Quotes About Spirituality

Gardens are simultaneously a material and a spiritual undertaking. That's hard for scientists, brainwashed by Cartesian dualism, to grasp.

with a bond physical, emotional, and spiritual.

In reciprocity, we fill our spirits as well as our bellies.

ecotheologian Thomas Berry has written, "we must say of the universe that it is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.

I hadn't realized that I had come to the lake and said feed me, but my empty heart was fed.

To be a hill, to be a sandy beach, to be a Saturday, all are possible verbs in a world where everything is alive. Water, land, and even a day, the language a mirror for seeing the animacy of the world, the life that pulses through all things, through pines and nuthatches and mushrooms. This is the language I hear in the woods; this is the language that lets us speak of what wells up all around us.

This is the grammar of animacy.

What else can you offer the earth, which has everything? What else can you give but something of yourself? A homemade ceremony, a ceremony that makes a home.

ceremony brought the quiescent back to life

as ecotheologian Thomas Berry has written, "we must say of the universe that it is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.

I hope I am also teaching them to know the world as a neighborhood of nonhuman residents, to know that, as ecotheologian Thomas Berry has written, "we must say of the universe that it is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Ceremonies transcend the boundaries of the individual and resonate beyond the human realm. These acts of reverence are powerfully pragmatic. These are ceremonies that magnify life.

My gramma used to think that passage when Jesus said, 'In my Father's house are many rooms,' didn't mean there was a big hotel in heaven. It meant there were lots of different ways to worship.

Stop judging how everyone else treats their faith and study your own," George had counseled.

The world would be a better place if more people spent time drinking cheap coffee in church basements.

That's what love is. Forgiveness. Judgment belongs to God Almighty. Not you.

So you're not a Protestant anymore? You're Catholic now?

There was no ball of smoking incense, no cup of magic wine, and none of the other equipment essential to talk to God.

No matter what you're feeling or how desperate you become, always take a moral position. If you do that, God will watch over you.

she is protected by the thousands of goddesses who live on this island . .

There is no life without death. This is the true meaning of yin and yang.

When they die, they keep loving. If love ends when a person dies, that is not real love.

Prayer is prayer, regardless of where you are.