Experiencing Spirituality Quotes

“Spirituality is experienced in our Listening, in our Forgiveness, in our Dark places, in our Confusions, in our stories—not so much in what we “do,” but in what and how we be . . . by how we experience the realities that we meet. Spirituality is, in briefest description, a way of life—a way of being.”
― Ernest Kurtz, Experiencing Spirituality: Finding Meaning Through Storytelling

“Humility and obedience are two painfully misunderstood virtues that are really the arts of listening. Humility involves the refusal to coerce, the rejection of all attempts to control others.”
― Ernest Kurtz, Experiencing Spirituality: Finding Meaning Through Storytelling

“As we listen, truly hearing, our understanding of the world changes from a self-centered focus to an other-oriented openness—we come to understand how we are connected”
― Ernest Kurtz, Experiencing Spirituality: Finding Meaning Through Storytelling

“Seek God in and through meetings with others and the world. Seek the other as unique and different, as “other,” for behind the other as human partner stands the eternal and transcendent other, the eternal Thou, God.”
― Ernest Kurtz, Experiencing Spirituality: Finding Meaning Through Storytelling

“Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons. Secure in its reality, the self is neither better nor worse, bigger nor smaller, than anything else in the universe. It is—is nothing, yet at the same time is one with everything. DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD”
― Ernest Kurtz, Experiencing Spirituality: Finding Meaning Through Storytelling

“CLASSIC American axiom warns: “Don’t try to think yourself into a new way of acting: Act yourself into a new way of thinking.”
― Ernest Kurtz, Experiencing Spirituality: Finding Meaning Through Storytelling

“It’s nice to have moments when I’m not thinking about me.”
― Ernest Kurtz, Experiencing Spirituality: Finding Meaning Through Storytelling

“Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it. PHILIP K. DICK”
― Ernest Kurtz, Experiencing Spirituality: Finding Meaning Through Storytelling

“The difference between a “winner” and a “whiner” is the sound of the “I.” ANONYMOUS”
― Ernest Kurtz, Experiencing Spirituality: Finding Meaning Through Storytelling

“not some thing we have. . . . Prayer has nothing to”
― Ernest Kurtz, Experiencing Spirituality: Finding Meaning Through Storytelling