Miscellaneous Spiritual Thread

[Chae]

Post spiritual quotes, text passages, videos and pictures here.

[ashlesha]

Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.
—D. H. Lawrence, The Plumed Serpent

In ancient times the world of spirits was everywhere acknowledged because it was a matter of direct experience and open to all but the most insensitive. The world of spirits was as familiar to primitive man as is the dream world is to modern man. The spirit world became the later “spiritual” world after undue emphasis on mans’ mental development had obliterated the astral world in which he originally had moved with as much ease as in the mundane world.
—Kenneth Grant, Nightside of Eden

[Chae]

^^^She's Enneagram 2

[DirectorAbbie]

"'For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,' says the LORD. 'For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts."
-Iaaiah 55:8-9

"Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth."
-Colossians 3:2

"Do not love the world, or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him."
-1 John 2:15

"That which has been is what will be, that which is done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun."
-Ecclesiastes 1:9

"He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?"
-Micah 6:8

"For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men: the Man Christ Jesus,"
-1 Timothy 2:5

"Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also."
-1 John 2:23

"Jesus answered, 'Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit,'"
-John 3:5-6

"For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one."
-1 John 5:7

"Thus says the LORD: 'Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, let not the mighty man glory in his might, nor let the rich man glory in his riches; but let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, exercising lovingkindness, judgement, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight,' says the LORD."
-Jeremiah 9:23-24

"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding."
-Proverbs 9:10

"For I desire mercy and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings."
-Hosea 6:6

"For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart - these, O God, You will not despise."
-Psalm 51:16-17

"Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you."
-Jeremiah 32:17

"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning."
-James 1:17

"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?"
-Jeremiah 17:9

"Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy - meditate on these things."
-Philippians 4:8

https://youtu.be/IWtbq4tl1w8

[Chae]

This one's really eye-opening - she talks about self-preservation here, and cover emotions.
"There is no lower vibration on this planet than powerlessness"
"Anger is an emotion that covers fear and hurt because fear and hurt are powerless states"

[Singu]

With arms wide opannnnnnnn...

Is this spiritual?:

[ashlesha]

I'm not into this kind of spirituality, but I found this touching.

"One of the biggest problems with religion is that people stubbornly, insistently reduce God to their own size; they imagine that God loves the same people they love, and that God hates the people they hate. This is not just insidious theology; it’s actually idolatry, because people are just worshiping a blown-up version of themselves. So let me say it simply: God’s love transcends all of that.

When your parents reject you, God loves you; when your friends or classmates make fun of you, God loves you; when your priest, minister, imam, or rabbi tells you that you are an abomination, God loves you; when politicians cater to people’s basest prejudices, God loves you. No matter how many times and in how many ways people make you feel less than human, God knows otherwise, and God loves you. When you feel frightened, or abandoned, or humiliated, I hope the unshakeable conviction that God loves you can help hold you and enable you to persevere."

http://www.myjewishlearning.com/kesh...mpaign=buffer#

[Jake]

[Subteigh]

I object to the use of the term "spirit" to define anything meaningful (I think there are better words that aren't so loaded, vague, and immaterial), but I recommend the reading of Lucretius's On the Nature of Things.

[Chae]

[Chae]

[Chae]

(Very, very big memo to me)

[Chae]

Rumi... great and deep words.

[Singu]

(Very, very big memo to me)

Hmm... this didn't sound like a quote by Buddha. It looks like it's a quote by Albert Schweitzer.

[Chae]

Hmm... this didn't sound like a quote by Buddha. It looks like it's a quote by Albert Schweitzer.

Looked it up, yep! Thanks for doublechecking, we want our spirituality accurate