The monks' response was to climb into their curraghs and row off toward Greenland. They were drawn across the storm-racked ocean, drawn west past the edge of the known world, by nothing more than a hunger of the spirit, a yearning of such queer intensity that it beggars the modern imagination.
Jon KrakauerTags: peace isolation spirit papar
Enlightenment is the Goal - Love is the Game - Taking steps are the rules! - Allan Rufus
Allan RufusTags: wisdom love knowledge self-esteem soul power-of-words mind self-help-book knowledge-teaching suicide personal-growth spirit quote soul-searching depression self-improvement knowing spiritualism positive-thoughts enlightenment anxiety personal-development sacred power-of-thoughts teachings positive-thinking positive-attitude spiritual-growth knowledge-education unconditional-love spiritual-wisdom master power-of-love know-thyself unconditional-acceptance sage mastery positive-motivation spiritual-development mind-body-spirit suicidal-thoughts positive-mindset positive-outlook sacred-teachings wise-man self-improvement-book knowing-oneself masters sage-advice knowledge-of-self positive-quotes art-of-living mind-power master-of-love art-of-dying hang-man master-key powerful-story sacred-wisdom
Art is the conscious making of numinous phenomena. Many objects are just objects - inert, merely utilitarian. Many events are inconsequential, too banal to add anything to our experience of life. This is unfortunate, as one cannot grow except by having one’s spirit greatly stirred; and the spirit cannot be greatly stirred by spiritless things. Much of our very life is dead. For primitive man, this was not so. He made his own possessions, and shaped and decorated them with the aim of making them not merely useful, but powerful. He tried to infuse his weapons with the nature of the tiger, his cooking pots with the life of growing things; and he succeeded. Appearance, material, history, context, rarity - perhaps rarity most of all - combine to create, magically, the quality of soul. But we modern demiurges are prolific copyists; we give few things souls of their own. Locomotives, with their close resemblance to beasts, may be the great exception; but in nearly all else with which today’s poor humans are filling the world, I see a quelling of the numinous, an ashening of the fire of life. We are making an inert world; we are building a cemetery. And on the tombs, to remind us of life, we lay wreaths of poetry and bouquets of painting. You expressed this very condition, when you said that art beautifies life. No longer integral, the numinous has become optional, a luxury - one of which you, my dear friend, are fond, however unconsciously. You adorn yourself with the same instincts as the primitive who puts a frightening mask of clay and feathers on his head, and you comport yourself in an uncommonly calculated way - as do I. We thus make numinous phenomena of ourselves. No mean trick - to make oneself a rarity, in this overpopulated age.
K.J. BishopTags: art poetry history soul artists spirit painting masks appearance rarity material objects context cemeteries beth-constanzin gwynn ashening demiurges integral locomotives numinous-phenomena quelling tombs
Global transformation can occur only when each individual has the courage to awaken from this amnesia to our true self and then make conscious choices true to our spirit. The human race is the only species on earth evolved enough to be capable of this privilege.
Patsie SmithTags: peace spirituality spirit harmony awareness transformation conservation oneness awaken
A person fully in the Self is formless, birth less and deathless.
He is inside, outside and above everything that is known.
In purity he is absolute and in spirit he is eternal.
Tags: spirit
every end should be followed by great new beginning
cG9sYXJhZGl0aWE=Tags: experience spirit endings beginnings
The challenge of elucidating living processes -- including consciousness and all its baggage which we bundle together as 'the human spirit' -- is only one example of a challenge where hard work is paying off and science does not need to accept the false explanations peddled by religions.
Peter AtkinsTags: consciousness atheism atheist spirit
Awakening your spiritual self is like having a second childhood with faulty parents, broken bones and proverbial brussel sprouts.
Christopher HawkeTags: spiritual childhood spirituality spirit
Once upon a time, [the guru] said, when God had finished making the world, he wanted to leave behind Him for man a piece of His own divinity, a spark of His essence, a promise to man of what he could become, with effort. He looked for a place to hide this Godhead because, he explained, what man could find too easily would never be valued by him.
"Then you must hide the Godhead on the highest mountain peak on earth," said one of His councilors.
God shook His head. "No, for man is an adventuresome creature and he will soon enough learn to climb the highest mountain peaks."
"Hide it then, O Great One, in the depths of the earth!"
"I think not," said God, "for man will one day discover that he can dig into the deepest parts of the earth."
"In the middle of the ocean then, Master?"
God shook His head. "I've given man a brain, you see, and one day he'll learn to build ships and cross the mightiest oceans."
"Where then, Master?" cried His councilors.
God smiled. "I'll hide it in the most inaccessible place of all, and the one place that man will never think to look for it. I'll hide it deep inside of man himself.
Words have no power, unless you give it to them.
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