Spirituality Quote of the Week

When we are excessively preoccupied with ourselves, we tend to see nothing beyond our own heartaches and problems, and our sense of reality shrinks. It is not surprising that we have trouble believing in the reality of God when we have trouble perceiving any reality at all beyond ourselves.

-- Ronald Rolheiser

Spirituality Quote of the Week

God is never the object of love. That's just another example of the egoic operating system splitting the field of perception. God is always and only the SUBJECT of love, flowing through our relationships, through our opportunities and also our challenges, through each and every one of the particular conditions we find ourselves in at any given moment. No one and nothing is excluded.

-- Cynthia Bourgeault

Spirituality Quote of the Week

You are a great being who has been given a tremendous opportunity to explore beyond yourself. The whole process is very exciting, and you will have good times and bad times. All sorts of things will happen. That's the fun of the journey.

-- Michael A. Singer

Spirituality Quote of the Week

There is nothing more searching in its exhilaration than the experience of meeting the need in another person at the point that the need is most acutely felt.

-- Howard Thurman

Spirituality Quote of the Week

How we pay attention to the present moment largely determines the character of our experience and, therefore, the quality of our lives.

-- Sam Harris

Spirituality Quote of the Week

Every now and then God lifts a corner of the veil and enters into our awareness through various channels, as if to say, "Here I am. Where are you? Come and join me."

-- Thomas Keating

Spirituality Quote of the Week

Being empty is a beginning.

-- Sue Bender

Spirituality Quote of the Week

Sometimes I think there are TWO Orthodoxies (as, perhaps, there are two Christianities) -- the mystical faith of those who glimpse how little we know (and are drawn and driven by love), and the cranky faith of those who appear to know everything already (and wish the rest of us would either agree with them or disappear).

-- Scott Cairns

Spirituality Quote of the Week

For years, the church kept me safe inside a building. All the while, the Spirit was out here on the streets.

-- Diana Butler Bass

Spirituality Quote of the Week

When a person responds to the joys and sorrows of others as if they were his own, he has attained the highest state of spiritual union.

-- The Bhagavad Gita

Spirituality Quote of the Week

The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at unextraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of NOW into each event of ordinary life.

-- Peter Matthiessen

Spirituality Quote of the Week

We were united by the love and compassion that brought us together, a community without the usual separations, all present in spiritual response to tragedy. It was an experience of heaven on earth. We were in a state of Grace.

-- Sandra Lynn Price
Hurricane Katrina survivor