Whole-istic Files: Spiritual Spam

Dedicated to inspire myself & others during our holistic journey to feeling whole

[quiet-nymph]

Thomas Waerness

[freethinkerswelcomed]

“The most intimate thing we can do is to allow people we love most to see us at our worst. At our lowest. At our weakest. True intimacy happens when nothing is perfect.”

— Amy Harmon (via lovelustquotes)

[maryjblige]

[purplebuddhaproject]

Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can’t cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It’s just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.

Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things (via purplebuddhaproject)

[jessicacti]

[stardust-seedling]

Calming the mind is yoga, not just standing on the head.

–Swami Satchidananda

[noorshirazie]

We are comprised of shimmering dust, specks of gold that can only be seen when the sunshine peeks through the translucent curtains.

Noor Shirazie (via noorshirazie)

[panatmansam]

What is Art? It is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of the Real.

Rabindranath Tagore (via panatmansam)

[stardust-seedling]

You take yourself to be limited, but you are not. Discover this. Stay silent and attentive. Be earnest about it. Just be aware of your being here and now. Reality will find you.

–Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

[stardust-seedling]

The way you react has been repeated thousands of times, and it has become a routine for you. You are conditioned to be a certain way. And that is the challenge: to change your normal reactions, to change your routine, to take a risk and make different choices.

Don Miguel Angel Ruiz (via unmaiden)

[purplebuddhaproject]

[primordialsoundmeditation]

My Dear,  when you can say, without doubt or equivocation, that “My life today is entirely the result of my prior decisions, focus, and understandings,” I can then say, without doubt or equivocation, that it’s only a matter of time before your every cup is overflowing. Ain’t life grand?    The Universe

(via primordialsoundmeditation)

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is found in the simple act of trying again tomorrow.

www.the lightworkersacademy.com (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

[programminglifenet]

When you suffer, if you take that not just as your own suffering but rather as the nature of samsara, then you are understanding the most important point of Buddha’s teachings.

Gyaltsab Rinpoche http://quotes.justdharma.com/the-most-important-point-of-buddhas-teachings/  (via programminglifenet)

[bryantmcgill]

We are all damaged. We have all been hurt. We have all had to learn painful lessons. We are all recovering from some mistake, loss, betrayal, abuse, injustice or misfortune. All of life is a process of recovery that never ends. We each must find ways to accept and move through the pain and to pick ourselves back up. For each pang of grief, depression, doubt or despair there is an inverse toward renewal coming to you in time. Each tragedy is an announcement that some good will indeed come in time. Be patient with yourself. — Bryant McGill

[abiding-in-peace]

Touching the present moment, we realize that the present is made of the past and is creating the future.

Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ (via abiding-in-peace)

[spectreofcommunism]

Idealism and metaphysics are the easiest things in the world, because people can talk as much nonsense as they like without basing it on objective reality or having it tested against reality. Materialism and dialectics, on the other hand, need effort. They must be based on and tested by objective reality. Unless one makes the effort one is liable to slip into idealism and metaphysics.

Mao Zedong, Introductory note to “Material on the Hu Feng Counter-Revolutionary Clique”, 1955 (via spectreofcommunism)