Quotes About Spirituality

integral yoga aims at "opening the springs of creative inspiration hidden in the human psyche" and the "active participation

The eight-limbed path, or ashtanga yoga, is: yama, niyama, asana, pranayama, pratyahara, dharana, dhyana, and samadhi.

the breath is seen as a gateway to the world of vital energetic currents generated in the human body and controlling all the biological processes.

yoga teachers B. K. S. Iyengar, Pattabhi Jois, and T. K. V. Desikachar.

I learned through yoga asana that the body is a map to the soul and that my own body speaks a language that is designed for me to hear and learn from. Everyone's body and practice are different in the sense that the language that the body speaks is entirely different from one person to the next, but

We can, each of us, work to put our own inner house in order." He viewed economics through a Buddhist lens, asserting that "the essence of civilization [is] not in a multiplication of wants but in the purification of human character.

praying was where you talk to God. And meditation was where you listen.

Pray? A waste of time. You do what you want, Adella, but I'll figure my own way, thank you. No reason to get God involved if he does not exist.

God helps those who ask.

He'd just sit down, shut his eyes, make this little smile, breathe deep and slow for ten minutes. And then he'd be fine and go back to work. Finally, I asked Kumar if he was praying. He said, no, he was meditating. I told him I had no idea what he was talking about. He said praying was where you talk to God. And meditation was where you listen.

He said praying was where you talk to God. And meditation was where you listen.

Don't worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food to eat or clothes to wear. For life consists of far more than food and clothing. LUKE 12:22-23

As long as the physical universe remains our point of reference, we will never find what we are looking for.

We have got to take the fight to the enemy and stop listening to the doom and gloom that surrounds us. Christians are not the weak, outnumbered, or powerless folks that the world around tries to tell us we are, and it's high time we begin to believe in our power as God's Army. The days of silence and complacency are over. No more hesitating! It's time to light up our world with a Holy Fire!

This faith stuff, this religion stuff, is not about words, or even beliefs, it's about relationships and people.

He said he was both Muslim and Taoist.

If we think we can turn ourselves into the perfect Christian, we have missed the point of the entire Gospel, and will be making the Christ within us harder to see, not easier. We will be adding more layers and more clutter that one day will simply have to be removed

was mentally creating a God in the image and likeness of humans.

Out there, in nature's cathedral everything becomes one.

And my walking between two worlds (the Christian and the Druidic) loses any confusion in that place

I've just attended another talk by Fr. Richard, what Emerging Christianity is not! He said that EC is not oppositional and is non-dualistic, and also that Jesus, with sayings like "let the wheat and the weeds grow together" and "my Father's love shines on the good and the bad," was the first non-dualistic teacher of the West. "Jesus was far happier for us to live with the shadow rather than to project it" said Rohr.

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.