Spirituality Quote of the Week

For the enlightened, even the act of walking through a door can be a sacred act.

-- Martin Lings

Spirituality Quote of the Week

When you realize that life is a joyous battle of duty and at the same time a passing dream, and when you become filled with the joy of making others happy by giving them kindness and peace, in God's eyes your life is a success.

-- Paramahansa Yogananda

Spirituality Quote of the Week

Fellowship with peoples of other religious groups always results in the grateful experience of discovering unsuspected treasuries of common sentiment and conviction.

-- Reinhold Niebuhr

Spirituality Quote of the Week

Organized religion has not been known for its inclusiveness or for being very comfortable with diversity. Yet pluriformity, multiplicity, and diversity is the only world there is! It is rather amazing that we can miss, deny, or ignore what is in plain sight everywhere.

-- Richard Rohr

Spirituality Quote of the Week

Fighting the darkness does not increase the light, and I find that I too easily become what I'm fighting against. Better, at this stage of my life, to increase the light and leave the battles with darkness to others.

-- Kent Nerburn

Spirituality Quote of the Week

Sometimes when you need to feel the all-embracing nature of God, paradoxically you need to hang out in ordinariness, in daily ritual and comfort.

-- Anne Lamott

Spirituality Quote of the Week

Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, the command to love one's enemy is an absolute necessity for our survival. Love even for enemies is the key to the solution of the problem of our world.

-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Spirituality Quote of the Week

Dependence on the creator within is really freedom from all other dependencies. Paradoxically, it is also the only route to real intimacy with other human beings.

-- Julia Cameron

Spirituality Quote of the Week

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve.

-- Stephen Mitchell

Spirituality Quote of the Week

Every day is Christmas Day; every minute is a Christmas minute. The child within us is waiting each minute for us to be born again and again.

-- Thich Nhat Hanh

Spirituality Quote of the Week

God is within us; we don't need to seek God elsewhere. We have only ourselves to blame if we turn from God, occupying ourselves instead with the trifles of life.

-- Brother Lawrence

Spirituality Quote of the Week

While I was standing there, quails began to whistle all over the field and in the wood. I had not heard any for weeks and thought sure they were all dead, for there have been hunters everywhere. No, there they are! Signs of life, of gentleness, of helplessness, of providence, of love. They just keep on existing and loving and making more quails and whistling in the bushes.

-- Thomas Merton