Spirit
The soul and the body have been designed to be a functioning team, much the way the conscious and subconscious mind function together. The body knows our oneness with everything because it feels it. The awakened heart longs to explore others, to nurture others, to experience our oneness with others, and this offers a clue to the truths that the hea
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God is spreading grace around in the world like a five-year-old spreads peanut butter; thickly, sloppily, eagerly, and if we are in the back shed trying to stay clean, we won't even get a taste. — Donna Schaper in Stripping Down: The Art of Spiritual Restoration by Donna Schaper
One thought from Ruth Ozeki
“Life is fleeting. Don’t waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!”
Father Richard Rohr describes the “eagerness to love” that characterized the life and spirituality of St. Francis of Assisi (1182–1226):
If our only goal is to love, there is no such thing as failure. Francis of Assisi succeeded in living in a single-hearted way, in which his only goal was to love. This intense eagerness to love made his whole
... See moreAnything down right “good,” anything that shakes you with its “trueness,” and anything that sucks you into its beauty does not just educate you; it transforms you.
Richard Rohr - Immortal Diamond
The soul acts as a bridge between the physical body and the spirit, recording experiences and facilitating growth.
Just a moment...
“The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair. Gratitude will act as an elixir that will gradually dissolve the hard shell of your ego–your need to possess and control—and transform you into a generous being. The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanim... See more
"Disease can manifest at four different levels: the physical (diarrhea, heart palpitations, facial tics, postural changes, etc.); the emotional (fantasies, illusions, destructive patterns of behavior, etc.); the mental (obsessions, compulsions, schizothymia, paranoia, etc.); and the spiritual (indolence, indifference, bitterness, accidie, loss of m
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We should make all spiritual talk
Simple today:
God is trying to sell you something,
But you don’t want to buy.
That is what your suffering is:
Your fantastic haggling,
Your manic screaming over the price!
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1Daniel Ladinksy, I Heard God Laughing, Penguin Books, p. 13.