicsPostmodern Book:A Brief History of Everything Source: A Brief History of Everything