My two interests are spirituality and politics. I would mesh them in some way; maybe try to figure out the politics of spirituality, or the spirituality of politics. Or maybe come up with this really crazy naive solution for the end of civilization.
The spiritual freedom we seek cannot be found by grasping at, retreating to, or protecting our perceived safe spaces. Our freedom lies in remaining open continuously, not only to Life’s changes but also to the Divine Light within us and others. Thi...
The truth is that we were so spiritually and morally bankrupt that we could not even see some of those lines: we stepped over them blindly. Other times we saw the lines alright, but we to cross them. Alcohol gave us the false courage to do it and num...
I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation.
At the core, we're all spiritual beings.
When our will is strong and aligned with Divine intent, there is nothing we cannot do or be. With power and guidance flowing through us, Life becomes an effortless dance as we relinquish control and limitation and allow our Spirit Within to express i...
When we look back from the vantage point of sobriety, many of us realize that when drinking we often felt like a fake, a fraud, and a phony. That’s because we were. – p. 74
Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
The ego is like a clever monkey, which can co-opt anything, even the most spiritual practices, so as to expand itself. (155)
Take God at His Word – because winning the battle doesn't require physical brawn, but spiritual brains!
... the worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance.
For while spirituality has the dynamic to transcend and transform culture, it invariably expresses itself in and through culture.
Running is just such a monestary-- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.
Spiritual friends help us most when they make clear that their job is to point the way, not to lead the way. And the Way to which they should point is Jesus.
messy spirituality is the delirious consequence of a life ruined by a Jesus who will love us right into his arms.
There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.
Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.
[A] practitioner of any spiritual path must have complete confidence that his adopted path is, for him, superior to all others. (57)
I think the new spirituality will be a spirituality that's not based on a particular dogma. And that steps away from the old spiritual paradigm that we have created on this planet, which comes from a thought that there is such a thing as being better...
We believe that the movement, from Cairo to New York, from San Francisco to London, that is being called "Occupy" is a movement of spiritual democracy.
Many young activists tend to resist spirituality, thinking that religion has nothing to do with social change and is, in fact, part of the problem.
