Ignatian Spiritual Exercises Quotes & Sayings

In twelve-step programs there is the idea that peeling the layers of
the onion to free oneself from the "bondage of self " takes an indefinite
amount of time. People sometimes experience a significant difference
between what they think they desire in life and what life actually
unfolds to them. A big chunk of the onion was peeled away during
those key turning points for me in the past three decades. I am now
reminded of the three key things I need in life - peace, love, and purpose -
and how I continually need to bring myself back to those things
and make sure they are in harmony. The twelve steps and the Ignatian
Spiritual Exercises have helped in that regard, and prayer, meditation,
and supportive guidance are what ground me. — Joanna Thyer

Jason: Evelyn's not going to like it if you're rude to her friends.
Blake: They're her friends, not mine. — Rachel Hera

Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it. — Stanley Tucci

The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears. — Rick Warren

To play by David's rules you have to be desperate. You have to be so bad that you have no choice. — Malcolm Gladwell

Design is coming to grips with one's real lifestyle, one's real place in the world. Rooms should not be put together for show but to nourish one's wellbeing. — Albert Hadley

Your path is your path, for better or worse. It is what it is. You don't know what's going to happen in life. You've got right now and that's it. Can't change the past, can't predict the future. — Sabrina Paige

Be Good-Do Good-Be One — Kirpal Singh

You have to hold yourself accountable for your actions, and that's how we're going to protect the Earth. — Julia Hill

Apologies, Mrs. Touchett intimated, were of no more use to her than bubbles, and she herself never dealt in such articles. One either did the thing or one didn't, and what one "would" have done belonged to the sphere of the irrelevant, like the idea of a future life or of the origin of things. — Henry James

In community, where you have all the affection you could ever dream of, you feel that there is a place where even community cannot reach. That's a very important experience. In that loneliness, which is like a dark night of the soul, you learn that God is greater than community. — Henri Nouwen