Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
~Denis Waitley
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Spirituality is man's relationship with the Divine.
Religion is crowd control.
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Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.
~Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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“Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell.
Spirituality is for people who have already been there.”
~Bonnie Raitt
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All of the places of our lives are sanctuaries; some of them just happen to have steeples. And all of the people in our lives are saints; it is just that some of them have day jobs and most will never have feast days named for them.
~Robert Benson
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Sometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate department of life, the penthouse of existence. But rightly understood, it is a vital awareness that pervades all realms of our being.
~David Steindl-Rast
"Spring Bloom" by geoff333 (Link)
If you happen to find the Tumblr blog that has this photo posted above,
please leave the URL in the comments. Thanks.
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If you know where these gardens are,
please leave the info in the comments. Thanks.
UPDATE:
Thanks to a Friend of AOM we have our answer: