I believe that there is a love that moves the sun and the other stars.
I want to go someplace where I can marvel at something.
This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down.
Yoga is the effort to experience one's divinity personally and then to hold on to that experience forever.
To feel physically comfortable with someone else's body is not a decision you make. It has very little thing to do with how two people think or act or talk or even look. The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.
There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.
Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.
In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted.
L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (The love that moves the sun and the other stars)
The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness.
Devotion is diligence without assurance. If faith were rational, it wouldn't be by definition faith. Faith is walking face-first and full speed into the dark.
We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal body. And that's why God needs us. Because God loves to feel things through our hands.
In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work.
Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.
The love that moves the sun and the other stars.
I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.
We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.
But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass.
This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.
The six elements of her Fail Proof Broken-Heart Curing Treatment: "Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away from the person you loved, meditate and teach your heart that this is destiny.
The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go
Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear.
Most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.
All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
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