“In an evolutionary context, the goal of the spiritual life is not peace; it's perpetual development. Evolutionary enlightenment is about the ecstasy that compels us to create the future. And it's not a future that's going to unfold by itself while we go back to sleep. It's a future that we forge the hard way through direct, conscious, intentional engagement with the life-process itself.” WayHardSpiritualLife IsSpiritualityProcessGoalSleepDevelopmentEnlightenmentConsciousDirectEcstasyEngagementSpiritual LifePerpetualHard Way Author:Andrew Cohen
“I like a spirituality with a God that knows how to drive a car, that knows how to take his girl to the dance club, dance all night, have a little drink, kiss the kid when they come back in and go to sleep. God doesn't need a chauffeur-- he needs to drive himself.” KnowsNeedsLittlesKidsNightSpiritualityGirlSleepKnow HowCarDrinkKissingClubsAll NightGoing To SleepChauffeurs Author:Jeff Buckley
“What is the spirituality we need for the 21st century? We face a choice: to retire from this fray into some marshmallow paradise where we can massage away the heat of the day, the questions of the time, the injustice of the age, and live like pious moles in the heart of a twisted world. Or, we can gather our strength - our spiritual strength - for the struggle it will take to wake up from this pious sleep.” WorldNeedsHeartAgeFacesSpiritualChoicesSpiritualitySleepStruggleCenturyWake UpInjusticeHeatParadiseRetiring21st CenturyTwistedPiousMassageFrayMolesMarshmallowSpiritual Strength Author:Joan D. Chittister
“Interestingly, God's remedy for Elijah's depression was not a refresher course in theology but food and sleep... Before God spoke to him at all, Elijah was fed twice and given a good chance to sleep. Only then, and very gently, did God confront him with his error. This is always God's way. Having made us as human beings, He respects our humanness and treats us with integrity. That is, He treats us true to the truth of who we are. It is human beings and not God who have made spirituality impractical.” WayHumansMadeSpiritualityCoursesGivenChanceHuman BeingsSleepIntegrityTreatsErrorsTheologyWho We AreSpokesFedsRemedyElijahHumannessGood ChanceHumanness Is Author:Os Guinness
“When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself.” IfsMatterBeautifulSpiritReligionSpiritualitySleepWalksSolitudeMindfulnessSimplicitySweetnessMy ThoughtsBack AgainOrchardMeditation Mindfulness Author:Michel de Montaigne
“This is what enlightenment is all about - a deep understanding that there is no problem. Then, with no problem to solve, what will you do? Immediately you start living. You will eat, you will sleep, you will love, you will work, you will have a chit-chat, you will sing, you will dance - what else is there to do?” ProblemSpiritualityBeliefUnderstandingSleepLove YouEnlightenmentSolveManifestationNo ProblemDeep UnderstandingChit Chat Author:Rajneesh
“The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce with mankind, but "the true saint" goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moment.” PeopleMomentsGodSpiritualSpiritualityLostSocialSleepPerfectForgetMankindEatingSellsSaintSellingOnenessContemplationBuyingNever ForgetCommerceSufiIntercourseMysticEcstaticSingle MomDevoteeSocial InteractionRecluseShunning Author:Abu-Sa'id Abul-Khayr
“Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep.” SpiritSpiritualitySleepBoundsMysticismDisorderPhantomsTrifling Book:Henry IV Source: Henry IV
“Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.” PeopleKnowsLifeHumansMeanChildrenDiesSpiritualityBornSleepExistenceKnowledgeLearningWake UpManagementAwakeningWakingAwakenedHuman ExistenceLoveliness Author:Anthony de Mello
“I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.” AbleFilmSpiritualityCommunitySleepPowerfulHappenedAngerAfrican AmericanVery PowerfulSmall Communities Author:Danny Glover
“Spirituality is impacted not only by remembrance but by diet, stress, sleeping and eating habits among other things. Take care of yourself.” InspirationalCareSpiritualSpiritualitySleepSelf LoveHabitEatingStressCaringTake CareDietsIslamicLove YourselfSpiritual WisdomRemembranceMuslimTake Care Of YourselfInstructorsEating HabitsTreat Yourself Author:Nouman Ali Khan