Celtic Spirituality Quotes & Sayings

But whose fault was it? Aunt Helena says, holding up one plump finger. Her fault, her fault, her fault, we chant in unison. Who led them on? Aunt Helena beams, pleased with us. She did. She did. She did. — Margaret Atwood

Humor is about perspective, and hanging out with people who see life through a similar lens is so important. — Mariska Hargitay

Market forces do not make cities, they destroy them — Charles Correa

Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture. Real intimacy is of the soul, and the soul is reserved. — John O'Donohue

Whenever a nation or a group of people is devoid of light, catastrophe comes, calamity hits, there is danger everywhere. — Sunday Adelaja

He wasn't falling in love.
She had him.
He was hers. — Kristen Ashley

Complex question can only be solved by patience. — Hlovate

As much as I feel sad, I think that not knowing is what really bothers me. — Stephen Chbosky

Patience was not just a manner, it was the very form of seminar teaching. Columbia's core curriculum had been designed not to enshrine the authority of the lecturing professor (that was something done at Harvard) but to reach understanding through discussion, however clumsy and uncertain. Till this moment, I never knew myself. . . . Vanity, not love has been my folly! — David Denby

Contemplative prayer is natural, unprogrammed; it is perpetual openness to God, so that in the openness his concerns can flow in and out of our minds as he wills. — Ray Simpson

Before the bud swells, before the grass springs, before the plough is started, comes the sugar harvest. It is sequel of the bitter frost; a sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. — John Burroughs

He made the pleasures: all our research so far has not enabled us to produce one. All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy has produced, at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He has forbidden. — C.S. Lewis

What separates the professionally successful ... from all the rest is their ability to stay steady, to have stamina. It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book. — Katy Lederer

Many questing young people and stressed older people nowadays seek relaxation through meditation. They look for it in Hindu, Buddhist and other Eastern religions. They are often surprised to learn that there is such a way within the Christian tradition, a way that is known as contemplation. — Ray Simpson

There is a saying that 'the psychotic drowns in the waters that the mystic swims in.' The health and structural integrity of the ego means the difference between spiritual emergence, the unfolding of a transpersonal identity; and a spiritual emergency a crisis brought on by the same unfolding, during which the foundations of sanity can be shaken. — Jason Kirkey

So I say, if you are burning, burn. If you can stand it, the shame will burn away and leave you shining, radiant, and righteously shameless — Elizabeth Cunningham

A script like 'Nightcrawler' gives me an opportunity to truly realize a vision that's mine, which is exciting. — Dan Gilroy