“I spent so much of my life reading about spirituality and reading about neuroscience and trying different meditation practices. It's a really big part of my life. But it's sometimes hard to talk about. There are so many people in the world who don't live in Southern California and don't spend their time meditating.” PeopleWorldTryingDifferentSometimesHardBigsSpiritualityReadingPracticeMeditationCaliforniaSouthernNeuroscienceMeditatingMeditation PracticeSouthern California Author:Moby
“This - where we are now - is where a culture gets to, when it has chosen, for many years, banality over intelligence, the literal over the immaterial or complex, materialism over spirituality. This is the result of many years of disrespecting the intellectual project - of a collective acceptance of the idea that thinking and reasoning and reading deeply in difficult text and being respectful of history are somehow "wimpy" or secondary.” ThinkingYearsIdeasCultureSpiritualityReadingDifficultResultsAcceptanceProjectsIntellectualComplexesChosenReasoningCollectivesMaterialismRespectfulLiteralBanalityBe Respectful Author:George Saunders
“I've always been very spiritual, since I was a very, very young child. The older I get, I'm reading more, I'm experiencing more, and so that's all reflected in all of my music. All of my fans are pretty familiar with me and my beliefs. It's all about connecting to yourself and sticking to your own spirituality.” ChildrenSpiritualSpiritualityReadingBeliefFamiliar Author:Jhene Aiko
“By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.” WorldFeelsWholeSeemsSpiritualityReadingMusicFireTreeFeetSkyPureGloryBlueGreenDeeperScriptureWhole WorldGlory Of GodReading The Scriptures Author:Thomas Merton
“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.” Has BeensSpiritualSpiritualityReadingHealingBibleWordsSentencesSelectBlastTrumpets Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Because most of the girls were still in mourning and all of them had lost their textbooks, even pencils and pens, Shaukat Ali began the first classes by reading to them from poetry and religious texts. "Reading, literature, and spirituality are good for the soul," he told them. "So we will start with these studies.” FirstsStillsSoulSpiritualityGirlReadingLiteratureLostReligiousClassStudyMourningPensPencilsTextbooksFirst ClassReading LiteratureReligious Texts Book:Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan Source: Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan
“Spirituality is no different from what weve been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. Its just ordinary stuff.” YearsTwoDifferentSpiritualityReadingStuffChurchPrayingThousandOrdinaryScriptureReceivingThousand YearsSacramentsBaptizedGoing To ChurchReading The Scriptures Author:Eugene H. Peterson
“In Radical Optimism, Beatrice Bruteau sets forth a deep and shining vision of spirituality, one that guides the reader into the contemplative life and the very root of our being. Dr. Bruteau is a philosopher of great measure whose work should be required reading for all who seek the deepest truth about themselves.” ShouldSpiritualityReadingVisionReaderRootsOptimismShiningPhilosopherGuidesRadicalDrsContemplativeContemplative Life Author:Sue Monk Kidd